Mar 2023

The Greatest Showman’s  “This Is Me”

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Keala Settle

Again I diverge from a TED Talk – this time to include a workshop session video of a song from the movie ‘The Greatest Showman’. Well worth a watch if you haven’t seen the movie yet.  This stunning song, which carries such a wonderful message with such power and heart, never fails to move me.  I think it’s the ‘behind the scenes’ nature of the video that I love so much.

So many people in life, due to past trauma and/or current anxiety, try to make themselves smaller.  They try to fly under the radar of life, to avoid the risk of living too loudly and being judged too harshly.  I hope this song inspires you to be courageous and ‘be you’.  And remember, courage is not the absence of fear.  It is feeling afraid and doing it anyway.

“This is me” encourages us to do just that – to embrace who we are and live an authentic life. So together let’s work at being present and not feeling overwhelmed or consumed by others’ expectations or opinions – it’s not always easy, but it is so worthwhile.  I find a useful mantra to put things (and people’s opinions) into perspective is “People who mind, don’t matter.  And people who matter, don’t mind”.