So, not everybody will like it... 🤔

As I launched my podcast Teal Time with Hope and as I launched my website "hopeaguilar.com" I started to think about something silly, silly because in my 53 years of life I know now that not everyone will like me or the things I believe or things I write about. But i could not help but think about it. I know that even if i try to hide it -- and sometimes that's not necessarily a bad thing -- I'm really an emotional being. I've always been very sensitive and maybe even more on the very emotional side. It's been life experiences as well as my military background that has taught me to not really let myself be AS sensitive and emotional as I was growing up. While at the same time other life experiences, going through cancer three times and losing my mom back in 2020, has brought to the surface more emotions. I believe that, and well who I have been all my life, has me thinking more about how people will like me. How will they react to loving say my book about going through cancer but then not liking some of the things I write about in my blogs or on my social media.

It's easy to say "who cares as you are being your authentic self" but a.) I do care and b.) being my authentic self (which sometimes I feel I hold back because I do get concerned with how people will see me with my strong beliefs and ideas and opinions about so very much) has me vulnerable to judgment. That said, I am not hiding my blogs on my website. I don't want to be someone else. I am a writer. I am an author. I am a podcaster. I am many things, but I will not allow myself to worry that if people learn more about me that they will somehow like me less or even not want to buy my books.

My book HOPE through cancer is a story that many can resonate with. You don't have to be going through cancer or be a Christian to connect with the story. So, if someone refrains from wanting to read my story and purchase that book because of the other things about me that they discover in my writings.... so be it. I will still be me. And I will still be passionate about things going on in this life. And I will still do by best to be kind and love like God tells us to love. But I don't have to like as God never said anything about that. 😉

Have a happy Hump Day and please go through my blogs and learn more about me than what social media shows. Make sure to get your copy of my first, which I hope to be the first of at least three more, book. It's not about supporting me only with reading my story with the journey (the first anyway) of going through ovarian cancer BUT more importantly knowing more about the insidious disease so lives can be saved. 🩵