​We’re born knowing who we are, but in so many cases we quickly learn to forget in order to conform, fit in and survive.
 
As we go through life, we remember in varying degrees at different stages but we often choose not to go there. Instead we choose to believe what we’ve been taught and take it as gospel on blind faith. It’s an easier option.
 
Or we have a really good grasp of who we are but we hide our authentic selves, hide out in order to feel safe. Once again, it can seem like the easier choice.
 
Some will wear masks and talk a good game when their aim is really manipulation. They’ve figured out how to work the system to get what they want.
 
But I have noticed that as people get older they tend to become more of who they truly are. For better or worse, being inauthentic is exhausting.

How do you heal and sooth the savage beast?
With Love.
How do you heal and sooth the dark parts and the recesses of the self?
With Love.
How do you heal and release hatred?
With Love.
How do you heal and release resentment?
With Love.
How do you forgive?
By loving yourself enough to release the hate and resentment.

​How do you become the best version of yourself?
By meeting yourself exactly where you are and loving and accepting yourself exactly as you are. By deciding once and for all that you are worthy and deserving of love and loving yourself unconditionally. You will then begin to make different, more loving choices. Your interactions with others will start to come from that place of love inside of you. When you love yourself, really love yourself, you become free to love others without conditions.

And the World Becomes a Better Place Just by You Being In It.

​There are certain instances in which we don’t move forward with something or bring it to fruition because we feel it’s not perfect. Whatever it might be, we keep refining and revising, changing it around and mulling it over; which then devolves into procrastination and postponement and we don’t finish it because it never seems ‘perfect’. We second guess ourselves. We give up. What’s the use? It’s not perfect.
 
News Flash: Perfection is Subjective. Things are rarely ever truly perfect.

​A paradigm shift is a fundamental change. It is a shift in consciousness, a shift in the understanding and belief of what is possible. It is the changes that subsequently manifest in our lives and in our reality from the shift in consciousness. We see things in a different light and our lives and our reality changes because of it.
 
We create and recreate ourselves many times throughout our lifetime, for better or for worse. From childhood to adulthood, to not change, to not make these big shifts is tantamount to stagnation and a sort of death. While, by the same token, making these shifts is also a sort of death, but a death that is liken to the Phoenix rising from the ashes. It is renewal. It is Transformation rather than Stagnation.

​We’re born open; shiny and clean, clear and permeable. We’re curious about everything. It’s a big, beautiful and awe inspiring world we’re in and we’re set on touching, tasting, exploring and experiencing it all. But from the time we’re born we are bombarded with the energy, thoughts and opinions of others…first family, then friends, teachers and society at large…designed to keep us in line, tell us how to feel, what to think and how to behave. In short, make us conform.