You Are Enough - Self Compassion, Remembering and Coming Home To Ourselves Many of us spend our lives waiting to become enough. We'll be enough when we're more successful. More confident. More certain. More healed. More productive...the list goes on.  We treat worthiness as a destination rather than a starting point. Yet some of the most enduring mindfulness and self-compassion teachings suggest something different: your value is not something you achieve. It is something you remember. This is the heart of self-compassion. Not that we stop growing, but that we stop believing we must earn the right to be kind to ourselves. One of the most beautiful expressions of this idea comes from Derek Walcott's poem Love After Love : The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give win...