As a child and adolescent, I hated having my picture taken.
As an adult, I have learned that this sprouted from my very early belief that “I am not pretty” and therefore “I am not good enough”.
This debilitating belief ruled my behaviour and influenced my every action and the course of the best part of my life.
If I did not carry that belief, my adolescent life would have been far less painful.
If I did not carry that belief, I would have entered adult life with a sense of self-worth and not one of absolute inadequacy.
If I did not carry that belief, I would have made different choices, had different experiences and different results in life.
I believed that “I am not good enough” and therefore became “not good enough”.
I know today that our beliefs rule our life. As long as we have these limiting beliefs, we will live limiting lives. Because, what we believe, we manifest.
I believed my childhood pictures to be a testament of my “inadequacy”. These, once agonising, pictures showed me the absolute power of beliefs. Beliefs that only us creates.
Today I use those pictures in celebration of who I am.
It is me. All of me. I am enough.
Nancy
Be everything that you really can be.