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Bye bye Facebook Part 1

4 Days ago, I deactivated my Facebook account and doing something like this for someone like me is HUUUUUUUUUUUGE!! I am one of those Facebook fiends who posts at least 5 times a day, checks her notifications at least 45 times a day and shares her entire life story with her audience. I am far from a celebrity or even a 'public figure', in fact, I am just a normal girl who had connected with a site that allowed her to tap into the gift that I previously mentioned in my last blog, 'I have been blessed with the gift of being a charismatic sharer' My first intro to Facebook, was when I lived in the UK, literally 10 years ago.  It was all very new then and it took me a while to understand the concept but as the years rolled by, naturally, the world begun to be notified of my every conquest, my every meal, my every mood, my every proposal, my every wedding photo, my every business, my every success, my every failure, my every child, my childrens every photo, my every soci...

Letting go of my ShEgo

Ever since I was a little girl, you could say I always felt a sense of super hero running through my veins.  Not so much, a super hero physically but definitely a super hero in my heart, where it felt good to be good and it felt amazing to save others from the dark side...their dark side.  It felt good to be compassionate, it felt good to be kind, it felt good to be loyal, it felt good to be honest and it felt good to stand in my truth. As the years went on though, as my childhood turned into adolescence and the adolescence turned into adulthood, that compassion, the kindness, the loyalty, the honesty and standing in my truth slowly reduced from innocently all the time to argumentatively sometimes.  And the person who copped it the most was....me.... I look back on the last year particularly, when, here I was thinking that at nearly 35 years old, I should feel far more grounded than I do, I recently hit a wall. 'I am going around in circles...this self development thi...