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It's not the big, dramatic guilt that does the most damage. It's the quiet kind — the hum in the background after you didn't finish something, didn't call someone back, felt too happy when others weren't, or set a boundary that someone else didn't love. In this episode, Cynthia unpacks why that low-key guilt isn't just an emotional inconvenience. It has a home in your body, it lives in your Root Chakra, and it's been quietly blocking the safety, grounding, and belonging your spirit was designed to feel.

What We Cover

Why it matters where guilt lives in the body. Most resources will point to the Sacral Chakra as a storage center for guilt, since we hold pleasure there and guilt is often the opposite of pleasure. But Cynthia's focus in this episode is specifically on how guilt forms from beliefs about our tribe — and that belongs to the Root Chakra. Why does the location matter? Because when you know what's causing the stomach ache, you can actually treat it. A blocked Root Chakra shows up as anxiety, disconnection, fear, and an inability to feel present or grounded. Understanding guilt as a root cause of those symptoms gives you something real to work with.

The tribal belonging connection. Historically, humans are wired for connection. Belonging to a tribe meant survival. Today that tribe might be family, a work team, a church community, a friend group, a yoga class — or even something larger, like the sense of belonging on earth or simply taking up space. Any group where we feel safety, acceptance, and belonging is the tribe. And when low-key guilt creeps in, it almost always traces back to the same fear: if I don't conform, if I'm different, if I do or feel or have something outside what the tribe expects — will I still belong?

The three types of low-key guilt.

Contribution guilt — attaching value to output, and then measuring that output against what others around us are doing. Cynthia shares her own experience: Rhett was away for the summer fighting fires, sleeping in a tent, doing hard physical work. She had her own list of intentions, and as he headed home, the guilt arrived — she didn't feel she'd matched his output. She told him. His response became one of her anchors: "There's no room for guilt in this relationship. It doesn't serve us." Guilt is one of the lowest vibrations on the emotional scale — just above shame, and genuinely destructive to the body's energy. What Cynthia landed on: accountability doesn't require guilt. You can honestly reflect on what you did or didn't do without holding it as a destructive vibration. And here's the thing about comparing contributions — it's like a bird expecting to swim as fast as a fish because it watched the fish swim. Your contributions are yours. Comparison is the thief of joy.

Success guilt, or happy guilt — feeling badly for being happy, content, or successful when others around you are not. The tribe dynamic is the same: outpacing peers can trigger a fear of disconnection, so we minimize joy, downplay wins, and stay small to stay safe. Cynthia saw this often in education — teachers who genuinely thrived would watch the tribe explain it away ("you have easier kids," "you must not be working hard enough") until the happy teacher felt guilty for being happy. She did it herself, feeling energetically alive at work but unable to say so as a leader, worrying that her happiness while others struggled meant she was doing something wrong. She also has a friend who genuinely believes that if she isn't suffering, she isn't doing enough. Wild — and deeply common. It all comes from the same question underneath: if I am different from my tribe, will I still belong?

Boundary guilt — the guilt that arrives when you take time to rest, reset, or fill yourself back up. The tribal fear: will I look like the weak link? Will it put more on others? Will I still have contributed enough if I hold my ground? And underneath all of it: will I still belong?

The spiral effect. Guilt doesn't stay in the Root. As Cynthia walks through, you can feel it moving upward through every chakra — what does guilt about belonging say about your desires (Sacral)? Your identity (Solar Plexus)? How you are loved (Heart)? How you can express yourself (Throat)? Your connection to something greater (Third Eye)? Your worthiness (Crown)? A blocked Root creates these patterns — and those patterns continue to block the Root. It goes both ways. Clearing the block without changing the underlying beliefs just means the block rebuilds.

Three practical steps to move the energy.

The "knock it off" pause — when the guilt rises, stop and name which type you're in. Contribution guilt: am I in comparison? Knock it off. Happy guilt: am I minimizing my joy for someone else's comfort? That is not yours to carry. Boundary guilt: am I afraid my self-care will disconnect me from the tribe? Name it. Naming it breaks the spiral and gives you somewhere to begin the real work.

