Head to Heart

Our fear of humiliation is real, and for most of us, it's kept us very small. We're afraid of being humiliated so we don't speak up. We're afraid of being humiliated so we don't try new things or talk ourselves out of Spirit nudging us in a certain direction.  What if we fail? What if we're embarrassed?  The fear of humiliation can be so strong, before we know it we never try something new. It feels safer to stay SMALL and in a cage than step out in faith and face our fear of failure.  How can we alechmize this fear? How can we look at it and begin to disempower it where it's not running our behaviors, relationships, and dreams?  Find out in today's podcast.  www.christagifford.com (@womanscircle @christablackgifford)

Where do we find the willpower to make choices in the moment that are beneficial for us, and not continue more pain?  Where do we access the WILLPOWER to choose foods that bring life to our biology instead of eating junk that lowers our vibrational frequency?Where do we find the willpower to move our bodies the way they need to bring LIFE and VITALITY without forcing them through shame and drudgery? Where do we find the WILLPOWER to stop our addictions, our anger from spewing out of our mouth, our negativity that creates more negativity? Learn how in today’s podcast.  (@womanscircle, @christablackgifford @iamlukegifford). Last day for early bird rate!  Sign up at www.christagifford.com

I GOT MY POWER BACK 5-week Inner Adventure is open for enrollment and 50% off for only one more week! www.christagifford.com. You will NEVER have full power over your external world, but you CAN have power over what happens inside of your skin.  These are skills that ANYONE can learn because you're not just human, alone, on the inside of you. You're also Divine with a Divine Birthright to THRIVE inside of the worst storms that blow.  Do you feel like you're just surviving, going through the motions, or waiting for the other shoe to drop? Do you feel like you're stuck controlling and manipulating the outside world through force? It's time to STOP that pattern, to plug into the Spirit inside of you, and GET YOUR POWER BACK.  (@womancircle, @christablackgifford)

All Hallows Eve. For most of my life I had no idea about the history of this global holiday, why we dressed up, why kids trick-or-treated. If we look at the history of the changing of the season, where we move from light into darkness, summer into winter, life into death, we discover a portal where the veil between the spirit world and the physical world gets very thin. So how do we work with this season as Light beings, connected to Spirit? What is our role & do we blindly play along or do we consciously contribute something good inside of evil?  Tomorrow night is my free webinar 'I Want My Power Back' & there are limited spots. Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XLG6eIG-SD64cFagLT1Dhg (@womanscircle, @christablackgifford)

We clean our bodies, brush our teeth, feed ourselves and work out. But our spiritual anatomy is more complex than our physical anatomy, and most people neglect it on a daily basis.  If I don't practice good spiritual hygeine, my physical world is in trouble--or at least, not a pleasant experience. We wait to feel thankful WHEN the healing comes or WHEN the promotion happens. But spiritual hygeine means we practice the substance of truth every day, before the external world gives us a reason to feel that way.  This is one of the most important things we can learn as divine beings having a human experience and has completely changed my life.  Ready to prioritize your spiritual hygeine?  (@womanscircle, @christablackgifford, @iamlukegifford)

I've felt stuck for a while. Do I just allow the circumstances of my life to happen, ending my internal suffering when I learn to surrender, or do I move into the power I possess to create something new and manifest dreams into reality?  Is it the chicken or the egg? Is it one or the other, or could it be a dance between the two? In today's podcast we explore this dance of surrendering to what IS...ending our resistance to our current reality...and THEN from that surrender, believe for something new. In this 'name it claim it' culture, the manifestation craze that's swept the world, I believe that many times we manifest FROM our discontentment in the moment, instead of our surrender.  But on the spiritual path, it takes both surrender to the divine plan AND stepping into faith to create something new.  Are you ready to dance?  (@womanscircle, @christablackgifford, @iamlukegifford)

We're in a massive global upgrade, a divine reset, a world-wide reboot. And right now, a lot of our white boards are being erased as our new operating systems for life are being uploaded into our bodies. When this happens, the body goes through some energetic changes like 1) energy drainage, 2) feelings of confusion or anxiety, 3) the release of big emotions.  But what if nothing is wrong? What if there's a huge plan for the world that includes YOU shifting certain things about your life to get you on the right path to fulfill your divine destiny?  Today we talk about this global upgrade, the death that it's inviting us into, how it shows up in the body, and the spiritual tools we can begin to cultivate to not only weather the upgrade, but find contentment inside the waiting room.  (@womanscircle, @christablackgifford, @iamlukegifford)

Our recent culture has been obsessed with self-love, including me over the years. But something never set right with me about this self-love, separation language.  "I love myself."  Who is the "I" and who is the "self" when I AM Love?  That language still denotes separation and is a false reality.  I don't love myself...I AM. I AM LOVE. Love in my truest state and nothing has ever been separated from this love. Only the mind can separate us from love, never the heart.  So do I need self-love OR...as the Sufi mystics tell us, along with countless Judeo-Christian and Buddist teachings...learn to BECOME Love that wipes away the illusion of separation? These are deep, mystical concepts that, if embraced, contemplated, and meditatated on, can set us all free.  (@womanscircle, (@christablackgifford @iamlukegifford)

These past two weeks have been intense. I've been invited into the reality of my inherited defintion of 'being enough,' and to be honest, I've discovered that I'm never enough based upon my definition of success and failure. So what does it mean to FEEL like you're enough in every moment? And how do we change the program? In today's podcast, we'll get to the core identiy of 'not enough' and begin to learn tools to uplug from that narrative, embracing who we are in the moment and acknowleding the resentment that comes when we don't.  I don't want to just know I'm enough as a mental contruct, I want to feel it in every part of my being.  It's our birthright, and we can get there. (@womanscircle @christablackgifford @iamlukegifford)

Wow, do I feel like a failure on a daily basis. Failure as a mom, a wife, a spiritual person, a businesswoman.  Failure when I let myself stop and take care of myself, failure when I lose approval. In the past few weeks I've been faced with the reality that I've lived in such terror of being a failure that I've sabotaged my own success. I've been so petrified of FEELING like a failure that I actually do all the time--staying busy to run from the feeling. Today, I let you all the way into my pain, the bottom of my darkness. Learning to finally challenge my inherited definition of failure--& changing it to ACCEPTING myself, in every moment, no matter what she looks like. And when I do that...I'm a total success. (@womanscircle @christablackgifford @iamlukegifford)