This is the time of year when people spend time and money attempting to shift focus to new goals and new priorities. Don’t get me wrong here–there is absolutely nothing wrong with investing in yourself and making positive changes in your life. Those should always be somewhere close to the top of our priority lists. This isn’t about simple self-reflection and goal setting. This is about the kind of self-reflection and goal-setting that results in our thoughts running roughshod through our brains and causing us to become dangerously critical and even obsessive and compulsive.
Just as the trees have to shed their leaves in order to gain new ones, sometimes we have to shed parts of ourselves to grow into something bigger and more beautiful.