Forgiveness is the first step on the road to a fresh start.

Forgive yourself.

And love yourself through it all because loving yourself is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. 

"You can accept the challenge of change or you can choose the comfort of misery....

Prevail in your own heart's desire...Simplify your life as chaos will destroy you...You can."  Liliana Kohann

This was an unsettling experience. Sexual violence is a crime.  Report it whenever and however it shows up.  This is nefarious. Report the devaluation, objectification and commodification of vulnerable women and children. I am a bridge for women.

What happens when you neglect yourself to chase the shadow of a man? What happens when you do not give yourself the love you seek and the kind you desire and deserve?

Have you ever felt unheard and unacknowledged in your relationships? What does that feel like? What do you do when it is an observable pattern in your life?

Have you ever felt unheard and unacknowledged in your relationships?  What does that feel like?  What do you do when it is an observable pattern in your life?    

There are some things we cannot plan for in life.  How well we are comfortable in our skin is determined by our capacity of knowing and accepting ourselves.  In this episode, Annie made the switch and embraced herself.  

Stitch self-appreciation and self-compassion into your love-affair which will see you flourishing with impact!  Sahaj Kahl said, "The fact that someone else loves you doesn't rescue you from the project of loving yourself."   Appreciate your weaknesses, and have less of a need to explain your shortcomings is to be grounded in self-love.   

An exercise to revisit, regularly to really reinforce your positive self-talk. 

Even when life slaps you around, you still have value. From self-love, all goodness flows.