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About 330 billion cells are replaced in your body every, single day. And every 80-100 days, 30 trillion cells are completely replenished. In three months, you are a completely new you.

You are not the same person who you used to be. Down to the cellular level.

And yet, we feel extreme fear over stepping into a new version of ourselves. While we desire and yearn to grow, a lot of us are totally tethered by thoughts like, "What will my sister think?" "What will my boss think?" "I'm not the kind of person who would do that."

We have to be brave if we want to grow.

It's genuinely scary to repot ourselves into new soil. And that's pretty weird, because what we truly desire is the freedom to grow boundlessly. We need the spaciousness to grow, and we're terrified of it. 

On your growth journey, you're being called to untether from an old you, an identity that is not serving your current self, so you can make room for something new. And hell yeah, this is really uncomfortable.

Because you aren't that old "you" anymore. Today, and every 90 days, you are something entirely new.

Still, even as you become a new person, your mind will fight growth at every turn. To your old, memorized state of being, it totally feels safe to keep being the person who doesn't feel like "you" anymore. The idea of people wondering about the change you're experiencing, who you really are, or who you are becoming is the Tether of all Tethers.

In this episode, I also share about my choice not to have children, and how I have long felt shame around my own childless identity – which I have chosen. I've been afraid to really own her for quite a while, feeling like she's less of a person because she chose a different path than what the former "me" had learned to desire to be.

Allowing ourselves room for growth and expansion and saying yes to the new you isn't easy. The mind wants to hang on. But it is possible when we allow ourselves to be present with who we are – and to detach from the outcome of how others mind react when they find out the truth of the person who we really are today.


This is a Thursday Thread episode where I've pulled a little piece from the previous episode featuring Taqdees Razzaq.

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