“I found my forever love, I found “the one”. It took me 38 years to find but when I did, it was the most important Cinderella story I was ever meant to know. It sure as hell didn’t show up the way I expected but wow did it ever feel good.
I fell in love with my true self.
The authentic “me”.
I took her on dates, I bought her things, I honored her goddess self, because I finally saw her that way. I showed her compassion, empathy and forgiveness. I stood in her light with pride, despite her imperfections and instead, seeing her flaws as a statement of her individuality and uniqueness. I accepted her darkness with her light. I no longer needed external validation because I just trusted in her wisdom and from this place I began moving through life for the first time with ease. I no longer searched for things outside of her; relationships, accomplishments or possessions to feel true happiness and peace.
It is here as I stand in her truth and her authenticity that I have a knowing of her worth. I now see that all the pain, all the failures, all the hurts, all the traumas and all the cumulated grief, was exactly what I needed in order to bring me here.
Back to me. To find true love. ”
(Taken from the Introduction – Nude Bye Tara Portelli)
It was April 2020, the first lockdown of the pandemic when I finally sat down to start my personal memoir NUDE. Sitting in my living room of my 135 year old century home, staring out at at my sprawling backyard, that I worked hard to maintain. I fell in love with this house many years ago and now the perfect sanctuary for my own healing process after my divorce. The cathartic experience of recalling traumatic events in my life, was bitter sweet. I had an internal knowing that others could relate to my story and this path of finally choosing “me” first.
I am excited to share the launch of my prescriptive memoir NUDE; Saying a Beautiful Goodbye to who you thought you were and stepping into who you truly are.
This book is a raw account of my journey in love, loss, injury, grief to a path of abundance, self-worth, self-love and spirituality. We all have a story and our stories can help others to know that they are not alone in their struggle. We can find inspiration and strength in the sharing of them.
Through this book teach you to see your grief, loss and trauma as a path that has brought you many gifts. As hard as that is to see at times, there is always a greater force beyond us that is redirecting our path to the right one.
We get stuck in patterns of thinking and a conditioning that we are taught at a very young age. Expectations and pressure to find “the one”, get married, have babies, find a career and ultimately the goal of “true happiness”. The question is, why is it that very few people actually find happiness and joy in this life?
For many of us, we create a busyness in life that is almost impossible to keep up with, moving further and further away from who we truly are, our authentic self and instead distracting ourselves. Each day, we fall into the same routines and daily grind, that separate us from the authentic self, as we continue to play in the charade of portraying the perfect life we have created, all the while the falling apart of it and ourselves behind closed doors. Thus sending us in to a tailspin of anxiety, depression and an emptiness we cannot understand.
So what is the solution? What is the answer? How to we break out of this mold? It all starts with YOU. Getting honest yourself and connecting with who you truly are and what you truly want.
In my book I teach you how to transform pain into empowerment in order to live a divinely guided life as the authentic “self”. Each story and exercise in the book guides you to release pain that keeps you stuck and helps you find what you long for most in their life: Love, peace and true joy. You will learn to stop chasing love outside of yourself and to connect with self love instead. Making the shift from pain to empowerment gives you a deep rooted sense of being in the world around you.
I hope that my book inspires you, helps you, guides you and transforms you from who you thought you were to who you were meant to be in this life.
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