Could you tell me a time when you felt that you were enough?

I didn't feel like I was enough for a long time. Isn't that sad to write.

I spent my life waiting/ striving to get to this undetermined point in the future where I would be enough. Skinny enough. Pretty enough. Successful enough.

Aiming for a perfect version of myself was exhausting. It took me to a place where I felt discontent, unsettled, frustrated with myself.

I looked for external things to fix the problem. An amazing holiday. A new job. Volunteering. Looking for a new house. Another baby.

It wasn't until I started looking inwards that I began to slowly realise that a full vibrant life (for me) isn't about perfection or things looking a certain way. It's about feeling alive, a sense of freedom (physical & mental) and having a positive impact.

I live my life differently now. Things have changed but the biggest change is not something you can see. It's the realisation that I am enough just as I am.

That's my biggest hope for all children and adults that they are given the opportunity to step away from societal expectations/ pressure to work out who they really are and what they want.

I want to show my three boys what it means to really live. I believe that at the heart of that is knowing that you are enough just as you are.