Why I Created “Starting Today”
I created Starting Today: Healing After Trauma, A 21-Day Guided Journal for anyone who has struggled to heal, visualize or manifest the life they truly desire.
This was me for most of my life. In the late 90’s, I was introduced to visualization. I read the books. I listened to the books on tape. I watched, read, and listened to the late Dr. Wayne Dyer, who led me along my spiritual path.
The books I read led me to work at a health store. Then, I earned my bachelor’s degree in alternative medicine. I got Reiki attunements and did free Reiki healings to the public at a metaphysical church. I became an ordained minister. I became an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. I became a Certified Spiritual Life Coach and a Certified Intuitive Energy Healer.
I attended multiple seminars and listened to countless webinars. I continued to study for many years. But no matter how much information I poured into myself, I continued walking around feeling like “something was missing.” And for the ones who say, “You need God in your life,” I did, and still do. I was actively involved in many churches through my journeys.
Through my journeys, I learned that we cannot satisfy our hunger from the outside world. It comes from within. Even with God on our side, if we don’t love ourselves, we cannot heal. We will continue attracting the wrong partners, the wrong jobs, and all the things we initially don’t want.
That’s why affirmations, manifestation, and visualization can feel ineffective when they aren’t rooted in self-love and self-worth.
Let me explain what I mean. While I was studying to become an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, we were taught to gradually add nourishing foods to our diet. This pushes the “bad foods out.” Over time, those healthier choices naturally begin replacing the foods that no longer serve us. Before long, those small changes become new habits.
Healing works much the same way. We begin with believable, attainable affirmations that meet us where we are today. As those small beliefs grow, they gradually replace the old stories we’ve carried about ourselves.
If you’ve experienced trauma, it can be difficult to believe “I am” affirmations wholeheartedly. When someone or something has taken away your trust, your faith, or your sense of self-worth, even the simplest positive affirmation can feel impossible to believe.
That’s why, in the journal I created, I share a little about my own story, simple self-care exercises to help connect with the self-love that may have been lost, affirmations beginning with “Starting Today” to help you focus on one day at a time, and a space for personal reflection.
I believe telling ourselves, “Starting Today, I am choosing to release any guilt I have been holding onto,” is much more relatable than trying to convince ourselves, “I am a millionaire.”
We have to introduce believable and attainable affirmations that connect with us in our current state. This allows us to push out the “garbage” we’re still holding onto from our past.
If you’ve spent years searching for healing but still feel like something is missing, as I once did, then I hope this journal reminds you that healing doesn’t have to happen all at once.
Sometimes it begins with one simple decision, one small step to focus on…
to start a new beginning, today.