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Your Sensitivity is Your Strength

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 February 16, 2019
Sensitvity

Sensitivity in our modern world is an uncomfortable thing. Its denial borders on amusing.

Yet in the depths of human needs, we all crave for sensitivity and care. Without it we would be lost.

Like you, I have struggled with sensitivity all my life. I still get baffled how to fit sensitivity into my world. Life gets complicated at times when navigating through life. I was influenced by a culture where sensitivity is defined as a weakness and showing emotion as a social embarrassment. I married into this as well. Culturally where it’s inappropriate to experience or express sensitivity. This is all that I knew at the time.

I also stayed in the corporate world just so that I had some form of identity and recognition. A false sense of power and strength. But it was cold place for me to be. My sensitivity screamed at me every day. Its not who you are! My soul whispered let go.

This reminds me: many years ago, a homeopath looked at me and told me to leave the corporate world. “It’s just too harsh for your soul, darling.” A sweet wise old lady. I never took her seriously. I was too busy being a corporate person. I got lost in this world. In a world of “suck it up, get over yourself, toughen up or stop being too sensitive” were the norm. My sensitivity never gave up on me. I began my journey on discovering what being sensitive meant to me.

Sensitivity is My Strength

It’s all about embracing and accepting my deep feelings. Not fighting them! All my life I repressed or avoided my feelings. Avoided the world/life, uncomfortable situations or people. It was a journey of empowering myself every time I get sensitive about a situation or person. I ask myself – what was my contribution to this event? Whose drama is this? Does it add value to my life?

This way I was not denying or repressing my emotions. I was empowering myself. Instead of getting angry or feeling guilty or stupid I found a peaceful response to my emotions. But there was still something off-balance inside me. I did not know how to take care of me. Love and nourish me. I always believed that it was the other persons job to love me and take care of me. To my astonishment it was not going be.

I slowly started on the journey of self-love and nourishment. (Louise Hay my sensitivity saviour). I found the simple truths of trust and faith. I found my port of safety and security. Where I can anchor my sensitivity. This I found in meditation and laughter yoga. Discovering an inner calmness! An inner strength!

Navigating the World

Navigating the world as a highly sensitive person (HSP) can be very traumatic. This can leave you feeling not so good about yourself. Not worthy of many things in life. Sometimes we are not aware of this behaviour. We build barriers to protect ourselves from this harsh reality of the world we travel.

To find my sense of self and remove the layers of trauma, I left my corporate job and started doing laughter yoga workshops. Taking one risk at a time. Starting with small groups of workshops. I started to feel a sense of belonging a sense of self. I got curious about being me in this world. Hey, I oscillate between being seen and hiding. Part of me is still afraid of being labelled or boxed into some cliché.

The good news is that a HSP can remove the layers of pain and hurt. Be surprised what you can discover about yourself. The journey is not an easy one. The tagline “You are worth it” comes to mind.

Also, this digital age desperately needs sensitive people. HSP people have the gift of connecting, caring and empathising.

I encourage you to show up as your sensitive self. Its your strength.

How to Cope with Valentines Day?

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 February 13, 2018
valentines-day

Valentines day! Day of hearts, chocolates and flowers.

But its not all rosy for many people. It’s a traumatic and sad for many. The expectation set out by commercial establishments had people waiting in anticipation. Only to have their hearts broken. I was one of the people who fell for the glamour/illusion of Valentine’s day. My heart was ripped to pieces. Have you had a similar experience? Well let me tell you.

Do you know that you’re very special and unique? There is no other person like you. You deserve to be loved by the most important person in your life — YOU. We are celebrating the month of love starting with YOU.

(YOU MATTER YOU SMART YOU KIND YOU POWERFUL YOU ♥ HEART)

Practicing self-love can be tough for many of us, especially when it Valentines. There is so much emphasis on romantic love. It can be extremely lonely. The void and the emptiness are amplified. Your self-worth gets a knock and you feel so rejected by life.

Does that seem or sound like you? We are focusing on YOU and loving you. It’s not about being self-absorbed or self-centred, it’s about getting in touch with ourselves, our well-being and our joy. We practice self-love, so we can break through our limiting beliefs. When you love yourself so deeply and unconditionally, magic happens. The loneliness and low self-worth disappears. You get so comfortable in your own skin that you do not need love and approval from outside. You may be wondering where to begin.

