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Awareness (and When It Changes Everything)

Awareness changes things — even when you wish it wouldn’t.

In this final episode of GILY (for now), Devany and Meredith reflect on what awareness asks of us — and what it costs. Listening honestly to the body reveals misalignment, grief, and the courage required to tell the truth inside soul friendship. Together, they explore how one person’s no and another person’s yes can both be true — and how love doesn’t have to collapse when a form comes to an end.

This conversation traces the lived experience of awareness: how it arrives quietly, how fear and imagination rush in behind it, and how integrity sometimes asks us to let go of something meaningful with care.

GILY is closing in this form, but it isn’t ending — it’s wintering. We’re deeply grateful to this community for listening, reflecting, and walking with us.

Gentle note: strong language at times. Use care if little ears are nearby.

Key Themes
  • Awareness as both gift and grief
  • Burnout rooted in misalignment, not effort
  • Soul friendship holding space for difference and authenticity
  • Fear and grief after truth emerges
  • Trusting alignment over productivity and longevity
  • Practices & Takeaways
    • Notice where awareness whispers before it has to shout
    • Practice open-handed awareness instead of gripping
    • Ask whether a container nourishes or drains your essence
    • Let grief accompany integrity rather than signal failure
    • Sound Bites

      “Awareness changes things — even when you wish it wouldn’t”

      “I was going to burn out because of my love for you”
      “When something is no longer correct, the fear is losing everything”
      “Longevity is not the measure of goodness”

      Whoop & Poop Shout-Out

      Christy Lowry — The Parent’s Table

      A heartfelt whoop for Christy Lowry and her work helping parents name and lighten invisible mental and emotional labor.

      The Invisible Labor Workbook

      A practical resource for making unseen labor visible and consciously setting some of it down.
      https://stan.store/TheParentsTable/p/the-invisible-labor-workbook

      Wintering with GILY

      GILY is wintering.

      This podcast form is closing for now as we rest and listen for what’s next. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay connected through the next season and receive reflections and updates as the next creative form emerges:
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      Stay Connected

      Devany — Illumine Within

      Embodied healing, Centering Circles, and 1:1 companionship

      Meredith — Hibernate Healing

      Energy work, guidance, and seasonal restoration

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