All of our coaching clients are well aware of the highly effective exercise “Man in the Mirror”. Each day you take the time to engage yourself in the mirror and say “I love you. I’m proud of you. I believe in you. Please forgive me. I’m doing the very best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have.” When you take the time to really connect with the exercise some amazing things can occur.
Below is a wonderful poem from a woman who connected very personally with the exercise.
Please enjoy!
Casey
The woman who looks back at me from the mirror
Smirks at me as if to say
“You are nothing”
Her smile demeaning and cruel
Cuts right through me
I feel small and
my imperfections and flaws magnified
until it is all I can see
They define me and I become them.
Curled up in a ball
In the dark,
I revisit every single failure
Every let down
Believing I was deserving of it.
But Someone up there
So loves me
Sent you to me
To remind me
I am human, flawed,
Yet beautiful
There is beauty in my soul
Despite there being hurt and darkness
And you remind me of all I have to give
How valuable I am to you
And those whose lives I have touched
I almost felt satiated and quenched
After a long draught
I realize that I am blessed
That you are in my life
Always there
Guiding, loving, accepting and never ever judging
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
For being there for me
When I am not..
