March 11, 2010
The Hustle for Worthiness + a Giveaway!
Phone booth, Guerilla Cafe, Berkeley, Canon Digital Rebel XSi
As I was writing this piece, inspired by Brene Brown's new DVD The Hustle for Worthiness, I couldn't help but notice the Michael Jackson silhouette on the phone booth outside the cafe. And it got me thinking: What about the electric slide for worthiness? or the moonwalk for worthiness? These images make me giggle because it's so true how we literally exhaust ourselves in the struggle to feel worthy (of love, of respect) or simply to feel like enough. One friend of mine calls her first dates the "dancing bear routine" where she watches herself do that first date performance of how fabulous and witty and interesting she is. It usually works, but she comes home feeling tired out by it all and wondering why she doesn't want to go through it again.
I think I've dropped a lot of my hustle over the years, feeling slightly less inclined to need other's approval, but I still see how what I do (or don't do) is tied up in my self-worth. Case in point, I have been staring at this blog for weeks feeling like a total blog failure, wondering what I should write about, what would be interesting, worth sharing, fabulous enough... And just the striving alone to be brilliant or fabulous will block you up every time. Pretty soon there are tumbleweeds drifting by your blog.
The irony is that all anyone really wants to read is what's true. The truth is so much more compelling than any dance we can do and our authenticity is the greatest gift we can bring.
Brene says it beautifully here:
“Our lives are a collection of stories – truths about who we are, what we believe, what we come from, how we struggle, and how we are strong. When we can let go of what people think, and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness – the feeling that we are enough just as we are, and that we are worthy of love and belonging.
If we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don’t fit with who we think we’re supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and have to hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving. Our sense of worthiness lives inside of our story. It’s time to walk into our experiences and to start living and loving with our whole hearts.”
In celebration of Brene's incredible new DVD, I am giving away a copy this week to one lucky winner!
Just proclaim in the comments, "I am enough!" (or some variation on that theme) and you'll have a chance to win.
Giveaway Guidelines:
-You have until 8PM PST on Sunday, March 14th to enter this giveaway.
-Just make a comment ON THIS POST to enter.
-This is a random drawing
-One entry per person, please. (Just push "post" ONCE and wait a few seconds. The comment should appear)
I am enough
Posted by: Missy at March 14, 2010 07:02 PMI am enough.
I copied it from a comment above and pasted it because I was having trouble typing it. Isn't that ridiculous?
Posted by: CindiS at March 14, 2010 06:40 PMI am enough.
I ended up copying it and pasting from a post above. I was waffling about typing it. Isn't that ridiculous?
Posted by: CindiS at March 14, 2010 06:37 PMhe*& yes...i AM enough!!!
whoot!!! whoot!!! : )
xoxoxo
k
Who ever posted the link to "Petunia Face Blog",
THANK YOU!
It was great discovering this girl, she is so smart & funny.
I am enough! This sounds like an interesting DVD!
Posted by: Lisa Cohen at March 14, 2010 05:27 PMI have to say how true your posts always are, and how you say just what I'm needing to hear. Thank you for your authenticity. <3
Posted by: french toast girl at March 14, 2010 05:06 PMI am enough <3
Posted by: Dani at March 14, 2010 04:03 PMI am enough! How beautiful to be able to say that along with so many other people too! I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.
Posted by: Dana Michelle at March 14, 2010 03:24 PMI am enough...
Posted by: saraspunza at March 14, 2010 03:06 PMI have enough, I do enough, I am enough.
Posted by: Amanda at March 14, 2010 02:58 PMI have enough, I do enough, I am enough.
Posted by: Amanda at March 14, 2010 02:58 PMI AM MORE THAN ENOUGH!!
Posted by: Laura at March 14, 2010 02:53 PMI AM ENOUGH! (Wow - that felt good)
Posted by: Isis at March 14, 2010 12:26 PMI AM ENOUGH! (Wow - that felt good)
Posted by: Isis at March 14, 2010 12:25 PMI am enough!!!
Posted by: sundriessulime at March 14, 2010 12:24 PMI AM enough!
Posted by: KellyA at March 14, 2010 11:39 AMi AM enough. or in the imortal words of Mary Poppins, "enough is as good as a feast"
Posted by: Mare at March 14, 2010 11:15 AMI am SO enough.
