Can you Meet the Edges with me?
What is your inner voice telling you?
So many tethers this week in my field.
I’ve been trying to decide how to apply the highest and best use of my skills. I have so many skills:
Producer
Director
Chef (recipe creator)
Excellent communicator
Fantastic on camera
Art director
Educator
Masterful coach
Coach trainer
It’s taken a long time to be able to write the list above. I found myself in non reciprocal relationships. This is the year I come back to the drawing table and relaunch my career.
Even though I can write the list of things I do well above, I still have this voice inside my head. You have one inside your head too.
I asked myself this week:
Am I encouraging myself?
Am I shaming myself?
Am I blaming myself?
I’m mostly shaming myself and blaming myself for not being (good) enough.
This week I’m challenging myself, and I am encouraging you to challenge yourself to navigate through the space of the unknown through y/our awareness of of this inner dialog.
Awareness is the first step on our path to self actualization.
The language and energy of this inner dialog is so ubiquitous we often do not see it easily or clearly.
But we can.
We are capable of seeing it and it is a key inside of our ability to change this dialog. Changing this dialog is the determinant of our success and failure, it is the foundation of our happiness and all of our relationships stemming from the relationship inside our minds and hearts.
We see it (the dialog), then we go on automatic and keep up the bullying act, or we change it.
Of course we want to change it. That’s the right answer. Of course, who wants to be a bully?
But who are we without it?
How do we move forward without it?
I say this as my experience and I say this as the experience of hundreds of high performing clients I have coached over the years.
It’s often like balancing and feels like falling because we don’t identify with this essential nature in the same way we predictably, automatically align with the harsh inner voice.
If I give that bulling up, how will I improve myself? How will I be better next time if I’m accepting and loving myself this time?
It’s counterintuitive when we are brutally honest that we are getting a lot out of bullying ourselves. Yeah, that is twisted, I know, but that’s ok.
Can you meet the edges with me?
How can we meet and navigate those edges with trust, kindness, honesty, acceptance, forgiveness?
How do we navigate in the dark? That is what it feels like. Ambiguous…
This is what, amongst many things, is in the tethers this week. I take the challenge, who will take it with me? Ask any question, I will answer it in my post next week.
The ingredient I am most impaired by this week is turmeric.
Did you know….
Turmeric is a powerful antioxidant booster
Resolves inflammation brilliantly
Prevents cancer (comment below if you would like for me to send you a free copy of my turmeric, Food is Healing, presentation)
Squash soup
1 small onion, chopped
1 large apple, cored, and chopped
3 cups squash, chopped
1T ginger, chopped
3/4T turmeric, chopped (1/2T powder)
1 cinnamon stick
3 cloves
1/8t mace
1/8t allspice
1/2t cumin powder
1/8t fenugreek
1/8t fennel seed
1/4t coriander
6 cups of stock or water
1 can coconut heavy cream (optional)
1T ghee
Warm ghee in a heavy pot. Add dried spices and onion. Saute until soft and aromatic, carefully not burning. Add the fresh spices (ginger and turmeric) and stir adding stock or ghee to maintain the moisture. Add squash and apple and stir until spices coat the vegetables and fruit. Add stock and simmer until soft, 20 minutes.