05/26/2026
I didn’t get around to posting yesterday, but I DID pull a card.
“I visualize all my limitations falling away one by one, until I am safe, healed, and whole.”
I was dysregulated when I pulled the card. Stuck in disappointment after a few things I had planned fell through and I fell into old habits of lashing out at my husband. Ha, poor guy. I did not feel safe, healed, or whole.
He held me accountable for my behaviour and I yelled “I’m disappointed and I’m allowed to feel it okay?!”
“Okay”
Yes, it’s true.
Yes, you can feel your feelings.
Yes, I could have done it better.
No, it doesn’t give me the right to be unkind to someone else.
After I pulled this card, I acknowledged and named my feelings, pictured the disappointment falling away, found safety and comfort (hugs and warmth) to reset my body and nervous system, and repaired with my husband. I felt better and could move on with my day. Often, I let things like disappointment take a whole day or more from me by ruminating. Until now.
If you made it this far, your is to reframe old, unhelpful habits by adding “until now” at the end. Helps your brain rewire the thought- I use to do that, I don’t anymore.
Even if it doesn’t feel true, positive affirmations work best when they are in present tense, like you already have it. That’s how the universe will give you what you need, because you declare it so, now.