Posted by: BK at March 14, 2010 10:33 AMI am enough!
Posted by: Sally at March 14, 2010 09:56 AMIt's been fun to read all the posts about Brene's video on all the Lovebomber blogs. :)
Thanks for sharing a free copy!
And PS: I love what you said about blogging and people wanting to read what is true. Thanks for that.
Posted by: Christianne at March 14, 2010 09:53 AMI am enough. :)
Posted by: Caiti at March 14, 2010 08:43 AMI'm trying really hard to be enough....altho this has been a hard week to believe it.
Posted by: Sarah at March 14, 2010 06:41 AMtoday, i am enough! xo
Posted by: krista at March 14, 2010 06:36 AMI loved this post and the way you are giving yourself some space just to be at the moment.
Me, you, all of us - WE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH. So much more.
Posted by: Tinniegirl at March 14, 2010 01:43 AMI am MORE than ENOUGH!!!!
Posted by: Paulette at March 14, 2010 01:08 AMI am enough. Yep, I am.
Posted by: Sarah at March 13, 2010 09:20 PMI AM ENOUGH!!!!!! Today and forever...
Posted by: Gwynnie B at March 13, 2010 08:54 PMIf I win, I'll gift my win to the first poster.... entering 6 giveaways surely means she needs this in her life!
Posted by: Sarah at March 13, 2010 07:05 PMI am enough.
i AM enough.
i am ENOUGH.
I am enough.
Posted by: HeidiRenee at March 13, 2010 05:32 PMI am a superhero!!
I am more than enough!
i'm enough. right now.
Posted by: Laura at March 13, 2010 03:49 PMI have Brene's book and cd on parenting, I would LOVE THIS !
Posted by: karne at March 13, 2010 03:24 PM"I have always been worthy"
Posted by: Krista at March 13, 2010 03:19 PMI have many things I need like God and air and water and healthy food and creative outlets but as for my inner self: I am enough!
Posted by: Lynda at March 13, 2010 02:29 PMoh girl, i am enough.
:)
I am enough! (and so are you!)
Posted by: Christine H at March 13, 2010 01:57 PMI am (doing) enough.
Posted by: Kacey at March 13, 2010 01:23 PMI am me. And I am the perfect me.
Posted by: sharon at March 13, 2010 12:30 PMWhat a wonderful and inspring project!!!i
Posted by: Marcie at March 13, 2010 12:15 PMNo more hustling! I (capitalized of course) am enough...
Posted by: Ilene at March 13, 2010 12:09 PMGreat post Andrea!
By the way whoever put the link for the Petunia Face...what a superb blog too. She is a great gal.
So funny and wickedly hilarious.Thank You
http://petuniafacedgirl.blogspot.com/
Posted by: laura at March 13, 2010 11:48 AMThis feeling of unworthiness used to be a constant companion, though I'm somewhat happy to say that a recent reappearance has made me realize that it went away for a good while. I'm only somewhat happy, because though I value the healing that got me away from it for a while, it is still hard to sit with it now and trust it will pass again. Of course, I know it is here because I'm making some big and brave changes in my life. And that's the part that allows me to trust -the desire to hustle is hanging around, but I'm stil changing, and I'm learning to waltz into a big life that I couldn't even have imagined before. One I am completely worthy of living.
It is so nice to see you back around here!
Posted by: dona bumgarner at March 13, 2010 11:31 AMI am tired of the hustle and am ready to proclaim that I really am enough.
Posted by: Patti at March 13, 2010 11:25 AMI am enough!!!
Posted by: Faith at March 13, 2010 11:17 AMI need not be more than I already am.
Posted by: Helene at March 13, 2010 10:37 AMI am enough!
Posted by: Kate Robertson at March 13, 2010 10:09 AMwe are ALL enough!!!!!!!
Posted by: cheryn at March 13, 2010 09:32 AMI am enough.
I AM enough.
I am ENOUGH.
I do this when I am faced with something big (like taking the driver's test the third time, taking GRE for the first time, etc.).
Life is a pretty big thing, isn't it?
Posted by: Rachel at March 13, 2010 08:48 AMI need this right now more than you can imagine.
Posted by: Annette at March 13, 2010 08:40 AMEnough!! I am enough and it took me nearly 5 decades to accept that...I am enough.
