Hi my friend, how are you today? I wanted to tell you how beautiful you are, inside and outside. The light that you carry within yourself, the one that is yours and only yours, is so unique and we are so lucky to have your light in our lives. I wanted to remind you of this. In doing so, I just realized how rarely I remind myself of this: Of how unique and beautiful I am. No, I am not being arrogant! I am trying to stay grounded by reminding myself of the original light that I carry like others. And that how much my unique life story makes me unique and valuable, and how much yours, makes you unique. When I used to go in the lab, talking to my students or sit in the meeting with colleagues, I tried to put on a mask, a mask of “ I am a strong and accomplished person”, it didn’t matter that in my heart I had many doubts or that the “ strong serious face” was not my actual face. Mine was a face of a loving person who just wants to send love and care to others. my friend, if you like me, came back home at night and felt exhausted and unreal, I want to remind you you don’t have to. That your uniqueness and originality needs to shine at work, that your feminine light and care needs to rule the world, and that nobody and or no rule should demand you not to behave like you are just to conform to the established definition of success. That’s why today, now, I wanted to remind that we are beautiful and unique and the world deserves to see the real us. Okay I gotta go. Have a good night.

Hey my friend, I hope you are doing well and life is treating you well. As you know I traveled for work this week. Every time I used to travel for work I was very self- aware to put on the mask of  a strong, smart and successful woman, in conferences or even at work. But my friend, this time was different. I went on, putting on my own face, and embracing my own uniqueness. My friend, I felt so happy and comfortable and I think people connected with me better. Let me tell you a secret. And I think it is secret we all carry one way or the other. I used to ( am still to lesser extent) compare myself with others, was very self conscious about how better some people were than me in some aspects of life and work and that made me a little anxious, leading to me desiring to sink and disappear from some spaces I attended, unless I put the mask on.  But recently, my friend, I have realized that I am unique, like you are unique, and everyone of us carry our own unique life story, values and light. Because I am unique, I am now realizing that I will have my own unique achievements that is different than yours or others. That has made me more confident about me and has created a motivation to even want to explore and manifest that uniqueness better. This week at a work dinner, for the first time ever, I revealed me, the true me, all my dreams and visions ( no matter how odd they are) for a colleague of mine. I was so happy and confident, coming from the space of  as if: As if I have already achieved them. You know what happened my friend? The colleague and friend whom I had dinner with, asked me how he could help me with my vision at the end of dinner? Isn’t that amazing my friend? Never happened to me before. I think coming from a place of authenticity and uniqueness resonates with people and more doors open to you. This is now a sign for me and a lesson to keep moving forward that. I wanted to share it with you too, hoping it will help you too. Okay, I have to go now. Talk to you later.

Hey friend, how are you? Hope your day was great. I wanted to check in with you because I recently became quite inspired by those people who live out their dreams. You know they say self doubt is the biggest killers of all dreams. My friend, I have dealt with self-doubt for most of my life. Even if at the eyes of people around me, I looked confident, knew what I was doing or appeared quite self-confident. Deep down I limited the grandness of my dreams because I thought how could a girl like me achieve those. But quite recently I have learned that I was doing myself a disservice by thinking and acting like that. Yesterday I was thinking of a boy, raised in a poor neighborhood in Brazil, who at the age of 18, when he literally had nothing but the belief in his vision and support of his parents, followed a vision so greater than himself, and built a beautiful world wide spiritual empire. I know because he is my teacher. And I keep reminding myself, above all the teaching that I have received from him, what inspires me is him following his vision and not limiting himself, no matter how wild that dream was or how greater than himself it felt at the moment. How many times have we tried to visualize our dream but then catching ourselves choosing its details based on our current limitations? How many times we didn’t even dare to see it in dreams because we didn’t believe it could be possible? For me, many many times. But my friend, enough is enough. I am determined to live a life that manifests the fullest me. I am determined not to limit myself in my dreams and visualize the biggest, greatest, most beautiful of all the possibilities I could be. I have learned it is part of the law of attraction. If you think about it, talk about it, See it clearly and act as if you have it, even the wildest dreams can become a reality one day. And it costs us nothing. I can spend 10-20 min per day visualizing that. It is cheap. I am going to start a vision board and really spend time on that. I am not going to limit my dreams. Because I am so much bigger than what I currently believe. Do you want to give it a try too? Because my friend, I believe we all can be everything we are born to be and more.