Would you mind if I share my own self-discovery, self-love Journey?

Great. Thanks!

I know others are going through the same struggles, the same emotions, asking themselves the same questions.

God has given me this intense purpose to help people live with, and for themselves with love, truth, and acceptance.

Here's what I discovered along my journey:

• I discovered a deeper part of me that was just waiting for an outlet

• I discovered things about myself I didn't know existed

• I discovered forgiveness; for myself and for others

• I discovered happiness exists, regardless of my circumstances

• I discovered I didn't have to open wide for society's frequent dose of judgment

• I discovered there's a new way to look at me and consequently the world

• I discovered there are so many others out there masked up, longing for acceptance

• I discovered unwavering self-acceptance and radical self-love

• I discovered others who are walking the same path and share the same struggles

Have I arrived?

No. Never will. It's a JOURNEY, not a destination.

But I have had experiences that I am unbelievably, and deeply grateful for.

It's an unperfect, messy, yet beautifully unpredictable journey.

Journeys are not meant to be a straight line, nor do you want them to be.

Think interstate vs back roads.

Where are the super interesting, really cool sights? Those backroads baby! The curved, sometimes dirty, at times a bit sketchy, winding roads that you think lead to nowhere end up at the coolest place ever! Together, we'll get on those dusty, dirty back roads to get you to a place you've been looking for your whole life!

I do promise that sooner or later you WILL get tired of picking up your heavy societal and self-imposed baggage every single day. Once you're ready to drop it, or at the very least accept it, you'll let it go with a loud thunderous, HELL YA! There's where the shift begins.

To know yourself means not attaching to who you THINK you are, but uncovering the YOU that exists.

That's worth repeating!

To know yourself means not attaching to who you THINK you are, but uncovering the YOU that exists.

All of your strengths and weaknesses, hopes and dreams, thoughts and feelings, circumstances and situations. Yes, the good, the bad and the ugly, but also the very beautiful, intricacies that make you special and unique.

Coaching allowed me to unearth my values for the first time in my life.

Coaching challenged me first to get to know myself and my path so I can help others walk out their path and honestly get out of their own way.

It's quite the story. I'll synthesize...alot!

I had left a job that I held for 10 years. It wasn't a job, really. It was a passion. I didn’t have to go to work, I GOT to go to work. I was in a really great groove…until I wasn't. Something started feeling off for me. There was no challenge left. Nothing left to explore. No ladder to climb. I was happy, but not being challenged. So rather than me making a change, it was made for me. I was forced to leave the work family I had known for nearly a decade. (cue the heartbreak)

This put me on a two-month-long journey of self-discovery. And I rediscovered coaching, and most of all myself.

It was just what I needed and I knew that God put it in my sights for a reason. I've been called to this since my first coaching session through the American Express Leadership Academy in 2018. Little did I know that a single coaching session would change my life's trajectory.

In my younger years, I had walked out a life of, well... just feeling as if I never could make the right choice, or didn't understand why I was making choices that felt "icky".

I never understood why, when I made a choice that just never quite felt right, there was some uneasiness about it. Like a constant tapping on my heart or in my head saying "hey, psssst, um, why are you doing this? This isn't you!" The problem was back then, I didn't know who I was. I had no idea what I stood for. I hadn't a clue in the world what my values were. I was lost.

If you haven't identified your values, you'll get taken by somebody else's every single time…and it's going to feel...icky.

Not knowing your values can lead to mistaken identity. Walking down a path that was never meant to be yours is scary and feels like you are living in a foreign country. You hear yourself saying other people's words, dressing like others, doing what others want or think you should do.

You just feel off.

Some food for thought:

• Identity is intertwined with awareness.

• Your values mix your identity and awareness.

• Self-limiting beliefs throw a little (ok, ALOT) of challenge in here and there

• Love integrates all

• And loving our truth is what we're aiming for

I'm happy to say that it only took me 49 years to learn who I am, and I'm ecstatic that it wasn't a day longer!

Let's not put this off.

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