HANDCRAFTED: WHY 'YOU MATTER'

I was looking back through my blogs and trying to determine when the concept of the“YOU MATTER”

t-shirt came to me. I remember it being one of those really connected moments when I just knew I had to create it, and where I also had the guts to do it. It was years ago, and the phrase still resonates with me.

I wear my t-shirts regularly and my kids have (and wear!!)t-shirts and sweatshirts with the phrase on them. When I created them, I believed they were the words that other people needed to hear, that I wanted my kids to know deeply, but had no idea that it wasn’t something I even kind of believed about myself, (I just find it so fascinating, that low self worth isn’t something you can see on a person) and that my deep anxiety and depression came from beliefs that I held true about myself, that were running in my brain subconsiously.

I have been a member of the Jody Moore Coaching program for a few years now. It was the first place where I could identify something that was holding me back, understand why it was, and learn the tools to change it, with the support to implement them. I wish low self worth as a simple thing to see... Like... your throat hurts, your throat is pretty raw looking with white spots... you take a positive strep test... and voila... Strep throat. Here are some anti-biotics you’ll be better in a few days... I could have healed from past wound years ago... It took me years to even be aware... and this past year to heal. Marci Owen, my personal coach, also coaches in the Jody Moore program. I am so grateful for this, I don’t know if I would have foound her otherwise. I hired Marci late, last December, who I believed to be a self worth coach. Thankfully. She’s actually a self love & confidence coach, which turns out, when taught the practical skills and given the support to implement, is the antidote to self loathing and shame... which were underneath my anxiety and depression. With her help, I have transformed my life, and changed the beliefs about myself and what’s possible to me, one week at a time. It’s absolutely remarkable the changes you can create, in a year. How I see myself ... and what I am capable of, through this work, blows my mind.

I wanted to write this post today because I wanted to share why I do You Matter Monday. I also want to show you what’s possible when you invest in yourself, that healing from anxiety and depression are possible if you show up and do the work, that there are so many approaches to healing, and when you do that work, thriving is on the other side.

If you can’t see your own value and worth, you will stay small. You won’t be able to see the ways you make the world better & more interesting... This world needs you. You will get/stay in your own way, and you won’t see how powerful and magnificent you truly are.

I want you to see your splendor. I want to contribute to that in any way I can. I intend to start blogging again about this and about handcrafting your life, my approach to living a full life. I am also going to start making new pieces for the year. I am going to use this blog/email to show them to you, make them available to you in real time, in addition to open houses.

YOU matter. I am talking to you. Your thoughts matter. Your words matter. Your ideas matter. The fact that you’re here matters… Your favorite color, Your favorite meal, all matter… If you weren’t here. It would matter. If I can help anyone struggling, make shifts towards ... healing... towards living their life to its fullest, I am in!!

I hope you have an amazing Monday.

Warmly, Mandy