Tag: Surrender

At the Threshold: Endings to Beginnings

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What a time of year to celebrate!

We are at a crossroads of endings and beginnings. The winter solstice, the holy days, and the coming new year weave together a profound tapestry of meaning—a rhythm that calls us to pause, to reflect, and to trust in the cycles of life and spirit.

The solstice, the darkest night of the year – which happened in the Northern Hemisphere on December 21st – is not a time of loss but of sacred stillness. It is the exhale before the inhale, a moment when the earth herself takes a breath, holding us in the safety of the darkness so that we might remember our light. 

This holy pause invites you to sit with all you’ve carried, all you’ve endured, and to see it not as weight but as wisdom. Every challenge, heartbreak, and triumph has prepared you for this moment—to stand here in the quiet knowing of your magic, your resilience, and your truth.

The holy days are not a call to do more or to be more; they are an invitation to soften, to settle into the essence of who you are, and to honor the beauty of simply being.

A new year doesn’t ask for reinvention or drastic change. Instead, it offers a chance to realign with what matters most. You don’t need to become someone new—you’re already enough. 

This transition is an opportunity to reflect and ask: What do I truly want? What makes me feel alive? What steps will bring me closer to the person I’m meant to be?  

This sacred time reveals a deeper truth: life moves in cycles, and so do we. 

Just as the sun returns after the longest night, you too hold the capacity for renewal. We are part of something greater—a natural flow that reminds us to trust in the promise of light after darkness, of beginnings after endings. An opportunity to reclaim your power and find your place in the ever-turning cycles of life.

This season is not just a time to celebrate, but to remember. To honor the path that brought you here, with all its twists and unknowns. To welcome your deepest desires, your hopes, your dreams, and to let them be a beacon for the year ahead. 

Everything you have faced has primed you for this: a season of easeful connection, the ability to trust in your magic, and the recognition of your deepest desires.

May this time hold you softly, reminding you that you are always in perfect harmony with something greater than yourself. 

You are part of the turning of the earth, the dance of the stars, and the endless unfolding of life’s mystery.

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Calm Your Mind: Release Stress, Gain Clarity

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I’ve been reflecting on you lately, as I’ve received so many heartfelt responses from the last blog I posted. Many of you shared that you’re feeling unsteady, uncertain, and overwhelmed by the turbulence of everything happening right now. And I want you to know—I hear you.

I’m feeling the call of the collective, too. We are being pulled in so many directions, and the need for support, connection, and compassion has never been more urgent. Whether it’s the chaos of the world around us or the quiet turmoil inside, it’s clear that many of us are searching for something to anchor us.

We are all craving ways to return to a place of peace, alignment, and clarity. That’s what I want to offer you today—some reflections and tools that can help you turn inward, find your footing, and begin the important work of being held more fully, and healing.

 

We are living in a time that is calling us to come together—not in spite of our differences, but because of them. No matter our beliefs, backgrounds, or experiences, we are being invited to step into a new way of being, one that requires us to meet each other with greater awareness, compassion, and understanding.

But before we can truly unite with others, we must first learn to unite with ourselves. This means turning inward, becoming aware of the places within us that still need healing, and bringing consciousness to the wounds that shape our reactions, beliefs, and choices.

I personally believe that life is revelatory. And thus, the people and circumstances who appear in your field and trigger you, are simply there to reveal to you where YOU are not yet free. 

When you focus on the extraneous circumstances and feel victimized by them in any way, you are missing the point, and the golden opportunity. 

You are meant to look inward and ask: ‘What is this struggle revealing to me about myself?’ ‘What part of my ego needs to be held here?’ ‘Who is my true self, and how might I be in opposition to that version of myself because of who I actually am right now?’

The truth is, our suffering is self-induced. And we collaborate with that shadow material fully. It’s when we can accept and embrace our unconscious participation in our struggle that we can truly find the path to our greatest liberation and live the life we desire. 

Bringing consciousness to our wounds does not mean judging ourselves for them. It means illuminating them with presence and curiosity, recognizing how they influence us, and choosing to tend to them with care rather than allowing them to run our lives in the shadows. 