Get into nature. Beliefs about tribe and belonging live in the Root Chakra, and grounding in nature is one of the most direct ways to move stuck energy there. Feet in the dirt. Negative ions. Trees, water, open sky. This isn't recreational — it's essential. When the Root clears, something shifts: belonging stops coming from the tribe and starts coming from within. An inner knowing that you belong not because you conform, not because you contributed in the right way, but because you exist. The nervous system regulates from that place — choices and actions made from "I am safe, I belong, I am secure" land differently than those made from fear.

Journal. Subconscious thoughts lose their grip when they're brought into awareness. Cynthia has journal prompts in the show notes to help start that process.

Key Takeaways

• Low-key guilt is one of the lowest vibrations in the body and a direct block to Root Chakra energy
• Guilt is almost always rooted in a tribal belonging fear: if I am different, will I still be accepted?
• The three types — contribution guilt, success/happy guilt, and boundary guilt — all trace to the same root
• Accountability is not the same as guilt — you can reflect honestly without holding a destructive vibration
• Clearing the Root block requires both energy work and shifting the underlying beliefs, or the block rebuilds
• When the Root clears, belonging stops coming from external validation and starts coming from an inner knowing

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As an energy alignment coach, Cynthia works with you to identify what your body is holding energetically, clear it, and create practices in your life that maintain that alignment. Because when we live in alignment, things move. We manifest experiences we actually want. We feel connected — to ourselves, to God, to the life we're here to create.

Your energy is designed to flow. Your spirit is designed to expand. Your life is designed to thrive.

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Episode Summary:

You know those days — or weeks — where you feel like you're overthinking, over-problem-solving, and searching for solutions that keep slipping just out of reach? Where you're even chasing the peace itself?

That's chasing energy. And in this episode, Cynthia shares what it looks like from the inside, how she recognized it in herself, and the practical shift that changed everything — including a moment of confirmation that brought her to grateful tears on a drive to SLC.

What We Cover

What chasing energy sounds and feels like. Chasing energy shows up in your language before anything else. Listen for: "I need to," "I have to," "I should be," "I must." That energy is seeking something external — comparing yourself to others, setting expectations, pushing without patience for the process to unfold. The things you catch in chasing energy are exhaustion, confusion, and chaos.

Attracting energy sounds different. "I get to." "I choose to." It's clear on what's being created, trusts the process, leads from abundance rather than lack, and takes aligned action with space left for the next step.

Cynthia's spiral — and the moment it cracked open. Cynthia had been riding a wave of creative flow — clear direction, felt confirmed, inspired. Then she started chasing. The mechanics took over: technology, social media, websites. She started comparing, looking at what others were doing, and the "I need to" energy crept in. That led to the self-talk — I can't stay consistent, I don't even know how to do this — which spiraled back into: is this even the direction I should be going?

She recognized the cycle over lunch with her friend Tori. Mid-conversation, she said out loud: "I feel like I'm chasing, not attracting."

The moment she said it, she knew. Awareness activated.

Chasing vs. Attracting — the real difference.

Chasing: seeking external answers, comparing your progress to others, hustling without intention, lacking patience, operating from fear and "not enough."

Attracting: clear on what you're creating and what gifts you have to create it, taking guided action from curiosity and trust, leading from abundance, allowing the process to unfold.

Here's the thing about chasing energy — you never catch up to what you're chasing without a cost. Usually that cost is your wellness, your integrity, or your authenticity.

What Cynthia chose to do. She took it to God and let go of the mechanics. She tuned into her Solar Plexus — the energy center that holds identity — and presenced her I AM statements. Not the ones she wanted to be. The ones she already knew were true. She named her gifts and talents and moved into genuine gratitude for them. She let herself feel the energy of that knowing — how it felt to be supported, to be confident in what she had been given.

She didn't rush to the next action step. She just stayed in the energy of it. And she presenced the feeling from the moment months ago when a song came on unexpectedly and she felt it as a clear confirmation from God about what she was creating. She returned to that feeling in her body.

She practiced this for several days, returning to it each time she started to slip back into chasing.

