Have you ever struggled with feeling all your feelings - you know...even the NEGATIVE ones? Hey, we all have them. We’re human. Having been in the personal development world for a hot minute, I’ve seen a consistent fear of leaders in the “positive thinking” space who were scared to feel ANYTHING but positivity, light, and happiness. Problem with that is this: YOU’RE HUMAN. Discover all your feelings and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
Hold it together. Stay strong.These are many words that have been uttered to me this past week, as my dad slipped from this life on Wednesday, after weeks of being in the hospital.Of course, as always, they were uttered with the best intentions.Honestly, though, I don’t feel very strong.I feel very raw and real and ripped open, and if that’s strength then rock on, I’m a freaking badass.It got me wondering, why as a society do we praise and pride ourselves on strength?And more, what fear is there in being vulnerable, raw, real, and stripped of all pretense?Just because I don’t feel strong NOW doesn’t mean I’m not strong, or won’t ever be strong. In fact, quite the opposite.As a human being, you are not bound to the emotion of strength.Discover your strength and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
Can you believe we are in DECEMBER? What? What time is it? What day is it? The fact that we are still here now in Australia, and have been since March, still dazzles me.It’s taken loads of courage, I can tell ya that.This year has been, for many, an emotional rollercoaster. So I just wanted to check in.How’s your energy these days?Your emotions are a powerful guidance tool to gauge your energy. Discover your energy and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
If negativity is your kryptonite too, keep reading.⠀Because hot dang, I feel frankly worn from these past few weeks. You too?Thank God for Spike, my partner, and my support when I’m in the middle of a “Hurri-Kim” of crap feelings.Fortunately, I’ve cultivated the tools over years and years of work to recognize, acknowledge, shift and breakthrough - but dang, when you’re in it it’s like the breaking down of your being.What happens when you get stabbed with your own kryptonite?You feel the inner pangs of your own fear, doubt, frustration, shame, or whatever other Superwoman-crushing feelings, you feel, that make you - Human. Embrace your being human and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
Do you live for those precious morning hours? Do you love the smell of the crisp, fresh morning air when it’s still dark out? Or do you prefer the silence of the late evening hours, when all the world is asleep, but you, you’re still going? Discover the evolution of your own productivity style. Which will work better for you? Being an early bird or a night owl.
“I tears. I cry,” he whimpered to me with his puffy lower lip sticking out as he wiped away the two tear strains rolling down his cheek. “Everybody cries, baby. Mama cries. Daddy cries. Ma cries. Pa cries. It’s okay to cry,” I say to Declan, “It just shows that you care so deeply.” At that moment Declan mostly cared about not having Saline solution blown up his nose and having an ow-wow-wow. But a poignant lesson, nonetheless, no matter how small or big the problem may seem. Sometimes as positive-forward-thinking leaders we feel the pressure to always be “on,” meaning we always have to be positive and forward-thinking. Nonsense. You’re not an automoton. You’re human. Feelings hit. They happen. It’s natural and normal to feel feelings - all of them. And, yes, positive thinkers, that includes feeling sad, angry, peeved, frustrated, vengeful, rage, shame, guilt, fear, and the rest of the glorious spectrum of feelings that we have. When you suppress them, repress them or try to escape them, it only makes feelings WORSE. That’s when it comes down to a choice - a choice to hold onto them to bury them in a shit-pile of fear, shame, and guilt for being HUMAN in the first place!
Everything is a form of energy. Food is. Relationships are. Business is. Money is. You receive energy. You generate energy - meaning you have it circling about you in some way. And you spend energy. It’s ALL energy. Ever spend your time with someone who, after an hour or so, you felt completely drained, zapped of life, like you just needed to take a nap. You received their energy and spent your own energy...and not in the best way, or in the best life-giving relationship. The same is true for our relationship with money. HOW we spend money is just as important tas WHAT we spend it on and WHY we are spending it. And it comes down to one simple principle of money...
