Marie Abega

My name is Marie Abega. I am 32 years old. I was born in West Africa in Cameroon but was raised in the D.C metropolitan area. I am currently a Texas resident. i have 2 beautiful princesses. i have been writing for as long as i can remember. I absolutely love writing. About the end of Middle school, i went from writing in my journal to writing poetry, then back to the journal i went after high school. For some reason, i was always interesting in keeping account of what was happening internally. I struggled internally and struggled even more to express my feelings. Growing up, i heard screaming more than the question "how do you feel?" So, i never learned to express my feelings. i would cry instead, cry alone and develop anger within. As i became older, and a mentor to many girls in my dance/step team ministry, i noticed that emotional intelligence is very important to be a leader, successful, and happy. And one thing i also knew was that you cannot find emotional intelligence until you understand who you are, why you do things the way you do, why you do certain things, and become aware and mindful of everything happening in your life. i knew that in search of that awareness, we may not necessarily like what we find. We may not like what we see need to be fixed and we have to heal from that inwardly to even touch emotional intelligence. I am an educator as well. I have a long history and background in Teaching. Emotional intelligence is not something taught in school and through my observations, Emotionally intelligent children and adults are more successful, calm, happy, and confident. its even been said emotional intelligence is what separates stellar from average people. I went through my self-love Journey to gain awareness and insight on myself. That in turn lead me to be emotionally intelligent. Your emotions take you from one world to another very quickly. For Suicidal , emotionally disturbed people, and those suffering from personality disorders, this is even more true for them. i was suicidal in my teens. I was emotionally everywhere inside but outwardly, i was confident and happy. I was beautiful outside but completely damaged inside. I always had so many emotions running through me throughout the day. I had no clue how to respond to them. I am very intelligent but my habits and grades did not always reflect that, because i was always in my feelings even though i portrayed not to care. I had built a wall so tall, even the tallest man could not see me. How many of us are here walking around, beautiful on the outside but screaming help on the inside? How many have wondered for so long, they don't even know who they are any more? Can you look at yourself in the mirror and completely adore what you see? Do you keep repeating negative cycles over and over again? That's because you don't know yourself. You don't know who you are. I have taken many training, done many research and have experienced what this Self-Love, Self-Care Journey is all about. I am Your Self-Love Expert. I am a writer, an author, a C.E.O of Self-Love Academy Houston, a certified public speaker, a Mentor Academy leader, Transformational Coach and an Educator. I love to teach young girls and women this self-love journey. I love to mentor and give back to the community. It makes me smile to see women and youth strive and happy.