Guys, welcome to He'll Survive and Thrive.

This week, I want to have a little chat, a little motivation, a little pick me up that I think we need sometimes about being

happy. I feel like honestly with social media, I feel like sometimes life is so freaking hard because

I think of social media and the projection of happy and that we always need to have it all together and that all,

you know, all of that stuff. And just, you know, life is not like that. Life is messy.

Life is complicated. Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is simple. Life is joyful. But you got to be

able to balance the two. But I'm talking specifically to the person. We're not going to

talk about social media and the facades and the happy and all that stuff. I want to really focus on

the person who is struggling to let themselves be happy. This was me for years. I feel like for years and

years I feared and it's funny because I don't, I definitely

did not know I was doing this. I had absolutely no idea. And it took someone that I really love,

one of my really good friends saying to me specifically in my face, while tears are pouring down my face ugly cry you struggle to let

yourself be happy and in that moment I was like holy shit like she's right I had never known that

before I never even thought of that before and like I like to think I'm a pretty deep

introspective person that I can kind of even when I was

younger own, okay, I had a little daddy issue or okay, I had this going on. So I always kind of knew my

stuff. I was comfortable with my stuff. But that was something that I really had absolutely no

idea I was struggling with until she kind of like pinpointed it out to me.

And I realized that, holy shit, I actually really do struggle with letting myself just be content

and be happy where I am. I was either always chasing something like the next thing that I wanted.

I don't know if that's the Capricorn in me or the Achiever or the entrepreneur or the whatever,

but there was always this like go-go mentality where I was always moving on to the next thing.

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