Welcome to season two of Listening Ears podcast, your go-to podcast for self-awareness and your journey of self-discovery! I am your host, Vernae Bezear. Thank you for joining me in this podcast community where we create space to listen, learn and grow together. There isn't much we can control in life. In fact, the only thing we can or have the ability to control is ourselves. We have the power to control how we think, move, and respond to everything and anything around us and within us.

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. I have made a conscious decision to become what I've always wanted to become the kind of mom, wife, daughter, sister, friend that I knew I could be, the kind that I have always wanted to be. I had blind spots. There were definitely things I needed to work on. There were things that I didn't see because I didn't have the power to see. Before I made excuses, I created barriers and limitations, I didn't believe in my true self and I had way, way too many attachments.

When I learned to listen to my inner self, that voice that I've heard all too often, the voice that I made into my enemy when I learned to listen to her and accept my destiny and my gifts and my talents. Accept my passions, needs and desires. Understand and accept my boundaries. See my blinds spots for what they are, things I couldn't see. I know that well. You know how the saying goes once you see, you can't unsee.

When I learned to just be me without any reservations, doing what makes me happy and doing the things that aren't so happy, but with a joyful heart, once I learned all of this, that is when it clicked. It all clicked. I finally become one with myself. I finally accepted my whole self. I have accepted the true and complete me, and I am here. This season will be about acceptance Acceptance of who we are, not fighting with ourselves and others, not having the constant back and forth with the world about what is right, what makes sense, what looks right or sounds right, but instead doing what is right for me, doing what is right for my family and my life, with full and good intentions, taking what I need and nothing more, being intentional and not wasteful, living in abundance with a deep, deep mindset of fulfillment. This season I'll be touching on topics like love, communication, gratitude, inner peace and, of course, acceptance as we grow and learn together in this season, remember we are here in the now and now is the absolute perfect time to just be. Stay inspired, my friends.