How to Embrace Your Weird!

This month, Rock Pitre, is joining us to share about embracing your weirdness!

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Hey everybody!! Rock here!!

How's everybody doing? I hope you're all doing well despite the pandemic.

As I live through this pandemic, I have come to embrace many things. I have embraced the fact that my wife and I both lost our jobs due to the Covid-19 virus. I have embraced the fact that the world as we knew it, is now long gone! Most importantly, this time has allowed to embrace myself and my weirdness!

Yes, I consider myself weird!! I also consider all of you to be weirdos too!! Don't take this the wrong way but we are all weird in our own way, especially those of us who have survived trauma. Some like to label it as being unique or special but I prefer calling it for what it is…weird! It's not intended to be a bad thing, in fact, I embrace it!! The faster you embrace your weirdness, the faster you will accept yourself in your as is state.

Don't fight your weirdness!! It's who you are and there's nothing wrong with that!! I love my weirdness now more than ever and my life has gotten much better because of it. Here are a couple of takeaways for you in hopes that you can embrace your own weirdness.

First, accept your weirdness!! You will never appreciate where you're going in life, if you can't accept where and who you are. If you don't accept your weirdness, you will never feel like you are enough. You'll always feel like there's a void inside of you and with that, feel like you have to fill that void, often with things that don't serve you. Trust me when I say this, you are enough!!

Secondly, once you truly accept your weirdness, you can then pursue meaningful and long lasting growth and development. If you don't, you'll never really appreciate your accomplishments. If you're not happy with who you are, you'll never celebrate your victories because the void I mentioned in the first point will never be filled! Pursuing growth and development has to come from a place of acceptance, otherwise, you'll spin your wheels for nothing!!

What I hope you do after reading this is simple. Accept the fact that we are all a little weird in our own way. There's nothing wrong with that! Yes, some people are definitely more weird than others!! This is true but, it should not negate the fact that your weird too! Don't be worried about the fact that you're weird, that shouldn't matter!! It's what you decide to do with your weird that matters!! Channel your weird towards something positive that brings value to the world and again, you are enough!!

I send this message to you with love and I hope it serves you well!!

Have a great weekend!!

Rock Pitre

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Rock Pitre is a Canadian Writer and Story Teller. Rock loves his wife and daughter and has an appreciation for sports and the outdoors. A Certified Life Coach with years of experience working on the front line, Rock has been helping others reach for their potential which fuels him to reach for his own.

https://www.yourjourneytowardswellness.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Rock-and-Nancys-Pit-Stop-104488977892029 (live morning shows and other posts intended to motivate others towards positive change)

Let's talk about childhood...

 

Time needed: 7 minutes

I love to read and in this video I share with you some big takeaways on love and life and the importance of mystery from Tom Robbins's "Still Life with Woodpecker". 

Here's to knowing it's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Watch Now!

https://youtu.be/5Uck5gnD5EU

Is your faith suffocating or serving you?

Today, I want to talk to you about something that can be very sticky for survivors of sexual trauma - faith. I know in my own personal journey, coming to terms with faith, God, religion has been an extremely painful process.

And I know I'm not the only one. Every day, clients share with me the angst they feel as questions like, "Why did God let this happen? Is there really a God? Is what I was told about my Higher Power really true?" Many survivors find themselves at a crossroads because of these questions (I know I did), and it can feel like one is left with an either/or situation -- either I believe everything I've ever been told and taught or I toss it all out.

That is just not true!

And that is exactly why I was so excited when my dear friend, Fawn, who is an amazing women's relationship empowerment coach, told me she was going to be offering something brand new.

It's her "Setting Yourself Free from Religious Bull****, Without Losing Your Faith" 7-Week group program for the spiritually frustrated!

Man, do I wish I'd had this back in the day when I was struggling to find my way and was desperate to cultivate a spiritual walk that worked for me but was feeling more and more stifled under a never-ending web of rules, expectations, fears, and frustrations.

Fawn is going to walk right alongside you to help you, as she says in her own words, "examine with compassion, humor, and honesty, your own story – and the conscious and unconscious dogma that wrote that story. When you see it, you can transform it. You can reclaim your authentic self, take back your power, and create authentic, liberated relationships with the people that matter most to you and stand for the future you long to create.

This isn’t about destroying your faith. It’s about reclaiming its power and realigning yourself with the core Truth of who you are meant to be in the world."

Listen to Fawn and I talk more about
this transformational course!

If you are ready to:

• Restore the essential power of your faith.
• Discover new freedom in all areas of your life.
• Transform your most important relationships.
• Release the weight of suppressed emotions.
• Take a powerful stand for what matters most to you.
• Join a growing community of love warriors.

...then do not wait - register for this course today!

Setting Yourself Free from Religions Bull****
Without Losing Your Faith
Register Here

 

To a spiritual walk that serves you,



P.S. Keep an eye out - down the road, I'll be sharing with you an interview I did with Fawn in which I shared about my own personal spiritual journey story!

Watch my interview with Chris Times in which we tackle the big question, "Why did God let this happen?"

Read this article about how hidden sexism causes harm within the church

What spiritual practices keep you healthy, grounded, and sane?

BOOK OF THE MONTH

Becoming a man is challenging enough as it is, and adding sexual abuse to the mix can further complicate a boy?s transition into manhood. Being told to be strong, when all you want to do is cry, A Rocky Life is a journey that is familiar to everyone experiencing life, in their own way! The book describes the childhood trauma I experienced at the hands of my Father, who was a Police Officer at the time. The book also talks about how I changed my life around. In fact, the book provides you with several of the ?Ah Ha!? moments I experienced during my continued healing.

READ MORE HERE!

UPCOMING EVENTS

October: Special Writing Workshop with Donna Jenson

I am excited to announce that Donna Jenson will be returning this year to lead her "Honoring and Using Our Voices" workshop.

Donna founded Time To Tell™ in 2009 with a mission to spark stories from lives affected by incest and sexual abuse to be told and heard. It is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. She wrote and performs her one-woman play, What She Knows: One Woman’s Way Through Incest to Joy, which is based on her own experience of surviving incest and what she did to make her life worth living. She will be sharing he amazing gifts for tapping into voice through writing during this month's group. Do not miss this!!

Learn More & Register Here