The second confirmation. A few days later, driving down to SLC, Cynthia went through her I AM practice in the car. She felt good — grounded, but aware she was only one thought away from sliding backward. She said to God: "I am open to confirmation. What's the wink today?"

She opened her playlist and hit shuffle.

The same song played. The exact one from months earlier.

She laughed. A few grateful tears. "I hear you. Thank you for the support."

That kind of confirmation doesn't come while chasing. It comes when you return to your foundation.

The Practical Takeaway

If you find yourself in the hustle of the day — chasing clarity, chasing peace, chasing the next solution — stop. Set time aside to presence your I AM.

Who are you? What are your divine attributes? What are your gifts, your talents, your wisdom? Presence them. Feel the gratitude for them. Then ask: how might these gifts assist me in attracting what I am currently chasing?

When choices come from that space, you attract. You don't give your energy away in circles without intention. You welcome what you want into your space. You still take action — but from groundedness, inner knowing, and trust.

Key Takeaways

• Chasing energy is recognizable by your language: "I need to," "I must," "I have to"
• Attracting energy leads from abundance, curiosity, and trust
• The Solar Plexus holds identity — presencing your I AM is how you return to your foundation
• Confirmation comes after you return, not while you are chasing
• This isn't a one-time fix — it's a practice of returning

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You've taken a personality test and felt it — that full-body yes of recognition. And then the quiet that follows: but that's not actually how I feel right now.

That gap isn't evidence that you're not her. It's evidence that she's covered. In this episode, Cynthia walks through all seven chakras as a kind of personality test — not to label you, but to give you feedback. Your body already knows where the blocks are. This is just the awareness.

Why You Resonate and Feel Disconnected at the Same Time

When you read a description of your fully aligned self — the woman who shows up in her power, in trust, in confidence — something in you says yes. That's not wishful thinking. That is your authentic self recognizing home.

The disconnection isn't proof that you aren't her. It's just clutter. Cynthia uses the analogy of a messy house: when things pile up and there's no time to put them away, the house starts to feel chaotic. You start saying things like "I'm a mess" or "I'm behind" — attaching the state of the house to something it means about you. But the moment you clean it up? Oh. It's actually such a cute home.

Same house. Same you. Just some things that needed to be put away.

The subconscious mind works the same way. When it doesn't know what to do with something, it sets it aside — over here, over there — and over time those deposits become blocks. And blocks have symptoms.

The 7 Chakras: Your Feedback System

Think of the seven chakras as seven rooms in the same house. Each serves a purpose, and energy flows between them. When one room is cluttered, you feel it everywhere. As Cynthia always says: awareness is the key to alignment.

As you move through each one, notice what resonates — and what your body does when it hears it. That's the feedback.

Root Chakra — Stability, Security, Belonging Blocked: insecurity, restlessness, anxiety, feeling like you don't quite fit or have a right to take up space, difficulty sleeping, compulsive planning to manufacture safety. Aligned: grounded, present, calm, a sense of belonging that doesn't depend on anyone else confirming it, safety that comes from within.

Sacral Chakra — Creativity, Joy, Desire, Pleasure Blocked: guilt around pleasure, difficulty knowing what you want, walls up around intimacy, shame around having needs, childhood wounds around being "too much," hip tension or reproductive issues. Aligned: creativity flows without forcing it, pleasure feels like a right, desire feels clean rather than dangerous, boundaries come from self-respect, you know what you want.

Solar Plexus — Confidence, Personal Power, Identity, Self-Worth Blocked: chronic people-pleasing, worthiness wounds, needing external validation, overachieving out of fear, identity built around what you do rather than who you are. Aligned: personal power, courage to act on desires, willpower, decisions come more easily, ownership of your life — creator energy rather than victim energy.

Heart Chakra — Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, Connection (The center — three chakras above, three below.) Blocked: grief that never moved through, over-giving to earn receiving, difficulty forgiving self or others, loneliness even in a room full of people. Aligned: give from overflow rather than depletion, receive love without deflecting, grief moves through rather than gets stuck, compassion for yourself as naturally as for others.