Below are 21 ways to love yourself: –loving yourself

 

 

 

  1. Start being honest with yourself about everything going on in your life.
  2. Accept where are right now in your life – without judgement
  3. Connect with your inner self and higher self
  4. Face your inner resistance, barriers and fears
  5. Be kind, compassionate towards yourself
  6. Forgive yourself and others
  7. Make peace with your past
  8. Start enjoying the things and relationships you already have
  9. Start dreaming and doing
  10. Start creating your own happiness – on your terms
  11. Build and nurture relationships where you feel appreciated and loved. Where you feel safe to be open and vulnerable
  12. Become the love you seek from other people
  13. Pay attention to your stress/worry/tension/anxiety levels and find ways to manage the stress/worry/tension/anxiety.
  14. Be yourself, genuinely and proudly
  15. Nurture and nourish your body
  16. Take care of your time, your space and your finances.
  17. Laugh more in life
  18. Find work and activities you love and that adds joy and meaning
  19. Believe in your abilities
  20. Find the positive during challenging times
  21. Flaunt your Flawsomeness!

Reflections….

Reality of life:  People will come and go.  Events will come and go.  Day and night will come and go.  But deep unconditional love for yourself will always remain with you, if you nurture and nourish it.

“Put these things on your TO-DO list today:

  1. Spend time doing things that help you love yourself more.
  2. Spend time with people who help you love yourself more.”

Over to YOU…

Are you ready to start loving yourself deeply and unconditionally?

7 Ways to Rock Your Curves

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 June 13, 2017
Rock your curves

My blog is mainly focused on being happy and living happy. But things are changing… I want to take a moment to reflect on something that’s important to me and has become part of my core message and belief:

 Rock Your Curves. Body Confidence

My big vision is to change the outlook on curvy bodies. I would like girls with curves to wear clothes that someone with their body type typically doesn’t, with confidence.

My mission is to impact women lives by inspiring women to feel comfortable in their own skin. Aspire to be their true powerful self.

I get so many compliments and enquiries on how I achieved confidence, and how I stay body positive, in a world where we’re made to feel as if we don’t deserve to be stylish and beautiful, due to our size. In a world where our size is viewed so negatively

I started thinking about Rocking your Curves (body confidence), and how to define it.

I started to reflect on ways I’ve built my own body confidence through the years. Considering my own personal struggle to accept my natural curves most of my life. Battle with emotional eating, excessive exercise, cycle of weight loss and weight gain, I thought it was time to share my personal style of rocking my curves.

Here are my top 7 ways to Rock Your Curves (body confidence tips):

  1. Mirror Mirror on the Wall…

Many women, like yourself, who are uncomfortable with their bodies, avoid looking at themself in the mirror, especially in the nude. There is highly possibility seeing yourself in the nude can change your perception of your body, radically! We mean the positive way.

Let’s try an experiment and see what happens. Do your hair and makeup in the nude and then look at yourself in the mirror. Do this maybe twice a week for 3 weeks. Trust me, it will start to change the way you see and look at your body.  This will help you become more comfortable facing yourself in the mirror. This way to will get used to seeing your reflection without any judgements

2. Telling yourself good things…

Yes, I talk to myself all the time. No, I am not a crazy person- I know you talk to yourself too!

We tend to focus on what we don’t like about ourselves. We judge ourselves to the point where we dislike sometimes hate our bodies. But instead of critical thoughts, focus on what you like about yourself, having positive thoughts about your body and looks.

Tell yourself how proud you are that your body can do. Maybe you’re a new mom and although there are things about your post-baby body you’re still trying to deal with, be proud that your body carried a new life. You gave birth to an amazing little person.

Maybe you dislike showing your arms, but you’re a brilliant baker, so you should be thankful for those strong arms that can whip up a delicious dessert like nobody’s business!  By now I’m sure you’ve gotten the point.

Whatever your body hang-ups are, find a way to change/reframe the negative into a positive. (like we did above).

3. Build a Body Positive Tribe

Next time when you with a group of ladies, there will at some point be body-bashing conversation. Turn the conversation around by mentioning what you like about your body. Discuss the things you love about your bodies vs. the things you loathe. This will change the tone of the conversation and as well make it upbeat. The positivity will spread like wildfire

4. Let’s Get Real

Let’s get real. We live in the real world of chores, jobs, kids, traffic, cooking, cleaning…

It’s impossible to look like models or celebrities all the time – Perfect skin, hair, clothes. Real women have freckles, uneven skin tones, stretch marks, cellulite, etc. No one is perfect, so please don’t set these idealistic standard of beauty for yourself.

