The story of my life is long, what I think we can talk now is a snap shot from 1993. The day I discover how to be true to myself.

In 1993 I was clinically diagnosed with depression. I didn’t step out of the house for over 4 months. I couldn’t look people in their eyes, without wondering what they must be thinking about me. I couldn’t answer the phone, without thinking “No good news could come out of this.” My poor husband! We weren’t married than. That is true love (He was by my side during that time and ever after)! I went to the doctor and she just wanted to give me some pills to “fix” me. I had a feeling that a pill was just going to cover things up for me. A part of me knew that all of these have to do with something inside of me. So, I went on a journey of self discovery. That entire journey was like peeling an onion, layer upon layer I peeled. I realized, all this time… I thought I was missing a few things from my parents or my first husband and I was waiting for them or someone else to fulfill those missing items in my life. So I can be happy. Then one day as I was peeling the onion, I had an epiphany: Only I can fulfill what was missing inside me. That was the beginning of my first reality check: Be True to Myself.

No more blaming everything on what my parents did or didn’t do. Or why did my ex husband did A, and that is why I do B! No more playing the victim. Neither my parents nor my ex is stopping me, from going out side. None of them are around. Who is stopping me? I am! I was viewing the world for the first time untainted. I remember feeling strange, I was scared. I guess the protective layer of fear did give me some kind of customarily comfort, funny what you can get used to “Good” or “Bad”. Yet, I knew it was time. I need to step outside. Take on the responsibility of being truthful.

Being true to myself means I have to take responsibility of my own happiness in life. What a concept? A concept that was so big that I wasn’t sure I can handle it. First step I took, I got out of the house and I went to Ralph’s the grocery store. That was my big outing. Now, that sounds funny, it wasn’t funny than.

I remember as if it was yesterday, I walk in there. And I look at the first person, and I say “Hello.” I remember the simply act of saying “Hello” had the feeling of pressure like Ten Ton of Bricks. I guess that is the Depression sickness. The interest thing was once I said my first “Hello” it gets easier each time I do it. That was my Imperfect Action toward Depression, I never found out if that is what you are suppose to do with over coming Depression. I just know that I took an Imperfect Action and it is better than No Action. And it worked for me, I did over come Depression because I took Action.


Do you want to see your world untainted? Wouldn’t you want others to be true to you? Start with you, Be True To Yourself. You will start to see the true everywhere.


Copyright © 2008 by Giovanna Garcia.

Giovanna Garcia’s vision is to help others live the life they deserve with her philosophy of Imperfect Action is Better than No Action. She helps clients integrate a new belief system with a wealth of practical life lessons she learned from owning her corporation, overcoming depression, finding love after a failed teenage marriage, and retiring financially independent before she was forty. Giovanna can help you reach your goals and dreams by taking Imperfect Action.

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