No one is like you. You are a rare gem in a sea of rare gems and we all get to sparkle and shine like the Queens that we are. When I was a girl, I had no idea what it meant to be a strong woman or even a strong girl, because I wasn't getting that message from my family and my teachers. I grew up with low self-esteem issues and a whole lot of insecurity left over from childhood. When I graduated from Grad school, I started my research on self-esteem and wanted to take to the page and write all about it, hoping to empower young women to get out of their old ideas about who they think they are and be who they know they are. In my own journey with trying to become a strong woman, I went on many misadventures, made a lot of mistakes, and found all of the reasons I was spending my life making comparisons to other women and their perfect lives and envying what they had because I didn't seem to. I blocked myself from who I truly am through my low self-esteem and disempowering behaviors that had learned from the culture I grew up in and from my early life programming. I didn't want to live that way anymore and as I studied psychology and becoming a writer, I knew I had to use my own voice to make an impact, to show the women of this world that we all deserve to have the power that we want and to create the lives we feel we deserve. My book, BE A STRONG WOMAN: Stop Self-Sabotage - Find Your Inner Voice and Begin to Experience Mindfully the Life You Deserve, was my op-ed about what we do as a culture to disempower ourselves and disempower each other when we should be helping each other become stronger women. This book is a guide to help you identify where you are weak when you want to be strong and the main reasons women feel that they cannot be their true selves. The book includes some of the following topics for you to empower your true self and your voice: What the power of the self really is The difference between good and bad self-esteem and how to rebuild it when it is low The issues of control and how to let go of it to make room for bigger and better possibilities The great truth that the world owes you nothing and helpful support to guide you through knowing yourself better The downward spiral of social media and what it does to your self-esteem Artful destruction of the self through envy and jealousy and how to change those patterns Learning to get along with and respect other strong women from a place of personal power Embracing change and enjoying the consequences How to let go of the past to embrace your present and future self How to win your own heart and fall in love with the life that you lead Why being alone can be a good thing to empower you and give you strength What the kaizen philosophy is and how it can bring positive change into your life Practicing wholeness and instructions for mindfulness meditations And more! Take this journey with me and learn what being a strong woman is all about!!