Stop pretending you don't know what you do know

Artist Chioma Ebinama amor mundi 2021

When Doubt has become the living, breathing default mode, we make unconscious excuses, acting as if we are behind or somewhat stunted, that our instincts cannot possibly be correct. We become annoying to ourselves, placing ourselves on the back burner, unimportant. Thinking other’s beliefs, words, intellect, curiosity, or laughter are somehow more _____. Fill in the blank; it could be anything.

We fall back into doubting our knowing, our own simplicity of being. We are caught in a spiral of answering to the wounds we can’t seem to rise above, even though we are constantly being called to say what we need to—better yet, to feel our knowingness and allow it.

What seems to be in the way? Most likely, attachments to others, when we are so consumed by someone’s idea of us, our energy gets stuck there. We stay performing for approval of some sort, often outgrowing it yet incapable of switching off the automatic default button.

We have had nudges to move on, we have had glimpses of our Soul self, and we have had all kinds of messages around us daily. The problem is being so attuned to other’s energetic frequency that we forget our own, care for our own, and give it the space and reverence it needs to show us what’s possible. We need space to move through life as we were always intended to. We must let others feel for themselves, do for themselves, and be themselves. We all deserve to know our own soul selves fully and intimately.

May you learn and trust that you do know and that what you know matters.

"There are no shortcuts.

You have to do the work."

-Rick Rubin