Aspire to be the best version of yourself, not the unrealistic ideals of beauty and body we see in the media. Redefine your version of beauty and body. What works for you!

5. Fashion Police to Flawsome

The fashion police are always investigating fashion crimes by celebrities. These so-called fashion crimes are transferred to the public through gossip magazines, websites or TV. This behaviour becomes acceptable way of viewing celebrities, people and ultimately the one you see in the mirror. Instead of looking for serious flaws, give a compliment, and mean it! Celebrate the flaws!

Over time, you’ll start to compliment yourself and appreciate your flaws. Its will cool to be FLAWSOME!

6. Look Good Feel Good

Looking good to make yourself feel good may not seem right. But It’s a great start. For most of us, making the effort to look good, makes us feel good internally. Great booster for your confidence! Remember it’s a great way to start feeling good about your body and yourself. Feeling good about yourself is so much more than the clothes you wear.

For you, that might mean going au naturel on the daily, or never leaving the house without a full face of makeup. Either way, try to take care of yourself in the ways that make you feel good. Go the extra mile and paint your nails, get a weekly blow out, learn to do a perfect top knot- whatever it is that makes you feel amazing, do that! Find a formula that works for you.

7. Say Cheese…

I used to be very fearful in the past when people would look my way. I thought they were laughing at me, or how weird my highlights looked on hair or if my clothes were hideous. Now, when I catch somebody looking at me, I smile at them and nod my head. At the same time, my heart is pounding and my nerves are shot.

Smiling sends a message to your mind to feel good and in turn your body into thinking you feel confident and amazing. The heart beat slows down, the body is calm. Adds a little sparkle to face and a spring in your step.

 

Courage Creates Confidence

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 May 12, 2017
Courage Creates Confidence

Courage Creates Confidence

Courage creates Confidence! It sounds upside-down, right? I am sure you are thinking that confidence gives you courage. Let’s explore this a little more.

Everybody wants more Confidence. It’s been said, published that confidence enables us to tackle life’s challenges with more certainty and clarity. With CONFIDENCE, we can do more, be more and live more … right?

While there’s no question that confidence is a valuable attribute, there is another quality, often undervalued, that may well be even more effective. In fact, it might just be the key to building truly sustainable confidence! COURAGE…

Let’s define Confidence and Courage:

Confidence: A feeling of self-assurance. A state or quality of being certain. The feeling or belief in one’s own abilities or qualities.

Courage: The ability to do something that even when you scared. Act on one’s beliefs despite danger or disapproval. The ability to do something that you know is right or good, even though it can be the most difficult thing.

Courage Creates Confidence

Confidence lives in the comfort zone. It loves to operate within the realm of safety. It excels in what is known. This where confidence thrives. The power and certainty is based on past experiences and a build-up of achievements over time. This comfort zone is limiting. Let me give you an example. A person can be extremely confident at a task, but at the same time avoid trying a very different type of work because they don’t want to risk appearing foolish.

Now Courage is the willingness to try new different things. Take action even if we are not feeling sure of ourselves. For example, leaving a successful profession to strike out on your own requires great courage. If you’re painfully shy, learning to speak up at meetings or social functions is courageous. True courage is the willingness to risk discomfort. Doing things while being scared. We break-up with fear and move forward, building boat loads of confidence along the way.

In my opinion, courage is the most important trait for developing resilience and creating positive change in your life. Courage provides the commitment that you need to start change and the passion stay on your path during times of doubt and insecurity. Life is unpredictable and can create roadblocks on our path when we least expect it. Only courage can take you forward.

3 ways to be Courageous

courage

  1. Taking it one step at a time  

It’s so easy to YES to life. No can be very challenging and tricky. No offends yet we forget that it also protects us. Learning to say No builds courage and confidence. Saying No helps you from making poor decisions. This tactic can help you stay focused and prevent unnecessary complexity and wrong turns.

2. Bend, Don’t Break

Learning to flexible and adaptable to life challenges and roadblocks build courage and resilience. This in turn makes one confident. You will be like a bamboo during storms. The roots are firmly in the ground but the bamboo bends in the direction of the wind. They rarely break. Changing your game plan and letting go will be easy, when things don’t go your way.

