There will be readers who are interested in the realness and there will be some of you who aren't and I'm fine with that. So, that is my first posting of honesty. I'm learning to finally accept that everyone doesn't have to like me. YAY ! That takes some of the pressure off.
This blog will be a place where we can openly discuss how challenging it is to be Comfy In Our Own Skin. Yikes....I said it ! It isn't easy. Do I have stories to tell about not being comfortable in your own skin. I am the queen, actually I would rather be the princess....of spending years doing what everyone expected of me and not being authentic.
Story of the day - Non Authentic Debbie and The Results
I won't go so far back that it will bore you, but to say that I had always tried to be the "good girl" is an understatement. I definitely was not always her, but I worked hard to make sure everyone thought I was. One of my major breakthrough moments was: I'm preparing to attend yet another annual sales conference for a large company that I worked for. I'd been attending and speaking at these conferences for years. They were always at a beautiful destination with lovely accommodations, blah, blah, blah. But this particular year, I sat on my closet floor the night before I had to leave and had a complete melt down. I cried to the point of the hyperventilating - the ugly cry. I begged my husband to not let me go. I said that I couldn't do it one more year. I could not get up and talk to 600 sales people about things that I had absolutely no passion for. My talk every year was on numbers, charts, percentages, yuck.....I was a woman playing in a mans world and at that moment in my closet, I realized one thing for sure....I had sold my sole somewhere along the way.
Have you ever had those types of moments where you are so keenly aware that something is wrong...no everything is wrong when you realize that you have lost yourself?
