What Do You Most Like About Yourself?

[Annie]

I don't know what I like best. So many of the things I like best are also the things a hate most.
Perhaps what I like best about myself would be that I have had the ability to stop a horrible cycle of abuse and alcoholism.
I have 2 children whom I have never laid a finger on and other than the odd cooler or glass of wine, I am not a drinker.
I like that I have left so many of my parents' bad habits behind, like smoking, caffeine.
I like that I have managed to raise to reasonably normal/ happy children given what I live with inside, day to day.

Annie

 

[shiraz]

what I like about me

I have a special way with kids. They really seem to be attracted to me. They look me in the eye and something happens - like magic - we have an understanding, I can see into their souls and find the things which trouble them. I only have to be with a child for a short time, an hour or so, and I feel like a really know them and more importantly know what it is I can bring into their lives to help them on their journey, to help them grow. That is what I find most special about being me - it is my easy place of being.

 

[goingonhope]

It may've been some time since this thread has been last seen.

Wondering today, if there is anyone else, even new to the forum who has either long since identified and/or is recenty identifying something about themselves that they most like, and if so if they'd like to share it here.

 

[fin]

Hey Hope, I so often come to this thread and read here and it has been so difficult for me to even try to begin to find something I like in myself. But I am trying and maybe that is it.

Maybe it is the fact that after all the crap that has happened in my life I am still here and trying, I hope that never goes. Because I know I was broken in the past...and it was a cold and painful place to be.

I am crying here as I write this, because I do feel very humbled by this forum, and very proud to be allowed to work on myself here alongside such amazing and fabulous people. And the fact that I am here at all today is some kind of testament.

I cherish our friendship Hope, and I thank that you take the trouble so often to signpost so much that I need to do and work on and just what I need also.

You are a good friend...so I like that about myself, that I have good friends in my life, and I can see them in it. I hope that I can be a better friend also, and a better person one day, I am still here and still trying.

Thankyou
~fin

 

[Manic11]

Wow... this one really made think but I was determined to answer it. :think:

I like how easy I am to talk to. I like that I can stay calm in emergancy situations. I like how good I am with animals.

That feels good to think of what I like about myself instead of what I hate about myself for a change.

Thanks,
Hope!


Manic

 

[fin]

I read you loud and clear Manic, I like the same things about myself too, and it is hard to find them. I have worked so hard to be able to do this... it does get better. this does work- it CAN WORK. (statement of fact so no exclamationmark) I will read you again after I have read this through, because you have said so succinctly and perfactly how I am feeling on this also.

Me, I like when some freedom of choice, self-esteem and unpredictability returns to me and in my life.........it makes being me a whole lot easier.

Hope -I had forgotten what this could feel like

I like that I am a good friend, I hope I am anyway. I was told I was so I am going with this.

I like the fact that I used to be spontaneous, and maybe that will come back again -I hope on this also.

I like the fact that I have a sense of humour.

I like my eyes, I think I have nice eyes ...I have trouble seeing so much, but I hope that someone one day will see something special in me.

I like that I try and I think I can maybe trust myself and others again and better.

I like that I am honest and have integrity, I think today that some parts of who i am are underated in this society. But it doesnt stop them from being good.

I like the people that know and love me for who I am and not what I have had happen to me. I just kind of wish I knew the more-better and that maybe they might want to know me better now, because I do think for a while now some parts of me have been put away and closed off, and i would like to share myself with someone else, just as friends, because I do think that friendship is one of the most important things we can give and share, it should to my mind be loved and cherished just like any other living thing. Friendship needs attention to be grow.

I like that I have days when I am firing on all four cylinders (as my care coordinator likes to call it).

And I like that I am maybe having more days like this than I have had in years, and I believe that I can get better on this too.

I believe and like that love is not alien to this planet, I hope that I will grow in it and I hope that ...well enough now. I just hope that we all find what we are looking for and that is peace and the strenght to know that we can maybe all manage this pTSD thing thatwe have. :Hug_emoticon:

I think there is hope for me yet maybe. and I like this about myself.