Self-awareness is not a luxury—it’s the foundation. Why?

After walking this path for two decades, I now know: you can rise from anything. It hasn’t been an easy road, but every single step was worth it. Because if you’re brave enough to face yourself and be brutally honest, a universal truth gradually emerges: what lies beneath—the layers, the learned roles, the masks—is far purer and more lovable than you ever thought (or believed) about yourself.

This path strengthens you. It gives you real backbone. Not some kind of “pseudo-confidence,” but true power. The power of forgiveness, acceptance, and love. Not just on the level of words—but deep, cellular truth. And first and foremost, it must be directed toward yourself. Without that, it won’t work with anyone else either.

I have invested an enormous amount of energy into my emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. Over the past twenty years, I’ve poured in at least the price of a large apartment—and an uncountable number of hours.

This may sound strange to some; there are probably people who think this isn’t normal.

But for me, filling the void my childhood left behind was worth everything: the money, the effort, the time. I was driven by a longing for love and peace—for the secret of how to find and sustain it. But it wasn’t just that. I was always fascinated by how the invisible world works, what lies behind the curtain, and what a human being is truly capable of through energy and consciousness. Where does our real power lie?

When we come into this life—when we are born into this earthly existence—we enter a contract: to forget everything, so we can relearn it. The spiritual path, or the path of awareness, must be studied just like anatomy if you want to become a doctor, or law if you want to be a lawyer. Just as no knowledge comes without invested energy or money, neither does emotional well-being or spiritual growth. And in truth, this is what life is about: growth, evolving into more spiritually aware beings. Whether we want it or not, whether we notice it or not, this is the direction we’re all inevitably headed. Every life path includes the growth of the spirit. But not all of us get to the point where we enjoy the fruits of that growth while still here in our physical lives.

I wanted to accelerate this path—to reach the point during the best years of my life where the teaching that “I create my own reality” becomes not just a mantra but a lived truth. Even when my creations look more like hardships than blessings. I didn’t want to just understand it; I wanted to live it, embodying the knowledge in my very cells. I wanted to rewrite the program I had absorbed in the first half of my life: that life’s hardships and the blows of fate must be endured. Because that’s just Life. No. That is not Life. And thanks to this path, that is no longer just a belief. It is knowledge.

Not long ago, I felt that it had taken too long to get here. After twenty years of intensive inner work, I realized that there is a faster way—and one that’s easier than the one I took. And even though my rational mind understood that everything I had gone through was necessary to find the faster route—that I wouldn’t have recognized it otherwise—I still mourned the time. The “what ifs.” Until I finally understood: what seemed like a long road was, for me, actually the shorter one.

I’m not "finished". But I’m happy. And grateful. For everything. Not just for where I am now, not just because I feel—down to my very cells—that Life is a gift. But also because I get to share all this. All that I’ve lived through has given me this one priceless gift: the deep, unshakable knowing that you can rise from anything. From anywhere. Even from your lowest point. Because I’ve had not one, not two, but many. I was born into depth. Into hardship, hopelessness, loss, darkness. And it followed me until the pain was too much to bear—so much that I set out, with every ounce of determination, to find the light.

This is a kind of faith and knowledge that no one—and nothing—can ever take away from me. Not another struggle, not another challenge, not another loss. Because the fruit of this journey is that I no longer see these things as punishments from fate, or life, or God. If I hadn’t gone through it all, I couldn’t share this message. I couldn’t believe in others when they don’t yet believe in themselves. I, too, received this kind of support along the way. There were people who believed in me—and I now know that’s one of the reasons I didn’t give up. I saw others who had come from deep pain and reached the places I longed to go. When I craved love, I found someone who had already found it. When I longed for courage, I found someone who had dared to begin again, to step into the unknown.

Maybe right now you need this kind of support, this kind of guiding light. Maybe you’re in a hard place—because it’s unfair, because it feels hopeless, or just because it’s exhausting. These words are for you.

And one more thought. The path of self-awareness has one more extraordinary gift: the ability to forgive—truly, from the heart—those who have hurt us. Emotionally, physically, in any way. But more importantly: to forgive ourselves. For allowing it. For not standing up for ourselves when we should have. For not moving on when it was time. For doing what we did—or not doing what we should have. For waiting too long, until there was no turning back, because time, mercilessly, had moved on.

It is possible to forgive all this. To accept and love ourselves fully, unconditionally, with all of this included.

It takes time to get here—but all I can say is: it’s worth it!

I sincerely believe that we are all here for this one reason: to live in the state of unconditional love. And that is impossible to achieve without self-love. Because to love unconditionally means including yourself in that love. You, too, are part of the One Whole.