Did you know that your discomfort is a GOOD thing? When you feel overwhelmed, uncomfortable, like you want to blame someone, or you feel gross, weird, awkward AF, all of those are signs that you are teetering on the edge of a new way of being. A new identity awaits on the other side of everything that makes your ego want to scream and run away, hiding under the rock of its excuses. Discover new possibilities and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
Are you ever so freaking scared of doing the wrong thing? Making the wrong move? Being the “wrong” person for the job? I cannot tell you how many times I used to listen to what everyone told me what I “should” be, “should” do, how I “should” feel. How much money I was “supposed” to make before I could call myself successful. How much struggle I was “supposed” to experience before I could experience fulfillment in the work that I do. How I was “supposed” to feel jaded about my industry, about my business, about life. How business was “supposed” to be done, and how if I didn’t do it to their f*ing blueprint that I was incapable, incompetent, and wrong.
“I can barely sit still for 5 minutes.” I used to pride myself on always doing. DOING. DOING. DOING. Where my high achievers at, yo! Sitting still was NOT my jam. Give me music blasting in my ears and 30-minutes at a steady clip of 6.0 miles per hour and I was golden. Moving meditations I could do. Running, pilates, pole dancing, anything that allowed my body to just release and express and let go. But... Being alone and quiet in my head used to be a dangerous place for me to rest in because I wasn’t at rest. I wasn’t at peace with myself. I warred with the light and the darkness. It was then that my mom said four words that stuck with me forever, “Be kind to yourself.”
