“Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and EMBRACE who you are.”
Over the past 30 days I have been participating in a transformational self love study. The entire project will last 90 days. It is being led by my Young Living Royal Crown Leader, Connie (the very tippety top of the company). She is a women I have met and studied under personally, a women I admire and appreciate. She is so honest and open and has a heart for helping women feel and act empowered and is passionate about helping us own our worth. With her guidance, I am exploring a concept of becoming Ezer, Hebrew for women and when translated it means a strong, benevolent warrior! It sounds like a powerful, incredible journey because it is.
When I started this journey our very first assignment was to take a selfie with the goal of not smiling, engaging our eyes, to speak our story through the eyes. I ended up LOVING this photos of myself. I felt like a warrior! I also wrote this: I am Ezer. Hebrew for woman. And when translated it means: strong, benevolent woman. Beyond nurturer, beyond helper, beyond homemaker I am a strong warrior. I choose to accept my divine purpose. I choose to own my worthiness, my power, my scars and my strength. I choose to be a beacon. I choose to see the good, to speak the good, to feel the good and BE the good. ✨✨ Over the next 90 days I will be on a journey of self love. We must constantly push ourselves to grow and find and learn new ways to be our best version. I will be learning how to be in a state of living EXPECTANTLY – owning my worth; saying NO to my internal critic – being a better friend to myself and becoming a women of influence – holding hands with other women and lifting them up along with me. Will you join me? It’s not a movement of Young Living leaders, it’s a movement for women to learn, internalize and live in a state of self love 💜 No commitment other than an epic journey within yourself to grow into the woman you were born to be. ✨
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The first 1/3 of the study focused on learning more about first recognizing and then taking control of our inner critic. I’ve been learning to identity how I speak to myself and how to stop those negative thoughts dead in their track — you may hear me say to myself JUST STOP IT! I have also learned to identify what I believe about myself through childhood and adulthood conditioning and the outward effect those thoughts and beliefs has on the rest of my life — it has been compelling.
Our brains process a million thoughts a day. Through this short thirty day process I began to recognize and shut down my inner critic. When it was brought to my conscience and when I started to recognize how the majority of my thoughts were very negative and coming from place of horrible negativity I was shocked about how mean I am to myself. The things I think about myself, the lies, put-downs and hurtful non-truths I have believed, the criticisms I tell myself and listened to for so long have haunted my success, my joy and my beauty. How often I put myself down with things I say to myself and didn’t even realize I did it; I didn’t get my to-do list done, I am so lazy. I am not worthy of abundance or joy. I am not fit enough. I am not smart enough. I am not patient enough. I am not kind enough. No one listens to things I have to say…. and on and on ALL DAY LONG.
This is a training that is a piece of lifelong learning. It is not something that I have mastered by any means. The first step to any problem is identifying that there is a problem!
Another part of this learning self love is to be comfortable in our own skin. To practice self love actions every single day. When we do things that make us feel beautiful, we act beautiful. The self love daily action for me was very simply; commit to washing my face morning and night and apply moisturizer with certain essential oils. I choose lavender or geranium or frankincense or all three(!) in the pm, plus my wrinkle cream and carrot seed oil in the am.
Check out this transformation (after is on the right) – 30 days people – this is naked me!
When I do intentional things for myself to look beautiful, I feel and act beautiful. When I made the decision to matter enough to wash my face at the end of every day and apply the carrot seed oil in my moisturizer and then the Boswellia wrinkle cream at bedtime, it felt good that I made time for myself. It wasn’t long into the challenge that I began to look forward to looking myself in the face to notice changes and now it feels like a good habit. One physical thing I noticed and you can see in this photo is my skin looks more evenly toned. I do not see dark sun damage spots over my nose and on my cheeks anymore. I’ve noticed my skin is plumper and more hydrated which has diminished fine lines around my eyes. The 30 day challenge for me was creating a simple new habit of caring for my skin. It made myself stop, and intentionally end each day feeling beautiful and deserving. (see below the products I use)
My personal journal is full of powerful quotes, words of inspiration and my personal thoughts throughout this journey. We read together “The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brene Brown. I highly recommend it!!! These a few words I want to share :
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through the process is the bravest things that we will ever do.” Brene Brown
“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
Our subconscious mind is obedient.
Whatever man voices, it will attract.
What we constantly think about is what we manifest.
What we radiate outward begins on the inside. You will radiate what you think and feel.
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