About ME

If someone were to ask you the question, who or what do you love the most? What

would you say? What were the first thought/s that surfaced to your conscious mind? Did

you know that there is a definitive right answer? However, the right answer must come

before any of the others. We love our family, our friends, our significant others, our pets,

etc. But, what about ourselves? Life forces us to wear many hats, making us highly

susceptible to forgetting or losing our intrinsic primary identity. It is me, it is you, it is us.

We must learn to love ourselves first before we can truly love any of those answers that

came before ourselves, or completely exclude ourselves, not realizing the tragedy.

Loving one’s self is the first and most important person to love. Self love opens the

doors towards finding yourself authentically, without apology. It is not selfish to love

yourself first. It is the standard and expectations birthed from self-love, which lead to

self-realization and your thriving path of purpose.

Who am I ? I am many. I am a BIPOC, neurodivergent woman, a mother of seven, a

wife, and a student of both life and academia. I am in love with my sincere passion and

desire to lead and inspire others. I found myself later in life, through facing and enduring

through my own struggles, and making it to the other side. As I continue to blaze my

own path in this big and at times, a cruel world, gaining the understanding that we do

not have to walk it alone, has been the most profound revelation. When others

extended their hands to lift me up when I fell, or when those offered hands were

postured to praise my accomplishments with pride, it was in those moments that is

when I was loving myself. There is a truth and resolve which accompanies self-

realization, of which no one else can take away from you. After I figured out how to love

myself first, I was able to find my purpose and see the world differently. I wanted to

“happen to the world” and not constantly carry the weight of “the world happening to

me.” My purpose lay dormant within because I could not hear myself. I was too worried

about the noise and the expectations to hear others tell me where I belong in this world.

Sure, they were trying to help but it didn’t. My realization of purpose is to be those

hands which uplift, cheer when no one is watching, help you up when you’re down and

figure it out together. We are all worth it, whether you may think so, or not. and

responsibility to use my gifts and talents, to be those hands for others, enabling each

individual to design their own “self map”, through growing and utilizing the power of

self-advocacy and self-agency. There are many pathways that lead to one’s desired

destin (y) nation. With Clarity & Solace, you will never walk alone !

Who am I ? She knows that the “world owes her nothing, she knows that she owes it to

herself.” She understands her purpose in this world. She knows that she was” Born to

Shine and Built for the Rain”... Christina Andrews