I am so excited about the launch of my blog! As you all know, I am Brittany Hughes. I'm twenty-three and outside of motherhood and student life, I am a creator. I like to call myself a creator because it puts everything into one basket. I'm a Youtuber, I'm an author, I’m a poet, I'm a singer and now I run my own website with a bookstore (there's currently nothing in it but there will be!). I want this to be more than a blog to my visitors, I want you all to look at this as a place of inspiration, growth and love! For years I held myself back from sharing my creations and my ideas. I am finally done being too afraid to live my life. Now I’m here to encourage you to do the same!
So, the burning questions...
"What is Via Metanoia? What does that mean?"
Ever since I changed my social media handles to this phrase a few years ago, I've had so many people say to me, "I always wondered what that meant and how to pronounce it." It didn't cross my mind that people would have to say it out loud. Creating my blog made me realize that I would have to explain "Via Metanoia" and break it down for my readers—and blow the minds of all my friends and followers who have been wondering what the hell my crazy ass has been going by all these years.
You ever learned a new word and it was just perfect? That was me when I stumbled upon the word “metanoia.” The definition I learned was, “the journey of changing one’s mind, heart, self, or way of life” and it is pronounced ‘met-uh-NOY-uh.’ The word sprung up on me and touched me right in my heart. I was going through some changes and it resonated with me immediately. I was talking to myself like, “Brittany, this is what’s happening to you. You’re going through this right now. You are on a journey of changing yourself, from the inside out. You’re going to be amazing through this change, through metanoia, via metanoia.”
I’ve held onto this handle for years and I’m finally understanding just how powerful it is. Ever since I claimed it, I’ve been challenged in so many ways and forced to grow up and forced to change. I’ve never cried so much in my life. I’ve never had to let go of so many things and people. I’ve never had to experience so many mixtures of joy, pain and wonder. But it’s what I asked for. I asked for it without even knowing and now I am experiencing the most beautiful shifts in my life.
I encourage all of my readers, supporters and visitors to ask for change. After you ask for change, I encourage all of you to ask for vulnerability to embrace that change. I won’t tell you to ask for strength because vulnerability is how you find your strength. When you finally accept every part of yourself, even the sensitive parts, the ugly parts, the parts you’re too ashamed or afraid to admit to, then things seem to flow. Lessons are learned more quickly, criticism doesn’t sound as harsh, you can distinguish between what’s good for you and what’s here to put you in harm’s way.
Via Metanoia is going to a place where I share my testimony and encourage you to have faith in your own. As an extension of my YouTube channel, it will also serve as the source to any additional information from videos that I feel work best in words versus on film.
Self-acceptance, self-awareness and self-love will always be my message. And it starts here.
With Love,
From Britt