Breaking free from restraints
It's been a while since my last blog post but today I wanted to focus on the topic of coming into your own - owning your truth and sticking to your guns. For me, this is quite personal. In fact, I had a particular incident this morning where I had to stand up for my beliefs against the people who brought me up - my parents. I grew up in a very devout Catholic family, and for the first 33 years of my life, went to church every Sunday (except for when I couldn't which was when I was generally on holidays). Earlier this year I made the decision to stop going to church because it no longer represented what I believed in. I could go on and on about the reasons why but I won't - it's suffice to say that I stopped going, and I broke it to my parents a few months ago. Over the past few months, whilst my parents wouldn't hassle me constantly, I would get the random texts or phone calls where they remind me to go to church, go to church on a particular holy day of oblig...