Throat Chakra — Communication, Truth, Self-Expression Blocked: fear of speaking up, saying what others want to hear, difficulty asking for what you want, fear of being seen or heard. Aligned: what you feel inside matches what you say out loud, you say no without guilt, you ask for what you want without justifying it first, you feel heard and that your words matter.

Third Eye Chakra — Intuition, Clarity, Inner Wisdom Blocked: mental fog, confusion, "I don't know what I want," avoiding depth, rigid thinking, difficulty seeing other perspectives. Aligned: trust your intuition, discernment, connection to something greater, able to visualize your life and desires, see possibilities.

Crown Chakra — Connection, Faith, Divine Purpose, Surrender Blocked: spiritual disconnection, going through the motions of faith without feeling it, cynicism, feeling unseen or unsupported by God, believing you have to earn your connection. Aligned: felt connection to God and higher consciousness, peace, a sense of being held, ability to surrender without losing yourself, physical and spiritual experience integrated — not separated.

What It Feels Like When They're All Open

It's not dramatic. It's not fireworks. It's more like — oh. This is who I actually am.

You feel at home in your body. You trust yourself. You create from desire rather than desperation. You can hold both desire and surrender. Life feels like it is happening with you and for you rather than to you. And there is a quiet joy that just is — it doesn't need to be explained.

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Have you ever caught yourself saying "I could never do that" or "that always happens to me" or "I'm the type of person who..."?

The end of those sentences tells you everything about how you see yourself. And how you see yourself is the lens through which you experience your entire life. In this episode, Cynthia explores why identity is the CEO of your life and reveals the most powerful identity you can hold to live in a space of endless possibility, courage, and expansion.

What We Cover

Identity is the driver. Your identity either keeps you moving, expanding, creating, curious, and connected — or it keeps you small, stuck, doubtful, and disconnected. It isn't just a belief about who you are. It shapes what you believe you're capable of, what you think is possible for you, and what choices you give yourself permission to make.

As the old saying goes, whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Or put another way: if you think you are, or you think you aren't — so it is.

Five questions that reveal your identity. Cynthia opens with five questions worth sitting with honestly:

1. Who do you believe you are?
2. What do you believe you are capable of?
3. What do you believe you do or don't do? (your values)
4. How do you feel the world supports you — or doesn't?
5. What do you believe is possible for you?

The answers to those questions come directly from the identity you hold about yourself.

Now answer them again — this time through the identity of a Divine Being:

1. As a Divine Being, who are you?
2. As a Divine Being, what are you capable of?
3. As a Divine Being, what do you do or not do?
4. As a Divine Being, how does the world support you?
5. As a Divine Being, what is possible for you?

The subconscious plays small. The subconscious mind gravitates toward familiarity and away from perceived risk. It might hand you an identity of procrastination, or laziness, or "someone who doesn't follow through." And then every one of those five questions gets answered through that lens — and those answers become instructions your brain quietly follows.

The flip side is just as true. Cynthia walks through what those same five questions look like when answered through the identity of a healthy person versus a procrastinator. Same questions. Entirely different permissions. Entirely different life.

So what is the most important identity you could hold?

The identity that creates space for endless possibility, courage, forgiveness, love, trust, authenticity, and expansion. The identity that gives you the most solid foundation to grow from.

It's this: You are a Divine Being, in a co-creator relationship with the Divine Creator.

When that is your foundational identity, every other question changes. What you're capable of changes. What you believe is possible changes. How you experience the world's support changes.

Cynthia references the movie The Wedding Planner — the moment the wedding planner decides to push through because she is a professional. Imagine pressing up against the threshold of courage, fear present, ego sounding the alarm — and instead of shrinking, you presence the knowing that you are a Divine Being. And from that knowing, you shout: I am doing this. Because I am a Divine Being and God has my back.

Close with the exercise. What characteristics does a Divine Being have? Write them down. Because those are your characteristics. That is who you already are.

