Tammy Michelle Perry

I attribute my success to being introspective and always wanting to be a good person, the right person, a better person, to mature and evolve. I've always been passionate about helping people, but not just helping in a general sense. I realized through writing a personal mission statement that to educate means to draw out, to bring out oneself, not just to give information for someone to throw back, but to actually help people know themselves and learn. As I continue my own journey of self-discovery, knowing myself has helped me see and help other people better. I learned early on that I have the gift and ability to break down concepts so that children and people can understand through analogies and things like that, and I've been able to connect with people on that level. I've also followed my passion and what I love doing, what I would do for free, and that's kept me going.

I would say follow your passion and know what you're good at. Think about what's important to you, what you love doing, what you would do for free. You know, as much as you have to make a living too, but if you can find a way to make it work for you, do what you're passionate about. I learned early on that I have the gift and ability to break down concepts and children can understand through analogies and things like that, so I've been able to connect with people on that level. Know what your talents are and use them to contribute and give to society, not take from it. Instead of working against each other, especially with what's going on in this country right now, I wish that men could heal as well and appreciate the feminine for what we have always been able to give and provide. Everyone has something to contribute, and whatever your talents are, use them for good.

I see that the field has always been kind of male-dominated, especially when you learn about the so-called fathers of this and the males that contributed to the different theories and things. I just want people to see each other beyond gender or sex, whatever you want to label it, and recognize that everybody has something to contribute and different roles. Instead of working against each other, especially with what's going on in this country right now, I wish that men could heal as well and appreciate the feminine for what we have always been able to give and provide. It's always been used and taken for granted in a lot of ways, and I think that's because of the way that people have seen things. I'd like to think that this is the beginning of the end of that, and hopefully it will be in the past soon.