Attacks are gifts

Yes, attacks are gifts.

They reveal you, take you out of your box and allow you to shine.

I'm going to tell you a little about my experience, because it's important to give examples that may help you project yourself.

As a teenager, when I was dancing to become a professional, I had two faults...

That of being beautiful and that of being talented.

It's not a good combination, since people can already hate you for just one of them.

From my beauty, I was labelled a tease, a label made by all the boys who'd been spurned, when all I dreamed of was romance and shared love.

From my natural qualities as a dancer, I was knocked all over the place until I was disgusted and had to give up on a career that had shown so much promise.

Jealousy was at its height.

Then my life took another turn and I met my husband and the father of my three children, who turned out to be healthy and handsome.

In the eyes of others, we represented the image of the perfect family, as we were often told.

Once again, people saw only the appearance and didn't know that money was missing from our lives, but that we replaced it with the love we had for our children and the time we gave them. We gave them our time rather than brands or a console, never TV at the table, just exchanges between us.

It really does change the harmony within a family...

We were also involved in a number of associations, offering our help and knowledge.

In short, we were simple and benevolent.

But all this again upset the bitter people, and they ended up spreading all kinds of rumors to destroy our family.

But it was all just rumor, because we're much stronger than that...

After that, I ran a boutique selling clothes, accessories and jewelry in my village.

What a crazy idea!

People were constantly complaining about a village that was dying without shops, with more and more banks, insurance companies and estate agents taking over the monopoly of shops for rent...

Yes... But you're not a local girl, and you're certainly not from the village. Here, we make each other work, we help each other, but we gossip about others...

Shameless sycophants have gone so far as to tell me it's a shame I'm closing when not one of their toes has so much as treaded on my storefront.

Years without pay for me, but with the faith to do something good.

In the meantime, I've taken up writing a variety of books, of which I'm very proud.

I'm slowly getting back into it with pleasure.

Here again, you can say what you like, I don't care.

Then it's downhill for me...

I put on a lot of weight, I broke my image, I felt empty and useless.

The lack of confidence appears at the same time as my spiritual capacities develop.

I rediscovered a part of myself that had been buried for many years...

My family doesn't understand what I'm talking about, apart from the magnetism with which I relieve and heal, but when I evoke the invisible world around us (which I hear and feel), it becomes more complicated.

I'm left alone with my sometimes frightening feelings.

After a long period of hesitation, due in part to the hostility of my village, I opened up my magnetism to the public.

I don't like these professional labels. I'm a woman who heals others while she can.

So, what's on your mind?

No surprises ...

As with my boutique, it's not the villagers who come to see me, but those who live several kilometers away.

Few face-to-face treatments, many more from a distance.

Distance is the best friend of those who don't want to be seen in my home, or who live too far away.

The reluctance to come and see me depressed me for a while, but then I realized that it wasn't a pity for me, but for them...

My whole life is linked to these wounds of rejection and injustice, and even though I still live with them on a daily basis, they no longer affect me.

So sure, I've become fat in society's eyes and money is still missing from my life, but I'm writing this to deliver an essential message:

Yes, attacks are gifts for you!

They've allowed me to be certain of my worth.

As Mary, as a mother, as a woman who heals souls and bodies, as a person who sometimes doesn't live in the same reality as others...

I finally know what I'm worth!

The work on myself is never finished, and my self-confidence hasn't been fully resolved.

I'm like everyone else with ups and downs, but I will never again let attacks hurt me unnecessarily.

Others attack you when you have something they don't and can't buy.

Validation of your worth and esteem should never come from someone else, it should come from you.

Be proud of yourself, validate yourself, love yourself and thank the people who have brought you down, because thanks to them, you've grown.