Hello! 😀 Welcome to a community that will serve to empower you to live your most fulfilled life! Excited for us to be part of a supportive environment where we will be encouraged to explore and increase self-awareness, gain perspective, develop insight, take action and thrive through our journey in life. ♥ I believe that you have value and worth and who you are as a person matters and this will guide many of the posts that you will see. Posts will take into consideration the different dimensions of life: social, emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, occupational, etc. 💡You are welcome and ENCOURAGED to share material, insights, inspirations, questions, and anything that you think that will be helpful towards growth.💡 ❤️Let's live wholeheartedly and with intention!!! ❤️ So honored to be part of this journey with you! Thank you for allowing me to be part of it. 🙂 🌟Please introduce yourself and also share something that brings you joy and makes you feel alive🌟 added: share some topics that interest you-- this will help guide some of the content!!🔥 ***Feel free to self promote either here or under the life wins category***

I was watching a video that @Tammy Blacke / @Tim Blacke had posted in their community earlier about the power of love and how feeling loved/seen/valued has such an immense impact (nick vujicic--a motivational speaker who has no arms and legs was at the center of the video and delivered this powerful message). This video got me thinking about the power of beliefs and how they play out in what we do. I may have touched on this previously, but I thought I'd bring it up again because these beliefs run deep and have such profound impact! It's worth taking a look inside... It’s incredible how our minds can tell stories that feel like truth. “I’m not enough.”,“If people really knew me, they’d leave.” etc...These statements can "feel" so true that we stop questioning them. (Remember the cognitive distortion of 'feelings as facts'? that's playing into this...this in addition to the reticular activating system at play taking in information that 'proves' it and we get a nice messy soup of sadness). From a trauma lens, these beliefs are not flaws, but rather adaptations.They were protective beliefs that once helped us survive. They shaped how our brain and body learned to stay safe in unsafe or unpredictable environments. Even if the environments were safe/stable for the most part, we could have still ended up with some of these beliefs because cognitive development plays a role into how we process information. 🧠 What’s Happening in the Brain When old self-beliefs linger, the amygdala (our brain’s alarm system) stays alert, scanning for danger. The hippocampus ties these thoughts to past experiences. Meanwhile, the prefrontal cortex (the reasoning part) often gets overridden by emotional memories. The emotional memories win out. Healing happens when we help these systems reconnect.Soothing the body allows the prefrontal cortex to come back online, making space for new, compassionate truths. In essence, we are not “fixing” ourselves — we are rewiring for safety. We are rewiring to our core selves..