June 1, 2021 ·

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We incarnate to learn. Which means you can't make

We incarnate to learn. Which means you can't make a mistake. Having no clue what we are doing here is baked into the process--so embrace it.

And I know, it can suck sometimes. I'm a card-carrying member of the , "Why the hell did I think this planet was a good idea!?!?" club. But when I can step back and see the wisdom of forgetting--the gift of starting a new cycle each lifetime, to make new mistakes and learn new lessons and expand our consciousness in new ways--and the safety of a system where we are truly immortal beings having a weird-ass human experience--then I can relax and enjoy the process. 💚

We don't sabotage ourselves on purpose. We avoid t

We don't sabotage ourselves on purpose. We avoid things that are unfamiliar because we don't feel safe and secure enough to meet the challenge. Blaming yourself is like blaming a scared child--it doesn't hep and is just mean. Re-parenting your scared inner self requires taking on the role of a loving inner grown-up. Sit with your fear, try to understand what it needs, and then meet those needs with love. 💚

When you feel unmotivated, you have two options: t

When you feel unmotivated, you have two options: try to force motivation through discipline or rewards, or check for alignment and make sure other needs are met. In other words, you can fight with yourself, or accept yourself and try to understand what is going on internally. Talk to yourself and take your needs and inner world seriously. Give yourself lots of permission to go through the natural cycle of creativity, which includes "off" days. After some rest and self-care and self-love, motivation naturally returns. What "blocks" it is actually all the self-defeating things we do trying to force it to happen at a pace we think it ought to happen, rather than how it naturally wants to happen. Creativity is our natural state. But it grows the way a plant flowers: in its own time and way. Honor that, nourish your creative self, and it will bloom. 💚

Our associations with power are often negative, an

Our associations with power are often negative, and connected only with power-over. But true power-from-within is just the ability to stand in our truth and act on our own behalf. When we compromise this, it's often because we've become afraid due to early childhood experiences of being shamed and rejected when we tried to exercise our power. To avoid experiencing more rejection and abandonment from others, we reject and abandon ourselves and try to find others to align with. Eventually we grow up, and are left hamstrung and unable to make our own lives what we want them to be. It feels wrong, selfish, shallow, or illegitimate to simply pursue what we want to pursue, and say goodbye to things that no longer work for us. Reversing this conditioning can be difficult, but it starts with the daily choice to act on our own behalf, to validate our own needs, and see ourselves as worthy of our own attention, time, and care. 💚

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