I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - not only for myself but everyone around me.

Erin Willett

Categorized in : Needs Trying Doubt

The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.

struggle mind negative

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent al... by Erin Willett

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

musician artist thinking

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

labels shapes want

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.

albums want believe

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

offering trying world

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

views doe loss

We are so hard on ourselves, it is unbelievable sometimes. The things we say to ourselves or think about when we look in the mirror are so cruel. We have to look at the power we do have and use it to overcome that voice of insecurity.

voice mirrors thinking

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

scared excuse trying

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.

obstacles my-own ifs

I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do. by Erin Willett

I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do.

i-can can-do believe

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

careers long believe

Meeting Justin Bieber was interesting. We were backstage at The Voice, and he was there premiering his "Boyfriend" music video. I was in six-inch heels, so I was towering over him like a giant.

giants voice interesting

Being able to meet fans who look up to me and letting me know they have been inspired by me in some way is so humbling.

able fans looks

Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.

validation scary artist

There is an energy in New York that is like nowhere else I've been, and I feel free there, and that is inspiring.

energy new-york feels

I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.

new-york years art

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.

writing trying way

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.

situation my-own action