Welcome to my blog
I’m Antonya and this is where I write about my journey to becoming the most confident and authentic version of who I came here to be. Explore my blog posts below or if you’re not sure what you’re looking for, use the categories or search box below.
Seven Steps to Confidence and Self-Acceptance
This blog post explores the interconnectedness of confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. It outlines practical steps for nurturing these qualities, such as building inner awareness, practicing self-compassion, and letting go of comparisons.
5 Steps to Releasing Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs can hold us back in life, often without us realising. In this post, I share a simple, personal process to help you uncover and release those beliefs. With practical steps and gentle reflection, you can clear the blocks keeping you stuck and start creating a life that feels more aligned and free.
How to start when you're scared of failing
Discover how to overcome fear, procrastination, and self-doubt when starting new projects. Exploring procrastination, fear of failure, and the role of self-worth in building true confidence and bringing your ideas to life.
How to keep your boundaries when they’re being challenged
If you are sensitive, gentle and empathetic it can feel really hard to say no to others and stand up and assert yourself. The reason why boundaries can feel hard is all to do with the energies in your Soul Contract, which is exactly what I explore in this blog post.
3 things that happen when you start healing
When you start healing miracles can happen, your relationship with yourself and your body changes and you start to shine your light and welcome in new possibilities and opportunities into your life.
If you’re lacking confidence here's three ways to overcome it
If you're lacking confidence and have low self-esteem here are three ways that have helped me to come out of hiding and overcome the fear that is stopping me from realising my potential.
How to find the confidence and courage to start something new
All of us can struggle to start something new, yet do we really understand why? Sometimes it's a fear of failure or it can be a fear of success. Ultimately we need to confront the fear that is stopping us from fulfilling our potential.
Do you know your worth?
It can take us a lifetime to truly know our self-worth, yet it's the challenging life experiences that we encounter along the way that encourage us overcome them so we can land in a place of clarity, wisdom and self-compassion.
How to come out of hiding
Hiding keeps us safe but it also keeps us playing small. So, how can we step out into the unknown, being vulnerable and open about who we truly are, embracing our true authentic selves without fear of judgement or shame?
How to navigate the world as a sensitive soul
Being sensitive has often been seen as a weakness but when we harness it it becomes our strength. We just need to learn to ground our sensitivity and find balance so we don't become overwhelmed and burnt out from this world.
How to recognise energy vampires
Like wolf in sheep’s' clothing, energy vampires sneak past our boundaries and take what isn't theirs. We can either continue letting this happen, or stay vigilant to the signs and erect our boundaries to keep them away, the choice is ours.
The money trap (what it is and how to avoid it)
Now that we're healing the self-esteem wound there's too many of us falling prey to the marketing that tells us we can all be millionaires. This is yet another spiritual trap, hiding our real emotional needs under the illusion that money can meet them.
Want to manifest? Here’s the secret
The secret to manifesting is about aligning with a greater force. It is not some force that we need to control and neither is it a force that controls us. It is not about making demands, and neither is it about surrendering ourselves completely.
4 ways to transform your life
Life picks up when you pick yourself up, so what changes can you make to invite this transformation in? Through leaning into compassion, gratitude and validation you can shift out of feeling down and out to feeling powerful and purposeful once again.
At 3 years sober here's what I know for sure
I was never an alcoholic, but in the years leading up to my final decision to cut alcohol out of my life for good, like a bad ex boyfriend, I started to have a funny feeling around alcohol. Drinking was becoming slightly tainted. Something that was fast reaching its sell-by date.
How to love yourself at your lowest
When we're doing well in life we feel good. But, what happens when those things that have been propping up our self-esteem vanish? How can we love ourselves at our lowest?
Goodbye Instagram, hello radical self-love
Instagram has been eating away at my joy and eroding my confidence, so I made the decision to leave. This is my story.
Feeling rejected? This might help
The pain of rejection can be hard to handle, but how can we understand it in a different light and give ourselves some comfort and reassurance that we're enough exactly as we are? This is a post all about recognising our value and self-worth.
Feeling like a failure? Read this
When you feel like a failure you're just having a bad day. You might also be stuck in comparison and putting too much pressure on yourself. So here's something you might want to read to help shift your mindset.
Procrastinating? Here’s 3 things you need to know
There's 3 things you need to know about procrastination. Firstly, you need to break the task down. Secondly, you need to understand your fear. Thirdly, you need to shift your energy. Here are all the ways to understand why you're procrastinating, and how to take action against it.