"It brings me closer to people with confidence"
At 25, Carola discovered that losing and finding herself repeatedly wasn't weakness but strength. Through embracing sensitivity and fear, they found guidance and confidence that now connects them deeply with others and helps them grow stronger every day.
I never knew that my life had already started to show me where I was headed, long before I applied to Mindvalley. Now I understand. I see how all those moments and experiences from the past were just the first chapters of the story that I am now able to see with different eyes. With compassion and gratitude. For never giving up, for overcoming every moment while learning something that I am now able to share with another human being who may need to hear it. Because all those hardest moments are the ones that brought me closer to who I am now. That being sensitive is not a weakness, but a strength. That looking at fear and gripping it tight is the greatest act of love I have ever made for myself. My story has ups and downs but it has great moments of change and transformation. Of learning, of understanding that the great master's degree is not the one you take online or at university but the one that life itself teaches you. I consider that with 25 years I have been able to lose myself and find myself many times and that every time I have asked myself "Who am I?, it has been a turning point. I didn't know where I was going, but now I can see that something bigger was about to meet me. That has given me a guidance and a confidence in life that now lightens every day. It brings me closer to people with confidence, makes me feel the oneness. And based on the values I have been choosing as my foundation, I grow on those roots stronger than ever.
Carola Pont Valles
Project Manager
Barcelona, Spain
Written 18 January 2020 From our original stories site
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