Bonding Circles - Experience A

HERE'S OUR FOUNDING STORY


“You are weird”, “You are Crazy”. These are the words used to describe me for a better part of my life, and it made me feel like I did not belong anywhere. I started feeling like a failure, that I will never be somebody who people like or people would accept and started believing that I wasn’t good enough

I would spend so much time trying to figure out who I needed to be for people to accept me. If I could figure this out, surely, I would belong, be worthy and wanted. It’s such exhausting way to live because you actually have no clue who you really are, you are simply too busy managing how you show up based on the people around you and their expectations of you. As I was growing through this pain and suffering of discovering who it was that I truly was, it was within the unconditional acceptance of a community that I felt and supported to excavate the old wounds in the recesses of my soul.

In this community, I was receiving end of unconditional acceptance and a complete lack of judgement. As I shared my deep-seated shame, something profound shifted in me. For the first time, I felt safe to be me, that I have value despite my shame. True community is not about making friends or being social, it’s a connection to self-first and allowing a deeper part of us to be honored and witnessed in the presence of others on the same path. True belonging can only take place when we belong to ourselves, and through the power of a community around unconditional acceptance.

I believe, i am not the only one, in search of communities to belong to, and that’s why I designed Bonding Circles, so that people like You and Me can have a chance to discover communities and people who understand and see the awesomeness in Us, for we deserve to belong in communities that accepts us for who we really are, regardless of our Skin Color, Nationality, Gender, Race, Tribe, Body Size and Weight, Sexual Orientation or even Religion.

True belonging only happens when we express our authentic selves with the world, anything less of that is betrayal to thy self.