True healing is not about bypassing pain—it is about meeting it fully, offering it light, and integrating the wisdom it holds. And as we do this work within ourselves, we naturally contribute to the healing of the world.

Many are feeling lost and disoriented right now. There is a tornado of unsettling material occurring at a swift pace and it’s easy to be swept up in it.

But I believe that the only way to find our footing and move forward in a positive trajectory is to first turn inward. 

Identify with honesty where you are misidentified with your true Self. This requires the ability to self-reflect and witness yourself objectively. Often this requires a safe container, an objective but loving witness to help us see ourselves more clearly.

Commit to yourself to seek this out and to preview yourself like never before. Pursue the truth and welcome it with the intent to know yourself deeply, intimately and with wild abandon and radical acceptance.

When we bring light into ourselves—when we cultivate clarity, stillness, and intentionality—we are better able to pour that light into the world.

One of the most powerful ways to begin is by noticing the difference between reacting and responding—how we move from our past default patterns to conscious choices. 

If you are seeking support or guidance as you navigate these times, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You are not alone in this journey. 

There is nothing I love more than meeting intimately with you and your soul, and helping to illuminate to you all that you cannot yet see, so that you may be the most enlightened version of yourself. 

This is your birthright, and your truest purpose. Everything else will make more sense after that!

 

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The Medicine of Darkness: Honoring the Cycles Within

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As we transition into the Fall season, the shifting energies around us reflect a deeper truth that we, too, experience within. Just as nature moves from vibrant summer blooms into the quietude and rest of autumn, we are invited to honor the balance between light and dark within ourselves. 

It’s easy to resist change, to fear the unknown, and to cling to what we think we can control. But this resistance often leads to suffering, keeping us in survival mode and preventing us from embracing the flow of life.

In Fall, we are reminded of the cycle of death and rebirth. The leaves fall, creating space for new growth. Similarly, within us, there is a need to surrender to the darkness, the uncharted places we may fear, and allow them to be the fertile ground for new possibilities. 

When we release our grip and trust the process of life, we create the conditions for profound healing and growth. 

Darkness is not something to be feared but embraced. Life itself begins in the rich soil beneath the surface, where roots grow strong, before blossoming into the light. 

Just like nature, we, too, need the dark to nourish us. It’s in the descent into our shadow—those parts of ourselves we’ve rejected or disowned—that true healing begins.

This is the medicine of darkness: integration, acceptance, and ultimately, growth toward the light.

In psycho-spiritual healing, we honor the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. The true magic happens when we explore the deeper parts of ourselves, not just in the intellect but in the heart and body.

Multidimensional healing, whether through therapy, bodywork, or spiritual practices, supports this process, aligning us with our innate wholeness. Those parts of you that have felt unworthy or unloved are waiting to be embraced, so they can return to their rightful place in your whole being.

This is the journey to clarity, peace, and the freedom to create the life you desire.

Through conscious awareness, we see that we are not our thoughts. The beliefs and patterns ingrained in us over time do not define who we are at our core. Beneath these layers is your true self—pure, innocent, and whole.

Fall invites us to release these old patterns, much like trees shedding their leaves, so that we may create space for a more aligned, joyful life.

This season, I invite you to explore these parts of yourself with gentleness and curiosity. As you shed the old and embrace the new, allow yourself to be supported in this process of transformation.

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You Are Safe to Heal: A Journey Through Self-Compassion and Inner Light

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Healing often feels like you’re waking up from a dream. It doesn’t require you to forget about or try to erase the past, rather it requires you to integrate it.

Remember, life is our teacher. No matter what you are experiencing, healing is always available to you.

Does it happen quickly? No.

Is it easy? Absolutely not.

But instead of punishing yourself for not being further along, I invite you to hold on to the belief that you are, for now, right where you need to be.

Please don’t punish yourself for the ways you acted out your pain when you were merely trying to survive.

One of the biggest blocks along the path of healing is unpacking the guilt and shame we’ve carried with us for the ways we let ourselves or others down.

