When you are not self-aware, you are more easily controlled by outside influences. When you make the choice to embark on your own spiritual/healing journey, you are, simultaneously, making the choice to take your power back.

This is the greatest gift you can give to yourself.

"My name is Samantha. I know, through experience, what egoic darkness feels like.

So, for what reason do I have to be an optimist? What reason do I have to go about chanting all day, "raise your vibration!"? What inspires me to see the best in bad situations? 

Here is the most concise answer possible. I have learned that: seeing the best in everything and everyone is what leads to true happiness, true power, and true freedom.”

-Samantha Leah, Thinking Out Loud Podcast (Episode 6)