I have a special gift for you, but now listen, before I give it to you, I want you to promise

me that you are going to take it, you are going to practice it, and you are going to use it

to change your life. Do we have a deal? Good. Let's dive in.

Welcome to the School of Self-Image, where personal development meets style. Here's your hostess,

master life coach, Tanya Lee.

Hello, my friends, and happy, happy holidays. I absolutely love this time of the year.

I have had such a stress-free and effortless holiday. It's been simple. I've only purchased a few gifts,

and I have not done anything that I did not want to do. Unlike all of those years of trying to get

the Christmas cards out on time, because everybody else did it, and trying to host extravagant

dinner parties, and putting up crazy Christmas decorations. I've kept it so simple this year.

I did go out to dinner with some dear friends at this beautiful restaurant and Boulder. That was

super fun, and I'm heading up to my dear friend Brook's house to celebrate the holidays with her

and her family. But other than that, it's just been super simple, and in that simplicity,

I've had so much time to think. And one of the things that I've been thinking a lot about

is you and this community. And I asked myself this question, if I could give you any gift,

what would it be? And I had a lot of really good answers. But today, I want to give you a very special

gift that will change your life in the most extraordinary ways. But here's the deal. You have to make

me a promise. When I give you this gift, you are going to use it. You are going to practice it,

and you are going to apply it to your life. Do we have a deal? Okay. Do you want to know what your

gift is? I want to give you the gift of self-validation. Now, I looked up the definition for you,

because I know what it means to me to validate myself. But here's the definition

from Maryam Webster, the feeling of having recognized, confirmed, or established one's own

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