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Right now, my soul is loving some downtime to chill, rest, and reflect.
Are you curious about what I’m reflecting on?
I’m looking at people, places, and things that don’t feel quite right in my life. My soul keeps opening me up to a deeper understanding of what it wants, all in the name of high vibrational living. It’s a kind of discerning that lets me see what some may say is obvious to them. It’s what I need to adjust in order to ask for (or demand) what I really, truly, deeply want to feel, do and be.
That’s the beauty of self-reflection, you get to ponder absolutely anything that is pulling at you to understand more or feel better about. Join me!
While we ponder together, I’m sharing an old post that got a lot of hits the first time around. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Do you suffer from this serious and debilitating syndrome?
Is your life so good that you’re well-versed in the happy dance, or do you suffer from the “keep everybody happy” syndrome?
I sure hope you picked option #1!
I hope your life rocks your world, puts a smile on your face, and has you acknowledging what you are grateful for, every single day.
But that’s not always the case for women, sometimes we get ourselves addicted to behaviours and actions that don’t truly serve us. And by addicted I mean that we use behaviors that seem safe in the moment as our default.
It usually starts something like this. We do things out of obligation. We don’t like to make waves or piss people off. We prefer to avoid a confrontation. And sometimes we do things that we really want to do for others, straight from the heart, but we end up doing so much of it that there’s no room left for doing the things that we really want to do for ourselves.
That’s the “keep everybody happy” syndrome. And it’s damn near impossible to do the happy dance with any frequency when your head is always churning with how to keep “the everybody happy” status quo.
That means you aren’t paying enough attention to yourself.
I totally get it. There are obligations, and there are things that you just love to do to care for people around you. I’m happy to help when my loved ones need something. Like me, if you look to your inner self for your direction, you’ll probably find things like love, loyalty and family/friendship guide your choices about where you spend your time and energy.
But there is still you, my lady. Still you to keep strong, still you to be committed to, still you to love deeper than anyone, if for no other reason than to be that woman your souls want you to be.
So I’m curious. I am certain that since you’re here you do your own version of the happy dance.
So answer me this…
When do you do your happy dance? Or if at this moment things aren’t feeling that great for you, what are some of the things that make you feel like you wanna get those happy feet moving?
Even when we know that we need to change our less-than-self-serving behaviour up, sometimes we just can’t. In our minds, the anticipated fallout is much worse than the status quo.
But since changing what you have in your life begins with changing who you are by changing what you think, start that process by noticing what and when is going on for you when you really wanna bust out those moves.
Then tell me what you wanna do with that by hitting reply to this email. Better yet, send me a video of you doing your happy dance and I’ll send you one right back of me doing mine. 🙂
Because there is always a way to move from keeping everybody happy to winning 1st place on Dancing with the Stars for your personally choreographed happy dance. Without giving up one for the other.
Find me. I’ve got some pretty great moves, how about you?
I am very grateful for you! You are truly the reason I am here and I want you to know you are amazing!
I love you so much!
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