Being Nurturing

Being nurturing doesn’t mean we need to be gushy, oversentimental, overprotective, smothering, obnoxious, insincere, or codependent. For a long time, that’s what I thought it meant.

It is possible to be a nurturing person and still maintain limits about how far we’ll go.Challenge: It can be difficult and even confusing to comprehend what it means to be nurturing if we haven’t been nurtured ourselves. “Won’t I lose my power?” we may think.Some of the most powerful women and men I’ve known have the capacity to nurture others and themselves.

From the desk of Melody BeattieOriginally posted March 25, 2015