One of the biggest myths people fall for is that they have nothing to say or contribute or create.

We look at talented or well-known people like they are some kind of oddity – some incredibly lucky chosen few who we are blessed by.

We spend our entire lives looking out of our own workshops, filled to the brim with our own excitements and ideas and inspiration secretly hoping we will be “picked” and “chosen” to grace the world with our gifts.

All the while seemingly unaware that the people sharing and creating and pouring forth the things that make them come alive didn’t wait to get permission – they simply woke up and decided to take up space.

The mere fact that you are here means you are already in the game. You already have been chosen. And you already have what it takes.

All you need to do is show up.

 

My forgiveness doesn’t mean you get another chance with me.

It means I’ve made amends with what you’ve done and that’s got nothing to do with choosing to move forward with you.

It means I’ve done the work on my end so that I can find peace and accept what is.

It means I found a way to be free despite what happened.

My forgiveness has nothing to offer you because it has nothing to do with you. It’s for me.

It means I’m wise enough not to allow the past to cripple me and not dumb enough to repeat it in my future.

My forgiveness doesn’t cleanse your sins – it releases my attachment to them and sometimes, my attachment to you as well.

I honour myself through forgiving, but I won’t disrespect myself by forgetting.

I am the Queen of forgiveness and I remember everything.

 

Some of the most revolutionary acts I’ve witnessed come from kindness, from love – the selfless place within us that puts what’s right and good and sacred above all else.

These are the qualities of strength and courage that inspire me. That make me want to rise.

When I see people continue to live and love well in spite of all of their hardships no matter what their past was like…this is what makes a role model for me: people who can accept what was given to them and what they had to go through and use all of the sharp edges of the world’s cruelties to carve something so beautiful and so pure that it contradicts all of the sorrow and despair that preceded it.

To be at peace with what happened and then raise your standards for what will happen next is an incredible way to bet on yourself. To demand more from life even though there is no evidence that something better exists.

There is something so powerful about those who find a way to see beauty and grace and light and who are still able to trust that a miracle is just around the corner.

 

You don’t always need to look for the light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes you just need to stand in the dark and feel it all.

This too shall pass but putting a bow on it won’t make it pretty.

It’s okay for life to feel like shit for a minute.

REST….as long as you get back up, let yourself rest and feel and just be.

Trust in the power of resolution.

It’s all working out. You’ve got this.

 

Here’s the thing:

You truly and fully can have the life you have always dreamed.

All the love, success, travel, happiness, family – everything that means anything to you can be yours.

But you have to decide what it is you want and then GO AND GET IT.

That means you become unapologetic about it.

That means you stop making excuses as to why you can’t have it.

That means you drop anything or anyone who holds you back from what you have declared that you want.

Sometimes when I tell people that they need to remove the negative people in their lives, they say it sounds harsh – maybe it does but I can’t stop to care how sounds because to me, you know what sounds really harsh?

Living an absolute mediocre half-ass life because you have surrounded yourself with people who are holding you down.

It’s harsh to have a vision in your mind and heart that never comes to life because you are so afraid of what other people will think or how it will look to others.

It’s harsh to suffer every day knowing you aren’t trying your absolute best to create what you were BORN TO BRING TO EARTH.

It’s harsh to shrink, shrivel, give up and never know what it feels like to stand in your power and rock your gifts.

It’s brutally harsh to always wonder what could have been if only you believed in the mind blowing miracle that you are.

You can have all of the things you want.

But the first person to believe in your vision has to be YOU.

You need to be willing to put down whatever is not serving you:

The limiting beliefs

The doubt

The fear that it won’t work

And yes, the people that do not support you or put you down or keep you stuck.

And you know what I have found? That when you start being unapologetic and making your vision non-negotiable – That those same people who are quick to judge or ridicule, they will either rise up to meet you or fall away naturally.

You will either inspire them to meet you where you are at or you become energetically unavailable to them and they fade away.

It’s a win/win. But how they react is not the point.

The point is….

That YOU rise up

That you shift into the place you need to be in order to have what you want.

That you only make yourself available for your deepest desires.

That you remove yourself from anything that no longer aligns with who you are.

And most powerfully –

That you take charge of who you are and take responsibility for the powerful creature you are.

Then you get to be busy doing all the things that light you up.

Decide.

Dream.

Do.

Let’s go!

 

If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.