Key Takeaways

• Identity functions as the CEO of your life — it shapes your permissions, your choices, and your experience
• The subconscious defaults to familiar, small identities to avoid perceived risk
• The same five questions answered through different identities produce entirely different lives
• Your most powerful foundational identity is that you are a Divine Being in co-creation with God
• Awareness of your identity is the beginning of alignment

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You've seen it on Instagram. Someone manifesting their dream life — effortlessly, whimsically, powerfully. And you can't help but wonder: does this actually work? And if it does, why does it seem to work for some people and not others?

Today Cynthia pulls back the curtain on what is actually happening in the brain and body when we choose to manifest — and what neuroscience reveals about why alignment isn't just a spiritual concept. It's biology.

Before We Dive In

Everything we talk about in this episode comes to life on September 17th at 6pm MST in a free 90-minute activation workshop — Let's Move: From Stuck to Creating. Guided reflection, a meditation, and a process to surface and claim what you've been pushing aside. If this episode resonates, that workshop was made for you.

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What We Cover

Manifestation starts with a clear intention. Setting intentions, visualizing, journaling, meditating, affirmations — these aren't just feel-good practices. When you get clear on what you want to create and begin presencing it, you are sending a direct signal to your prefrontal cortex: this is a priority. This is what we're looking for.

The flip side is also true — if you are consumed by worry or what you don't want, you send that same high-priority signal. Your brain starts scanning for evidence of that instead.

Enter the RAS — your brain's filtering system. Your reticular activating system (RAS) is the sergeant in charge of filtering out everything irrelevant and honing in on what matters. The clearer your intention, the sharper your RAS filters. You start seeing opportunities, people, and possibilities that were always there — you just weren't looking.

The subconscious alarm system. Here's where it gets interesting. Your subconscious mind hears the new intention — and if it perceives it as unfamiliar, it reads that as a threat. Danger! And it sends an alert to the amygdala — fight or flight. The amygdala releases cortisol. Cortisol goes back to the prefrontal cortex and essentially shuts the whole system down. The focus weakens. The filter goes offline. And you're left with brain fog. Confusion. Stagnation. Stuck.

This is why alignment matters — and why "just think positive" isn't enough.

Two Ways to Work With Your Brain (Not Against It)

1. Make the unfamiliar familiar. Your subconscious is triggered by sensory experience, not abstract thinking. It doesn't understand "make believe." But when you presence the emotion you want to feel — really feel it in your body, in a safe space — your brain registers that as a real experience. It builds evidence that you have held, and can hold, that feeling. The threat response softens. The alarm quiets.

2. Build evidence. Your subconscious has to believe two things: that what you want is possible, and that you specifically have the capacity to create it. You don't have to start with the full vision. Start smaller. Take one aligned action. Let your brain say, "See — we do know how to do this."

Each small win creates dopamine. And dopamine goes right back to the prefrontal cortex — strengthening your focus, sharpening your filter, and reducing the perception of threat. The loop becomes self-reinforcing.

Cynthia also shares the story of telling her roommate to wake her up if the man of her dreams knocked on the door — and what to look for. Spoiler: that's not how she met Rhett.

But Here's What Neuroscience Doesn't Have.

Magic. Miracles. A higher power.

Manifestation is neuroscience — with a partner. It has all the biological mechanics to support it, and then it has God. We do our part: we get clear, we align, we build evidence, we presence the feeling. And then we trust. We trust that a higher power magnifies our request, clears a path, and brings back what we desire.

Neuroscience says: you can now see what was always there.

Manifestation says: and something greater is also working on your behalf.

Key Takeaways

• Manifestation is neuroscience — your brain is literally wired to find what you focus on
• The subconscious reads unfamiliarity as threat, which shuts down your focus and filtering system
• Presencing the feeling in your body builds evidence that it's safe — and possible
• Small aligned actions create dopamine, which strengthens the whole system
• Neuroscience explains the mechanism — but manifestation includes the magic

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We talk a lot about feeling blocked. But here's the question nobody asks first: blocked from what?

If we don't know what we want to create in our lives, we can't actually identify a block — because we have no destination to be blocked from. In this episode, Cynthia reframes the whole conversation around what it means to feel stuck, disconnected, or like something is in the way — and gives us four concrete ways to start shining our own light again.