3. Saying NO

Choose one thing that you have been avoiding. The one thing that makes you uncomfortable. Write down what do you need to do to take the next step. Maybe reading more about it or asking for help. This way an understanding can be developed about the situation.

Starting today, why not challenge yourself to celebrate each encounter with fear as an opportunity to strengthen your courage muscles and grow your confidence

Fears, Failures and Fat

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 February 28, 2017
fears failures and fat

Fears, Failures and Fat

Oh darling! These words feel so cosy and comfortable. They may have been your friend or foe for a long time. Depends your relationship with them.

We LIVING in the world of FLAWS = FEAR + FAILURES + FAT

This world of flaws may seem big but in fact you have been living very small.

In the world of Flaws, it can be debilitating and limiting. Its creates stories that keep you back in life and not allow you to try new things or engage with new people. The inner voice of fears, failures and fat is very tricky and naughty. Conjuring up stories to convince you that you are broken and need to be fixed. A few of the stories that live in the world of Flaws are:

I am so fat

I am ugly

I am not pretty

I am such a failure and looser

I earn little money

I have such a small house

My thighs are so fat.

I am boring

I am so weak

I am not educated enough

I am not smart enough

I am plain Jane

I hate myself for not being able to say no

I haven’t handled that situation very well.

People don’t like me…..

Do some of the stories in the world of Flaws seem as your own?

All our “flaws” are based on our own interpretations and perspectives. We fixate about certain aspects of our body, our appearance, our personality, our life, our work and consider them as “flawed.”

We all experience a sense of feeling flawed in certain aspects of our lives and at times in life. It’s a natural human condition. There is absolutely nothing wrong feeling this way. We all want to feel whole and have a sense of belonging. But, feeling flawed can rob us of our energy, our passion, our happiness, our confidence, and living our life. It’s one of the most painful ways to live and can result in a very dissatisfied life.

So, you see living in the world of Flaws is not so wonderful!!!

I would love to live in a world of Flawsome.

Ok I know it sounds weird.

In the world of Flawsome we are flawed and fabulous at the same time. And it’s a great place to be. Now you must be curious how can one be flawed and fab at once. Well you can …

3 steps to live in the world of Flawsome (fears, Failures, fat, fabulous)

Step 1  Lets get real about your flaws

Acknowledge the limitations, weaknesses, faults, failings, inadequacies, imperfections, shortcomings. We just bringing them to light without judgement. We are not running away or avoiding them anymore. There is a personal power and freedom in acknowledging them.

Step 2 Feeling the Flaws

Express your underlying feelings for your perceived flaws. Is it fear or shame? Do you feel angry about something at work or with your career? Sad about people treating you badly? All these feelings create a sense discomfort, pain and unease. In these situations, we tend to suppress our emotions. The memory of the painful situation gets bottled up. By giving these feelings a voice you can unhook and unlock from the memory of the situation.

Step 3 Love being Flawsome

View your flaws with kindness and compassion. Love your flaws – this creates a safe space to accept our flaws and give us the courage to change our mindset about them. It allows healing and creates place for new possibilities, new stories to be told.

A world in which we can adore our flaws and fab side by side. Where the light and dark co-exist. Where we can love our fears, failures & fat. Being whole. Exploring, Discovering, Becoming. Where there is a possibility of living, large and light.

This is the world of Flawsome.

 Would you like to live there?

How to Love Yourself?

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 February 7, 2017
loving yourself

Do you love yourself?

Do you know that you’re very special and unique? There is no other person like you. You deserve to be loved by the most important person in your life — YOU. We celebrating the month of love starting with YOU. (YOU MATTER YOU SMART YOU KIND YOU POWER YOU  ♥ HEART)

Practicing self-love can be tough for many of us, especially during trying times. It’s not about being self-absorbed or self-centred, it’s about getting in touch with ourselves, our well-being and our joy. We practice self-love so we can break through our limiting beliefs and create & live a life that we truly love.

