The only way to get set free is to be unabashedly me

For a long time my confidence has been shattered. I know exactly when it started. I went to college and began exploring life's options. I made a simple error (losing my virginity)which was viewed as a fatal character flaw in the eyes of my parents. They were convinced that was my insidious true nature and that I was a bad person for making that choice. Ever since then I've been the harshest of critics to myself. Feeling that perhaps they were right. Maybe that was just part of me, who I was? NO! After a decade of tragic mistakes, failed marriages, and self loathing I finally see clearly who I really am; Who I have always been. I am Jane. Singer, phlebotomist, daughter, sister, friend, loving and full of light. I am down to earth and do my best to be kind. I am fighting daily for the confidence I had in my youth. Confidence that was never shaken by the views of others. I knew myself fully then. Now I have the task of relearning what had come so easily to me; being me.