What's the story you are telling yourself?

What's your story?

You are perfect....You are stunning....You are radiant.... Does this resonate with you? Is this the conversation you have with yourself when you are looking in the mirror? What do you tell yourself?

In a world that is showering us with images of outer beauty and dictating what it means to be successful; a beautiful house, a beautiful car, 2.5 children, the perfect husband, perfect skin, perfect hair, perfect clothing, perfect smile (heaven forbid you aren't smiling at all times). It is no doubt that we feel inadequate, we are striving for something that does not exist. What if I told you that being perfect was just being you, including all your flaws and all the struggles. These are the things that make you special and unique. Nobody else on this planet knows what it is like to be you. Nobody has the privilege to know what its like to walk in your shoes. This is your story....you can create it. Just like art, we can design our lives. Struggles are inevitable, they are events, they are chapters in your book of life that have a beginning and an ending. We can decide the meaning we attach to these struggles. We can decide the lessons we learn from them and then we can end that chapter and move on to the next.

So, ask yourself "Is the story I am telling myself bringing me peace and joy or is it bringing me turmoil and self loathing?" Its time to give up who you think you should be and connect with who you really are, the true authentic women you were born to be. Its time to remove the layers and let your radiance shine bright.