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Surviving Myself: Brandon, Kingsley, Leo and Me.

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Quote by Randy Pausch. Mr, Brown?  Mr.Brown are you ready? It was time to for a radio interview. This day had been planned for weeks.  I had studied the questions, got to know the stations programs. I was ready. At least I thought I was. I looked at myself in the mirror for one last touch up. Make-up done? Check. Hair done? Check. Out fit loose but flattering in all the right places? Check. It was while looking in that mirror that everything, hit me. Though I looked good, my career despite it's highs and lows was faring well.  I had friends and a very supportive family around me. I even had a man who loved every inch of my crazy. I couldn't be happier.  What was this feeling that I just couldn't shake?  "Could you give me three minutes? I feel like I'm forgetting something." I said to the sweet but slightly annoying assistant.   "Sure." She said.  As she quietly stepped away.  As I sat in the chair trying to figure ...

Leo Revealed: My Life With Cerebral Palsy.

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Healing The Wounded Child. Everyone has something "wrong "with them. It could be a lazy eye or an odd looking toenail. No one is perfect. No matter hard we try to strive for it. Now that all sounds good to hear but the truth is that for some of us. We hide our imperfections by pretending that they don't exist.  For years this was me. My Legs. (Right is longer than the Left) You see, I was born with a disability. I have spastic cerebral palsy. I will admit even writing down those words was and is hard for me. I've never embraced my disability. All my life, I wanted to blend in, be normal and treated like everyone else. I can remember as a little boy having to go to adaptive physical education and hating it. I can remember thinking "I'm not like these people." I'm not different." "I don't walk funny." All my life I've run away from my disability or overcompensated because of it. I always thought I had to work twice...

Getting REAL about relationships.

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For most of my life, I've been in love with love. However, I've come to realize that I'm not alone in this fact. Many of us both men and women are or have been at one point and time. In love in with the mistress called L.O.V.E.  There comes a time when you stop begin in love with love and start getting real. Not just about love but why we're in love with the idea and fantasy of begin loved but not doing the work of loving someone from an unconditional, genuine place. Now, I'm not saying there's anything with begin in love with love because love is one of our purest emotions but if you always choose to have rose colored glasses on. It can and will cause a problem. Here's a few things that I've seen that contribute to our ongoing infatuation with love, 1. Society: Society as a whole plays a HUGE role in how we view relationships. Think about it for a moment. When you look back on say, your childhood. What kind of love did your parents have with e...