I was raised in a caribbean culture where speaking about your emotions was taboo. You weren’t allowed to feel sad, to feel mad, to feel depressed and depending on the day, even too much happiness couldn’t be expressed. Crying was a sign of weakness and a cause for punishment. This created a pretty toxic and unsafe environment for communicating emotions.
Fast forward a couple of years later, after a traumatic childhood, a depressed teenhood and an unpleasant early adulthood, life wasn’t getting any better. I had a bachelor’s degree in psychology, I started a master’s degree in counseling, I was working full time with survivors and yet, I still had no freaking clue how to navigate, express or communicate my emotions. I was a living paradox.
At 23 years old, I had reached rock bottom. It felt like there was no way out of this downward spiral. Life was overwhelming and I was one mishap away from saying “f/ck all of this sh/t”.
As Ayodeji Awosika so poetically put it, when you reach the purest form of being fed up, there’s no choice but to promise yourself to never ever ever feel that way again.
So that’s what I did. Bit by bit, I confronted my shit. ALL OF MY SHIT. There was a lot of it. 3 years later and I’m still confronting myself daily.
So if any of this feels familiar, the despair, the anger, the fear and the overwhelming sadness, I’m here to let you know, that it is possible to get to the other side. To genuinely love yourself, to be happy and at peace. It won’t happen overnight and it’ll hurt like hell, but it’s definitely possible.
This is why I created my business. To share with the world what I’ve learned and am still learning through my own healing journey.
If you’re ready to completely transform your relationship with yourself and your emotions, you’re in the right place.
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