Nicole Batiste reads Chapter 23: Calming the Inner Mental Storm – How to Become Your Best Friend. Watch and listen as she reads it!
This excerpt from her reading shares a peek into the life of a child who struggled. Listen as she reads her entire chapter and her tool for self-care to own your unique Goddess energy.
“My relationship with myself started off rocky at a very young age. Trust, safety, and my voice were taken when I was just four years old. I hadn’t developed a sense of who I was, but I certainly developed a sense of who I needed to be to survive. I learned early on that I needed to be compliant, agreeable, and quiet.
It was a typical elementary school day. You could hear the voices of children as they moved about the hall heading to their next class. As I started to head out of my classroom to join the bustling hallway, I heard Ms. Collins call out, “Nicole. I have something I want you to do.” What did I do wrong? I tried to recall how the class went. Did I say something wrong? What could she be calling me for? I turned around and started walking toward her, avoiding eye contact. I wasn’t afraid of her; Ms. Collins was one of my favorite teachers. I always called her a teenager because I loved seeing how it lit up her eyes and smile. However, the constant fear of doing something wrong had taken hold. I stood there waiting for her to correct me about something.
Ms. Collins: “Nicole, I want you to write down something nice about yourself every day.”
Me: “For what? None of it would be true anyway.”
If she said anything else after that, I don’t remember it. That was my first exposure to the power of our words and the importance of our relationship with ourselves. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in a place mentally or emotionally to recognize that loving gesture. I was in elementary school and already hated myself. Her kind words rolled right off me, and I continued on the abusive road from which she tried to pull me. There were two roads for me: one I lived on, the hidden road, and one I existed on, the compliance road. Keep quiet, yep, that’s the hidden road. My eyes are open, yet I’m in complete darkness.”
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*Originally published on February 20, 2022.
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