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Change the world. I dare you.

Growing up my mom said that all I ever wanted to do was watch Disney movies. From every single one of the princesses to The Lion King, I was a kid addicted to watching these movies. She said I would watch The Lion King over and over and over again. If I was home, that's what was playing on the tv. 20 some odd years later, I'm still a huge movie person, but I really started to think of why I have this emotional attachment to these movies. Why as a child was I just so smitten with watching these animated characters conquer their biggest life challenges? And then I figured it out. I wanted to be like them. It may come as a shock to some of you, but I do have issues dealing with anxiety. I know a lot of it stems from inside my own brain and self talk, rant for a different time, but over this past weekend I started to really dig down deep to figure out the root of the problem. Much of my anxiety is linked back to this idea that I am not all that I can be, that there has to be s