Leela Francis

I’d love to say that as an embodiment expert, therapist, yoga, and dance facilitator, founder of a women’s leadership training and community that I never struggle with issues of self worth. I’d love to say that all my training, studies, life experiences and my facilitation of other’s healing, has helped me to rise above lack of self love and low self esteem. I’d love to say that because I think it’s a deception that many want to hear. Yet if I were to say that, I’d be lying. I’d be perpetuating a myth that has kept women paralyzed, isolated and suffering for ages.

The truth is that here I am, after 20 years of teaching, treating and running a successful coaching and live event training business and I am doubting. I’ve guided thousands of women back home to their body, into euphoric states to discover that they can be the woman who they thought only others could be, that they can dance their power radiantly, that they too belong, that they can face their darkest shadows, and find peace and perfection with the woman that
they already are. Yet here I am questioning, floundering, and wondering what I am really supposed to be doing with my life!

Is that okay? As a facilitator, guide and teacher, is it okay for me to feel insecure, lost, unsure?

What’s the alternative? I choose not to perpetuate the false images of perfection all over the media. I don’t want to mislead others to believe I have my shit together and that’s what it takes to succeed.

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Embody Self Love- Not Just an Idea

There’s a difference between the idea of self love and the embodiment of it.

We all know that we “should” love ourselves. That’s the idea of it. The fact is however that most of us spend an awful lot of time negating our self worth with negative self talk, choices that don’t reflect our true essence, and inauthentic boundaries in our relationships that disempower us.

The idea of self love is a good one, but the embodiment of it goes way beyond the idea into the actual lived experience of it. The embodiment of self love requires a deep and loving inquiry into the soul self versus the social self.

The soul self is the unique essence of our being that runs deep and true. The social self is the egoic self that develops as we grow in order to “survive” in the world, win love and approval, and achieve a perception of success. In other words, we learn how to behave in order to be loved.

Unfortunately our learned behavior often has us sacrificing the authentic essence of the soul self to accommodate the social self. The soul self gets buried alive under the constructs of the social self to the point that the soul self is barely identifiable.

Development of the social self may help us to attain certain results in the material world, however it can also be a persistent abuse and betrayal of the core of our being. And it is this self betraying and abusive behavior versus the deep and true soul essence of self, that is really who and what we dislike, even hate,

Devoting oneself to that deep and true soul self is a first step back to finding the love that it rightly deserves. Because it’s been so obscured by the egoic social self, the way new civilizations stack themselves one on top of the other, it’s actually necessary to excavate your soul truth, to embrace it, and to truly embody it, so that you can actually love it!

Leela Francis is a speaker, facilitator and Embody Power Expert. She’s the founder and CEO of Vividly Woman, helping women to tap into their embodied power to become thriving, healthy and fulfilled leaders, personally and professionally.

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