As a young adult, self-love, worthiness or personal power were nowhere in my reality. I never thought about them. No one asked me about them. I didn't see them anywhere. 

As it turns out, I was a chronic people pleaser. I didn't know anything about boundaries, so of course, I didn't have any. My way of being in the world was giving my power away - caring too much about how others feel or think and not enough about my own feelings, comparing myself to others, judging myself, doing things because I knew it would make someone else happy or meet their expectations, attaching my worth, my value to other people's approval, applause or praise. I was so used to being this way that I didn't think anything of it.

In spite of my healthy upbringing, this set the stage for the next chapter of my life - emotional and mental abuse. After being in a severely abusive relationship where I was deeply manipulated, controlled and left completely depleted - there was nowhere to go but up.

I started reading any self-help book I could get my hands on. I tried any suggestion, trick, tip or tool that might help me feel even a tiny bit better. And I cried, a lot. But I was deeply committed to healing. I was deeply committed to my Self. This sparked the greatest journey any of us can take - the journey to self-love, empowerment and wholeness.

After many years of deep self-inquiry and a lot of growing pains, it's my mission to bring everything I know about self-love, worthiness and personal power to young women who, like myself, are probably not thinking much about it.