Hi ladies!
First, I'd like to say hello and thank you to everyone here! After being a long-time lurker, I finally took the leap two-ish weeks ago and made an account to stay on my success and participate in this community. From the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you for the Handbook, a myriad of other posts, and, specifically, the posts about NVM and narcissism. While I've been reading self-help books, journaling, and receiving tele-life coaching, FDS has been an incredible to addition to my leveling-up. I've been happily single for the past five months and dating again for the foreseeable future is absolutely off the table, but I will certainly keep a dating journal for Standards, Preferences, Dump-Him-Immediatelys, etc to avoid and next potential narcs (both my exes, barf). All of these tips and many more have helped me know and believe that I'm wonderful, that I can date in a smart, healthy, self-nurturing way, and that I deserve all the qualities I want from a man, when I am ready for one, without question. So, thank you again! <3
All that said: what are some things that you love and celebrate in your life that are wholly yours and fill you with joy? A few of mine: learning Danish, my beloved bird, my amazing, HV friends, my past accomplishments/successes, my commitment to myself and my mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing, and my newfound self-confidence and self-fullness!
