How To Love Yourself Even When Parts of You Are Missing - The Daisy That Changed Everything ❀ Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn 🌞

Learning to love yourself isn’t automatic - especially when illness, trauma, or hardship has taken pieces along the way. In this Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn, Resilience Coach Dawn Super shares a deeply personal story about self-compassion, chronic illness, and the moment she realized she was more loving toward a daisy than herself. This post explores how empathy, creativity, and gentleness help rebuild self-worth, even when life has been painfully hard. You’ll learn why self-love is a practice, how grace makes challenges easier to carry, and why you are still worthy - exactly as you are.

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How to love yourself, even if parts of you are missing

Self-love is not a given. When we experience challenges, some of us can find ourselves not even liking ourselves. That was me, until age 35.

When you look in the mirror, do you smile? Do you feel love towards your reflection? If your answer was no, or not always – this is for you.

Living with a lifelong issue affects so much more than just your health. Everything that happens to us, around us, because of us is filtered through the lens of our limitations. If no one is around to give us empathy, if people are around that just don’t get it, or if we do not receive that unconditional love through the process – it’s almost easy to feel ‘less than.’

After spending a lifetime feeling like I needed to prove myself to be worthy of love – something shifted in me. I was recovering from a life-threatening experience with a narcolepsy medication – while having to work because I still had to take care of myself. I couldn’t stay awake for more than two hours at a time. So, I would work for two hours, nap and then walk around the block to wake myself back up.

I also have pain disorders, so the walking was slow. To entertain myself I took photos of the beautiful flowers I saw along the way. Then I would share them on social media and my friends would ooh and ahh with me. It was a little bit of creativity and beauty in what was otherwise a miserable experience – happy matters 😉

It was May 31, 2012 (no, I don’t remember, I looked lol), I took a pic of a beautiful white daisy atop a bunch of purpley ones and noticed something had chomped on one of the leaves. I said, out loud, “You’re still beautiful little daisy, even though parts of you are missing.”

Going through so much, pushing my body and mind to the max every single day just to provide for myself and my kids, I thought – girl, you got more empathy for a daisy than you do yourself!

Have you ever realized you weren’t being very loving to yourself?

Well, in that moment, I did. I decided I wanted to be the daisy and present myself to the world, as I am. This is what I got to work with and I love that even though my life was incredibly hard for a good portion of it – I found my way.

When we get stuck in the suck it is easy to just hand everything over to it but that’s a lie – because doing that actually makes everything harder. When we hold our hand, give ourselves grace and lead ourselves around the block with love, creativity and joy – literally everything is easier. Still hard AF lol but easier.

How bout it, little daisy… are you ready to present your leaves to the world?

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