Posted by: Leslie at March 13, 2010 08:26 AMEnough!! I am enough and it took me nearly 5 decades to accept that...I am enough.
Posted by: Leslie at March 13, 2010 08:25 AMYep, it's true. In fact, I am the very enoughness that is Spirit, spilling out and over all of my world. There is nothing else needed.
A perfect reminder as I wake from a dream of high anxiety about work and not being perfect.
Posted by: Tina at March 13, 2010 07:23 AMI love this post! I am enough!!!!!
Posted by: Julie at March 13, 2010 05:58 AMI love this post! I am enough!!!!!
Posted by: Julie at March 13, 2010 05:57 AMI am enough, i am enough, i am enough...
Posted by: April at March 13, 2010 05:50 AMI am enough...I am finally realizing it after 30 something years. It's liberating knowledge, it's sorta like finding my wings.
Posted by: giselle taminez at March 13, 2010 05:26 AMI.am.enough.
Oh how I hope to fully believe that...soon.
Posted by: Angie K. at March 13, 2010 04:30 AMI really, really am enough . . . no matter how many times I might forget, it doesn't make it any less true. I am enough.
Posted by: Heidi Lyn at March 13, 2010 03:54 AMI am enough! And the best bit? There's enough for us all!
Posted by: Leonie at March 13, 2010 03:53 AMI want you to understand that my whole life was tossed in the air-like confetti-and it's taken some concentration and hard work and patience with myself to gather up the shrapnel and rebuild. Sometimes you need silence to notice all the pieces. And so I have had my silence and I have heard those tiny parts of me that were always there, but never nourished enough to speak up and get their needs met. I'm like the bionic-woman, only less cool. "We have the technology, we CAN rebuild her." I have more than enough to do it better this time, never striving for perfect, only for authentic. I am enough!
Posted by: Jennifer H at March 13, 2010 03:02 AMI am enough....
Posted by: Michelle M at March 13, 2010 02:34 AMI am enough, I am worthy, I matter!
Posted by: Tanja at March 13, 2010 01:07 AMIt's such a wonderful feeling to know that I Am Enough.
Posted by: Jenny Lee Wentworth at March 12, 2010 11:51 PMI am enough...
now, then and always!
tumbleweeds drifting by your blog... great visual!
I have always been enough, even if I am still learning this! I am enough, as we all are.
Posted by: Nancy at March 12, 2010 10:23 PMtumbleweeds drifting by your blog... great visual!
I have always been enough, even if I am still learning this! I am enough, as we all are.
Posted by: Nancy at March 12, 2010 10:21 PMI am enough! I am enough! I am enough! Indeed, We are all enough!
Posted by: Carla at March 12, 2010 10:13 PMi, too, AM enough!
Posted by: melish"thedish" at March 12, 2010 08:57 PMI am enough. You are enough. We all are enough!
Posted by: Kristina T.ORE at March 12, 2010 07:57 PMI am more than enough! :)
Posted by: Delphine at March 12, 2010 07:43 PMI am always enough, sometimes a bit too much. You are more worthy than ever. Go on and love yourself. Nobody can rock it like you do. Thanks for all you do...
Posted by: S.B.Lyngo at March 12, 2010 06:39 PMI am so gloriously enough!!
lindy
I AM ENOUGH!
Posted by: caryn lynn duncan at March 12, 2010 06:28 PMI am enough!
Posted by: tracy Gomez at March 12, 2010 06:23 PMI am ENOUGH, damn it!!!
Thank you for speaking truths and for your mondo beyondo greatness.
Posted by: regina at March 12, 2010 06:22 PMI am enough
Posted by: Stephanie at March 12, 2010 06:16 PMI am enough! Thank you for this post:)
Posted by: Leigh at March 12, 2010 06:14 PMI am enough.
Posted by: Dina at March 12, 2010 05:32 PMI'm enough. I'm lovable. I'm ok just the way I am.
Posted by: Sarah at March 12, 2010 05:04 PMI am enough today and tomorrow and all the days to come...
Thank you for sharing your truths - I love your blog and your honesty.
Posted by: Christine Merritt at March 12, 2010 05:02 PMAs a mom, it's so hard to remember... I AM enough!!!
