Your honor

I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about mission statements, vision statements, and values statements. Apparently these are the foundations of a successful business, and helps you articulate to others who and what you are all about. I guess knowing my intentions in my head and heart versus succinctly explaining them to others, are two different things.

As I put the cart before the horse on this one, I went to the drawing board, and prayerfully journaled, re-read my journals of the past, Goggled lots of things, investigated, prayed some more, and workshopped these ideals.

The answers were all there in my journal from February of 2023. What made me awestruck, was actually seeing the tenets of HWC written on those early pages-

“Have a job that is meaningful. Help others with their mental health. Teach others to be good at their jobs that helps others with their mental health. Paid or otherwise, be an ambassador, champion, supporter, educator, on suicide”.

The culmination of my experiences, values, hopes and dreams coalesced into this vision statement:

That every man, woman and child, know and believe they have intrinsic value and worth, and to be treated with honor, dignity, and respect.

I believe the best way to make this world a better place is for people to know their value and worth. Period. I cannot produce hate and violence and be careless with another’s life, if I truly love and respect myself. Those two things do NOT go together.

“ This makes for harmony among the members, so that all the members care for each other. If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad” .

1 Corinthians 12:26 NLT

If I honor me, I honor you. If I honor me, we all are glad. That’s the vison.

I didn’t even realize just how much I was NOT honoring myself until I was about 57. Sometimes God just peels the blinders off your eyes in the middle of the night and you see things much differently. I am eternally grateful for that divine intervention. But it took many years of awareness and behavior change to never turn back. The best part is that every time I had that awareness and made a different, better decision, my self-respect, esteem, love, and honor increased.

I want this for you. Therapy, and good therapists, can help you know and believe you have intrinsic value and worth. It’s a good place to start.

I value you. I don’t have to know you to know you are so worthy, and that no one and no thing can ever take that away from you.

Big smiles,

Elisha