The Mirror in the Message: When Our Advice Is Our Own Medicine

Sometimes the advice we give others

is the very medicine we haven’t yet taken ourselves.

We say,

“Just rest…”

when our nervous system is frayed and we’re quietly unraveling.

We say,

“Speak your truth…”

when we’ve been biting our tongue for days, weeks, maybe years.

We say,

“Let it go…”

when we’re still holding it in the shadow of our own body, waiting for the right moment to collapse.

This isn’t hypocrisy.

It’s not failure.

It’s a soul mirror.

It’s the voice becoming the vessel

for what our heart is craving

and our body is begging us to remember.

We teach what we’re still learning.

We give what we haven’t fully received.

We speak what we long to believe.

And in that,

we are human.

We are sacred.

We are honest.

**So the next time you catch yourself giving advice, offering truth or wisdom…

pause.

Breathe.

Ask gently:

“Is this for me too?”

And if it is,

you don’t have to retract it.

You don’t have to apologize.

You just get to say:

“I needed that too.”

That’s what integrity sounds like.

Not perfect performance.

But presence in the learning.

Now I no longer speak to hear myself.

I speak to serve what I’ve lived.

And when I find myself offering what I still need

I pause. I listen. I become the student again.

Because that too is sacred.

And from there, I teach not from my wound but from the worth I’ve reclaimed.

In recognizing our shared struggles, we find connection and compassion, both for ourselves and others.

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This is not required.

But if you feel the resonance,

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