Not easy, but “with ease”…

While externally, not too much has changed in my life (asides from leaving a job of almost 7 years to go into solo private practice, and returning to the area of forensic psychology 🙈😂),

What has changed internally…. 🤯

You know when you’ve been stretched… when you hold your head in your hands, look up to the universe and mutter something like “come on….!!!!! Enough already”.

As I say, be careful what you wish for!!

The thing about growth, it never comes in the way you imagine. You don’t head off to some nature retreat, gather with a group of women (or men), connect on your shared experiences and then “ta da” ⭐️

Return home, magically transformed into a wiser, stronger, more empowered version of yourself! 😏😏

Nope, wisdom is forged by going through the fire 🔥 and coming out the other side.

And even then, we need to INTEGRATE our experiences.

To make sense and meaning and to find our “new norm”.

The place within ourselves we come to call “I” or “me”…. At least temporarily that is. Until the next major transformation takes place 😉

I can safely say, 2022, you have not only opened my eyes and added to the lessons of 2020 & 2021,

But you looked me in the eye and said “Shannon, if that’s what you want, this is what it takes” 😰

You see, becoming the ideal version of yourself means doing things you’ve never done before (otherwise you’re not changing).

It requires you to not only have the intellect and the knowledge, but to also EMBODY the future version of you… that which already exists and is awaiting your arrival 👸🏽

It requires you to be willing to let go of the old, and to be open to the new. And as much as we think we want something, we are rarely prepared for the sacrifices required to get it.

So now, as I prepare for 2023, I am over stepping out of my comfort zone…. For now 😜

And instead I am tuning into the word EASE.

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