My Self Love Journey

Everyone Has A Story

Because Everyone Has A Story(BEHAS) is a podcast about sharing stories of courage, transformation, adventure, love, and overcoming life’s challenges. It’s a platform to give ordinary people’s stories a chance to be shared and preserved. In this conversation, I share my self love journey and how mental health therapy helped me to overcome the abandonment and trauma.

Share Your Story To Inspire

The host asked what motivates me to want to share my story.

I really feel like we need to be courageous enough to know that when we go through obstacles, we should be able to share it to inspire someone else. We are all still in this world together, traveling on a journey. Sometimes we are in different seasons of our lives but we still have to be an example to each other.

My Self Love Journey

The host commented on how sharing stories is so important to let others know that they are not alone. She asked me when my story started.

My story starts at 5 when I am left with an overwhelming sense of failure and disappointment after being abandoned. So I had to accept those broken pieces and know that my life did not have to stay that way. In my early 30s I finally reached out to my first mental health therapist. This therapist was the first person to say “I am sorry you went through what you went through.” I never had anyone else apologize to me.

Before then, I never really confronted the things I went through and how my foundation was broken. I had to accept that I was not responsible for the decisions that other people made towards me at 5yrs old. Now I am more free and liberated from what other people may think. I used to live up to the expectations and thoughts of others. I started being free after letting go of what other people think about me. I started embracing me for just how I am created.