Life Gems featuring Carmella Carter

Life Gems with Carmella Carter

What life experience has taught you the importance of loving yourself? One life experience that has taught me the importance of loving myself is being single again after a divorce.  I learned to love me when all I had was me and God. I had family and friends that were supportive but there is nothing like walking a journey feeling along when people are present.  It was a difficult time but looking back it was the best ever.

How do you practice self-care? Praying and setting time for daily devotion to God, journaling, reading self-help books, listening to podcast of people and that are thriving in the area I want to thrive in, clearance shopping, long hot baths or showers, dating myself even though I am married and daily affirmations. 

Knowing all that you know now about life, what advice would you give your younger self? Ok, your father wasn't in your life and the times that he was there he wasn't productive nor helpful. But get to know God as Father and ask Him to teach you how to love yourself. Live a life listening to God because he most certainly wants to hear you and guide you. Men and relationships are a bonus to life but they are NOT LIFE! You must learn to love and treat God and yourself good before you can love and treat someone else good. Don't seek validation in relationships seek validation in your relationship with God. People are human and fickle so don't get emotional when they don't treat you fair. Take them and the issue to God he will handle it, after all vengeance belongs to him.