Posted by: Alison at March 12, 2010 04:54 PMI AM ENOUGH!!! I am all I can be. I am perfect just the way I am today, this moment.
Thank you for the reminder....your words always speak to me.
Hugs
Diana
This has me in tears. Feeling especially tender today.
I am enough. Thank you.
Posted by: Monica at March 12, 2010 04:36 PM: I am absolutely, positively filled with MUCHNESS and ENOUGHNESS. Thank you Andrea ...
Posted by: Annie at March 12, 2010 04:30 PMLOVE Brene!!
Posted by: krista at March 12, 2010 04:20 PMhere's a thought that came barreling out of my subconscious, just a few weeks ago:
i love myself.
what a surprise it was. how novel and cliche and genuine all at once.
i am enough, just this.
Posted by: Stacy (Mama-Om) at March 12, 2010 03:46 PMI am enough! And so are you!
Posted by: Andrea M at March 12, 2010 03:31 PMAndrea I don't always comment, but I just have to say thank you for posting this and sharing Brene's words as well...wow this is deep! I will be thinking on this for quite awhile, thank you!
Posted by: lori at March 12, 2010 03:22 PMI am enough! Thanks for this.
Posted by: Lisa Flint at March 12, 2010 03:22 PMI am so, enough :)
Posted by: Tracy at March 12, 2010 03:21 PMI am learning to love my stories. Especially the ones that don't "fit" with my idea of who I am or who I should be.
Posted by: Kat at March 12, 2010 02:29 PMLike Sandra above me, I've entered several giveaways for this DVD. If I don't win one, however, I'll be buying it. Watching it. Showing it to my kids. And holding a screening for my best girlfriends! We all need to see it and absorb the message!
Posted by: Leslie at March 12, 2010 02:05 PMI love the quiet from Brene Brown and its quiet truth feeling. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway.
Posted by: carey at March 12, 2010 01:30 PMI am enough --- and I have nothing to prove.
Posted by: Pamela at March 12, 2010 01:20 PMI am enough!
Posted by: conniemelancon at March 12, 2010 12:38 PMI AM enough.
Posted by: Vela at March 12, 2010 12:22 PMI am enough (I am the one I've been waiting for),
chanted over and over again....
I am enough!
Posted by: Suzette at March 12, 2010 12:03 PMI am enough!
Posted by: Heather at March 12, 2010 12:03 PMI am enough!
And I will follow you even you post once a year.
<3
I AM ENOUGH! Thanks, Mary
Posted by: Mary at March 12, 2010 11:36 AMEnough! I am!!!
Posted by: Valerie at March 12, 2010 11:25 AMI love reading what both of you have to say, especially when you say it about each other. Yippeeee for the DVD!
Posted by: Mina at March 12, 2010 11:20 AMMe too... I am enough.
Posted by: Susan at March 12, 2010 10:54 AMI AM enough! I am enough! I am enough! I am enough! I am enough! I am enough! :)
Posted by: Braidwood at March 12, 2010 10:47 AMI am enough, really!
Posted by: Paula J. Kelly at March 12, 2010 10:43 AMwe're all enough. ;)
Posted by: wen at March 12, 2010 10:43 AMI will always have and be enough!!
Posted by: Samantha B. at March 12, 2010 10:41 AMAs I am, I am TOTALLY and completely enough.
thanks for this opportunity!
Posted by: Lis at March 12, 2010 10:03 AMI am me, I will always be me, and THAT is enough.
Posted by: Serena at March 12, 2010 09:34 AMI am so totally enough!!!
Posted by: Katherine at March 12, 2010 09:01 AMOh how I wish I had this DVD in High School, in elementary school, actually, I think I could use it now. I'm always struggling with the fight to feel worthy. I AM ENOUGH. I AM ENOUGH.. I AM ENOUGH......
Posted by: AndreaD at March 12, 2010 09:00 AMI am enough!
Posted by: Marina at March 12, 2010 08:53 AMi am enough!
Posted by: becky at March 12, 2010 08:31 AMi deserve this because i am good.
Posted by: chrissy at March 12, 2010 08:27 AMI'm good enough, smart enough, and by golly, people like me! :)
Posted by: Wanda at March 12, 2010 08:21 AMI've been enough since the day I was born. I just wish someone had told me that sooner!