Below are 21 ways to love yourself: –

  1. Start being honest with yourself about everything going on in your life.
  2. Accept where are right now in your life – without judgement
  3. Connect with your inner self and higher self
  4. Face your inner resistance, barriers and fears
  5. Be kind, compassionate towards yourself
  6. Forgive yourself and others
  7. Make peace with your past
  8. Start enjoying the things and relationships you already have
  9. Start dreaming and doing
  10. Start creating your own happiness
  11. Build and nurture relationships where you feel appreciated and loved. Where you feel safe to be open and vulnerable
  12. Become the love you seek from other people
  13. Pay attention to your stress/worry/tension/anxiety levels and find ways to manage the stress/worry/tension/anxiety.
  14. Be yourself, genuinely and proudly
  15. Nurture and nourish your body
  16. Take care of your time, your space and your finances.
  17. Laugh more in life
  18. Find work and activities you love and that adds joy and meaning
  19. Believe in your abilities
  20. Find the positive during challenging times
  21. Flaunt your Flawsomeness!

Reflections….

Reality of life:  People will come and go.  Events will come and go.  Day and night will come and go.  But deep unconditional love for yourself will always remain with you, if you nurture and nourish it.

“Put these things on your TO-DO list today:

  1. Spend time doing things that help you love yourself more.

  2. Spend time thinking about things that help you love yourself more.

  3. Spend time with people who help you love yourself more.”

Over to YOU…

Which of these points do you struggle with?

How will you love yourself today?

Strong Woman

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 January 26, 2017
strong woman

What is a strong woman?

Women standing into their power. Unleashing the Goddess energy. Embracing the divine feminine. I am proud for the women march that took place. I was far away but my heart was with them.

I am not for Woman’s Lib or a radical feminist. I am not in competition with men. I don’t want to be like men. I am all woman. I embrace my natural qualities as a woman. I am sassy, classy, intelligent, talented, strong, funny, fierce and so much more. I am a woman.

For eons women and young girls have been subject to prejudice, misogyny and discrimination by society and culture. It’s great to see woman uniting, marching for a common cause – their fundamental right to exist and freedom of choice.

The women showed up with her own essence. In the spirit of love. Striving and thriving with her own feminine essence. (They came from every corner of society). I urge you to be a strong woman- Drop the tough hard male persona. This world need strong women. Real women today. We need to be the new leaders directing this world to change. A different way to making decisions, finding solutions, with heart and mind – to bring harmony and peace to this world. It’s a matter of our fundamental rights to exist, our safety and dignity. Doing all this with compassion, power, encouragement, vulnerability, love and integrity

So, my question to you:

Are you a woman standing in her own power?

You don’t have to be Mother Teresa or Joan of Arc.

What are you willing to do in your world to lead by being a Real Women of Today?

Are you standing up as a Goddess of change or waiting for life to pass you by?

LET ME SHOW YOU HOW ….click here to BOOK A SESSION TO BE A GODDESS OF CHANGE.

Build Your Confidence

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 October 5, 2016
Build your confidence

Building your confidence is an inside job.

The rock solid foundation that you seek comes from within. Not outside. Plenty has been written about building self-confidence – creating a plan, setting goals, finding the right mentor, etc. We taking a slightly different approach. The below will help build your confidence.

We believe these 7 things can help build confidence and roll with the punches.

  1. Do one thing that makes you feel uncomfortable.
  2. Fail fast and fail often.
  3. Be wrong and be OK with it.
  4. Compliment others to make them feel awesome
  5. Laugh in the face of frustration.
  6. Ignore what most people think of you.
  7.  Now is the Perfect Time to Do.

Your turn…

If you were able to maintain a level of self-confidence that no circumstance could shake, what would you be doing differently?

Also, what would you add to the list?  What has helped you build your confidence?

Please let us know by leaving a comment below.

Take Care of YOURSELF Today

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 May 25, 2016
take care of yourself today

I was “taking good care of myself.”

I joined a fancy health and fitness club.

Life was good. I worked hard, I played hard. The end. That was the story of my Life.

In reality it was hardly that simple or great. There was a whole lot of commotion in my life that I was trying to resolve and juggle. Building my house, renovating my office, building my business, running a household, working at my marriage, worrying about parents & keeping up with friends. How was I doing it all? I was thriving. But people close to me didn’t think so.

It was mentioned (a few times) in passing by family members & friends: “You have too much on your plate. You’ll burnout be careful” I remember becoming very irritated and defensive once. I responded, “Don’t worry about me I really do take good care of myself. I can handle it.”

After all, I worked out 4 days a week. I ate healthy wholesome meals. I drank 2 litres of water daily. I had weekly lunches with my bestie. I scheduled massages when I was stressed or overwhelmed. And, on most nights I even slept a minimum of six hours. I took really good care of myself – so I thought! Hmmm….

