Seasonal Mindsets

 With the fall season approaching gracefully, mindsets seem to be in progress at the same pace.

           Women Of More Magazine, touched on the concept of people especially women, redefining the way they think about their life, their peers, and themselves. A lovely panel of women mentioned the foundation of Christ as being the tour guide to their journey. They continued to express the importance of finding the determination within yourself as well as prayer to really redirect your thinking and find positivity in knowing your worth.

          In order to finding self-worth, the ladies first had to identify why women have a negative mindset to begin with. It stems from competitiveness. Society tends to put pressure on women to be an look a certain way to the point where some parents subconsciously teach young girls these unwritten rules. With these unwritten rules, because they are exactly that (unwritten), one would assume that these rules are opinionated and not facts. The problem is some women train their mindset into thinking these opinions are facts and then instill them into their daughters.

        With women being such naturally emotional creatures, seasons in our lives tend to test how much we let our feelings overshadow circumstances. That's because emotions let us know what our boundaries and allows us to challenge our mindsets. An example could be a young child experiencing a traumatizing event where an adult inflict pain or abuse and the child is either afraid to speak up or nobody is willing to listen because they figure "you are just a child." That level of fear can cause so much trauma left not dealt with and the person struggling to heal.

         Another thing the women touched on was transparency. This discussion involved the understanding of respect. All of this tied into dealing with trauma as well as respecting others opinions. The women stressed the importance of self forgiveness because this type of forgiveness is what to need in order to know your worth. It definitely open the eyes of others because the talk expose the fact that so many people of all ages don't know who they are yet due to settling and compare themselves to others. Instead they advised that if you forgive who you were in the past, you are let others know "I used to be this, BUT, now I am this," proudly.

        Women Of More ending the discussion by advising women not to settle and that we can be more than what you are now.