Hello Reader,
Who was your inspiration growing up? Take a moment to think about it. Did a name or face immediately come to mind? When I stumbled across this question while scrolling through TikTok, I felt an unexpected wave of sadness.
As a person who has experienced complex trauma as a child, I didn’t really have time and space to ponder this question growing up.
My brain was focused on escaping and finding activities that disconnected me from reality. Reading, watching movies, and shows with stories and worlds much different than my own.
But coming across the question of who inspired me, allowed the floodgates to open to a much deeper question: Who am I?
My attempt at trying to answer this question as a 35-year-old woman in her healing journey became a cathartic experience as I processed this in therapy.
In that process I realized that I get to figure that out now and that it is never too late to give myself the experiences I needed as a child.
Which is why I'm so grateful I started my business.
While I didn’t intend for my business to be a healing facilitation tool, it has become that. It has become a playground for understanding myself, to sit with questions about who I am and how this connects to my authenticity, my values, and my vision. In essence, my business is my jungle gym where I get to explore, be curious, create, and make mistakes.
Think of it like an intricate trenza that I'm still trying to master because both my healing and entrepreneur journey are like two strands sinuously interconnecting in a way where they depend on each other.
Looking Back to Move Forward
I recently read this phrase - to move forward, sometimes we gotta look back- and that couldn’t be more true for me.
Looking back helps me to move forward because I define it as giving myself the chance to trust my instincts, think about my values, connect to my goals, reflect on my self-accountability and define success.
But of course, this type of self-awareness and discovery is never easy. It comes from taking intentional steps of connecting to my inner niña, giving her spirit a chance to exist in joy and to remind her that I'm doing the work to get where she was always meant to be.
It Takes Work
By now I'm sure you know how much work it takes to start and build a business. But I also want to remind you of the inner work that is necessary to step into that confidence and badass leader that it takes to sustain it.
I encourage you to think about what healing and inner work look like for you? How does your entrepreneur journey help facilitate that?
It can be challenging to think about this but you're not meant to do this alone.
Remember to stay close to your support systems, your community, and prioritize yourself despite the hustle mentality we constantly get fed about entrepreneurship.
These moments of reflection and self-love allow me to embrace vulnerability and share these deeper thoughts with you. I'm curious: what questions about self have emerged in your entrepreneur journey? How has your path helped you answer them?
I would love to discuss it with you over cafecito. Let's create space for genuine connection and shared growth.
Fuerte abrazo,
Bea
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