Allowed to Be YOU

Aaaallllrighty thennnnn! This one's for the ladies. So ok you're a mom. You're a wife, some of you. You're an adult, most of the time. Annnndddddd you're isolated. Shout out I know you agree with me sistas!

I'm not exactly sure where in the bible or world laws it states that you have to be that way??? But you are. Sometimes you put yourself there because it makes you feel safe and content and in your "comfort zone" using your family as an excuse or a shield or whatever. But! Sometimes it stunts your growth as a person and you know it and you are positive it's your own fault. Don't deny it! And it makes it impossible to create the kind of world that you have always dreamed of since you were 5.

Now yeah you aren't a ballerina or an astronaut or married to a prince or even a frog for that matter but you had goals and ambitions and dreams and hopes and even though the world had a little to do with your new found and overindulged skepticism and restrained optimism you and I both know that you are more to blame.

I refer to an old quote by William W Purkey (yes I know Purkey as in perky)"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's Heaven on Earth." You know that rock you've created to hide under when you feel ugly or slighted or ridiculed or fat or stupid or all of those other remarks that I know go through your heads? Break it! It is a habit and you HAVE GOT TO BREAK IT! There isn't a female alive that doesn't feel that way no matter how "put together" they look to you. They cry in the closet or shower like you do. They pray for help because they always feel so inadequate like you do. They wish they had someone to talk to, I mean REALLY talk to just like you do. They wish they looked just like you, had friends just like you and envy you just like you envy them.

Granted some of them kid themselves or refuse to stop hiding. But you are not them. You are you. It's time to be the best you that you can be by being the confident person, friend, colleague, woman that you were always meant to be.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of god. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson

I believe in you.