You are not your experiences you are what you choose to make of those experiences.
Being a teenage girl is already tough.
And while Im expecting lots of fallouts, challenges, and emotive explosions Im also expecting learning and growth.
In all areas of the teenage girls lives.
She will have her own inner dilemmas.
Out of all the main characters in the show, I can hugely relate to Dot.
Dot isnt your quintessential teenage girl with nails painted bright pink and a Starbucks coffee in her hand.
She is balled up fists and eyebrows scrunched together, with confidence dripping off her like a cape.
Shes firm, courageous, and responsible.
Ive done this for much of my life.
Tenderly nicknamed control freak I have two to-do-list diaries to track my daily and weekly tasks.
When something doesnt go according to plan, I go crazy.
As light-hearted as it sounds, my controlled nature isnt a personality trait that Im naturally endowed with.
I grew up too soon.
In a way, just like the girls inThe Wilds, I was also stranded.
The tremendous growth that this experience instilled in me has contributed vastly to the person that Ive become today.
Aside from emotional maturity, I also developed a strong sense of control.
For me, the lack of control meant anxiety.
Uncertainty about where my life was headed and what was to come next.
Control gave me direction.A sense of purpose.
It allowed me to take back the leash of my life and direct it the way I wanted.
Moments of impact can change the course of your life forever.
Its in those moments that everything youve experienced until then comes to the forefront.
In the last 21 years of my healing journey, Ive grasped the following lessons:
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Youre never too young tofeelloss.
Growing doesnt always meangetting older.
Certain moments of impact can change your entire life forever.
You cannever go backto who you were.
You are not your experiences you are what youchoose to makeof those experiences.
Had that event not taken place, would I be a different Ruby?
I wouldnt be writing about healing and growth.
I wouldnt be encouraging self-love.
I wouldnt know what pain is.
Not the rawest sense of it.
Whats even better is thatwe all get to watch the first episode together for free.
Just remember that theres a huge disparity between who these girls were and who they will become.
Those five lessons above will be experientially passed down to them and they wont even realize it until later.
It will be a time of growth and learning in the rawest, truest form.
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