Posted by: amanda at March 12, 2010 08:05 AMIt has taken a while but yes, I am enough.
Posted by: Dale Smith at March 12, 2010 08:00 AMThe Truth is enough and I am too - thank you!
Posted by: Linda at March 12, 2010 07:59 AMI make things better. I am worth it.
Posted by: Rebecca. at March 12, 2010 07:41 AMYou are enough and so am I. Thanks for the reminder.
Posted by: SarahLW at March 12, 2010 07:31 AMI am enough, right now, just me
Posted by: Megan C at March 12, 2010 07:24 AMIt was always God's intentions that I be exist in just this way...
Posted by: Jacqueline at March 12, 2010 07:22 AMEnough is Enough- I am Enough!!!!!
Posted by: christie at March 12, 2010 07:21 AMI am enough!
Posted by: rachael s at March 12, 2010 07:19 AMI am enough :) You and brene are two of my favorite bloggers and inspire me more than you will ever know. Thank you for writing and sharing wholehearteldy.
Posted by: R at March 12, 2010 07:08 AMBrilliant. I am enough!
Posted by: Katie @ cakes, tea and dreams at March 12, 2010 07:02 AMI am enough!
Posted by: Jennifer at March 12, 2010 06:59 AMReading all these blog posts across the blogosphere about worthiness is such an inspiration to me. It's giving me the gentle push I need to believe in me enough. Believe in me enough to go ahead and put myself out there a little more. Let the world see a little more of who I am inside and let go of a little bit of the fear of not being good enough.
I am enough damn it. Just as I am. And so is everyone else.
Thank you once again Andrea for being so freaking real, and awesome.
xo & belief in you,
Carmen
Posted by: Carmen at March 12, 2010 06:49 AMI have always been enough. (Even when my doubts told me otherwise, I have always been enough....)
Posted by: Nicole Marie at March 12, 2010 06:43 AM"...striving alone to be brilliant or fabulous will block you up every time." this is SO true, and i am so guilty of it. i keep having to remind myself keep my focus on play, rather than perfection. i think i'm getting there, ever-so-slowly!
Posted by: kathygrace at March 12, 2010 06:39 AMJust be.
Posted by: Colleen Yvonne at March 12, 2010 06:32 AMI'm enough and amen to that!
Posted by: Julie at March 12, 2010 06:28 AMThank you for your words.
I have Brene's book, "I thought it was just me..." sitting on my bedside stand waiting to be read. I think I shall start it this weekend.
j
Posted by: j at March 12, 2010 06:27 AMI am enough!!
Posted by: Sarah at March 12, 2010 06:16 AMI just read Kelly Rae's post about the DVD - and then clicked through and added all of Brene's books to my wishlist. This is what I need in my life right now.
Posted by: Elizabeth at March 12, 2010 06:15 AMi am enough.
{instead of "the" dance, perhaps we could just dance, and in that movement free our selves, psyches, souls. be. enough.}
Posted by: melissa at March 12, 2010 05:55 AMWE ARE ALL ENOUGH! <3
Posted by: Lucia at March 12, 2010 05:37 AMI am enough.
Posted by: KathyB at March 12, 2010 05:35 AMI am ENOUGH!
Posted by: StephanieS at March 12, 2010 05:35 AMI am enough! Today, Tomorrow, and Always.
Posted by: Michele R. at March 12, 2010 05:31 AMI am enough.
i am enough?
i AM enough.
I am ENOUGH
I AM ENOUGH!
Am I enough?
I am.
enough.
I am enough! ... and now I must stop trying to be fabulous and go write a blog post.
Posted by: Life in Eden at March 12, 2010 05:01 AMI love that picture!
Posted by: Jill at March 12, 2010 04:40 AMHi Andrea,
Look at this fantistic blogs.
www.melissacmorris.com
www.taryncoxthewife.com
and the BEST blog of all times...
http://petuniafacedgirl.blogspot.com/
Sussanah is just amazingly witty, funny and just beautiful.
I hope you enjoy!
I am enough!
Posted by: Wolfe at March 12, 2010 04:00 AMI hope and pray that the person who needs this to touch their life most might be the winner. Good luck to everyone!
Posted by: Samantha Dutcher at March 12, 2010 03:58 AMI am enough!