Not only do we lose trust in others at the imprint of trauma or betrayal, but we can also lose trust in ourselves.

When we are feeling abandoned, afraid, alone, untrusting or angry it is our shadow that can take hold. It doesn’t make you wrong or bad. Forgive yourself for feeling these ways and give yourself permission to heal and claim the light inside of you.

As you commune with deeper layers of grief, you are being taught to show up more compassionately towards yourself and others.

Healing takes time and courage. It takes forgiveness and love…for others and Self. You are not meant to carry your old stories of darkness and trauma to your deathbed.

 

Every moment is an opportunity to shed generations of familial and ancestral trauma.

Judging yourself only slows the process, keeps you blocked, holds you hostage to your own pain.

Tend to your shadows. Hold your inner-child with love, tenderness and acceptance.

Honor the walls you’ve had to build. They were there to protect you and keep you safe.

You are safe to feel what you feel now.

Trust your heart. The light in you has always been there and will never lead you astray.

Let a new story birth itself from all you have learned and overcome to be here now. Whatever you had to go through to come to this place of awakening was a divinely orchestrated gift.

And above all else, always remember…you are so deeply loved. So deeply loved.

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Healing in Stillness: Allowing the Shift

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Healing quietly unfolds within us.

We undergo the process of breaking down our walls, not to suffer, but to expand. As we journey into the depths of our darkest parts, we allow our connection with the world to deepen, and our capacity to love expands naturally. 

But sometimes we put too much effort in trying to “figure it all out.” We can get so caught up in deciphering our patterns and behaviors, confronting our past conditioning, and healing our wounds, we forget the pure simplicity of being grounded in the moment and just breathing. Just being.

Because through it all, healing is still happening. It’s subtle.

 

It manifests in the grace we offer ourselves, the absence of comparison, and the surrendering to the process.

Cracking open is about feeling more, holding more, and loving more deeply.

So, if life feels hard it’s because it is hard. But I want you to know that you are doing a wonderful job navigating through these challenging times.

Trust that you are in perfect, divine time and everything is unfolding exactly as it should, for your good and for the good of all.

 

Every experience, both good and bad, are all opportunities to reclaim our power and sovereignty. They are opportunities to transition from feeling like a victim to becoming liberated and free!

Our soul’s blueprint serves as a roadmap guiding us toward our essence, our power, and our unique code.

My role is to assist you in returning to that sacred space within yourself where the keys to your liberation are held.

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Honoring Your Rhythm: A Journey of Self-Love and Healing

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The tension we have been experiencing in the collective continues to bring forth aspects of our being that seek acknowledgement. Be tender with yourself.

As we navigate through the integration of old patterns and fragmented parts, we must carve out space to nurture and care for these parts of ourselves.

Through witnessing the collision of the old and new paradigms, a myriad of emotions may arise—be it anxiety, fear, excitement, or anticipation. Each has its rightful place and pace in our internal landscape.

It’s important to move through this process with compassion, and a deep understanding that the discomfort is all part of the sacred journey.

In my own personal journey of healing from trauma, I’ve learned to honor my own rhythm and space. By tuning out external distractions and attuning to my inner compass, I’ve embraced my unique timeline, recognizing that my processes evolves alongside the phases of my beingness.

Wherever you find yourself in this moment, honor it fully. Consider how you can build healthy boundaries to protect your peace. Remember, this state is not permanent, there’s wisdom in all of it.

Healing always leads us to confront our pain points and core wounds. These vulnerable parts of ourselves are exposed, seeking acknowledgment and love.

This is the medicine.

It’s important to pay attention to what we instinctively reach for outside of ourselves in moments of discomfort. We may seek external validation or attention to fill the voids left by early childhood experiences, but these temporary fixes ultimately dissolve, leaving us feeling abandoned once again.

The true healing of these wounds can only come from within, through self-love, acceptance, and presence. When we attempt to heal our core wounds with the salve of another person’s validation, we only perpetuate the cycle of pain.

