Flipping the Script: What a Coin Taught Me About Worthiness and Writing
On a cloudy day as I was walking to my car, I saw a coin on the ground. I stooped to pick it up and smiled as I looked down at it. It was a 10c coin – not worth anything in monetary value, but for me, it’s value lay on a deeper level.
You see, there was a time I left coins dropped in haste, on the ground. At face , they had no value. I can’t even buy anything with them. However, my perspective has changed in recent months.
When I saw that coin on the ground, I didn’t look at its real value, I went deeper and thought about its energetic value. On that level, i felt it was a token of my thoughts around my own values and feelings about myself
That coin suddenly symbolized to me, that my value isn’t what I see on the surface, it’s so much more. It became a voice that spoke to me and made me realize that if I valued myself on the inside, it would automatically reflect on the outside.
Feelings of Joy
It gave me an incredible moment of pure joy and infinite gratitude that I had chosen to walk a path of deep healing so I could make peace with not only myself, but also my general view of the world. The coin became a talisman for me to treasure and save, because even if it wasn’t worth anything by itself, if I added it to my small growing collection of coins I pick up from the street, I could grow it into something bigger.
When I started my healing journey, I also strated small and I keep expanding in myself, peeling layers from my heart, and healing and growing into something new. So often we still pay too much attention on how we look on the outside, and we try to conform to society’s norms and standards, but like the coin, our worth is so much more beyond appearance. It’s an amazing journey of discovery and endless treasures when we throw away our old paradigms of how we measure our worth.
Using Writing as Tool to Self-Discovery
Writing has helped me in so many ways on this journey of healing and growing. Looking back at how my writing has evolved, I see the person who once was so insecure and who looked for validation outside of myself. How things have changed – and writing helped me process so many things that I could not always express. There are days where those things still haunt me, but now it serves as information, and I am less reactive. All because I choose to dig deep and used writing to process and heal.
What about you? How do you feel about yourself? Do you value yourself beyond your appearance? Or do you still feel like a valueless coin? There is hope for you – that I can promise.
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Breaking the Cycle
When you become aware of these patterns of operating you will break the cycle of dysfunction”. You will be fine with what is going on in your life at this moment. Life isn’t one sided, but is more like a roller coaster. We need to become more comfortable to ride both the highs and lows ,and integrate both the good and bad in ourselves.