empowerment

DAY TEN | INNER HAPPINESS | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY TEN | INNER HAPPINESS | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY TEN | INNER HAPPINESS

"Any fool can be happy when times are good. It takes a strong soul with real heart to develop smiles out of situations that make us weep."

We can choose to be happy or we can choose to be miserable. I know. I know. You are probably thinking I’m full of shit and that that is easier said than done. But it’s true. If you can learn to live in the present moment and not live in the past or the present. You CAN choose which reality you want to live in.

How do we live in the present moment you ask???

MEDIATION.

Have you tried it? If not, I highly advise you do!!! If you don’t know where to begin let me just tell you to contact my beautiful friend and lifetime coach, Veronica Barragan, who has taught me all I need to know in such a short amount of time. And I wish I had someone like her to teach me this YEARS ago, when I was so lost. I thank God for this beautiful soul. She has taught me about living in the present moment. How to detach from emotions that tie me down. And hold me back from moving forward. I have been working on Low Self Esteem, Discipline and Consistency. And those three things are crucial to me growing as a woman in this world of mine.

DAY NINE | DREAMER | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY NINE | DREAMER | SELF LOVE PROJECT

SELF LOVE PROJECT | DAY NINE | DREAMER

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it." -Wilferd Peterson

DAY EIGHT | SELF CONFIDENCE | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY EIGHT | SELF CONFIDENCE | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY EIGHT | SELF CONFIDENCE

I asked him why he fell in love with me. After 13 years, it was always the same answer, "Your Sexy Confidence."

That relationship is no longer. I’ll save that story for another day. But I will forever remember those words.

Lately it feels as if I left that confident woman behind. Or stuffed her in the back of my closet along with those size 4 jeans. I swear one day I'll pull them both back out and work the room again. I know when he said confidence he was talking about how I speak my mind and know exactly what I want in life. Or maybe it's the way I talk to people with such a confident manner. Always laughing, never faltering. Batting my eyes and being the playful human being that I am. Being comfortable in front of strangers and making friends within minutes of meeting someone. The older you get, the harder it is to keep up. It's a constant battle. Most women struggle with this. I know. At times, I am one of them.

DAY SEVEN | GIVING | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY SEVEN | GIVING | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY SEVEN | GIVING | SELF LOVE PROJECT
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."— Winston Churchill

I've learned I am happiest when I give my time to someone in need. I knew I was missing something in life but I didn't exactly know what it was. Then I was approached with an amazing opportunity to head to Haiti. I had no clue what I was to do there. But I knew I had to go. So I went. And it was the most amazing experience in my life. It changed me. I went thinking I would change the lives of these beautiful orphans and little did I know that they would change mine.

DAY THREE | CAREFREE | SELF LOVE PROJECT

DAY THREE | CAREFREE | SELF LOVE PROJECT

CAREFREE
without anxiety or worry.


This is EXACTLY how I felt at this EXACT moment of this photo shoot.

I live my life pretty much carefree. I wasn't always like that. Nobody knows this about me (oh there is soooo much you don't know about me), but in my 20's I had to take depression medication and be put on anxiety pills. I woke up in the middle of the night and thought I was having a heart attack. I went to my doctor to find out what was wrong and explained my situation. He put me on anxiety medication and after about a year he finally put me in check and told me that I am stronger than that. MY DOCTOR!!! He said I was living a robotic life. No wonder I was so depressed. So he made me do something out of my daily routine.