Not for you to judge me, but for me to accept myself enough to share it.
Yoga teaches me to accept myself - to find the light within me, so that I may be a light to others.
I learned that once I chose to live my truth and at long last to accept myself, I would absolutely have to learn to accept others for being themselves also.
I am learning to accept myself, I am learning to forgive myself, I am learning to be myself more honestly.
"So this attraction to men, especially in the last year to two years, has really been a learning process for me to try to accept myself now, as a man who is attracted to men.
My mum refused to chemically straighten it and, with the no-nonsense wisdom you come to expect from a West Indian mother, she told me the quickest route to happiness was to accept myself the way I was, go to bed and stop my whingeing.
Before I could actually ask somebody else to accept me, I had to accept myself and I wasn't ready to do that.
And he eventually became like a mental push for me to accept myself for who I am and to come out to my family".
My lesson wasn't to learn how to lose weight -- it was to learn how to accept myself.
"I thought I had to accept myself and my state and continue to live," she said.
