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Thanks to Valentine, February is known as the month of love. Cupids form from the dust and fall from the woodwork as millions take on the task of proving their affection for their significant others.
However, this cavalcade of emotional charm may not touch the lives of countless millions. Why? Well, to attempt an answer to that question would take longer than I’d like, so let’s avoid it altogether and focus on something a little more relevant; something over which we hold a little more power.

This issue of Dystonia Living Magazine is all about expressions of love. Mostly, we’ll discuss love for ourselves, which includes recognizing intimate needs, our culture, managing our medical care and maintaining relationships. Is it narcissistic to talk about love for self? Not really, when you picture it within the grand scheme. We cannot love others in any real way if we do not love ourselves.

Love for self means taking proper care of myself: physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. Love means forgiving myself for those unavoidable, personality and Dystonia related shortcomings while I learn and grow. Love means surrounding myself with honest, vibrant, positive folk and walking away from those who, either by carelessness or malice, generate harm.

In the course of a lifetime, we will meet so many challenges. These challenges can either be met with a spirit of gratefulness, acknowledging the strength and experience to be gained, or they can be met with fearfulness, given excessive power, and all the controls.
I hope that as you browse this issue you will be strengthened and motivated to cultivate your love—and to find it, over new horizons or in your own backyard!

Take care and be well…

Rebekah