Claim Your Awesome
Claim Your Awesome is on a mission to inspire and support women in connecting to their truth, awakening to their own power and unapologetically claim their big dreams so they can create a life that lights up their soul and manifest a life of abundance.
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Claim Your Awesome
Claiming the Life You Dream of Through Conscious Action
Have you ever felt the magnetic pull of your dreams but found yourself immobilized by hesitation? I've been reflecting on my own manifestations lately, looking for the common thread, and I've uncovered a HUGE shift necessary to manifest the life you want.
This episode is a heartfelt exploration into the essence of crafting the life you've longed for, not by chance, but through deliberate action. I open up about the steps I took, sometimes premature by conventional standards, to climb out from under the shadows of doubt and into the brilliant light of possibility. Together, we examine how our thoughts, often unnoticed, can either anchor us to stagnation or propel us forward.
As we navigate the chapters of this journey, I invite you to consider your own alignment with your deepest desires. Are they just whispers of 'what if,' or are they declarations of 'what will be'? We delve into the pivotal role our convictions play in turning our wants into our reality, drawing from my own life-altering experiences. It becomes clear that our deepest truths are the compass that guides us to success, demanding we settle for nothing less than what resonates with our souls. This episode promises to provide you with the framework to not only envision your dream life but also to take the tangible steps necessary to watch it unfold before your very eyes.
To round off our exploration, I stress the importance of acknowledging one's worth and the magic that can be found in the smallest of actions. Resistance, I assure you, isn't your enemy but rather an ally that, when embraced, fosters growth and self-realization. By committing to the journey of manifestation, you're not just chasing dreams; you're laying claim to them. I encourage you to stay engaged with our community, share your progression, and witness how even the most inconsequential steps can cascade into the life you've always desired. This isn't just a conversation; it's an invitation to stand in your power and co-create with the universe.
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Hello, I am feeling a little sassy here, so we're going to see how this goes. I wanted to create this episode because you know how much I love self-help, you know how much I love personal development, you know how much I love healing and you know how important all of that is in manifesting a life that you love right, in manifesting your dream life and manifesting a reality that looks different than what you may be experiencing now. And I want to share something that I really hope serves and, I really hope, helps each of you on this journey. And again, I'm feeling sassy, I'm feeling a little fiery. This is what's coming up for me today, so you can take it or leave it, right, and this is said with so much love and so much compassion.
Speaker 1:But as we manifest whatever we want to experience right, whether that's manifesting success in a business, whether that's manifesting entrepreneurship, whether that's manifesting more money, whether that's manifesting a partner, whatever that may be, whatever you want, whatever that looks like for you, it requires taking action on your part, and the action sometimes has to come before the healing. The action sometimes has to come before the clarity, and I see so many people not just women, but so many people struggling with this, where they are stuck in their own way. And again, saying this with so much love and so much compassion, because I've been there and I know how that feels and I know how frustrating it can feel to be in a place where you feel like you're doing all the right things but things aren't working out for you, where you feel like things just maybe are always not working out in your favor, plain and simple. Or you feel like you know what you want, right. Maybe you know you want to lose the weight and be healthier. Maybe you know you want a new job. Maybe you know you need to get out of a relationship that doesn't serve you, but you just can't do it. So we're going to dive into this a little bit today, because I really want this, or my hope is that something from this conversation shifts something inside of you, because sometimes I literally want to shake another person into them, waking up into their own power.
Speaker 1:And what do I mean by that? Right, like that's, like such this beautiful term, like standing in your power, being in your power. But what I mean by that is knowing that you have the ability to create the life that you want and when you know that you start to act in accordance with that right, when you really know that you take action. You take action and then maybe you get stuck, but you no longer see the stuckness as a roadblock. Instead, you see the stuckness for exactly what it is. It is a lesson, it is something that you need to heal and I use that term very loosely but it's something that you are meant to experience and learn from in this lifetime.
Speaker 1:And when you can really approach life with that type of curiosity, everything gets so much freaking easier. Everything starts to shift. Because then we're not stuck in our head, because that is what is so hard. When we're stuck in our head, we're stuck overthinking, we're stuck over analyzing, we're stuck in playing the victim role. Again, saying this so gently and so compassionately but humans are the source of their own suffering. We are the source of our own suffering. You could approach something that you're going through in your life and choose to not suffer through it. And if you're listening to this and you're like, no, that's just not possible, that's okay, right, that's okay that you feel that way right now. But I'm telling you that is simply not the truth. We get to choose our thoughts each and every moment.
Speaker 1:Yes, because we're having millions of thoughts constantly racing through our minds, some that we're completely unconscious of, and when we are aware of the thoughts that are coming in, or the thoughts that we are perpetuating in our mind, and we can then start to look at the thoughts as is this true? Right? Is this a thought that I really want to hang on to and believe? Right? Is this a thought that is allowing me to live in my highest potential? Right? Oh, my gosh, like that is. If you can do one thing, starting today, and have that thing be really slowing down when thoughts come in, can you slow that thought down? Can you question it? How is that thought making you feel? Is it making you feel not so great? Okay, maybe that's a sign that you need to slow down and question the thought. Is this thought 100% true? Is this thought allowing me to step into that next version of myself? Right, who would I be without this thought? What thought do I need to have instead to become the person that I know I'm capable of?
