{"id":304,"date":"2015-01-06T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/?p=304"},"modified":"2015-01-06T23:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:01:36","slug":"new-year-new-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/2015\/01\/new-year-new-you.html","title":{"rendered":"New year, New You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people make resolutions they still may be onboard with. I don’t make resolutions. I make intentions. First and foremost, I want my book Sexpot With Stretch Marks<\/em> which comes out January 8th to be a huge success, a bestseller of course. I will do this by being me, authentically, not by marketing a certain way. Maybe that works for the big fancy and famous peeps, but real always works for me.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I need to be a new<\/em> me, although every day I’m learning, growing, and blooming.\u00a0 As for\u00a0other people who are looking to reinvent themselves this year, GO FOR IT!\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 I did that a few years ago and the transformation is ever unfolding.\u00a0 Just give yourself permission to be you.\u00a0 My intention this very morning was to be my highest version, fullest potential, greatest joy today.\u00a0 I think living our truest expression as in our sacred truth, deep down to our core, that beautiful child of God we are and always will be is so pure awesome.\u00a0 This looks different for everyone.\u00a0 It’s rockstar, in-your-face for some and others a quiet, gentle power like a cloud.<\/p>\n

Our greatness can never be measured by an outside source.\u00a0 Those achievements, accolades, pats on the back, are fleeting and dependence on them will bring you misery.\u00a0 Deciding on goals of this new<\/em> you is fabulous, but never lose sight of what matters.\u00a0 I’m not talking about your family, that goes without saying.\u00a0 I’m talking about the whole reason you want to change, be different, makes resolutions, set intentions is that NEW aspect of yourself you think will make you feel good.\u00a0 You want to feel good.\u00a0 So feel good.<\/p>\n

Just feel good?\u00a0 You ask.<\/p>\n

Yes, this is one of the ways to both happiness and self-love.\u00a0 Examine your life and those people, places, and things around you.\u00a0 From your job, friends, activities, blogs and articles you peruse on social media…what makes you feel good? I’m not talking about short-lived happy, the high people get from some toxic behaviors as well, but the feel good<\/em> that makes you proud of yourself and connected to others.\u00a0 The feel good<\/em> that makes you feel like yourself.\u00a0 My husband is one of those people for me who makes me feel smarter, wiser, prettier, and funnier than I used to actually think I was.\u00a0 It wasn’t enough in my twenties.\u00a0 I\u00a0felt good when others built me up but when I was alone, I felt deflated or if I was around someone I thought was cool, I felt like a dork and judged.<\/p>\n

Now I know it is MY job to make myself happy.\u00a0 I choose to feel good.\u00a0 I chose the new me and even when I have moments I forget I’m her or I’m overwhelmed (in haggard mom mode)…I still know who I am.\u00a0 I am a Divine spark of the Cosmic Creator.\u00a0 Knowing this energy I can access at any time when I tune into it, feels expansive and free.<\/p>\n

What does the New you feel like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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