I’ve experienced something amazing…and today seems like a good time to put it into writing I’ve been on an interesting journey. A journey of rediscovering who I really am. You see, life experiences can carve you out to be someone who you’re truly not. Those experiences can sometimes shape you and before you know it, you’ve moved so far away from your true identity, you don’t even know yourself… anymore.

So, I’ve been taking time to get to know Anne again…to feel the freedom of being ME. Not who someone else wants me to be…not who other people THINK I should be. Just ME. You might be reading this and have been feeling trapped in yourself. You may have an internal struggle going on between the real you and the fake persona your BRAIN is using as a disguise (To protect you from what’s actually good for you). If so, I hope this helps you in some way.

So, where did this all stem from? It came from a place of fear…a place of survival. There was a struggle going on…my heart wanted to truly express itself, but my brain was protecting me – Coming from a place of fear…and where there’s fear, love is nowhere to be seen. So what was my brain protecting me from? Being vulnerable. I saw vulnerability as a weakness…because it had been taken advantage of in the past, I’d unknowingly put up a ‘protective’ barrier and thought it was ‘strong’ and ‘the right thing to do’. I had issues with being transparent…at the time I was scared of opening myself up. To my absolute amazement, I discovered that vulnerability is the birth place of joy, belonging…LOVE. So by closing my heart to vulnerability, I was only preventing my heart from expressing love…the very thing it was longing to express. Please watch this video to understand why vulnerability can have a profoundly positive effect on life:

So, what was the first step to being at peace with myself? it was to LOVE me for who I really was…to accept me…to be vulnerable…that’s where it all begins, because if you don’t have that love for yourself, how can you truly have it for others?? I watched this briliant, brilliant Tony Robbins video, where there was a lady that had totally lost her true identity because of things that had happened in her past. She had some major breakthroughs with Tony’s help and in the end, was able to come to a place of loving and accepting herself and coming back to her real self…she just had to peel away all the layers she’d built up over the years. Watch a clip of her transformation here:

It’s so easy to sail through life without truly evaluating ourselves and breaking down why we do the things we do. It’s so easy to dismiss things that we don’t want to handle at the present time. It’s not a good idea to do this though, because those things tend to ‘bite back’ in some form in the future. This doesn’t only have an effect on you but on others around you…

I think the most overwhelming thing for me is that I realised that there are things that you can be SO unaware of…things that it takes something or someone outside of yourself to reveal to you. However, once you uncover these ‘hidden’ things, you can then deal with them head on and you will be amazed at how freeing that can be. You can’t ever reach your fullest potential if you aren’t being your authentic self….you can’t be fully rewarded for not being your true self.

You can’t bless others with your unique gifts if you aren’t being your true self. Since rediscovering me, I’ve had some MAJOR shifts. I’ve always been a smiley happy person but what I’ve experienced lately has taken me and my family’s life to a whole new place. My heart is so full of love, like I’ve never experienced before. I realised that coasting through life is the easy thing to do…stopping, looking at YOU in the mirror and evaluating your thinking patterns, your habits, your HEART<< That’s the hard bit. You know what though? Once you do it, you will never be the same and you will start living life on a higher level. After all, life is for LIVING…for living to your HIGHEST potential. I made the decision to not play small in any areas of my life. Since I’ve been through this, I’ve attracted people in similar circumstances I was in, and have been able to help them achieve breakthroughs…and that’s what it’s all about. I love this business…It’s a great vehicle to change lives.

Things happen to us for a reason…we might take them as negative experiences, but I believe we need to look at it this way. If you hadn’t been through that thing, how would you be able to relate to others going through the same thing? How would you truly be able to help them? You don’t need to embody that experience…just except it happpened and use that as a platform to help others overcome (once you’ve overcome yourself, of course).

The ‘other’ me would never have been able to write something like this down and share it…the REAL me knows it’s about touching other people’s lives with love…I just had a major urge to write this, I didn’t think about it, I just started writing, from my heart. ..I know I’m specifically writing this today, and not last week or last month because it’s for someone…now.

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