Posted by: megan kelly at March 12, 2010 03:28 AMI am enough NOW!
Posted by: Lara at March 12, 2010 03:14 AMi am enough, really am.
Posted by: feva at March 12, 2010 02:28 AMI am enough
Thank you for this post and you are always and above more than enough.
Love and hugs and many blessings
I hope your son is happy and enjoying the sunshine of Spring and a fababulou Mother like you
Love Jeanne♥
i am enough.
Posted by: alison at March 12, 2010 01:14 AMThis is something I've been thinking too lately. Beautiful words.
Posted by: Heidi at March 11, 2010 11:42 PMI'm the motherflippin'!!
Posted by: Julia at March 11, 2010 11:32 PMI am enough, even if I never become a mother .
I am enough, even if I become a mother.
Thanks for the giveaway! I'm hoping to the universe...
Posted by: Tara Zirker at March 11, 2010 10:56 PMme = enough. no hustle needed.
Posted by: Jenna/The Word Cellar at March 11, 2010 10:00 PMonce again woman - you speak to my soul!!
I love and will quote:
"all anyone wants to read is what's true"
you are some kind of wonderful. thanks for telling what is true. that is exactly what has brought me to your blog again and again for 7 (!) years : )
(*) under the aurora streaked sky last week, i sent out a tiny prayer of celebration of health and happy surrounding you and yours! Sending you big love from cold country!
xo
AK
I have been struggling with this exact problem for many years now!!! It is so great to see people writing and talking about it.
Posted by: Sarah at March 11, 2010 09:41 PMI AM ENOUGH! I AM WORTHY!
Posted by: ali gitt at March 11, 2010 09:22 PMI am fabulous just as I am. No need to be more, just being me is enough!
Posted by: Emma at March 11, 2010 08:59 PMI am enough.
it is one of my ongoing mantras too.
and if I don't win one of these, i'm going to buy one. Because I can use all the help i can get.
My blog is full of tumbleweeds, because i'm paralyzed in choosing a photo to post that is "good enough." Screw good enough. Time to just post what moves me, what I like, who cares what anyone else likes (well clearly I have been caring or I would have posted, right?)
;-)
I am enough without makeup or jewelry, without my pushup bra or heels, or the too-tight jeans which make my butt look small(er).
I am enough just breathing and drinking my orange juice in my pajamas, while I look at the sky.
Posted by: Debora at March 11, 2010 08:44 PMI am enough!
Posted by: Angela at March 11, 2010 08:36 PMI am E..N..O..U..G..H! Yahoo!!!
Thanks for being *true* in your blog!
Posted by: indigo at March 11, 2010 08:25 PMI am enough
Posted by: Jeannine at March 11, 2010 08:01 PMI am enough!
Posted by: Kristin at March 11, 2010 07:46 PMI am enough and enough and enough and more
Posted by: Valerie at March 11, 2010 07:42 PMI am here.
I am now.
I am enough.
I am.
xox
I am enough!!
Posted by: Angela Tucker at March 11, 2010 07:10 PMI am enough! Because if I don't claim it now, when will I? No one is going to bring this to me on a shiny platter, and there will never be a 'good' time for me to figure it out. I think I need to go out and declare it. I am enough!
Posted by: Catherine at March 11, 2010 07:04 PMI am enough! Inspired by you again!!
Posted by: belinda at March 11, 2010 07:00 PMI am enough. Great message, Andrea. I can relate to wonderings about the blog and being authentic with what you say.
Posted by: Lu at March 11, 2010 06:45 PMI AM ENOUGH!
Thank you for your blog! I have been reading it for months and I return again and again because of how human and relatable you are to us! Don't worry about the occasional tumbleweed!
Posted by: Fran at March 11, 2010 06:35 PMEnough? Yep, I am.
Posted by: cheryl at March 11, 2010 06:35 PMI'm not all that sure that I am enough. Don't seem to be. Still having problems with this--so I will go over and buy Brene's dvd!
cathi
I AM ENOUGH!!!
Posted by: wakinguplate at March 11, 2010 06:26 PMI am enough! (And I too have entered multiple give-aways...I am thinking I am just going to have to go ahead and order it if I don't win one soon!)
Posted by: JustinV at March 11, 2010 06:07 PMAndrea, your blog posts always ALWAYS seem to relate to how I'm feeling at a particular point in time. ♥
I am enough!
