Shamed for what she wore! Part 3

I was Shamed for What I Wore as a Young Woman  – Annie Den Haan 
Part 3

In Part Two Annie told us how her experience as a young woman ( as described in Part One) affected her subsequent life and made her hide behind a People Pleasing image.
Inside she knew she wanted to break out, especially after visiting Italy, but further setbacks were to come!

I was Shamed for What I Wore as a Young Woman   –
Part 3 by Annie Den Haan 

How a Sparkly Pair of Pants Changed My Life
and Helped Me Overcome Incurable Cancer

It took a death sentence for me to unapologetically own my True Self and ROCK with confidence the clothes I wanted to wear.

In the fall of 2013, I was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Lying on a hospital bed, recovering from an anaesthetic, my oncologist pronounced a death sentence over me. In a matter of seconds, my future was ripped out of my hands.

The first thing I did I asked a nurse to bring me a pen and a piece of paper. My life was hanging precariously in the balance…yet I wrote this list. All the SuperHero things I wanted to achieve in the next 5 years:
• Traveling.
• Publishing a book.
• Speaking on stages.
• Meeting a Beautiful Man.

The funny thing is, when it came to my health or wealth I had zero resources.
Who was I to think that I could pull it off?
I was a cancer patient on my last legs!
But I made a decision. I was ready to show up as my SuperHero Self with Big Me Energy and step into my highest potential. The moment I flipped the switch I found something magical to wear during recovery with cancer…something like Dorothy’s sparkly red shoes. Or Cinderella’s glass slippers.

 

For me, it was a pair of sparkly pants…skin tight, midnight blue, sparkly, sequinned pants.
I wore them like my Super Hero Cape.

Wearing them during the day (and not just for Xmas or New Year’s parties) made me feel like a goddess — even though technically I was a cancer patient with no hair and a big, ugly scar that spanned across my abdomen.

I saw my future and my SuperHero mission so clearly whenever I wore those pants. My world became so much brighter. Because I was literally clothing myself in my big dreams for the future. My heart pounded out of my chest with excitement…like I was alive for the very first time in my life. I was The Rebel, going against the code of what was socially and morally acceptable for a 50 year old woman to wear.

All of a sudden, I no longer cared what anyone thought. Big Joy and Big Me Energy exuded from every pore in my body. I loved who I saw in the mirror. I love how I was showing up for myself, my body and my dreams. And all the people I would meet saw I was embodying my SuperHero Self!

And the cancer patient? She was long gone! How do I know? People stopped me on the street to say, “Oh my Gosh, you look AMAZING!!!” Every time I told them I just had Chemo Round #2, their mouths dropped open. “Whatever you’re doing, it’s totally working for you! Keep going!!!”

The Crazy Things That Followed In less than 6 months, I kicked that incurable cancer diagnosis to the curb.
10 years later, I am still 100% healthy.

The really cool thing is…I ended up accomplishing everything on my SuperHero bucket list.
• Traveling around the world
• Meeting a Beautiful Man
• Publishing a book
• Speaking on stages

This life-changing, instant self confidence shift was possible, in part, thanks to thinking like my SuperHero Self.

When I started getting clear on how I wanted to show up like my SuperHero Self for my big dreams, people started paying attention. Then they started seeing me like a Victor instead of a victim. They even started to believe that with God’s help, I could achieve what seemed impossible to most people at the time.

Feels so good!

And all thanks to showing up like the SuperHero I always wanted to become.

So please, do yourself a favour: Stop seeing your limitations with your body, with your past, with your current situation.

Start seeing your endless possibilities. And find something to wear that makes you feel like a SuperHero.

Talk to you then!

Love Annie

About Annie Den Hann:
Annie is a Self Expression Stylist who empowers career and business women 50+ to find their SuperHero Cape so they can embody their Truest Selves with a style to match.

Annie’s sparkly pants helped her overcome incurable cancer diagnosis in 2013.

After living on a religious commune 30 years ago, the former founder of Victoria Shopping Tours, knows that style can be a powerful vehicle for personal expression.

Annie relates first hand to women who dress to keep themselves invisible out of fear
of displeasing others.

If you want to know how to Find Your SuperHero Cape Having to Renew Your
Whole Wardrobe, click here: https://calendly.com/superherocapessession/30
Or send Annie  an email at: [email protected]

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