I want you to forgive yourself

I'll go first...

If there is anything I’d like people going through perimenopause to know, if there’s anything I’d like you to know, it’s that no matter what route you take, no matter how you feel physically, the very best thing you can do emotionally and spiritually is begin the painful, healing, scary but fruitful reckoning with your past so you can properly face your future.

The last few years have been a transformative minefield for that, for me. And I want you to be able to experience this too. Let me get you started with my ‘I forgive you letter’ to myself. I’ve been working on it for months and months. Some of it is serious, some of it is not so much. But it’s all real.

Dear Ann Marie,

I want you to forgive yourself.

Forgive yourself for all the people who wrote this year and asked to partner with you on all the different platforms that you lost track of and cannot find. I know you are sure someone wanted to do a newsletter swap and you were really excited about it, and now for the love of all th…