About Me

This Blog grew organically as a result of my endeavours to share a bit more of me with my global village . If you would like to know more about what I do to help people change their lives, check out www.bronwynclee.com

“Who am I?” has been a prompt of mine for self reflection for more years than I care to count. I find it challenging to explain who I am, as there are so many facets of the FULLNESS of me!

The power of positive thinking

Over two decades ago, when I first discovered the “new age world” I came across “the power of positive thinking”. This was like learning conversational French for me ~ a passion and a challenge all in one!!!! I deeply wanted to understand this new language and as a young mum I had the context to apply it, yet somewhere, somehow, it more often than not ended up feeling like ‘penance’. I clearly recall my first affirmation a kinesiologist recommended I repeat regularly –  “I love and approve of myself”.

This was around the time when sticky notes were a new novelty  (yep, I’m showing my age now) and I had my affirmation written on those little yellow sticky notes on every mirror in the house and then some. There it was for all to see “I love and approve of myself”. Well, my darling husband wrote on every sticky note in thick black marker “so do I”. I swear I spent more time crying and beating myself up then feeling good about that exercise…

It took me years to figure out the reason. You see, I hadn’t found the courage to explore the beliefs that sat under my deep discomfort toward the affirmation and while I laboured over every type of self help book I could lay my hands on, and ‘did affirmations, therapy, workshops, seminars, and more affirmations, sadly, I still didn’t truly believe that original affirmation.

While I repeated all sorts of affirming statements and practiced positive self talk, there were still voices in my head telling me otherwise… The crazy thing was I didn’t realise they were MY voice and that I could control it.  For example, I would have conversations with myself like this: “Oh no don’t wear that you look too fat.” And “Oh no how could you be so stupid?!” Or, “There you go again, you just can’t do anything right can you?”  “You must be so dumb, everyone else knows how to do that!” It was like having an executive committee in my head 24/7…

Overlay on top of that, a constant nagging doubt that deep down I believed I was worthless and that any day now, the world would find out. The insanity in my thinking was to prove to the world that I wasn’t worthless all the while running an old tape in my head, that my then belief system reinforced the exact opposite.

Due to a whole series of events, around 2004,  I finally set aside some time to get really honest with myself and explore why I believed what I did and decided to take some heavy duty action. From there a light switched on and I consciously ‘sacked the executive committee in my head’. I knew that I was great at positive self talk with others, and so declared a turf war on my own negative self talk and behaviours. Up until that time, I had been great at reserving the put downs’, name calling and self loathing for myself. Giving myself permission to question what I believed in and the validity of my beliefs changed my life.

From the day I made that conscious decision and committed to change those old beliefs, my life began to improve and continues to do so.  It wasn’t like going to the hairdressers and getting a gorgeous new hair colour – gray one hour and walking out with sun kissed highlights the next! No, it was more like weight loss. You don’t notice it at once, but over time you and others begin to see and experience the changes as a result of your dedicated commitment, and like anything that produces that many positive endorphins, I wanted more and more and more…

In amongst many descriptors, I see myself as a woman of strength and courage, passion and purpose, love and conviction, who is crazy about reciprocity and authenticity. I am a daughter, a sister, a lover and a mother, an educator, a learner, a giver and a receiver. A healer and a patient in the river of life I am enjoying the internal trek – my  long walk home. I no longer yearn to find ‘my mecca in the external world’ as I have discovered my mecca within. A spiritual being having a human experience I thirst for head and heart connections and seek authenticity in all I be, do and have.

So here I am, living the life of my dreams, blessed to have three beautiful adult children (is that an oxymoron?) who have survived the many incarnations of their mother, and like their father, get a spin off from my eternal commitment to being the very best version of me possible. I no longer have anything to prove or defend, I deeply and completely love and approve of myself (even though not everybody else does) and will continue to unpeel the layers of the fullness of me until I leave this planet. To find out more about what other people say about my way of working, you might like to  check out www.bronwynclee.com

So that’s me folks, how about you? How do you describe yourself firstly to the world, and then to yourself? Is it one and the same? Or different? I’d love to know!  Drop me a line a let me know will you? Bron xo