This one might make your ego uncomfortable. Good. Stay with it.

This week someone filled out feedback on my workshop and wrote that she would put the work into practice — except when it comes to politics.

And I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

Because that exception — that one carved-out space where the ego gets to stay in charge — is exactly where the work is needed most.

In today’s talk we go deep into opinions. How they are built from belief systems — not facts. How the need to defend them is a nervous system response, not a sign of truth. And why the greatest act of political, social, or spiritual change available to any of us is to do the inner work.

If you deeply know something — you don’t need to defend it.

The urgency. The anger. The desperate need to make them see.

That is not conviction. That is a dysregulated nervous system looking for safety in someone else’s agreement.

This is the work.

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