Am I embarrassing myself through my blogs?

Don’t you get embarrassed writing about your experiences and failed relationships? I get asked this question quite a lot and frankly speaking- no!

I keep sharing my personal experiences in the hope of finding answers, solutions or just making sense of things. I make fun of myself all the time so if you think, laughing at me or discussing me in your little groups upsets me, it doesn’t.

For me, sharing my experiences through my blog generates a lot of interesting conversations from men and women. Recently I spoke about harassment and my personal encounter, some of you reached out and shared your experience or what helped you through that process.

To me, this is a small effort on my part in trying to normalise talking about and against difficult topics such as harassment, disloyalty and even relationships in general.

Someone once said, she is writing all this nonsense for the attention. Honestly, trying to date and write about it, is the BEST way to scare guys away! So, no I am not getting any attention at all! (Side story: Although I must add, a certain someone looked at my blog and told me what an extraordinary woman I am and well continues to remind me of that (this story for another day wink wink!))

I also know that I am a silly, goofy and flawed human and I don’t have it right, but I think sharing experiences helps, generating conversations around it helps, not being ashamed helps, being self-aware helps, knowing that your story might inspire someone totally helps!

The conversations I have had around divorce for example, I was crying reading messages from women my age who were just as educated and earned well but were terrified to take that step because of family pressure and societal expectations. Or the times I would post videos of me skipping and running and how a few men and women got into it too because they said it was inspiring to see me reach certain fitness goals through it.

These kinds of things matter to me, the real impact. Its not about the number of likes I get, it’s about being real and relatable. When I first started off my blog, I had no idea what direction I was taking, and it has taken a lot of personal growth and maturity to know.

So yes, I am happy with embarrassing myself over and over again, you can laugh at me all you want but I am fine with it because I know that it might help someone including myself in the process.