POWERFUL VIDEO!! It reminds me of the first few paragraphs in Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman. I was a confident and determined little girl who lost her way. Fortunately, Im back on the right path now! I mentally attacked myself for most of my teens and twenties before I learned how to love myself in my thirties. Does this sound familiar? Most women travel this bumpy road toward self-discovery. Too many of us allow self-doubt, foolish insecurities, and poor self-esteem into our lives somewhere between needing our first bra and buying our first vibrator. Our focus shifts toward pleasing the people around us and away from focusing on our own goals and ambitions. Most women survive these turbulent teenage years unscathed, but others become victim to their lack of self-worth. Or maybe that was just me? I was a dreamer when I was young. I had ridiculous goals and thought I was invincible. My parents can attest to that fact. I was fearless, adventurous, and incredibly klutzy. I climbed on everything when I was a kid, which meant I fell off everything. I fell off the monkey bars and lost a tooth in the dirt when I was seven. I also fell off our roof when I was nine and broke my arm. I fell off the bleachers at a baseball game, I fell off our fence—which I had used as a tightrope—and I fell off a foot-high step that caused me to break my arm again. I was constantly tripping over my feet and landing on my face, but I always got up. It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters in life is how many times you get back up. Over the past few years, I have discovered that most of those cheesy old clichés you hear are actually true. A positive attitude will bring positive results—eventually. The trick is maintaining your cheery outlook even when your world is crumbling around you, and doing so is almost as easy and as life-altering as finishing a marathon. I finished my first full marathon in 2010, but ten years before, when the building blocks of my world came crashing down around me, I lay down in the rubble and buried my face in the debris, praying that it would suffocate me. #FIGHTLIKEAGIRL
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:23:24 +0000
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