Everyone is special. There has never been another you. Are you familiar with the divine light shining from within you? Have you stopped to feel the resonance of your own frequency? Everyone has gifts, struggles, and stories to tell. When we feel secure in our own light, we stop feeling the need to extinguish everyone else’s. Tap into your own abundance. Give yourself permission to glow.

Fear is just the body’s way of trying to keep itself out of danger, but it isn’t always a reliable narrator. The prospect of change–even good change–can trigger big fear reactions that, if taken too seriously, can hold us back from our own highest good. We can’t banish fear (we aren’t supposed to) but we can choose to transcend fear, moment by moment, by feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

To live is to suffer–that is the bitter truth that accompanies the sweetness of being alive. Our reaction to suffering is more important than the suffering itself; does suffering soften you, or does it close you off? When we are unconscious, we often find ourselves asking “Why is this happening to me?!!” Once we begin healing, the question changes to “What is this teaching me?” And from that shift, everything shifts.

Asking for help can be extremely uncomfortable, because of how vulnerable it requires you to be. This can be especially difficult for people who developed hypervigilance during childhood because of neglect or abuse. Being able to receive help is just as important as being able to give it, and a balance of both is fertile ground for healthy intimate relationships, lasting community, and deep internal healing. 

Building community starts with yourself. Finding your soul family is a practice rooted in the soil of discernment. Discernment grows out of facing the ego’s natural fear of endings. If you aren’t empowered to leave behind what isn’t for you, how will you ever find what is?

The political is personal, the personal is political, and we are all on a spiritual trip (whether you realize it or not). Nothing exists in a vacuum. In order for activism to flow out from the heart space, it needs to be intersectional. In order for healing to be thorough, it needs to be holistic. After all, everything is everything.

The way we are taught the concept of discipline is rooted in egoic notions of forcing yourself into better ways of being. But what if discipline had more to do with heeding our intuition, listening to our bodies, practicing good self-care, and setting realistic expectations? Embracing a softer, non-linear approach to discipline creates an environment that functions from a place of gentleness, compassion, and surrender. And that is the secret to creating sustainable discipline in your life.

We are conditioned to believe that life should be hard. This leads us to put up with being less-than-happy for far longer than is good for us. There is a certain amount of difficulty and suffering that is unavoidable, as it is a natural aspect of being alive–but what would happen if we were to prioritize ease? What if the answer isn’t to grit our teeth and grind harder, but to turn up the volume on our intuition, to rest when our body says rest, and to lean into working from the effortless bliss of the flow state?