Instead of seeking external validation, redirect your love and attention inward, towards the source of your pain.

By re-parenting these vulnerable parts of ourselves, we unlock a sense of liberation and fulfillment that we’ve always yearned for. It’s through this process that we find alignment, reclaim our power, and gain clarity on our journey of healing and transformation.

If you feel called to be held in a sacred container and walked through your journey with a guide, it would be my honor to help you find your way.

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How To Keep Your Heart Open

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One of the greatest challenges of life is to learn how to keep your heart open when you most want to close it.  To stay open through hurt and loss, disappointment, betrayal, and pain.  To allow what’s falling away to fall away.  And to let life crack you open again and again.

The truth is, being human is not always easy.  In fact, often, it feels incredibly hard. But a life well lived takes courage.  It is full of losses and tragedies, as well as triumphs and adventures.

Whatever challenges you may be facing at the moment, life is coaxing you to keep your heart open, no matter how much it hurts. 

To find a way to unfold through the extremes.

 

Perhaps you’re going through a difficult time right now.

Perhaps life is testing you more than you think you can bear.

Perhaps more than anything, you want to shut down and cut yourself off.

Your grief is real.

 

The healing is happening and it will take as long as it takes.

Be gentle and treat yourself with the tenderness of a precious child, because you are one.  Remember that you have all that you need to create the life you are destined to create. 

All you need to do now is to stay open and take the next step. And tomorrow, you will take another.

Trust that you already know what to do. The blueprint is encoded within you.

I believe throughout our lives and through all the extremes, these experiences will be continuous invitations to keep our hearts open.

This is the courageous path from which healing can finally emerge.

Are you struggling to keep your heart open?  Do you feel your soul yearning for a deeper relationship with you?  If you are in need of support and guidance, I am here for you. 

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How to Heal the Feminine Within

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I hope that you are enjoying the summer wherever you are. If you’re like me, summer is a time I allow indulgence in deep witnessing of my pleasure and gratitude- from sweet simple pleasures to big juicy unconditional love.

Perhaps being born under a summer sun organically aligns me with seasonal rhythms to embody pleasure, flow, creative essence and the feminine frequencies within.

This feels supported with the effervescence, softness, safety and levity of the summer months- the warm sun rays, the yummy nectar of flowers in bloom, the longer brighter days, the orgasmic sunsets, and the tantalizing collective joy whispering in a social breeze.

As I feel into the bliss this season evokes, I am attuned to the feminine energy codes being delivered through the quantum.

A massive upgrade is downloading into our womb spaces, or the symbolic hologram of the wombs from which we descended.

What do womb medicine codes feel like in the body?

Take a moment to ask yourself what is happening in your life that feels different right now?

Does it feel light or heavy in your body?

What connection to the feminine womb space is awake for you?

You may notice it is being activated now.

Regardless of gender each of us has a relationship to the feminine – and the womb space.

Perhaps it’s the mother within, the feminine within, fertility or pregnancy, healing the loss of fertility or pregnancy, sexual trauma, or the loss of a child, a mother, or grandmother. This ancestral legacy lives on in our dna- the physical and the spiritual.

It’s the relationship with our mothers, the matriarchal line and any womb trauma.

The womb space is our center of gravity, the holy fire medicine, which gives us the unmatched ability for creation.

It is the women we have made mothers, and it’s the relationship with how we mother ourselves from the Divine feminine.

It’s the initiation from maiden to mother, literally or symbolically.

How and what and whom do we mother? What relationship do we have with the mother? What relationship do we have with our pleasure, sensuality, creativity and feminine nature?

Slow down and turn inward to truly witness the feminine within.

This reflection will mirror the relationship with life and relationships, and especially ourselves.

Is this connection one of health, high vibration and happiness for you? Uninhibited, passionate, confident, fiercely loving, the holy fire and white flame for creation and every form of intimacy. Fully alive and present even with the dark matter. Co-creating life, beauty, pleasure, joy.

A mantra that has come up for me in my own channeling as of late, hums of a divine lullaby and desire to feel ‘soft and safe’. 

