Gina delivers an incredible speech to help you understand that worthiness comes from within.
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00:00 I have stood here on this corner for far too long.
00:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:07 Here, at the intersection of too much and not enough streets,
00:12 hustling for my worthiness.
00:15 You could drive by most Sundays and see me at six years old,
00:19 eight, 10, standing at the doorway,
00:23 nose pressed to the glass window, waiting.
00:27 The home would smell of chocolate chip cookies,
00:29 his favorite, and I'd wrap them up tightly to keep them warm,
00:33 thinking, oh, he is going to love me.
00:38 I mean, he's going to love them.
00:40 And I stood at that door, waiting.
00:44 I remember the cruel ticking of the clock.
00:47 I remember my mother gently pulling me away from the door,
00:50 peeling off my coat, and making me hot chocolate
00:54 to sweeten the bitterness of his absence.
00:58 I stood at that door for much of my youth.
01:01 And at 26, all dolled up on my wedding day,
01:05 I sat in the back of a stretch limousine,
01:08 my nose once again pressed to the glass window,
01:12 waiting for him to show up to walk me down the aisle.
01:14 There was no hot chocolate that day, just the bitterness.
01:23 Now, I ain't a victim.
01:24 In my life, I have been loved in so many ways.
01:29 That's what you all want to hear, isn't it?
01:31 All the ways that someone else can soothe and comfort
01:35 and fix it.
01:38 Ever have someone try to give you something
01:39 you didn't feel worthy of having?
01:41 Nobody can fill you if there's a hole in your self-worth.
01:46 I'm here to tell you, baby, that it is never enough.
01:53 And if I could talk to that little six-year-old girl,
01:56 I would tell her, baby, he's not coming.
02:00 Nobody's coming to save you.
02:02 And that's the good news.
02:09 Worthiness isn't out there to get.
02:11 It's in here to claim.
02:12 It's your birthright.
02:14 And I love this thought without apology
02:16 to the romantics and the Hollywood movies
02:19 and all of you searching for your twin flame.
02:22 I love knowing that the journey to loving myself
02:25 is the ultimate love affair of my life.
02:28 But this state of mind, it's an inside job, baby.
02:31 And if you aren't there, haven't been there,
02:34 forgotten how to get there, hop in Thelma
02:36 and let's get the hell out of this town.
02:38 Because the journey to connection,
02:40 it's never about going.
02:42 It begins with coming home to yourself.
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03:13 (gentle music)