Finding Strength in Vulnerability with Bathesheba Tolbert

Trigger warning/disclaimer: This episode contains discussions about child abuse, divorce, and personal trauma, including personal experiences and journeys. The content may be emotionally intense and could be triggering for some individuals. If you find these discussions distressing, it may be advisable to skip this episode or listen with caution. Remember to prioritize your mental and emotional well-being.

Bathsheba Tolbert encourages women through inspiration, motivation and in building a sisterhood community!

Born the year before the major earthquake in California her dad said, “you should have told us you were coming. You were shaking everything up. You've been shaking everything up ever since.”

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Some of our fierce topics today:

[00:05:03] Step back out of the emotion of it, of the devastation and say, how can I grow from this? Because I don't want to be bitter. I don't want to destroy me. I don't want to be the victim in this, even though in a sense I, we were, but how can I grow from it?

[00:05:32] I believe vulnerability is a growing block. It's a block that you need in your life in order to step into who you are. You can't really become Bathsheba, Toby. You can't become that person unless you allow yourself to see where you're at, how that affected you, and be able to step into your next step of purpose.

[00:08:11] The things, the bad, horrible catastrophes in our lives, are here to help others. I mean, that's the only way I can be and, and see that because if I don't see it that way, the things that happen, I'm like, I would be the most. dreadful, bitter person, you know, you wouldn't even want to look at me cause it's just not worth all of that. I think it makes us grow into the beautiful people that we are. Scarred, flawed.

[00:11:22] I started journaling. I started writing them. What am I feeling? Why am I feeling it really delving in? What was that trigger for me? And the more I wrote, then I began to speak it, Oh, okay, this is why I am behaving this way, because. All of these other things, I became more aware and it's scary. Honestly, that first time of writing down those thoughts, I cried every single night.