Dr. Nicole LePera

So...

When I share and I'm able to then gift that to other people, just as my beautiful community is often sharing with me and helping me heal, we feel a little less alone in what we're struggling with.

I couldn't agree more.

And I think, you know, to be clear, what we're hoping to be loved around is not just the perfect parts of ourself, right?

What a gift it is when we can show someone all of ourself, our messiness, the things that we hid and kept secret and still be loved, right?

So for me, that overachiever is I show more parts of me and people don't abandon me, don't reject me, right?

Don't reflect back my unworthiness, but they stay.

I'm getting chills, right?

How healing

that is, and I think that's what love is, not just being loved when we're doing something for someone else or we're showing up as this perfect version where they're validating what they like, but when they stay, regardless, that's, I think, the love that most of us are striving for and what I hope to contribute by continuing to love myself enough to share even the messy, not as curated parts with other people.

Isn't that wild?

And so funny, too, because starting a business, this was one of the funniest things, is there was a time very early on, and still, where my team, even practically, would come to myself and Lolly, who's built the business right alongside me from the beginning, and ask us, well, how do you do?

And it's like...

I don't know.

I'm trying to figure it out too.

We're figuring this out together.

So whether it's in business or personal life, I do think we project onto other people this idea that they have the answers of what to do next, of how to solve this business problem, of how to be a perfect human.

And I will tell you with the degrees behind me, I'm still figuring it out.

So a year from now, what I'm celebrating is presence.

You know, beingness.