Discovering Self-Confidence and Amplifying Life: Empowerment Through Detox Diet and Happiness

Ever felt like your life could use a bit of a tune-up? Join me as I share about my transformative life-altering experience. Following a detox diet for 31 days, removing caffeine, meat, alcohol, and bread from the system, I've been able to energize and amplify my life in ways I'd never thought possible. Plus, I discuss how prioritizing my children's happiness and crafting beautiful memories with them has reshaped my perspective on life. 

But, that's not all! In our chat, I also open up about my inspiring journey of finding my voice, owning it, and refusing to apologize for it. No longer suppressed by others, I've discovered the power of being my own cheerleader, firmly standing up for my happiness and my greatness. So, brace yourselves for an empowering conversation that will leave you charged up and ready to take on the world. The journey is ongoing and the future is bright with promise. Come, share this enriching path with me. Let's amplify our lives together!

Chapters

• 0:01 Discovering Self-Confidence and Amplifying Life
• 7:19 Empowerment and Growth in Self-Confidence

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Good morning and welcome back to this Is Me podcast. I am excited. Today is December 1st. I know my last podcast was September 29th and I believe in that one I was talking about setting your boundaries and not feeling guilty for doing so. And the reason why I haven't uploaded an episode in so many months is because I know I discussed before how I've just been so quiet and just really like focusing and being intentional with my feelings and my inner voice and, you know, just like prepping for the next phase of my life, because I just feel like a shift I don't know if I'm the only one and a shift within me, within the universe, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 0:49

I have been just like shedding all year long shedding negative vibes, shedding negative people. Forgive me, I am in my car this morning, but it was just in my spirit to just take up my phone and start recording and just sharing what has been on my chest lately and someone had. I was discussing, I was talking to an old friend a couple days ago, my hair still wet, and she's like oh my God, I love your podcast so much. I love your podcast so much and I'm just like I know I just don't know what to talk about, because I feel like in the past it was always like all of the bad stuff and how I got through it, which, while everything of that was good and sharing my journey and how I overcame that, this part is also good, just the part of learning who you are, discovering who you are and just loving every part of you. And the day last night I was just like laying in bed and I'm like you know what. What else can I do for myself, to better myself? So I decided to cut out caffeine, meat, alcohol and bread for 31 days, for the month of December, and I just just another format to amplify my life, to give me more clarity, just to continue to just like remove the toxins.

Speaker 1: 2:29

That's no longer good for me and just figuring out what works and what doesn't work, figuring out what's filling me, what's making my cup full so I'm able to pour into other people. You know, and you're not able to discover, that if you have so much noise and so much negativity around you and it does get lonely, right, like figuring yourself out and setting your boundaries it's going to get lonely. But you have to find the good and the loneliness and for me, the loneliness has just allowed me to be awake, allowed me to see things clear, allowed me to establish a better relationship with my children, because when you just sit in a moment of silence, you really reflect on what's more important to you in life and, honestly, for me it's just my children's happiness, my happiness, creating the memories. And you know, let me tell you, I went to Buffalo last week or two weeks ago to visit my son in college and watch him play basketball, and I stayed at his apartment with his girlfriend and I can I just tell you it was just the most amazing feeling as a mother to see your child and let's not forget that I had my son, 18, turning 19. And now to see him into this young man with responsibilities, it's oh, it was just something within me that just felt blessed, grateful, it just felt amazing to see my baby, you know, and it was just another moment of reflection Like this is what matters to me just seeing my children's success, being able to be there for them, just being able to be their best friend. You know, as a mom of four boys, it's tough. It's tough because you know I have to fight to be respected, you know, because they're going to think I'm soft and but regardless, you know, I just love my voice so much and alright, so I got cut off earlier because I got a phone call. So basically, what I've just trying to express is that I've really, really have been so intentional with finding my voice, being confident in that voice, you know, allowing for my light to shine and truly, truly, truly being unapologetic for it.

Speaker 1: 5:27

Because in my months of silence, I've discovered that pretty much my entire life I have been surrounded around people who have suppressed me. You know, and I think that it comes. It starts with childhood, you know, with my parents being very old-school, caribbean and just always like don't do this, so this is gonna happen, don't do this. And you know, even from the relationships that I've had, even to the father of my children, and it's like why do I continue to attract this? Why am I continuing to have this pattern? And it's just asking myself those questions and answering them, and I think a lot of them, a lot of it has to do with, you know, the insecurity and a little bit of fear. But again, it's just because I have surrounded myself with people who have suppressed me and I really spoke life into me.

Speaker 1: 6:26

So for me. It's like everyone's always like why are you so positive? And you know you always have a smile on my face because I am my biggest cheerleader, because, deep down to my core, deep down to my core, I just know like I am meant for greatness, like we are not put on this earth to live a life of suffering. So, whatever I'm gonna do, for however many years I have to fight and crawl from my voice to be heard and not, and my light not to be dimmed, I'm going to continue to fight and do that because this is my life and I don't have to explain it to anyone and the only person I have to please is myself. So I will keep documenting my journey on my way to amplifying my life, while cutting these things out.

Speaker 1: 7:19

But I will tell you, guys, I just feel so good about myself because I I really feel like I am every woman. I really feel like confident in my really comfortable in my own skin. And before I used to say I'm comfortable in my own skin, but I, although I was, but now it's like a different, I'm getting my power back. So that is where that part of the comfortability is coming. You know, is what I'm referring to is that I'm finally I'm getting my power back. I'm no longer allowing people to suppress me, I'm no longer afraid to speak up and be strategic on how I speak so people can really understand what I'm saying, and so I don't come off defensive, you know. So, yeah, I think that every day I wake up is just a learning process, a growing process, and I'm just enjoying the journey and I'm very excited as to what God has planned for me in 2024. So I wish you all love, light and blessings and, as always, I will talk to you soon.