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What About Me (WAM) is a space for healing the inner child, finding your voice, and reclaiming your power. Join host Emma as she shares her journey of self-discovery and invites others to speak up, stand up, and heal from the inside out.
, Today we'll be talking about , self-love.
What is a normal age for an
individual to become sensitive or
informed to the possibility that
they may have childhood trauma?
How about how long does an
individual remain in a relationship
before they realize that they're
being emotionally abused?
How bad does things get in a marriage
before an individual come to the
realization that they're being gaslit?
How involved does one remain in a
relationship before they understand
that they're being taken for granted?
For me, these are some very powerful
questions and they have crossed
my mind time and time again.
I have spent so many hours, days, weeks.
Just ruminating about these questions.
Ruminating about lost relationships,
feeling broken, feeling so detached,
feeling shattered from relationships,
friendships that I have highly invested.
My time, my heart, my being.
Only to be left without nothing being
said to me as to why there is a break in
the relationship or in the connection.
This have always left me.
Spiraling sometimes for months and years
trying to understand what really happened?
How did I not see, or why can I not
understand what happened or what
did I do to cause this brokenness
in this relationship that I had
considered to be so exceptional?
It is very sad, but honestly, I can say
that literally almost every relationship.
In my life that has gone south,
has left a massive imprint
on my heart and on my soul.
Three years ago, my life imploded.
I had three relationships in my
life that meant so much to me.
They were my first.
They were my last.
They were my everything.
And when relationship one got to
the point where it was too much and
I was tired of being played, and
I decided that I have had enough.
And that I was gonna walk away, never
in a million years did I consider
that my other two relationships would
likewise cap size only shortly after.
So.
Literally, it felt like
one day I was happy.
I had this cohesive dynamic with these
persons, three specific persons, and
in a matter of months, those three
people were no longer a part of my life.
It was the most painful,
the most devastating.
The most excruciating things
that has ever happened to me.
And what I want to share.
With you, my friends, is that regardless
of what happens in our life, that
we are important and that we matter.
So standing around and
accepting disrespect.
Accepting less than being
passed over, being ridiculed,
being abused, being gaslit.
None of those things are okay.
None of those things should.
Be accepted from another person.
Today, I wanna say it is time for
you to stand up and be counted.
It is time for you to
believe that you matter.
Is time for you to believe
that you are important?
Self-love is the greatest love of
all, and until we learn to truly,
deeply, unapologetically love
ourself the way we loved the people
in our life, then we will always be
somebody's less than, no longer
will I tolerate being treated as
if I am somebody's second choice.
I matter.
I am important.
I have started to live my life after.
My last three years treating myself
the way I treat everyone else.
I start respecting and loving
myself the way I love the people
in my life that I love the most.
And this has finally started to give me
some peace, some reprieve, some solace.
I have come to learn and to believe
that I matter, that I am important.
That I am as important as the
most important person in my life.
And I wanna say to you, my friends who
have been through hurt and pain, and
who might still be going through your
hurt and your pain, please understand
and know that you are not alone.
That there are so many of us who
have walked this path before.
And I am here to encourage
you if you have not started.
To learn to love yourself
because you matter and I matter.