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Self love.

One of the best essence qualities I developed in the past two months. And so as my greatest act of vulnerability I decided to get a makeover! Something I wasn’t comfortable to do from the start (hehe until now)

So here are photo sets, taken by my dear friends Nik Perlas and Basia Joaquin with the support of Lui Banta and my mom, Grace Riveral, celebrating a beautiful, and a happy…

I am a Strong and an Independent Woman in Constant Need of Hugs

Last Monday I woke up with a fever. I knew it but I had to work around it, if it meant avoiding my parents so they won’t notice how hot I was, then I stayed as far away from them as possible. I worked so hard on my presentation for that afternoon and in my head, I was thinking, ‘nothing can stop me’.

That night my fever was gone. 

I woke up with chills at midnight. I can’t be sick, it was just…

A Letter to the Person Who is Deeply Scared of Failing

My coach, Dappy San Juan, taught me an important lesson on values. She made me realize how important it is to remind myself that the things that I do each day are not tasks that I tick off to get to 100%, it should be about purpose. I should not just be doing things, but I should be experiencing myself differently every moment and every day.

So here’s a letter to the person who is deeply scared…

This past week, as an act of vulnerability, I tried to open myself up to the thing I try to avoid as much as I can, confrontation. One of the many breakthroughs I had in the past several weeks was to talk about my experiences, the things that I buried so deep I tried to mask them with strength.

One of the reasons why I hated to open up and to trust people is my fear of being betrayed. The idea of…

Finding the Right Reasons

Last Wednesday, I was sitting at my workstation as I read my messages, music blares in my ears. I drink my coffee, stared at the window, and smiled. And then the craziest thing happened. I cried. For thirty minutes, I cried. Not because I was sad or hurt, but because I felt overwhelmed by the love and the support that people are giving me. I have so much to be thankful for.

I used to think that…

I trust and surrender to my greatness. That is my declaration. Being vulnerable doesn’t mean I’m weak, it means that I am opening myself to love and to be loved, to accept my weakness, to open myself to feedback and to put my trust in people especially, to myself.

I am still in the process of reeling from the incredible week that has passed after LEAP’s 1st intensive, and the team is already on to showing us its phase one plan for our culminating event, the LEAP Night. At this point, our plans seem to be doing exceptionally well, AND I AM SO PROUD. My biggest hurdle is to be a failure, which I usually associate with me being weak. I know for a fact that I…