TIME TO SHINE
Hi Friends! Been thinking a lot recently about the meaning of friendship. Like when we talk about our best friends we say they’re ride or die. Because we know that, no matter what, we can count on them to show TF up! So, what I’ve been wondering is why it's so much easier for us to show up for our friends than it is for us to show up for ourselves?
Why aren’t we showing up for ourselves as ourselves? Between IG, snapchat, tik tok, and all the rest, it might feel like we’re all living more openly but the truth is that, as a collective, we’re hiding now more than ever. We’re playing small, afraid of being truly seen–all the while pretending like it’s the opposite–like we’re in some great age of transparency. Le sigh. Let's talk about it!
MOONSHINE
Where to start? How about . . . at the moon.
(kinda cliche but hear me out)
Notice how it unapologetically waxes and wanes and goes through its moods. Watching nature unfold so openly in the sky-night after night seeing her different phases. And no matter how slender the crescent, we never forget how powerful the moon is because her gravity still affects the tides; her light still illuminates our night sky. Now imagine a world where we didn’t have a moon and all of that beauty was with held from us. Imagine if the moon decided to go dark. It’s inconceivable, isn’t it? Because we depend on the moon to shine every night just as we expect the sun to rise in the morning. Similarly, our nature is prone to phases, to shifts, to moods. We wax and we wane. But like the moon, we have an inner light that emanates. We remain powerful. It’s just part of our nature; of how we were made as beings of light.
So, why do we try and dim ourselves? What causes us to reject our power; to want to be small and unseen? Let's dig deeper….
LIBERATE YOURSELF
At its core, these feelings stem from the solar plexus chakra, the energy center responsible for our personal power. Third chakra imbalances lead to feelings of insecurity, lack of confidence, and trouble with setting boundaries - not ideal. Many of our past traumas become stored in the body and continue to affect thought patterns and behaviors. So, we feel like we’re stuck in the muck of constantly not feeling good enough. We become lost in the loop of comparing our lives against how amazing we think everyone else’s life is.
Unfortunately v relatable for a lot of us, tbh. Notice how so many of us suffer from imposter syndrome.
Well of course we do! Because if we always feel like we don’t deserve what we have, then we remain afraid we can’t meet expectations. We live in constant anxiety that we’ll be seen for what we actually are-as fakes, as imposters. (Ugh!)
We have to shift this narrative. Actively push back against it and remember our inherent worthiness. We have to learn to meet these feelings with relentless humor and become like our bestie, who cheers us on without question, with unconditional support. Showing up for ourselves this way is basically the biggest flex, ever. Will walking towards our self-worth be a linear and smooth progression? Um, likely not. But every moment, we have to remember that we can begin again. Need a good place to start? Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.
THE GLOW UP
A wise person once said bees don’t waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit. You have nothing to prove. Nobody to convince. Perfection is someone else’s idea of what is good. We can just be who we are, as we are, now and in every moment. When we embrace all of who we are; the entirety of our multi-faceted, multi-dimensional selves, the world becomes richer for it. Like the moon, if we just show up, in whatever phase we happen to be in, however messy we might feel inside, simply by daring to show up, our light is self-evident. The GLOW-UP of self-acceptance is REAL. And you know what else? People can sense it. They can feel the authenticity from a mile away. They can feel it's radiance and it shifts something in them too. When one person becomes free, others are alchemized by that energy. So when we stand in our power and dare to shine, we not only free ourselves, we free those around us. We become magnetic. From this place of radical self acceptance, we embody soul. This is the beauty of revelation, moonchild. This is emergence. And the time is always now.
FORMULA HIGHLIGHT
TIME TO SHINE
An empowering blend to remove the limiting beliefs of fear and self-rejection that keep you playing small. Time to Shine reconnects you to authentic self-worth and releases the need for outside validation. It helps cultivate the sacred knowing that you are always lovingly seen, lovingly heard, and anointed with protection.
xx,
Michelle