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Alicia Joyful's avatar

This is all spot on and so rich of truths and love. I have been going through it, unwinding everything I thought I was, and allowing it all to come through as it needs and not as I think it should be. It has been a deep surrender and in the surrender and allowing.

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Roxanne ROXY Saffaie's avatar

Beautiful… the dance of life isn’t it?🩶

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Alicia Joyful's avatar

Yes, a constant dance, and remembering it is a dance, I am simply experiencing it all.

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Erin Avery's avatar

First of all sis, I feel like I channeled you. I posted a story on this yesterday before reading this essay. Again, universe is holding me during my pivot. A shift that has been happening is still unclear but I am standing in integrity. Allowing and not pushing. Growth + becoming is so uncomfortable and unpredictable but that dance IS life's choreography. I think the most intense part is the power that comes from the choices I get to make that moves the needle. Sometimes forward,.sometimes back but whichever direction I welcome it and learn. The student lens....its always on. Beautiful 4 part essay. LOVE YOU

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Roxanne ROXY Saffaie's avatar

i’m not surprised beauty there’s a lot of alignment here and I love this deep reflective introspection— You really are a real one doing the real work and all I see is elevation and expansion for you🩶 love you ✨

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Kyrie Puaoi's avatar

Every quote is so potent 🔥 One of your OG quotes that comes up for me and that I understand so much more now is, “self-LOVE is the queen of BATTLE.” It truly is the piece that will see you through the ache of growth, because when you love yourself - far beyond a bubble bath and manicure - it becomes safe to grow. With self-love, at the end of the day, the ache, pain, discomfort, whatever - you’re not beating yourself up over it. You don’t have to run scared from it. Because you got you. Self-love says, I love you, we got this. And I think oftentimes, from childhood thru the rest of our lives, that gentle (or firm) reminder is all we really need to take one more step.

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Roxanne ROXY Saffaie's avatar

Oh the proud smile on my face reading this!!! YES KYRIE, you GET IT❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Kyrie Puaoi's avatar

Yesssss 🤗

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Jana Mojska's avatar

Beautiful post on growth and becoming. I loved the part on integrity that helps during transition. I'm there, in transition, being on survival mode for long time, why? Simple reason, the mortgage. I have 3 more years to go. Somehow I'm trained by life to thrive in survival mode. But what I feel now is a need for life, color, juice, sunshine, evolution in heart and soul. Reasoning vs feeling life differently. Can I have both?

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