We are excited to have Vanessa with us as she shares her story. Vanessa comes from Chicago and she fights to help women break barriers. Through her story, Vanessa points out important issues saying that whatever you are going through is temporary and it’s up to you to learn how to overcome.

Raised by a single mother, Vanessa has researched more about forgiveness and healing as she needed it for her to break the generational cycle of bad vibes that ran in her family. She wanted to make things better for her and her children. She wanted to choose a better partner who was different compared to what she had as a father. Learning that without so doing she was headed the same road as her mother with a history of dating men who were just like father and lead her to doing things like a mother did, she yearned for the change.

Vanessa points out that practicing forgiveness is usually an inside job for you as the forgiver as it helps you more than the person you forgive since the same things you are trying to deal with may come up later in your life. Vanessa talks about her relationship wither her mother and how it was on the verge of destroying her. She says that it was clear that her mother lost her voice a long time ago and when it was time for her to release her frustrations she dumped all of them to the closest person she could find.

She also says there is beauty in communication and it contributes so much to healing. The moment she realized that she had a message to put across, she found her voice and was more transparent about things that bothered her. She also speaks about discrimination of people of color and how helpful speaking up is to coming generations. She urges everyone to go to work and break the barriers because if not broken they will end up breaking you. It is possible to take that turn that nobody wants to: that one thing that you can do that will help generations and generations after.

To get more of this story, you can listen to our podcast

You can find Vanessa on online platforms below

Website which is breakingbarriersunapologetically.com

LinkedIn as breakingbarriersunapologetically.com

Instagram as breakingbarriersunapologeticaly.com