Hi family. We've heard the saying, "Knowing you worth" but what about working through internally to accept your worth... Yes, just simply accepting your self worth. I understand it's a huge personal milestone to start understanding you have worth, then the other is to understand that, that particular worth is validated but what about the acceptance of that worth. I struggled there for a while in those thougts for myself. Sure, I have worth but in order to fully embody the concept of my worth, I have to eventually at some point accept it. I beleive sometimes a lot of us struggle here too so I wanted to speak on my experience with arriving at my new level of self love by, "Accepting" My Self Worth. Stop Doing Things You Don't Like. 📸InstaGram: https://www.instagram.com/mo_lerouxart 📻Podcast:https://podfollow.com/perspective-of-an-artist 💟Stop Doing Things You Don’t like Collection: https://www.lerouxart.com/shop 💻https://www.lerouxart.com/ 👤FaceBook: ‪https://www.facebook.com/MoLeRouxArt ‬📺YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMa__eo4fum7HanXQX2r0zA 🐣Twitter: ‪https://twitter.com/lerouxart‬ 🎥🎨🎬Meet Houston's Artist Docuseries: https://www.lerouxart.com/meethoustonsartists

I know I took a break after the last episode. Self care is a must, even for Podcast hosts. However, I have some BIG news! I am currently making a film here in Houston, Texas. It's called, Meet Houston's Artists, and it's a docuseries! Myself, an underground artist, tell the stories of many multi-level career artists continuing to create amid COVID-19, Economic downfall & a country divided in Houston, Texas, USA. From painting out of their living rooms, doing pop-up art shows, and festivals to having a studio space in differing areas of the city. Each artist has their own story to how they got started in the city of Houston as artists and we will visit some of those locations and see how they are managing the mess, that is, 2020. You can view our LIVE streamed trailer here: https://www.facebook.com/MeetHoustonsArtists/videos/923420938155414/ or by following our social media pages for the Meet Houston's Atrtists Doucseries. Links below. What started out as a small passion project with just a few artists in within just a few weeks we erupted into a cast of 14 artists in Houston and we launched a crowd funding campaign on August 2st 2020 and as of today (8/10/2020) we are 52% funded! We have some really incredible and awesome backer rewards! You can pledge a donation here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meethoustonsartists/meet-houstons-artists-docuseries 

Also in this episode I do talk about how I feel about all of this... LOL, I'm still a human and I am sharing my art journey with you guys so why not know how this feels?

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I honestly didn't want to talk about this ever on my platform but I have to be honest about who I am, what I stand for, and what I feel. 2019 was already acting quite strange over a chicken sandwich but I digress. I think one of the best things we probably can do right now as human beings, is talk about what is going on so we can work through all of these emotions. COVID-19 was something I was aware of and made sure to err on the side of caution with but knowoing, even the Black Plague didn't last forever. Things always change. In additon to my rather cautious life already, I was thrown into an emotional tail spin with the news of George Floyd. Seeing yet again, another person who looks like me get murdred on film and subsequently the entire country and across the globe tune in as if we enjoy murder porn that sparked real outrage, fake outrage, protests, riots and ewww, it just got really bad. I speak here alone, from a place of personal self reflection, self interpretation, self opinion and I speak for no one else. I arrived at how this is actually a moral compass issue that we are grossly overlooking because we are locked in on the racial tensions, differences, and issues that plaques our nation's history past, present and sad enough, future.  

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Deciding to understand that most times in following your dreams or going for something in life others may not agree with, believe in, or understand oftens creates a throbbing lonliness at times. Our friends, associates and or family start to view us different and treat us that way too. I heard the cliche saying before, "It gets lonely when you follow your heart." After experiencing the loss of many relationships, platonic and romantic over just a carrer change or move I relealized how much truth still stands in that saying. Not everyone in your life is meant to stay or accompany you through your journey. No matter if that journey is figuring yourself out, your career, you likes, dislikes, or whatever, not everyone will be down to ride with you on the way. Let's talk about how this is actually a great thing and how being alone sometimes, is not such a bad thing when you are figuring it all out. 

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We all grieve very differently and I believe we do becasue not only do we all have our own individual ideas or beliefs what death is, but also how our relationship dynamics we may have had with the individual, the circumstances or events around the death and the actual approach you chose to grieve. My experience with my father's death in 2009 landed me in a weird emotional situation and wierd interactions with family but after a few years I had managed to continue to forgive, hold on to what was healthy, let go of what was not healthy and finally have peace for myself. Here is the story of how I dealt with all of it. -In memory of my Father, "Bug". 

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This seems to be quite a fitting time, although the real journey for me began in July of 2018, I'd like to share how a lot of times in my life, a voice or a feeling deep inside me that said, "Something doesn't feel right about this." I really began to question a lot of my emotions and reacations to things a bit more when I noticed how uncomfortable it made me. To constantly be sacrificing what I believed was healthy comfort, for someone else's unhealthy discomfort. I started reaching within and some of it I didn't like but I realzied I could change some of it to be more of what I like, builld towards my own version of happiness and experience more joy in my personal life.

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Uh-oh, someone is starting to make you feel bad when you are around them or maybe they've always made you uncomfortable and you couldn't quite put your finger on why or how? In this episode I share a few instances in my life and some varying scenarios that helped me identify "Energy Vampires" and how I eventually matured, grew, and evolved into handling these types of people better, so I could arrive at a place I could have more inner peace and self love. Stop Doing Things You Don't Like, sometimes that includes people too. Visit the 💟Stop Doing Things You Don’t like Collection LeRouxArt.com/shop

You can still get crippled by fear even with going for your dreams or your version of happiness and not totally realize it or know how to work past it. Sometimes not having the confidence to be the first or go at it alone is the exact component that ends up holding you back. All the "greats" had to understand this, over come and go get it. Thanks to a fellow artist friend's suggestion, I can dive into this a bit in the episode referencing several points in our shared lives where we made the decision to allow fear to have a huge say, in how fast and how far we are going to go on our journey to our personal versions of happiness in life. Topic was submitted by local Houston Artist: Hugo Perez Check him and his art out on IG @https://www.instagram.com/hugoperezart/ AND his professional artist website https://hugoperezart.com/

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