Please Stop Apologizing

Posted on by Debbie Happy Cohen

For your loudness

For your grief

For your creativity

For your authenticity

For having needs

For your feelings

For the awkwardness in the room

For setting boundaries

For your dissatisfaction

For hating

For loving

For taking up space

For existing

Please

Celebrate this moment

Choose gratitude for the breath you just took

Stay open

YOU ARE MADE OF LOVE

AND You are awesomely imperfect.

Yes to BOTH!

Cheers to the mystery of our lives!

What I can tell you is this…

The more you embrace your experience rather than apologizing for it

The more permission you will give to others

To RELAX

To be more fully themselves

To be FREE

Yes

YOU

YOU REALLY ARE

THAT

POWERFUL.

Much love,

HappyD!

Jonathan is all dressed up and ready to party!
Debbie Happy Cohen
Debbie Happy Cohen

Debbie Happy Cohen, author, coach and artist, is the founder of Joy-Based Living. She loves spending time with magical, kind, thoughtful, inspiring people. Her Master’s Degree is in counseling but her experience comes from 20 years of coaching people to bring out the best in themselves and others. Also affectionately known as Happy D! and Reverend SASSY SHORTS!, she lives on Lookout Mountain in Alabama, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her books include The 12 Practices, The JBL Planner for Daily Self-Reflection, Reach Your Stars!, SANCTUARY: 4 Mantras for Thriving After Emotional Trauma, It’s All About Kids: Every Child Deserves a Teacher of the Year, and a children’s book I Don’t Think So!

3 thoughts on “Please Stop Apologizing”

  1. YES-S-S!!! I DUG THIS POST OF YOURS, DEBBIE!!! AND I’D LIKE TO ADD 3 MORE THINGS NO ONE SHOULD EVER APOLOGIZE FOR (AND I THANKFULLY CAN’T RECALL THE LAST TIME I DID FOR ANY OF THESE THREE!):
    1) FOLLOWING YOUR DREAM; 2) FOLLOWING YOUR INNER GUIDANCE; 2) STANDING YOUR GROUND.
    As Aretha Franklin once sang, “Rock Steady, Baby…”

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