Posted by: Dawn at March 11, 2010 06:05 PMI am enough.
Posted by: donna at March 11, 2010 06:00 PMI joyously proclaim: "I am enough!"
Posted by: Nandita at March 11, 2010 05:58 PMThis is not usually an issue for me, but just yesterday something touched me deeply and I said outloud, "will I ever be enough?"
Thanks - I,JUST AS I AM ~ AM ENOUGH!
Posted by: glendachilders at March 11, 2010 05:47 PMman I needed this. I've been struggling to get to the point where I truly believe that I am enough as I am. It's not easy, but so reassuring to realize that I'm not alone!
Posted by: Christine at March 11, 2010 05:44 PMWOW did i ever need to read this today.
Posted by: Katie at March 11, 2010 05:37 PMthank you for this, a blessing today ...
I am enough! :)
Hooray for being enough! We are all enough.
Posted by: Liz C. at March 11, 2010 05:22 PMI am MORE than enough : )
Posted by: stacie at March 11, 2010 05:16 PMJust sent the poem you posted on 2/1/09 to a friend who needed some reminding how wonderfully lovable she is ... thanks for always inspiring me and reminding me that I am enough!
Posted by: Anna at March 11, 2010 05:02 PMI am the one one I have been waiting for. I am enough.
Posted by: Jennifer at March 11, 2010 04:58 PMI am MORE than enough :D
Posted by: Roberta at March 11, 2010 04:53 PMI am enough!!!
Posted by: Brenda at March 11, 2010 04:37 PMEach and every one of us is more than enough. That's why we need to share ourselves with those who don't yet believe it!
Posted by: Megan at March 11, 2010 04:27 PMI am learning that I am enough.
I am learning, I am enough.
I am learning.
I am enough.
Posted by: Sara B at March 11, 2010 04:21 PMi am enough!
Posted by: felicia at March 11, 2010 04:18 PMi am enough!!!
Posted by: emily lyles at March 11, 2010 04:02 PMI am enough. . . Right now! Just the way I am!
Posted by: Angie B at March 11, 2010 03:55 PMI am enough!
Posted by: Andrea MacDonald at March 11, 2010 03:52 PMi am enough!
Posted by: Tiffany at March 11, 2010 03:50 PMI know that what I bring to each moment is enough, and I hope that I will grow into FEELING that is TRUE.
Posted by: Kate at March 11, 2010 03:43 PMI am enough and then some.
Posted by: brigindo at March 11, 2010 03:42 PMI am enough.
Posted by: Sarah at March 11, 2010 03:37 PMFrom head to toe, from inside and out, I AM ENOUGH! xo
Posted by: Danielle Fraser at March 11, 2010 03:33 PMI AM joyous, courageous and I have ENOUGH goodness in my life to share my heart's abundance to the universe.
Posted by: Kai at March 11, 2010 03:33 PMI am enough.
Posted by: dani at March 11, 2010 03:18 PMI am enough! I also choose to keep on keeping on....
Posted by: Lauren at March 11, 2010 03:16 PMI am enough,
I am centred,
I am home.
I am enough!
I. Am. Enough.
Posted by: ladyloo at March 11, 2010 03:13 PMI am enough!
Posted by: Ellecubed at March 11, 2010 03:11 PMI am definitely enough, as are we all. We are enough, we are enough, WE ARE ENOUGH!
Posted by: emma at March 11, 2010 03:03 PMSometimes it's just one foot in front of the other...on the way to knowing where you are stepping...but--I am enough!
And I admit I have entered a few giveaways for this DVD too...:)
I am E-nofffffff ffff ffff!
Posted by: Heather at March 11, 2010 03:00 PMI am enough. I. Am. Enough. Brene's DVD sounds like it offers so much. I wish her great success with it.
Posted by: Clara at March 11, 2010 02:58 PMI am complete as I am and enough.
Aloha!
I am enough . . . and I'm ok with that.
Posted by: Sarah at March 11, 2010 02:54 PMMe, the Mother , wants this so much for her, the daughter. Her needs right now, are all my desires.
