Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I would like to share with you a quote today that, oh, I love this quote, I agree with it,

and I think that probably if we internalize this truth, our lives could become so much easier.

We would release so much stress, stress that maybe we're holding on to without even realizing it.

Here is the quote and it's from Audrey Lord who is a writer and activist.

She says this, nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

I'm going to diminish me.

Let me say that again. Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Self-acceptance, my friends.

Self-acceptance. I know we hear about this.

Oh, accepting yourself, loving loving yourself it can even be a bit of a buzz

word but true self-acceptance not rejecting part of ourselves denying that that denying

that certain parts of ourselves exist, denying certain truths about ourselves or our past.

When we resist or reject the truth, when we resist or reject reality, We feel like we need to cover it up. We feel

battle guilty about something. We feel unhappy with a certain part of ourselves.

It's like we're living in fear. Fear that people will discover it, fear that people will bring it up, fear that will be called out.

What if we accepted the parts of ourselves that we initially want to reject or that our ego feels

like we need to reject.

This is why I speak so openly about my experiences. I speak about

growing up in shelters, growing up on welfare, the fact that I speak, oh, so openly again and again about the fact that I have no formal qualifications.

What can people say? What can be used against me to diminish me? I own it. I am at peace with who I am.

I know that the way that my life has turned out in the path that I've taken isn't an accident.

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