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YOUARE AREIN ENOUGH. YOU CHARGE BY NICOLE HEROUX WILLIAMS I PHOTOS BY NSP STUDIO BY OMENESA ORUMA AKOMOLAFE
It was a painful week. My soul was have had access to if I was well and able pained. My head was pained and still and in my busy mode. pained. My skin was frying and my It told me that I have done well in BY NICOLE WILLIAMS I and PHOTOS BY NSP STUDIO mind was all HEROUX overBYthe place. I was I AKOMOLAFE controlling my anger and temper, but OMENESA ORUMA still am in a place of meditation. I came it now wants me to not just keep to myself to a breaking point in my life, where I but to still manage to mingle with others suddenly realized that I have been carrying and keep my personal matters at check. too much, wayyyyy too much. I have It told me to sleep. It told me to accept been carrying bills, insults, abuse, long people just the way they are. It told me hours, and a tired body. Usually when to listen without personalizing. It told I get tired, I just sleep for a few hours, me so many things. So many things. but this week, I shut down everything. I didn’t even type my school paper. I As I sat there with a fever and with so didn’t shut down because I wanted to, I shut down because life shut me down. I couldn’t move without being in pain. Pain in all that concerned me. It was a sign for me to attend to certain matters in my life, including my health. And so I went to work and came straight home to lay down, except for my doctor’s appointment. Otherwise, I allowed my mind and my body to lay down. As my body and mind laid down, it brought up memories, strategies, occurences and resolutions. It told me to smile more, because I don’t smile often. It told me to forgive So and So. It told me to ask So and So for forgiveness. It told me to completely cut off from So and So. It told me to change my company name. It told me not to contact So and So. It told me not to speak to So and So. It told me not to reply So and So. It told me how to speak and respond to So and So. I’m sure by now you know that So and So are different people. It told me how to tweak some things in my organization and business. It told me how to run my marriage and how to elevate my career and education. It gave me secrets. Secrets that I wouldn’t 132
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POT OF GOLD ************ 1. Take some time out to rest. 2. Don’t just rest, reflect. 3. Implement what you reflected on. 4. Don’t rush your process. Allow your healing to run it’s course. 5. Smile at people. Don’t project your anger or discontentment on them. 6. Be quiet in spirit, and if you choose to be quieter in your everyday life, that’s okay. You can always change your personality for the best, just make sure you’re not making people uncomfortable in a negative way. You don’t want people to constantly ask you, “ Are you okay?”. 6. Don’t apologize for the boundaries you make. 7. Don’t placate when you are disrespected. Step back, then confront it later(if necessary), but don’t tolerate it.
many issues that need a resolve, I knew without a shadow of a doubt, that I have grown. I have been stretched. Though I am weak at the moment, but for the knowledge in which I have acquired and willing to act upon, I am in charge. I am in control of my happiness. I am in control of how I am respected or disrespected. I am in control of how I show up. I am in control of how this story will end. Though I am weary, and I feel worn, but I am in charge.
8. You can be firm and tender at the same time. 9. Take advantage of the pain you feel. It is trying to tell you something. Listen to your pain. Listen to it allllllll the way, then do the needful. 10. Pray!!! Please talk to God daily. He is your friend. When you pray, you gain more power. You become incharge. Selah