If you have to trade your ethics, self-esteem or respect for it, don’t do it.

If you are going against your heart, don’t do it.

If you feel pressured because you don’t want to let someone down even though it makes you sick, don’t do it.

If you don’t believe in the message, don’t do it.

If you have no logical reasons as to why it doesn’t feel good but your gut says it’s not right, don’t do it!!!!

If you’ve done it for decades but today it feels wrong, don’t do it!!

“I don’t want to” is a perfect declaration and reason all wrapped in one.

“No” is a complete sentence.

You can decline with love and respect.

You can choose how to spend your time.

You don’t miss out by avoiding what’s not meant for you – you make yourself available for when it’s a whole hearted, “YES!”

 

The world can be so loud and pushy and opinionated to the point where it’s obscene.

At any time of day, you can be sure that someone has something to say about what you are doing, how you are living, who you are loving, what you are eating, how you raise your kids and what you are aspiring to do.

Advice, labels, judgements, gossip and straight up nonsense thoughts about every aspect of your life.

That noise is always going on. ALWAYS.

And the more waves you make, the more you fight for your dreams, the more success you generate – the more noise the world makes. The more complete strangers will feel compelled to carve out an idea of what your life should look like.

There simply is no controlling what those people are doing or saying or judging you on.

All you can do is live on. Love on. Move on.

Ignore. Deflect. Rise up.

Stop getting sucked into what they are saying and start making yourself unavailable for low vibrational energy.

Keep your eyes fixed on your goals and your family and the steps you need to take to attain everything you are aspiring to do.

Don’t let yourself get caught up in the crowd or sucked into the chaos of mediocrity and sheep.

Keep working, keep grinding, keep calling joy in, keep helping others, keep healing, keep growing, keep expanding into that limitless place where you already exist.

Keep tapping into your own greatness and soon those opinions and judgements will all be the white noise in the background of everything you are achieving.

The distraction isn’t there to discourage you or stunt you.

It’s here to separate you from the masses.

It’s how you know you are carving your own path.

Keep your eyes up and your head down.

You’re getting closer.

 

 

When it comes to healing you must remember that it’s all coming.

The forgiveness, the love, the peace, the freedom. All of it is yours.

You are not on anyone’s timeline but your own and grief never wears a watch.

But trust that there is more joy on the other side of everything you are feeling right now.

You will transcend.

You will summon more strength.

You will be reborn on the other side of everything that has consumed your heart.

And you will find a way to love deeper and harder than ever before because everything that is pulling you and stretching you is also strengthening you and expanding you.

Will you ever be the same?

No, you won’t be.

And there will be grace in that as well.

 

#soultogethernow

👑It is safe to be who I am.

👑My existence is all the evidence I need that my gifts are needed here.

👑When I show up fully, I allow my talents to work through me.

👑I trust that my message is being delivered to whomever needs it.

👑I am ready to stand fully in my power and be used for the highest good.

👑My faith is stronger than my fear.

👑My willingness will reveal the next step.

 

It is a radical act of self love to accept who you are and unapologetically live the life you were meant for.

It takes immeasurable courage to show up day after day and be true to what you really want.

The world will constantly attempt to put you in your place and try and convince you that you are taking up too much space by being too loud, too picky, too determined and too much of yourself.

There will always be someone waiting in the shadows to jump out and attempt to dull your shine by tearing down all of the beauty you are creating.

There will be endless opportunities for others to comment, give unwanted advice, mock, ridicule and attempt to convince you that somewhere along the way you have misunderstood who you are.

They will want to shut you up, cut you down and diminish the extraordinary feat it is to rise up, heal and forge forward towards your own glory.

And in each of these moments you will have to decide who to listen to and who to ignore.

You will need to decide which voice is more powerful: the ones on the outside or the one on the inside.

You will need to repeatedly stand up and consciously choose yourself.
Believe in yourself.
Bet on yourself.

You will need believe with conviction that you were given dreams in your heart because they belong to you. Not because they are meant to taunt you.

Your faith needs to be unshakable in the fact that ONLY you can execute what only YOU have been given to create.

And you must know with every fiber of your being that these dreams, these passions, these feelings you feel in your core, have been gifted to you because you have everything it will take to bring them to life. And it will take everything you’ve got to do that.

And the sooner you learn to ignore and deflect all of the distractions of the world, the sooner you will commit to showing up in that unequivocal power that you already hold.

The world awaits.