Re-Treat Yourself @ iNsingizi
This past weekend, together with iNsingizi, I hosted a group of 9 truly lovely and inspiring ladies for a weekend of sharing, yoga and exploring what it means to move towards finding, and being ok, with our authentic selves.
The inspiring energy of love, acceptance and being heard and seen gave me goosebumps several times during the course of the weekend, and as these types of weekends always do, gave me peace knowing that there are so many of us who are really trying to be the best versions of ourselves. We may slip up, we may fail as we revert back to old conditioning and patterns, but we pick ourselves up with kindness and understanding, and continue on the path of moving towards being the best version of ourselves.,
And as more and more humans are brave enough to want to make the change to being real, authentic and proud of being unique, and overall kind and tolerant towards each other, understanding that we can break free of our conditioning, the generational trauma that we no longer have to be bound by, we can BE the change that will in turn slowly begin to change the world. Thank you to each of you who joined me.
As always happens, following each of my yogi-weekends, people, friends say to me, “Oh I saw you were hosting that and I so wanted to join you but…………………………………..”.
The reasons are all variations of the same statement, “I put myself last/ everybody else in my family/ my friends are more important than me”.
And that is exactly the point, the reason so many battle with depression or anxiety or are unhappy, reliant on medication, sleeping tablets, alcohol; they are not listening to the little voice inside of them.
Why, and when was it decided that when we became adults/ mothers/ business owners/ employees we came last? Imagine yourself at 5 years old – would you put her last every single time? Would you ignore her when she asks you to look after her? No? Well, it’s the same thing – you are that same person inside, you are her and she is you.
Happiness, peace, acceptance, joy, contentment, fulfillment, passion – are all your birthright; it’s up to you whether you are courageous enough to realize that the choice is yours. Continue to find excuses, lay the blame at the feet of the ones we love in the name of love, or lead by example and teach your children, partners, family that we love by understanding how to love, be love – by loving ourselves truly and magnificently.
* No friends or animals were harmed in this rant ☺️