Diary of an Empowered Single Mum
Thursday 7th January 2020
Sometimes I think about climbing into a time machine. It would be cool to change some of those moments that were less than pretty.
Like how for a lot of my childhood and young adult years I grew up believing that I was not good enough. Not good enough to be loved, not good enough to be a friend, not a good enough singer, not good enough in my job, not pretty enough.. just generally not good enough.
It took years for me to break the cycle of not feeling good enough, climb out of victum mode, and when I finally did
I became unstoppable
Each time I l look back on those experiences, I wonder if changing them would serve any purpose at all? After all, the choices that we make in life- create the person we are today.
- If you hadn't left that job, then you wouldn't be doing what you do today
- If you hadn't left or changed your relationship, perhaps you would still be unhappy
- If you hadn't moved house, then you'd still be wondering if there was something better
- If you hadn't started your business, then you wouldn't know if it would be successful
Perhaps if those less than great moments had been altered, then I wouldn't be here today coaching and inspiring some of the top minds in the world.
I would go back to my 17 year old self and tell her that everything in her life is going to work out perfectly. That voice in her head that told her that no one liked her.. was a big fat liar! That those words were not truth at all, and it was just her mind challenging her to think positively.
That the dream she has of one day going to university to do a degree in Counselling, would be done in the most challenging environment: remotely, while she had a 1 year old and a baby on the way while going through a separation.
That those people who you once went to school with, who she thought didn't like her - would 20 years down the track become her friends.
That she would be living and following her passion, regardless of the nay sayers that told her she couldn't.
If I could go back in a time machine, I would do so to visit my 17 year old self to tell her that she is enough.
More than enough. Every time.
What would you tell your 17 year old self?
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