Changing The Story With Lana Dingwall

What happens when we confuse validation for love?  ⁣ Is that opportunity really worth accepting? ⁣ Is that relationship really worth fighting for? ⁣ Is that friendship really worth the effort?   I ask these questions because it’s important to reflect on WHO is the person we become in the pursuit of approval and validation. Are we giving up parts of ourselves in this pursuit? Can we even recognize the person we’re becoming? ⁣ Nothing is worth abandoning ourselves for. We just need to be brave enough to know that we can pave a path that allows us to be who we yearn to be, while making room for who we already are.   I recently shared a poem I wrote on Instagram (shared below), inspired by a conversation that we had in my online community, The Lighthouse Collective, about how easy it is to confuse validation for love, Or the number of followers we have with the impact we’re creating in the world.   At the beginning of my business, I was making many concessions in who I truly am. It’s the moment I embraced my full