Your Messy Brilliance

This book has put me on the path to accepting myself 100% as I am. My copy of Messy Brilliance is highlighted and flagged and written on! There is nothing wrong with not being perfect, and it's totally acceptable to embrace the messiness of your life – you haven't lost the baby weight, you didn't put on makeup today, you're exhausted, your house isn't up to some crazy standards that has unrealistic and unattainable – it's ok, it's more than ok. Your Messy Brilliance by Kelly McNelis will take you on a journey to learn to recognize and embrace every aspect of YOU, and let go of the belief that you have to be perfect all of the time in order to be acceptable. Kelly shares her own traumas and disappointments and insights to guide you through exploring your own imperfections and embracing them as brilliant!

One of the things I love about this book is that there are questions that Kelly encourages you to think about and answer in a personal journal to help you really explore the parts of yourself that you keep hidden from the world, and possibly also hidden from yourself. These questions aren't easy to answer and they will make you uncomfortable, but I do fully believe that they are very important in helping me let go of this idea that I have to be perfect – the perfect daughter, perfect partner, perfect mother – all of the time, and that all of my imperfections are just as important a part of me as the perceived perfect/acceptable parts.

I will return to this book multiple times when I need to be reminded that my messy life is ok, and even brilliant.