What are the things that we, as parents, are hiding from? The overwork, the judgment, and so many other things. We were all of it. We overdrink, overeat, overdo it, overplease, and overcompensate for all of the stuff that we didn’t want to talk about. All of the trauma, all of the darkness, all of the things that, if we had said anything, our minds thought that we were wrong, that we were broken, that we weren’t enough.
16 years ago, I was the same way. I was a single mom. I was overworked. I was overdoing it. I was burning both ends of the candle, and yet I was still showing up the best that I could. And I didn’t know that there was anything else left in me to show up until I figured out that it was time. I wrote my own story and rewrote the story, and it didn’t have to look like everyone else’s story. I took a detour, found Tony Robbins, and went to my first event called “Unleash the Power Within.” And it definitely unleashed the power within me that I didn’t even know existed. And then I just had to start rewriting that whole story to show up better.
We talk about showing up for other people, but the first person I needed to learn how to show up for was myself. We’re hiding so much because we don’t know who we need to be for the world because we’re always looking at what we think the world wants us to be instead of realizing who we are is good enough for the world. And once we realize that, the hiding goes away. We don’t need to hide anymore. We don’t need to hide who we are with the gifts that we have to bring to the world. It’s just an acknowledgment. Do the inner work first, and then the outer work really is the rewards that you get to share from doing the inner work.
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“The Power of the Unknown” | with Yamile McBride
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