What We Cover

"You feel like you are in the way." That feeling of being your own obstacle is actually useful data. It means something in you is noticing the gap between where you are and where your spirit wants to go. But the gap only becomes workable when you know what's on the other side.

Life looks good on paper — but something feels off. When we view our lives through the lens of overwhelm, exhaustion, insecurity, or feeling underappreciated, we start to blame the external. The job. The relationship. The season. But the external isn't always the problem. The lens is.

The Bruges Story. Cynthia shares the moment she wandered into what felt like a sketchy neighborhood at night — shadows everywhere, mind running through every worst-case scenario. The next morning, in the daylight, the same streets were charming. Cobblestones. Flowers. Beauty she'd completely missed.

Same place. Different light.

You are the light. Think of your life as the moon — it has no light of its own. Your inner world is the sun. When you are shining — clear, connected, in alignment — your life reflects that back to you. When something is blocking your light, your external world carries that shadow. The solution was never the moon. It was always the sun.

4 Ways to Shine Your Light

1. Identify what you actually want. Not what you don't want — what you do want. If you don't want to feel overwhelmed, what do you want to feel instead? Start there. You cannot move toward something you have never named.

2. Notice how you relate to it. Now that you know what you want — do you believe someone like you could have it? Feel it? Sustain it? Deserve it? This is where the real work lives. Sometimes the desire is buried so deeply that surfacing it feels uncomfortable. That discomfort is not a stop sign. It is a signal.

3. Retrain your body to find familiarity in it. Your nervous system defaults to what is familiar — not what is true. Look for evidence that you have held, or are capable of holding, the space for what you want. Small moments count. Build the evidence. Let your body learn: this is available to me.

4. Claim it. Presence it. Make it yours — every day. Give yourself permission to hold what you want regularly. Not once. Not when you feel ready. Now. Claiming is not a one-time event. It is a daily practice of saying: this belongs to me.

Key Takeaways

• You cannot identify a block without knowing what you're blocked from — clarity comes before movement
• The lens through which you view your life shapes what you experience, even when nothing externally changes
• You are the light — your inner world determines the quality of your outer experience
• The four steps — identify, relate, retrain, claim — are a repeatable process, not a one-time fix

Ready to Go Through This Process Live?

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We walk through this exact process together — guided reflection questions and a meditation to surface what you've been pushing aside — so you leave knowing what you're claiming and what's actually been in the way.

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A retreat with a group of women in all different places in their lives sparked a conversation about what we're each creating next — and what's getting in the way. Inspired by that conversation, Cynthia shares three reasons we stay stuck in energy that isn't working for us, and practical solutions for each one.

Because stuck doesn't always look dramatic. Sometimes it just looks like life — busy, full, and quietly not quite right.

3 Reasons We Stay Stuck

1. We Can't See It

Life is loud. When we're in the middle of it, all we can see is what we don't want — the frustration, the friction, the heaviness. And we tell ourselves the shift has to be monumental before it counts. So we don't look too closely.

But here's the thing about not seeing it: there's a spider in the room. You know it's there. You just don't know where. That uncertainty is scarier than finding it — even if you don't have the courage to deal with it yet. Seeing it reduces the fear. That's all. You don't have to have all the answers. You just have to look.

The solution: Scan your life and pick one area where you want something to change. Instead of focusing on what you don't want, flip it — if that changed, if you didn't feel that anymore, what would you have? That answer is your clarity. That's what you're creating.

2. We Don't Believe We Have Capacity

We want what we desire, but we don't believe we can hold it. It feels too big. And layered on top of that is the belief that we have to give something up — make room, clear space, eliminate something else — before we can even begin.

We do this with money and health all the time. We put away $10. We move our bodies for 10 minutes. We trust that small acts build. But energetically? We think we have to shift everything at once or it doesn't count.

It counts.

The solution: Small acts shift energy. Trust that. Trust yourself — and trust God — that one intentional step creates movement, and movement creates momentum. You don't need to overhaul your life to start creating something new in it.

