The magic of life in self discovery: becoming who you are
What lights you up, and makes you who you are?
The magic of life in self-discovery . Overcoming adversity.
“What is taken away once, is given back twice.” – Mike Abbott
For me this was my feminine, and this is why I’m so passionate about helping women find their own power. This is what lights me up.
· What is something that no one knows about you?
· What truly lights you up?
I chose this topic because I didn’t want to get too deep today, due to the setting, the time restrictions, and the mascara.
Also because it provides me with a good segway to introduce myself and my business, because this is absolutely what lights me up. It’s also my biggest point of vulnerability.
Share with you a little bit about me, and why I’m sitting here.
Mum, alone, abused, travelled solo, refused my femininity and stoically believed I was strong. Found myself in hairy situations, abused, through uni, a common experience to be molested in bars. My first sexual experience was being raped at schoolies on the beach. I was molested by my cousin in my home when I was barely 4 or 5. That’s something that very few people know about me, and interestingly few of what are traditionally my close friends, nor any of my family. My femininity, my sexuality, my sensuality has been taken from me.
I believe that I inherited this as well. My mother was, and to an extent still is under the thumb of my dad who uses his moods to manipulate her behaviour. My grandfather, while loving and well loved was also incredibly controlling of his wife and my grandmother, who my business, Dorothy Way is named for, and my mother. That’s the heavy backend.
However, I love and am grateful for my story. I am not a victim of these circumstances but the universe has been telling me that I am here to do something about it, and to share my journey with others in the aim of it empowering more women to come into themselves, and absolutely to ensure that the generations that come after us don’t face what I, and likely many of you sitting here have either.
This lights me up. I am consumed with passion when I think that tools like women’s circles can help women come back into themselves and realise there strengths. My joy lies in researching aspects of femininity, of self-care, of self-development, psyce. I love sitting with women. I love women. I think we have at our hands this secret women’s club that some of us touch on through raw experiences like birth, and for others its lies dormant. So sitting in full respect, in full collaboration, and full openness with women is something that 100% lights me up.