Safe space to be yourself.
As I cultivate the knowledge to share and grow the community around me, I want to share a story about myself that can hopefully help others too. I could say that in a way, from very early in my life, I have been spiritually aware and deeply rooted in understanding of life's principles, I always proudly walked the life, saying I have no regrets, and I didn't, until one day, whilst experiencing turbulent times in my relationships and family life I realised I start to feel regret and maybe even shame about some of my decisions. That thought was disturbing, because I have always been a strong believer that we create our reality and that we are fully responsible for what our life looks like, I believed that everything in our life is there to teach us or reward us for learning the lessons, there are no coincidences, no wrong decisions, only experiences that we need to go through, so why the sudden regret? That's when I realised that for the first time ever, I have allowed my happiness to depend on someone else, I allowed the way someone else behaved, to define how I felt about myself and from there on, I went to war - with myself. From building my confidence artificially with statements like "women empowerment" and "boss-babe", to creating person who is so confident in her demeanour that no one can even get close to her, but Inside me, I felt more empty than before. Because neither of those people were me. I was a woman who believed in traditional values, who believed in masculine - feminine balance, who believed that life is bigger than material success and who always knew that our strength is not reflected in our achievements but in how we handle the defeats and who we are when no one is watching. When I finally got on the path to understand and connect with my true self again, it was like returning home, it was beautiful but scary at the same time and for a while, I suffered with a punishing thought - how did I let myself come to this?! But it was in one of Osho's book, where he said - only someone who have completely lost themselves, can truly find themselves. And suddenly it all made sense.