A request for the felt sense of milk and honey experience in every waking moment. A yearning perhaps from the eternal center of my own womb space for something more sacred, exalted, desired and profoundly intimate.

An up-leveling of my body and nervous system, my feminine nature. 

A higher calling where I am more healed in this holy center of feminine power, and as a result, I’m available to show up more deeply for others to cultivate the softness and safety in them.

How is womb medicine quaking inside you?

Are you allowing the healing to take root? Are you dancing with wild abandon around the holy fire within?

The opportunity is ripe for the womb to be healed during this opening. Unconditional love and desire are center stage. 

I’ve been diving in deeply. Doing womb work. Exploring what I give life to, and the parts of me eager to be discharged, to let die and transform through re-birth, so that I may create in the world through my Divine feminine essence. I feel inspired, luminous, satiated and alive.  

It’s a time for me to reflect on my own growth and evolution as a human continuing my own inner work, healing and deepening the essence of my truest Self, so the container I create as a space-holder is fertile and abundant with divine feminine codes.

As you bask under the summer moons, do you find there are parts of your relationship with the feminine you continue to struggle to make peace with internally or externally?

Remember, when healing we must learn to love and accept all the parts of our being, even those parts we want to hate or reject. 

Our bodies are vessels and temples to our Spirit- yet so many of us often feel unsafe and uncomfortable within.

True safety lives inside the body. We can create felt safety through devotion and ceremony with our physical bodies.

Our bodies are a sacred doorway to the Soul and the womb of creation. The womb space is the holy center. The drishti within.

I invite you to see your body as a sacred temple. Treat it as such.

Clean out the debris from layers upon layers of inherited beliefs, prejudice, and wounds which obscure your ability to create life clearly, consciously.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Memories, behaviors, beliefs continue to manifest in our lives in countless ways… because our bodies never forget.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

As such, the body becomes a source of tremendous wisdom and insight: a doorway to the present moment, and fulfillment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

An embodied approach to healing anchors you into the now. I urge you to choose this holy path.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Your body has so much to teach you and so much to release.

If you desire to cultivate a deeper intimacy within sacred womb space, and the feminine so you may lead an awakened, meaningful life, I encourage you to reach out for guidance and support.

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Anchoring in Love: Finding Your Center Amidst Chaos

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Goodness, the world is asking a lot of us.  How are you doing through it all?

If you are feeling activated or triggered by global events or by the noise and chaos surrounding us, you are not alone.

Can you take a moment to pause, to sit in stillness and find your breath?  Can you feel the life force in your body, the frequency of love vibrating through every cell of your being?

Love is the most powerful force on this planet. 

Much of what we are seeing in the news and media is activating a trauma response in many people, keeping us stuck in a dysregulated nervous system. Survival.

Now is the time to reach for the ever-present light within you.

We are far greater, stronger, more powerful when we’re united by the golden thread that connects us all. Love. Light. Consciousness.

The world is delivering some heavy lessons. This is why we must take the time to anchor into our center and surrender.

Our center point is where we remember that we’re both human and divine, that we’re okay, that we’re safe, that we’re alive, breathing.

Our center point is where we remember that we’re not alone, that we’re a part of a whole, the one. Where we drop into our humanity, and our divinity at the same time.

When we’re disconnected from our center, we’re forced to function and project from the past and future.  From old stories and past conditioning rather than the present moment.

Our center brings us home, allows us to melt into the present, and reminds us of our sovereignty.

This is where the alchemy lies.  In this exact moment. From the center point of our hearts. Where we are safe to be both human and divine.

Hold and nurture this knowing.

It’s all within, at your center, in your heart.

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When Trauma Leads to Transformation

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Exploring the profound truth that while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Learning to lean into growth transforms trauma into wisdom through conscious action.

As we walk the human journey, we will each experience a variety of challenging cycles within our lives. These cycles are divinely timed as part of our unique experience.

The truth is that pain is an inevitable part of being human. However, our suffering is optional. We have a choice regarding our relationship to pain, and whether or not we suffer because of this pain.

