Hellen Oti ✨

👩🏾‍💻 Startup marketing strategist by day. Deep thinker by night. Writer and Poet. I am ❤️

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

I started Brisque in the middle of a pandemic.

My mom panicked.

I decided to forge on anyway because there is never a perfect time for anything.

Whatever you’ve been putting off, just do it!

There’s always going to be something.

#startup #entrepreneurship #humanizedmarketing

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

I learned that I can't be hurt

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[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

Sometimes you need to skip a beat to keep dancing.

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

As usual, be loving to everyone around you.

Especially yourself.

I am ❤️
@hellenoti ✨

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#PhotosofTheHeart #healthyemotions #vulnerability #hearfeltbyHellen

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

It's just not easy.
It doesn't matter how long it takes; we have to start the journey now.

It's just not enough for us to identify what's wrong and perhaps transfer our pains and fears to the generations ahead.

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

That's why we don't get a pass not to try. We keep remembering so we can be better, not so we can have an excuse for our behavior.

It's time that we pick up the trash and try to make it all the way to the trash can.

And I'll be the first to admit that healing is hard.

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

When we learn why we make the choices that don't serve us well but choose to do nothing about it, we are haunted each day by them.

I believe that once we make that mental association, our brain keeps reminding us because now it's at the forefront of our minds.

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

Are we piling up our trash? 🗑️

Recently, as I was sweeping, I started thinking about everything I'm trying to get rid of in my life 🥹

As I was about to put the pile of dust into the trash can, I had a thought

{thread ahead 🧵 }

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

When we are unaware of why we are the way we are, we are going through life, letting our subconscious make decisions that root from a deeper place.

We are not as present in our lives.

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

If I didn't trash anything that I sweep, would anyone think my floors were just cleaned?
Probably not.

That led me to think about the fact that knowing why we are the way we are and not actively working towards fixing it is just as bad or worse.

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

Perspective matters 🧐

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

As usual, be loving to everyone around you.

Especially yourself.

I am ❤️
Hellen Oti ✨

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#PhotosofTheHeart #healthyemotions #vulnerability #hearfeltbyHellen

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

Let's talk about boxing an emotion vs. releasing an emotion 🤗

When we box emotions, we shelf it in our mind as something that we don't want to deal with right now 🧵

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

So it's okay to feel sad just as much as it's okay to feel happy.

Remember never to label happiness as good and sadness as bad because that's what causes us to suffer.

They are both just emotions, they are neither good, nor bad.

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

When you find a sister, never let her go 💙

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

Even if it didn't feel good at the moment, even if it doesn't feel good right now

Because every experience, if only we learn from it, leads to the better us.

As usual,
I am ❤️
You are ❤️

We have what it takes to be the light!

Hellen Oti✨
#ReflectAndGrow #heartfeltbyHellen

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

The point of our minds continuously reminding us of things from the past that we are unhappy about is not for us to keep shaming ourselves.

It's not so that we cannot move forward.
It's about “looking backward to move forward”.

Let me explain { 🧵}

[Hellen Oti ✨ @hellenoti]

What it is trying to trigger in us is to take a moment to recognize that thing, make remedies for it, and forgive ourselves so that we can embrace the experience and the lesson.

Embrace the good that came out of that experience.