Hey, it's your girl, simply Shanika, and you are now listening to The Goddess Confessions. the goddess The journey of self-discovery can be a beautiful transformation, but the process to get there can definitely be challenging.

But you really have to be determined and you have to be prepared to

take accountability for things if you truly want to find out who you are and if you want to heal. We always talk about how

toxic other people have been in our lives and yes that may be true but the one

thing we don't want to do is to take accountability for things.

Now when some people hear that word, they might get defensive and say, well, I didn't

cause this person to do that this isn't my fault

etc I totally understand that but the thing is it's happened so what are we going to? Hold the grudge for the rest of our life?

Or are we going to say to ourselves, yes, this happened. As painful as it is for me to say this it happened it happened to me it's very real but this isn't going to be my story anymore

I'm closing this chapter in my life and I'm writing a new chapter and this is the

chapter that I am going to be in charge of. The key to taking your power back is

simply saying that you're no longer going to give the power to anyone else. And that is hard to do, especially when things have cut you deep.

And I for one understand that, but wounds can heal, but you have to put in the work to heal those wounds.

And then once you start healing from within,

you will notice that everything around you will start to get better because you'll start appreciating yourself more.

You'll start understanding your value and you'll start doing things that truly make you happy and not because you want to fit in not because it's popular

not because of anything other than it makes you happy and this is what you want to do for yourself.

I've said this before and I'm going to say it again.

When you become an adult, nobody cares about what happened to you when you were younger. It is your responsibility to take charge of your happiness. But what is happiness you might ask me? Well that depends on the person and the only one that can

discover the definition behind that is you. You just have to start today, tomorrow, whenever you feel like you're ready to face the things that completely break you down,

that is the day that the journey will begin for you.

You also have to start realizing that there is no material item or any other person in the world that

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