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What does your path of stones look like?

2/2/2021

Good morning my friends. February is a month that is all about love. The quote I am sharing with you came up on my Facebook page today; self-love is what we truly need.

This quote is the perfect complement to the blog I wrote yesterday. We were raised to carry the guilt and shame of all our perceived mistakes. We spend more time beating ourselves up and punishing ourselves that we don't realize how much we have learned.

Do you remember when our teachers told us "there were no stupid questions," but when we asked, we were made to feel stupid? We were laughed at or used as an example. From that point forward, we stopped raising our hands, and we were left to ourselves to figure out what we needed. I wonder if that is why most of us don't ask for help. We are afraid of being ridiculed and laughed at.

How do we learn if we don't fall or fail? How do we learn to pick ourselves up if we don't even try? There is no way anything that has been discovered wasn't without failure. The brave are the ones who keep failing and never giving up on themselves. They get up and keep trying because they know they are going to make something work.

Can you imagine, if you looked back at your whole life, and every time you perceived you failed at something, you saw a stone? How many stones do you think you have? How far can those stones reach too? Can you use them as a path, a street, a sidewalk?

Think about who you are today; where did all those stones lead you to? You can't be who you are today without those stones.

Start to love and appreciate all those stones you have laid out for yourself. You owe it to you to honor your journey. It does not matter if the people around you don't understand because it is not their journey to understand. Just like it is not for you to understand another's journey.

Let's set aside all the judgment, genuinely appreciate who we are, and start to receive the love we so desire. Just so you know, that love we so want has to come from us. We have to accept who we are and our journey and start to give ourselves the love we have been longing for.

Have an amazing day, my beautiful friends. May you start appreciating the stones you have laid out for yourself because you are a fantastic human being.

Rita Owen
Just Rita Real Talk

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Be Proud of Who YOU Are and Where YOU Come From...

2/1/2021

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Good morning my beautiful friends, Happy February. This month is a time for love and healing. Love is not just for relationships; love is for our souls.

Have you ever stopped and just looked at where you have been, along with how much you have overcome? It's incredible when you start to see all the blessings that have been given to you just because you worked through your pain. Sometimes it feels like this work never ends, but when you look at who you are, you see a beautiful reflection in the mirror.

That reflection is the love that you have for your soul that is shining bright. When you start to see how amazing you are, you begin to love who you are and your soul. You begin to heal deep inside yourself that allows you to become a beacon of light. You begin to stand taller, prouder, happier, and sometimes still sad; you no longer hang your head low.

That soul deep inside deserves your love; after all, she is you, and you are your soul. No matter where you have been and what has occurred in your life, you deserve to love yourself fully. To many times we have been taught shame and guilt, which has never served anyone. We need to learn and grow, and the only way to do that is by going through whatever lessons we need to go through. We as humans make our lives so much more complicated than it truly needs to be. We are taught to hold onto the shame, so we never forget and make a mistake again. We have been taught all wrong.

That's right, I said it...we have been taught all wrong. The lesson should not be holding onto guilt, shame, along with not being worthy. It leaves us with so many problems as we are growing through life. As adults, we find ourselves lost, desperately trying to find ourselves. We spend so much time working on who we are trying to convince ourselves that we are worthy, and we are worth something to this world. Look around you. How many people do you see holding on to their past mistakes as if it were the end of the world? It may feel like that because we have been taught to feel shame and guilt, to the point that we never know when to let go.

Today I am asking you to let go of your stuff, let go of what is not serving you and start to see the blessings in everything you have experienced. See the lesson, be grateful you had an opportunity to learn and grow, and now it's time to let it go and move on. It's time to start loving who you are because you have learned so much. You are so smart, so intuitive, so adventurous; it's time you see that. Start looking at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself how much you love you, your soul. You will start to release what no longer serves you and start putting a smile on that beautiful face.

I love you...Have an amazing day!!!

Rita Owen
Just Rita Real Talk

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Rita OWEN

I have been through a lot in my life just as everyone else; I have found that what I have gone through has always been for my highest good. There is not a thing that I would change in my life; I would keep the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Sharing my lessons with you helps me to be the best version of myself. What I have learned, I share so you are the best version of yourself.

When we stand together we are strong and tall making a more confident and loving world. We are forgiving our past and embracing all that is learned. We then are teaching our children to be human and the best version of themselves.

Rita Owen