3. It Doesn't Feel Familiar — So the Ego Says No

The ego mind has one job: keep you safe. And safe means familiar. So when you want something new — peace, freedom, connection — the ego immediately calculates the cost. What do I have to give up? What happens to my relationships? My job? My social life?

If I want peace but my job creates chaos, the ego presents a binary: peace or the job. And since I can't lose the job — I guess I don't get peace.

That's not truth. That's the ego doing math it wasn't qualified to do.

The solution: Trust. Trust that small shifts in energy don't require blowing up your life. Trust that clarity on what you're creating opens doors the ego can't see yet. The unfamiliar becomes familiar — one step at a time.

Key Quotes

"There's a spider in the room. You know it's there. Seeing it is scarier — until it's not. Because at least now you know where it is."

"We trust small acts with our finances and our health. It's time to trust them energetically too."

"The ego presents a binary. Peace or the job. But that's not truth — that's fear doing math it wasn't qualified for."

"You don't have to shift everything at once. One intentional step creates movement. Movement creates momentum."

"Clarity doesn't require courage to act yet. It just requires the willingness to see."

What's Coming — Let's Move! From Stuck to Creating

September 17th | 6pm MST | Free | 90 Minutes

If this episode resonated — if you're in that space of stuck energy, quiet restlessness, or simply knowing something needs to shift — this workshop is for you.

Let's Move! From Stuck to Creating will take you from aching for answers to knowing exactly what you are creating in your life.

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A Marco Polo conversation with an old friend sparked a question: have you named what you're creating? Not the habits, not the goals, not the checklist — but what you're truly creating underneath all of it.

This episode is about why naming it changes everything, and three reasons why claiming it boldly is the most important step you can take before the next season of your life begins.

3 Reasons to Name What You're Creating

1. Clarity creates confidence — and accountability. When you don't name what you want, energy scatters. Like lightning with no iron rod. The moment you name it, everything focuses — and a moment of choice arrives. Are you moving toward it or not? That accountability is usually exactly what keeps us from naming it in the first place.

2. Your ego mind shows you your resistance. The second you name something real, the ego mind shows up with all its reasons. That's not a problem — that's feedback. When resistance surfaces from the subconscious into the conscious, you can finally see it and work through it. You can't move through a block you can't see.

3. Naming it lets you build capacity to receive it. You don't have to have it all at once. But once you name it, you know how to start building space for it. Small intentional acts — an hour in the garden, leaving work at 5, making closet space — send your brain the evidence it needs that this is actually possible.

Coming in September — Free Mini Course

90 minutes. Free. Designed to take you from the fog of I don't know what I want to naming it clearly, internalizing it, and stating it boldly so you can start creating it.

Stay tuned for the date announcement on next week's episode and on social media.

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Manifesting is having a moment. It's everywhere — and yet, for a lot of women, it still isn't working the way they hoped. This episode isn't about vision boards and positive vibes. It's about three things that are quietly running the show behind the scenes — and what to do about them.

Cynthia shares three manifesting truths that most conversations leave out, including a story about asking God for scissors and getting nail clippers — and why that's actually the best thing that could happen to your toes.

What We Cover

Tip 1 — You Are Already Manifesting. Always.

Manifesting isn't something you turn on when you light a candle and write in your journal. It's happening all the time — through your underlying stories, your emotions, and your patterns. The question isn't whether you're manifesting. It's whether you're doing it intentionally.

When we don't choose to be deliberate about what we're creating, we default to the subconscious — and the subconscious is running old programming. Programs that were written before you knew what you actually wanted. If the results in your life don't match the desires in your heart, this is where to look first.

Tip 2 — Action and Surrender Are Both Part of It

We have done ourselves a disservice by reducing manifesting to thinking and attracting. There's more to it — and it involves two things that might seem like opposites: action and surrender.

Action matters. But the space from which you act matters more. Your behaviors are a reflection of your inner state. Acting from fear creates differently than acting from trust.

And then there's surrender — which gets misunderstood. Surrender doesn't mean giving up on what you want. It means releasing your grip on exactly how it arrives.

