Things My Mother Never Taught Me

By Jaime L Reeves

Are you a woman in crisis, confused and stuck living a life that kind of sucks? Look no further to find out how to start living your best life. Love yourself and be at peace even when you're at rock bottom. Harness your divine feminine energy to become balanced and whole as an individual. Define yourself and stop living for anyone's approval exc

• Language: English
• Publisher: I AM/I RISE
• Release date: Jun 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798986388502

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Jaime Reeves

Things My Mother Never Taught Me

and other things every woman should know

First published by I AM/ I RISE LLC 2022

Copyright © 2022 by Jaime Reeves

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Contents

Preface

1. Know Thyself

2. Divine Femininity

3. Please Yourself First

4. Stop Competing With Others

5. Healthy Relationships

6. Sisterhood

7. Be into You

8. Create Your Best Life

Conclusion

Glossary

Reference

About the Author

Also by Jaime Reeves

Preface

Are you a woman in crisis, confused and stuck living a life that kind of sucks? Look no further to find out how to start living your best life. Love yourself and be at peace even when you’re at rock bottom. Harness your divine feminine energy to become balanced and whole as an individual. Define yourself and stop living for anyone’s approval except your own.

Inside Things My Mother Never Taught Me, you’ll unlock inner peace by learning to:

Prioritize the people and things that make you happy.

Know who you truly are.

Let go of baggage.

Form healthy relationships.

Make financial choices that bring you joy.

Love yourself no matter what.

Plus so much more!

Get ready to embrace your uniqueness and be the person you always wanted to be!

1

Know Thyself

Let’s be honest, we always want the next thing. We find it hard to be present, happy, and grateful. We say, If I just had… and, If only I could…. If you picked up this book, you’ve probably said these things and asked yourself some very similar questions: Why? Why me? Why them? Why can’t I? and so on and so forth, over and over, echoing in your brain. You most likely have the tendency to look outside of yourself to define your worth, identity, tribe, and values. You exist in a reactive cycle, with life happening to you while you passively allow it to. You’re afraid to lose. Afraid to Be. At some point, however, we have to take possession of our own lives. Hopefully, picking up this book is part of that process for you.

Who are you? Do you actually know? Can you give an honest answer to that question? When we lack a loving relationship with ourselves, we invite others to define us instead of defining ourselves. We end up constantly seeking outside validation, as opposed to being rooted in our own fundamental values. Then, when people fail to meet our expectations of what that validation should look and feel like, we get hurt.

Not knowing who you truly are—and being unwilling to stand up for yourself and your values—will keep you locked in this cycle of emotional harm and disappointment. You will continue to float between people, seeking certainty from external sources and being unable to find it. After all, how can someone know you when you don’t even know yourself? If you don’t love yourself, how will you know the real love when it shows up? How often have you been fooled by pretty words and desperation? You need to be willing and able to be unapologetically you, even in the face of potential loss and inconvenience. It’s time to do the work and stop the cycle of hurt so that you can grow into the person you’re meant to be.

The concept of The Self is a nuanced one. Psychological philosophers like Martin Heidegger and Carl Gustav Jung dedicated entire works to defining the concept of the self and how it relates to the world. Who we truly are, the roles we play and project, how we feel, how we act in different circumstances, and our darkest desires—all of these contribute to our Self (Gendlin, 1978; McLeod, 2018). To understand oneself is to reconcile all the different facets of ourselves, including the ones we would rather simply not think about.

So, before we move on to further chapters, let’s take a moment to ruminate on that. Are there parts of yourself that you try to hide away? Not just from others, but from yourself? Do you lie to yourself and try to fit into other people’s ideas of who you should be? Are you unable to answer questions about yourself and your goals and achievements, like the ones in the introduction? If the answer to any of these is yes, then you need to work on learning about yourself and unifying and balancing all the different parts of you.

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