These experiences are deeply spiritual and have been a part of the human journey throughout time.  Painful experiences and circumstances are an opportunity to discover the unknown resources of power within each of us.

Amongst my deepest ethos and practice orientation remains true: 

A problem is never the true problem, what matters most is how we orient ourselves around that problem. 

 

An empowering awareness is, we can’t avoid pain. We can avoid suffering.

At its most extreme, the conditions of these cycles are brought to surface through unforeseen life events such as trauma, illness, accidents, death, divorce, financial loss, or any other past or present life circumstance. 

Many of us do not even recognize what is occurring, as it is hidden within the pain and chaos of ordinary life.

But we are all here to live our purpose.  Which means, if we are to bring our unique gift or medicine to the world, we must go through the experience of wounding, death and rebirth, and conscious post-traumatic growth before we can live in the fullness of our truth.

Our challenges are the lessons that lead to our own personal power where wisdom can emerge.

 

In psychology, this has been studied and is known as ‘POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH’. 

This phenomenon says that when we experience trauma of any kind, we have the opportunity to be reset in the aftermath of the trauma, which is always a mindset choice. 

The viable opportunity exists to have an even more meaningful life after the trauma when we choose to lean into the growth opportunity from the pain or loss. 

Simply put, experiences open us to greater wisdom when accompanied with conscious right action. 

This has everything to do with our consciousness and choosing to align with what truly matters to us, which we often only discover after the trauma occurs.

 

Clarity, trust, self-love and self-worth, and discernment of what is ours to transform, and what is not ours to carry forward are the qualities we must cultivate in order to support the growth of wisdom in our lives so that we may walk our path of purpose and fulfillment.

It is taking what we have experienced and learned and transforming our lives to co-create with this new understanding and meaning for ourselves, and for the world around us through our purpose and meaning.

Exploring the wounded parts of ourselves is how we open to the ultimate possibility that is our life.

 

Awakening our consciousness and leaning into the pain opens the door to a truly unimaginable possibility.

Living a deeply awakened life is so magnificent and so far beyond most of what we see in the world that even when we experience it for ourselves, we often find it hard to accept that life could be this extraordinary.

But for us to make room in ourselves for the miraculous to take root, we must uncover, and ultimately restructure the belief in a life of limitation and examine our relationship with pain and suffering.

This deeply rooted and often unconscious limitation subtly holds us back from taking the steps of trust required to truly experience our own personal freedom and create a life we love living.

Speaking from personal experience, I know how grateful I am for the traumas in my life. 
Although the pain I have experienced personally felt excruciating and unrelenting at times, I would not have become the person I am, fulfilled by the work that I do, and conscious of my authentic Self if it were not for these experiences. 
I chose to lean into my post-trauma growth. I sought out healing, I turned inward, I explored my pain and relationship to suffering, I grew a relationship with my subconscious patterns. I became conscious of what I was meant to learn from the pain and who I could become because of it. 
My orientation to trauma was to witness the growing edge that was available to me through its discovery and unfolding. In doing so, I vaporized my suffering and became empowered by my pain. 
This was my awakening process and the pathway to my highest self.
You can awaken too. It’s never too late to change your relationship with suffering and trauma.

 

An awakening is not just a glimpse into the future — it’s an awareness of what is already true within you, here and now. What is aching to be birthed through you from your divine blueprint.

This is who you were born to be. It’s your true power, your essence, your genius, and the source of your prosperity and happiness.

When you are cut off from the truth of your essence, you don’t just fail to fulfill your true potential, you experience a disconnection from this divine pattern in you. 

That’s why the many attempts’ people make to solve “the problem/ sickness/ suffering” don’t work — because they are symptoms, not the root cause.

When we rediscover our truth and begin to align with and activate the latent power within us, our suffering dissolves.

 

This is when miracles can happen.

Are you ready to experience miracles and live out your true purpose? 

Are you ready to have trust and faith that no matter what challenges and pain arrive in your life, you are equipped to consciously traverse them and be stronger for it?

 

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