I have the privilege and honor to have guest blogger Tara Schiller here today, on a very exciting day for her! Today is the launch of her book, Living an Alive Life! Tara is an author, life coach, business woman, and mom of four who will help you discover your true self, and live your life with purpose. In Living an Alive Life, Tara shares her life experiences as she provides valuable exercises to help you discover how to live life fully as the person you are intended to be. Please take the time to read Tara's post here, and to visit her blog, Absolutely Tara. Without giving away any spoilers, I will say that I discovered it is ok to be selfish. (I was surprised about it too!). I had several AHA moments as I read Living an Alive Life, and I know you will too! Read on, and learn how you too, can life life fully. (You can also follow @taraschiller on Twitter.)
From Tara:
If I could tell you one thing, it would be that you are
amazing. And that you are absolutely and completely worthy of love for anything
and everything that you are. I’d tell you that all those parts of you that you
feel are ugly, bad, or worthy of shame, are in fact, what makes you so uniquely
beautiful in the first place. Because you’re interesting. You’re full of
character, and emotions, and life.
If you could see your heart through my eyes, you’d see
perfection alone. You’d know that anyone who didn’t love you was completely out
of their mind, and you’d feel sad for them because they missed out on something
great in their lives by not knowing you.
But even if I told you these things, would you believe me?
Would you take it in and protect it with your life? Maybe for a minute.
The reality is, most of us aren’t able to see ourselves this
way. We’ve gone our whole lives being told what makes us accepted by others and
what drives them to reject us. And since our mind is wholly devoted to
protecting our heart, it has produced an acceptance gathering projection so we
can feel loved.
But the problem is, we don’t just want to be loved, we want
to be known. Being known is what
connects us, not only to others, but to ourselves.
The mind doesn’t like that idea, because it can’t control
how others react to our true hearts. It can’t create a good and bad master list
and ensure we behave accordingly. And if it can’t do that, it won’t be able to
protect us from rejection. The mind hates rejection. And so we aren’t known by
others, and we aren’t in touch with who we truly are.
How do we overcome this? How do we retrain the mind to value
the truth about our hearts over the acceptance of others? That’s what my book
is about.
In Living an Alive Life, I focus on retraining
the mind to value your true self, then turning those discoveries into something
real and tangible with an actionable plan, and dealing with the emotional
obstacles that will surface along the way.
If you go through this process and learn to value your
truth, you will be able to live a life that fits you, not one that you’ve been
told you’re supposed to live. And when you can become who you truly are, you
will come alive. And an alive version of you will leave the world in awe!
-Tara Schiller
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