Posted by: Pam at March 11, 2010 02:46 PMHere goes: I will look in the mirror right after I post this and say 'I am more than enough', I love me :) Here's to tap dancing to improved self worth :)
oxox
Trish
patriciadolan@comcast.net
I am enough. I really really am ("keep saying it, self! it will feel true soon!!!")
Posted by: lilia at March 11, 2010 02:38 PMI am just right just as I am!
Posted by: nova at March 11, 2010 02:36 PMI am enough! (*I'm still learning this but I'm working on it!!)
Posted by: Shannon at March 11, 2010 02:32 PMI AM ENOUGH.....Maybe the louder I say it the sooner I will believe it.
Posted by: Nadine at March 11, 2010 02:27 PMI AM Enough!
Posted by: stef at March 11, 2010 02:25 PMI am MORE than enough...and so are you!!
Posted by: Nina at March 11, 2010 02:19 PMI am Enough!
Posted by: Bert at March 11, 2010 02:18 PMwhat an appropriate post for where I'm at today.
and to be honest I don't feel like I'm enough so I don't think I can say it today, maybe tomorrow will be different
I am enough.
Posted by: Avital at March 11, 2010 02:06 PMI AM ENOUGH!!
Posted by: Leana at March 11, 2010 02:02 PMLove the painted phone booth!
You have much truth to share, blog away!
i am enough, i do enough, i have enough...play well...LOL...have fun!
Posted by: shelley at March 11, 2010 01:55 PMEXACTLY who you are is the answer! I am everything I was meant to be on the day that I was born.
Posted by: tonya at March 11, 2010 01:51 PMi'm good enough, i'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me :)
Posted by: jeanine at March 11, 2010 01:51 PMI am enough....really? Yes. Yes! I am enough. Even if the laundry isn't done, there's dishes in the sink and my children are fussy? Yep. Still enough! Whew.
Posted by: Lunaloo at March 11, 2010 01:49 PM"I am enough..." with a side of special sauce!!
Posted by: jill at March 11, 2010 01:49 PMI am enough. Thanks for the reminder!
Posted by: Erin S at March 11, 2010 01:46 PMi wish the believing...
* i am enough *
was as easy as the typing of it.
i'd love to work with brene on that.xo
I am enough and this post totally inspired me!!
Posted by: Julie P. at March 11, 2010 01:36 PMI had to laugh today. I signed on to gmail and saw a friend's status to be: "I need to change so that I can get a girlfriend." I found this to be quite sad, and so in response I changed my status to: "you are enough just as you are." I'm not sure if he noticed.
Later that day, one of my best girlfriends signed on, and shortly changed her status to: "sometimes I think I am too much as I am." She is a force of nature, this one, and has been trying to find a boyfriend for a year now. I could see where she was coming from, and it made me laugh because in the shadow of everyone's "not enough-ness" our own, real self power looks like "too much." What a twisted world.
Anyway...we are enough! All of us! And you seem to be a fabulous mother to a fabulous boy and a wonderful wife, friend, artist, etc. You are doing just fine. We love it when you post, but understand that you have a life and a family when you don't. We'll be here when you get back.
xo
Posted by: Erica at March 11, 2010 01:35 PMThis phonebooth is awsome !
I am enough, we all are enough.
Welcome back! You were missed!
Posted by: Cindy at March 11, 2010 01:27 PMWhen I saw your photograph, my first impulse was
"Man, I want to live somewhere with phone booths like that!".
Which quickly led to "No, I want to be the kind of person who paints a phone booth like that!".
Which in rapid succession led to "I want to paint a phone booth".
And I think if it weren't (in part) for Brene's earlier book about shame, it's unlikely I would have made it out of that first thought.
Posted by: Erin Wilson at March 11, 2010 01:26 PMWow, I think this would help so much right now. Thanks for the chance. I *want* to be enough!
Posted by: Alexandra at March 11, 2010 01:26 PMWe can love, and we are more than enough.
Posted by: Mei at March 11, 2010 01:25 PMI can't begin to hope for this, but I would LOVE it.
Posted by: tawnya at March 11, 2010 01:23 PMi can relate to several paragraphs here on your post! i struggle with claiming it but i keep trying...i am worthy of it all in life. :)
Posted by: sperlygirl at March 11, 2010 01:22 PMI have entered about six giveaways for this DVD (shy :)
I think I must want it!
I am enough, and you all are, too.