Meet Tasha the Galah Cockatoo, named for my cousin who I call “T-Bird”. Miss you, T-Bird!⁠

Tasha, the bird, believes that the most powerful thing you can do is be a good leader to yourself.

Learning how to create and uphold good boundaries for yourself, speaking up for yourself and your desires, and learning how to regulate your nervous system are all ways of being a good leader to yourself. Having these skills can help you lead others when they need leading.

They aren’t easy to acquire and our society doesn’t really encourage these skills (although this has changed a lot!) but you can still practice them with yourself and those close to you. Be a good model to those around you and you might just inspire them to change as well. A beautiful ripple effect.

Good leaders start with the self. Let’s all try to be good leaders to ourselves so the sociopaths and dictators don’t do it for us, mmmkay? That’d be great.

Yes all this is what Tasha, the bird, believes haha. Maybe T-Bird, the person, too but she’d have to say so. I’m not speaking for her. That wouldn’t be very good leader-ly of me. ❤️