You Are Not Broken: There Is No Shame In Being You

Through my work over the years, both with myself and others there is a pervasive secret that very few talk about.

If you have ever felt that you were broken, fatally flawed, unlovable, or just different than everyone else, you are not a alone.

Time and time again, I hear from people who feel ashamed of who they are, and then feel a secondary shame in admitting the shame.

The truth of the matter is, most of us carry some sort of shame.

There is who we were born to be, with our innate likes, dislikes, dispositions, tendencies and dreams.

There is also who society tells us who we should be through our upbringing, religion, the media and social structures.

As children, when who we are, doesn't match up to who we are told we should be, we unconsciously internalized this and feel shame.

For many of us, we carry that shame into adulthood and spend much of our lives both hiding and trying to fix what we think is broken.

I need you to hear this.

You are not broken.

You are not unlovable.

You are worthy and beautiful because you are.

Sure, we all have areas that could use improvement.

Sure, there are many things yet for us to learn and grow into.

But we do these things in order to fully develop into who we were authentically MEANT to be, not because there is anything wrong with who we are.