Newsha Modabber: Brave woman protested against being forced to wear the hijab

For me, it boiled down to 3 things that were getting in my way: 1) Trying to live up to everyone else’s expectations of me; 2) fear of failure and 3) unresolved trauma about my dad that wreaked havoc on all my romantic relationships. So you have to first get real and do the inner work to heal from your past and overcome the emotional roadblocks getting in the way. Then ask yourself, “If I could start my life over, who would I be? What would I be doing? What would my life look like?”  then go for it.