“This is f*cking phenomenal. Now, the problem with it, is unless you get other tools to learn how to deal with the anxiety, it can get worse and worse and become a massive, interruptive problem because it just disrupts your entire life. Usually it’s at that point that we start to seek help – we deal with these coping mechanisms forever until we can’t function with life anymore. Drugs and alcohol are coping mechanisms to deal with things that are intensely uncomfortable; whether that is trauma, or an experience you’re in. I think it’s amazing that our brains find ways to blow off the steam. The challenge with it is, when it starts to disrupt your life to the point where you are no longer thriving, you are no longer moving forwards, and in fact you are starting to become destructive, that’s when we want to start introducing some other tools that can be more generative for you. So, giving all the grace in the world to coping mechanisms. For anybody who has needed them, or who has engaged with them and are trying to navigate through them – please have grace, please give yourself and your coping mechanism an intense amount of grace.“

TODAY ON THE GODDESS MOVEMENT:

• This week’s episode was inspired by shower thoughts
• Aryn dissects parts of a book she read (linked below) regarding 'BRULES', being bullshit rules
• About questioning everything – the difference between absolute and relative truths
• Community truths adopted by groups and how they do and don't serve future groups
• We look at laws just like rules imposed on us by our parents
• Some examples, including religion, that can play a part in the unconscious following of ideologies, principles and rituals
• Poking around the status quo as a generative offering to create deep roots for what you do and believe in, based on lived experience
• The power of personal truth – a life hack
• Universal truths that we can all get behind, as foundations of the human experience on planet earth
• Aryn revisits a course she created in 2018, The Clarity Project and poses 4 epic questions (see below)
• About coping mechanisms, martyrdom and hiding parts of ourselves as ways of living, and the potential detriment if not dissected
• What cheerleading and grocery bags taught Aryn about her strength
• The importance of WHY we are poking around at foundational beliefs, to avoid unnecessary destruction
• Leaving you with a guiding thought on grace

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SHOUT OUTS

• BOOK > The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani

QUESTIONS FROM ARYN’S COURSE “THE CLARITY PROJECT”

• What are some beliefs, habits, or ways of being that have been passed down to you from your parents, grandparents, authority figures, or religion/cultural structure?
• What are some behaviors, patterns, or coping mechanisms you have been doing life with because of trauma or something difficult you have experienced?
• What behavior or habit have you developed to find yourself in because is served in gaining you attention, validation, or favour?
• Is there something about yourself that you hide, protect, or diminish that you wish you could shout from the rooftop? Can you identify why you bean to tuck it away?