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Day 1 SACRED SPACE <3
So I'm participating in this 7 day challenge with Alexi Panos and Melinda Cohen and I thought I would post my Day 1 here. We had to create a sacred space while also introducing ourselves and certain things that we still struggle with inside, soo heres mine :)
I'm Brie, 23 years old out in Oklahoma at the moment, but that will change really fast. I'm basically always on the move. To a new state, country, to new hobbies, friendships, business ventures, love interest, I never really stay put. I love traveling so much that when I am in a place for more that 4 months I feel stuck, I feel like I am not doing anything with my life if I am not on the go. I feel at peace when I am seeing the world and learning about the different cultures in the world and the different personalities in life. I have lived in over 16 different states being a daughter of a Military family and 1 different country. Once I got out of high school I continued to travel every 4-6 months to new places.
One of the reasons I joined this group is because of my best friend Samantha Lynn, her and I had a beautiful conversation on the phone the other day about vulnerable things we don't necessarily enjoy about ourselves that we wish could be "fixed" or that we loved more about ourselves.
My biggest one is my hair. I used to straighten it all of the time, every single day because I thought society liked straight hair and that was "normal" and looked at as beautiful. I didn't feel beautiful at all with curly hair, I thought it was a mess. I have gone a year and a half without straightening it and I love it so much more now. Right now in this picture, I just got out of the shower so its a little wet. When its dry it gets a little frizzy and sometimes I can't stand that.
I was with a guy out in Mexico 2 days ago who I have been talking to for the last couple years who told me he liked my hair straight better, which then in my head I started creating all these stories of how I should just straighten it again and how I looked better with it and I wanted to impress him, instead of what felt great for me. I'm still learning to love it and embrace my full self with curly hair.
Also another thing, I have literally been the same weight since I graduated high school in 2011. Around 113-115 pounds. I never gain weight, and I wish I could. I go to the gym and I maybe bounce up 1-3 pounds and then it drops again. Although I love that I am skinny, I just wish I could have a little bit more muscle. So these are things that I sometimes get down on myself about.
I'm very excited to witness the breakthroughs we all go through in the next 7 days together! <3
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