Get Your “Validation” Stamped Right Here!!

We’re hit with so many messages all day long about everything that is wrong with us. We don’t look right or smell right or feel right. We don’t drive the right car or live in the right house. We are trained to be against our own bodies (batapproveyourselftle of the bulge! no pain no gain, all the conversation about guilt and shame), and there’s a pill for everything. There’s a pill if you’re sad, another if you’re anxious, one for sleeping, one for waking up. There’s a pill if you get uncomfortable in social situations, a pill to get you excited and another to calm you down. There’s a pill to grow your hair, and places for you to wax it in areas where we don’t like hair. There are dating sites and Hollywood movies and billboards and magazines and reality shows left and right that suggest if you could just meet the right person, presto! All your problems would be solved. And the whole time, there’s an underlying message that if you just keep striving and working and buying and dieting, and competing with your neighbors, eventually you will be skinny enough or buff enough or rich enough or fill-in-the-blank enough to be happy. But the truth is, if you follow this formula, all you’re going to be is exhausted and depressed. There are pills for that, too.

Here’s the reality: You. Are. Enough. You have your heart, which is yours alone. There has never been, and there never will be, another you. Your gifts, once you uncover them, are precious. No one else can offer them, your offering is yours. There is NO PILL that could ever replicate or replace you. You are beautiful and within you exists the potential for more love and happiness than you could ever find outside yourself.

If you’re not careful, you’ll buy into the hype. We’re inundated with these messages, and if you don’t shut down all that white noise, you’ll start believing you’re not good enough. That voice in your head will start repeating all this stuff and then you’re really in a world of pain. Don’t let it happen. Love yourself. Remember that you’re precious. Heal whatever needs to be healed within you so you can shine and share your gorgeous light. That’s priceless, you know? Sending you so much love, Ally

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