On the inside: I buried vulnerability. I played the resilience card. I sought out quick-fixes. And I convinced myself I was okay. Unknowingly, I placed a label on emotions: “I’ll deal with it later. Not now please emotions.”:

Along the overachieving path of success and ambition, I disconnected from myself. I did not know how to take care of my inner world. One day I found myself sleeping hugging a pillow, with a deep wound and sadness. The ache made my stomach hurt and my head throb. I was not okay.  I fell apart inside!

After a few intense days of deep seated pain, I was gifted with a new awareness. I paused. Made simple and easy changes in my daily routine to include internal nurturing and nourishing.

Suddenly, the world took on a different appearance—a kinder, more meaningful, more abundant, and compassionate glow.

This is how I did it. Self-care is doing little things for yourself. Self-care is a lifestyle! Self-care is all about treating yourself with love & kindness.

My simple strategy for everyday self-care is “mini retreats”.

Mini retreats are bite-sized self-care rituals that can comfortably fit your life and bring gigantic stress relief.

3 easy steps to create a totally do-able self-care plan tailor made for YOU in 15 minutes

Step 1 – Brainstorming

Set aside 10 minutes to brainstorm what would you like to do in your mini-retreats

I’d love to……. Just jot down as many as you like. No wrong or right. Don’t worry about time, money or when. Just enjoy the dreaming, exploring, discovering. e.g. sitting at a coffee shop reading, attending a yoga class, learning to dance, meditating, journaling, celebrating good things of the day, visit Paris, go skiing…

Step 2 – Organising

Select 3-5 activities on your list that you can implement easily and quickly. Minimal time, money or planning. I  call them Simple Pleasures

Of course, it would be great to start incorporating ALL of the activities into your life but since you may already feel time restraints, we need to prioritise.

Select 1 activity that will create fireworks in your life. Make you feel good about yourself

Select a 2nd one that will have lasting impact throughout the day

Select a 3rd one that you can do right now.

Step 3 Planning

Pick 1 from step 2 which mini retreat would love to start this week. Grab your calendar and book these mini retreats for this week! Voila!

A simple self-care plan JUST FOR YOU.

Its time to Take care of yourself!

Stop Being Hard on Yourself

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 April 24, 2016
6 WAYS TO STOP BEING AHRD ON YOURSELF

STOP BEING HARD ON YOURSELF

Do you even realise how often you tell yourself the following?

“I’m so useless.”

“I’m such an idiot.”

“I never get it right. I am so stupid

For the umpteenth time you feel disappointed in yourself, ashamed of who you are, wracked with self-disappointment and sometimes self-hate. From deep within you feel like an utter failure, convinced you’re a nobody, a waste of time. You will never make it. You will never be a somebody. You’ve become such an expert at beating yourself up. Each day you find more opportunities to feel insignificant! To stop feeling good enough.

I used to feel the same.

l found ways beating myself up for my imperfections and then no matter how well I did, no matter how much I improved, still finding fault. Always looking at what went wrong.  All I did its was never good enough.

In fact, all I was doing was hating myself for being human. Punishing myself for being fallible. Suffering for trying to be like someone else.

But WHY?

Because all I wanted was to be loved!

And I thought if I was perfect person, the world would love me. And then I would be happy.

But the reality is, if you hate yourself so much you will never be happy, even if the whole world does love you.

To be truly happy, you need just one person to love you, and that person is YOU!.

But how can you possibly love such an imperfect person as yourself?

By understanding six life truths:

  1. Control isn’t everything.
  2. Family doesn’t have to come first
  3. Relationships aren’t perfect and easy.
  4. Mistakes are Okay.
  5. You’re not responsible for others
  6. Life can be hard and challenging at times

How do you feel after pondering on the 6 truths of life?

Look in the mirror and see love, not hate.

Stop beating yourself up over everything you think, say or do. Stop criticizing yourself endlessly for all your so called  ‘weaknesses’

Because every human being is born with flaws – yes its true.

Every person deserves love and support. yes they do

So feel good about yourself. oh go ahead….Feel great about yourself.

Look in the mirror and smile at the person smiling back at you.

Because that person is special, unique and deserves your love.

BECAUSE THAT PERSON IS YOU!

So STOP BEING HARD ON YOURSELF.

 

 

 

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