Here's the analogy: you've been asking God for scissors to make your toes pretty. You've been focused, intentional, working for the scissors. And then — nail clippers show up. You don't recognize them. You haven't been working for nail clippers. But nail clippers? They were made for pretty toes.

Surrender is trusting that the result is still serving the core of what you're manifesting — even when it looks different than you planned.

Tip 3 — Own Who You Actually Are

The most powerful manifesting shift isn't a technique. It's an identity.

You are a Divine Being. A co-creator. A daughter (or son) of God. And when that truth lives in your bones — not just your head — everything changes. Because that identity doesn't live in limitation. It lives in possibility, expansion, trust, and the unlimited. Creating from that space is a completely different experience than creating from fear, lack, or "I hope this works."

Your Challenge This Week

Pick one area of your life where you're trying to manifest something. Then ask yourself three questions:

1. What's the underlying story or emotion I'm carrying about this?
2. Am I taking action — and from what space?
3. Am I willing to surrender the how while staying clear on the what?

You don't have to have all the answers. You just have to be willing to look.

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MIND THE WEDGE QUIZ — Find the paradigm interfering with your Spirit's desires. 👉 Take the quiz

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You already know what it feels like to be brave — that moment fear showed up and you chose the other side anyway. The release. The freedom. The quiet (or not-so-quiet) "YES." This episode is about what happens after that moment — and why doing it again matters more than you think.

Cynthia shares a story about her five-year-old niece who got nervous climbing onto her shoulders to hang her artwork — then chose brave anyway. What happened next wasn't just a hung painting. It was a fist pump, a declaration ("I am so brave!"), and a little girl who immediately went to make more art to hang again. She wasn't just being brave. She was building the pattern of bravery in her life.

That's the invitation for this episode.

What We Cover

The Feeling on the Other Side Courage doesn't eliminate fear — it just refuses to let fear make the decision. Cynthia walks you through what it feels like when you choose the other side: the freedom, the release, the power that replaces the initial contraction.

The Niece Story — Evidence of Brave A five-year-old's shoulder climb becomes a masterclass in how we create identity. When she fist-pumped and said "I am so brave" — she wasn't just celebrating the moment. She was building evidence. Then she did it again. That's the pattern that changes everything.

Hawkins Scale of Consciousness — Courage as the Threshold Dr. David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness places courage at the exact inflection point between survival energy and creation energy. Below courage: shame, fear, apathy, anger. Above it: willingness, acceptance, love, joy. Courage isn't just a nice quality — it's the gateway out of limitation and into possibility. From scarcity to abundance. From absorbing energy to projecting it.

The Beautiful Brain Conversation The ego mind is doing its job — it's designed to protect you. But choosing courage doesn't mean ignoring that voice. It means looking at it and saying, "I hear you, beautiful brain. And today I am choosing trust." That shift moves you from contraction to expansion, from stuck to in motion.

The Retreat Moment — Finding Your One Thing At a women's retreat this week, a speaker challenged the room: find the one thing you know you need to do but have been dragging your feet on. For Cynthia, it was showing up live on social media. And here's the kicker — the speaker said the very thing you're resisting is the very thing that will create the growth you're working toward. She chose. And a friend from the retreat lovingly stepped in to hold her accountable.

A Love Letter to Teachers A special shout-out to teacher friends heading back to school — people who choose to be brave every single day, showing up seen and authentic in front of a room full of teenagers. If that's not one of the bravest things a person can do, I don't know what is. You are sent with light, love, and the best energy.

Your Challenge Where are you paused? Where's the resistance showing up? Cynthia wants to know — and she wants to hold you in your excellence.

Resources Mentioned

• Hawkins Map of Consciousness — Dr. David Hawkins' Power vs. Force — a framework for understanding how different states of consciousness (fear, courage, love, etc.) carry different vibrational frequencies and impact our lives.

Your Challenge This Week

Look at where you're paused. Where's the resistance? What's the one thing you know you need to do but keep not doing?

Reach out to Cynthia — she'll hold you in your excellence.

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