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I have spent the last few years since I sold my infrared sauna studio, Inner Light, in 2019 telling myself a specific story about entrepreneurship.
I realized recently - this story was a lie.
Here it is…
The lie: All the shapes that my work has taken over the last few years have been out of alignment and each was a mistake in some way. The stops and starts were necessary and eventually I’d unlock a big key to my true purpose and it would all flow from there.
(Here’s the thing it’s not fully a lie. It is truthful, but it’s not entirely accurate. The last bit did happen - I have unlocked a key, and I’m in alignment in a way I’ve never been, but I was wrong about how I needed to get here.)
The truth: If I had kept going in any single one of those forms of my work - color therapy coaching, Human Design and astrology readings, motherhood coaching and workshops, intuitive guided meditative journeys, the books, the podcasts - I would have ended up in the same place as I am today, but with a successful business already intact and growing.
The only thing keeping me from what I desired was not alignment, it was ME. It was the loud, critical voice saying over and over: “this isn’t working, it’s wrong, I have to pivot.” It was deeply entrenched judgment of myself, layered on top of the oldest wound in the book: unworthiness. What is unworthiness at it’s core? A lack of love.
The antidote to all of it had been the same all along - self-love.
Me at Inner Light - I renovated the space to build a studio to do small group classes & 1:1 coaching - in February 2019
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