Remember When You Thought You Weren't Enough?

I started writing letters to myself years ago as a way to practice courage - to tell myself the truths I needed to hear. This morning, as I prepare to launch my first children's book, I needed this reminder: that I'm becoming the person I wished I was when I was 4.

What would you write in a letter to yourself today?

With love + courage,
Shanita

Dear Shanita,

 

Thank you. Thank you for courageously doing what you needed to do to shed the lingering mindsets that no longer serve you, e.g. I'm not fast enough, no one cares about what I'm doing, I'll never feel like a winner at this.

 

Amidst raising your three children, doing the daily chores, and coaching hundreds of people who were going through really hard times, you wrote your first children's book, built a new platform to give courage to others, and decided that you were ready to step into SHANITA--the girl who was waiting to come out for so long.

 

It took her some time to arrive because she was so hurt by life, low self-esteem, and loneliness. But now she's here, ready to be the only person she can be. No more people pleasing, no more perfectionism, no more pushing herself until she's ill. No more. She is wiser now. She has more self-respect now. She is everything you wished you were when you were 4.

 

Thank you for honoring her truths, her silliness, her relentless desire to create art and write her little heart out. Thank you for giving her permission to dream--just like the words on the painting above the bed frame. You did a really great thing, and I am so proud of you.

 

Love, Me

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