It’s been an exciting few weeks, planning classes and events for next year and we are now starting to schedule some of these in 🙂
One of the areas that is incredibly important to me is ‘Self Esteem’ – not feeling Good Enough.
Not feeling Good Enough seems to be endemic in our society right now. Every single client that I have met through RTT, through Coaching, in fact I would say almost everyone, does not FEEL good enough. We all feel inadequate in some way, whether that is about how we look, what we do for a living, how we parent, whether we are a good enough friend, how talented (or lack of!) we are, how successful we feel, the house we live in, the car we drive, the relationships we have, the list is endless. We feel judged or we judge ourselves.
When you start to peel back the layers, not feeling good enough is what most of us suffer from!
So, of course it got me thinking, why do (and I’ll stick my neck out) all of us feel this way? Is it a natural human state of being? When we are born, every new born baby KNOWS they are good enough, they cry and expect their needs to be met because they have a deep knowing of being good enough, they are born knowing they are enough. Now, for some babies this tragically might not last long, but for an awful lot of us, we develop knowing how cute and adorable and loved and good enough we are, as toddlers we love doing things for our parents that make them laugh, hug us and tell us how wonderful we are……..then as we continue to grow the doubts creep in and we lose that certainty that we are good enough!
Why? Because we start to take onboard other people’s beliefs about us and we take them onboard as truths and carry those beliefs around with us, sometimes forever! Think of the impact of some beliefs you might be carrying around with you – untruths – that have and will continue to have a direct effect on your life, and I mean every aspect of your life! So before we know it, that feeling of being good enough has long since gone and you have built, and are building, a life on an unstable foundation of simply not feeling enough. Doesn’t make sense, does it?
For some of us this becomes such an ingrained belief or pattern of behaviour that we even find it hard to love ourselves, like ourselves, look at ourselves in the mirror and praise ourselves. Mmmmm – if you really feel this way about YOU, do you think that you will feel happy, content, joy, peace and all those lovely elevated emotions in your life? Or do you think you might feel stress, anger, frustration, anxiety, depression and all those negative emotions?
I am passionate about this as I, like you, have experienced not feeling good enough, plenty of negative emotions and felt stuck, but it truly doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve spent years growing, learning and expanding my knowledge in this area and 2018 is going to be the year that I bring more and more of these things to Balance, to other communities and online so that we can embrace ourselves and just be us, knowing that just being us is good enough.
So, 2018 is the year to “Be You!” and so far we have:
- JANUARY 26th “Be You” workshop in West Bridgford with myself and Misia Smith
- JANUARY 16th Mindful Movement and Meditation with Philippa
- 30 day Life Rethink – Heart Based Transformational Coaching with Philippa
- Life Rethink for Female Entrepreneurs with Philippa
- JANUARY 17th, 24th, 31st, FEBRUARY 7th – T’ai Chi with Cheryl
- JANUARY 17th, 24th, 31st, FEBRUARY 7th – Beginners Pilates with Pippa