Speaker 1:Okay, the second you can do that, the second you realize that you are not the victim in your own life, right, the second you can bring so much awareness and love and compassion and simply curiosity to your current experience, your current reality through the lens of your thoughts. Because, remember, it's our thoughts that create our reality Everything starts to shift, everything starts to get easier. Right? Because, again, when I talk about manifesting with ease, or being in this place of ease, like manifesting from ease, manifesting because of ease I don't mean that there's no effort. I mean that it no longer is hard because we're no longer wrapped in the mental load that feels exhausting. Because what is keeping you exhausted, what is keeping you feeling burned out, what is keeping you from living the fullest, most joyful, most whole version of your life? Right, is your thoughts. It's the thoughts that are weighing you down. Right, it's buying into those beliefs. It's buying into the constant overthinking. It's constantly second guessing ourselves. It's not trusting ourselves. It's not giving ourselves permission to freaking.
Speaker 1:Do the thing that you want to do. It's not giving yourself permission to say I have this desire on my heart. Maybe it's not even a desire from a pure creation standpoint, meaning like I have a desire to create a podcast. I'm not even talking that specifically, I'm talking you have a desire to have a different reality for yourself. Maybe it's a reality where you are wealthier. Maybe it's a reality where you are healthier. Maybe it's reality where you are in, like, the most loving, wonderful relationship. Maybe it's a reality where you're finding so much satisfaction and financial abundance with a business that you love, right? No longer feeling like you're in the soul-sucking job, right?
Speaker 1:Whatever that desire is, you cannot feel at ease, you cannot rest until you allow yourself to give yourself permission to do the very thing you want to do. And again, sometimes it's like I don't know what that thing is, but I feel in my body that life isn't how I want it to be. I don't feel the joy that I feel, I don't feel the ease that I feel. Again, something is out of alignment, and you don't have to know the how, you don't have to know the what, but you simply need to get back into alignment in this moment. And the way that we do that is by coming back to our thoughts. What thoughts are making you feel yucky in your body right now?
Speaker 1:And I say that, like, that feeling feels different for all of us, and the way we identify that feeling may feel different and be different for all of us, right? Some people may feel contracted. Some people may feel heavy, some people may feel tightness right, I don't want to put words in your mouth, you have to discover that but I think that all of us can relate to just feeling like yucky in our body, right, like we don't feel like ourselves, we don't feel the aliveness and the lightness and the fullness that we want to feel, and sometimes I get hung up on words and I want to use words that everyone can really relate to. But that's just what's so resonant for me and I apologize if that feels like a little hard to wrap around or kind of fully come into but for me it's like this lightness, this joy of being, this just this enthusiasm for life, right, feeling so freaking, lit up about who you are and what you're doing, right, like I think that's what all of us want, right, we want to feel so connected to what we're doing and, to be 100% honest with you, you can have a job, for example, that doesn't totally maybe fit into what you think your purpose is. However, you can still feel totally lit up about life, right, those realities can exist. So, okay, I want to back up a little bit. You know, I apologize, I always get off on a little bit of a tangent, especially at the beginning, when there's just so much that wants to flow through me, but this is what I see so often. That is keeping us held back right, like we're either stuck in this victim mindset of not realizing that we actually do, in fact, have the power to change our life, to change our circumstance right.
Speaker 1:When I talk to women who want to make more money and I don't know what to do, like literally, you could go online and there are a gazillion ways to make money online and you know how you make more money is by making the choice that you're going to do it, by making the decision that you're no longer tolerating to live how you are currently living, right To no longer tolerate anything less than the abundance that you want to experience. And this can get a little tricky because we can consciously make this decision, we can logically make this decision. You and I could have a conversation and you could say, jessica, I want to make more money, right, but it's not until you energetically make that decision will things start to shift right. So what do I mean by making the shift energetically? This really means you have to get your whole body on board. You have to decide with every cell of your being that I know that what I want is available for me and I'm just no longer tolerating anything less than that.
Speaker 1:Right, I've shared this story before, but I've really been reflecting on a lot of my manifestations lately and just really getting curious about themes, and I'm just so obsessed with this work and I believe in the power of it. I know it's not a one-size-fits-all approach, but I was finding a common thread as I was thinking about a variety of things, big things, that I've manifested in my life. And I go back to the first one. I remember and this is so important because when I manifested my husband, I was not even into manifestation yet. Right, you don't have to even be so into manifestation or be doing these practices to manifest the things that you want, right.
Speaker 1:But when I look back at this time in my life when I had dated guys that were not a match for me, right, they were not the right fit and I wanted just a really wonderful, loving, caring person in my life I remember again I've shared this story before, so apologize if you've heard it a ton of times but I remember I had gotten home from a date with a guy I don't even remember who and just being like I'm just not doing that anymore, like I'm just not dating these guys, I'm only allowing these really amazing humans into my life. And I remember sitting down, I remember writing out this list and in this list I wrote down every quality that I wanted in someone. And this is where this shift energetically is so important. In that moment, I was not in my head about oh, I'm never gonna find someone like that, oh, I don't deserve someone like that. Right, sometimes these thoughts are conscious and sometimes they're not, but in that moment I was so connected to my highest self. I was so connected to my own truth, the truth that I am worthy of anything and everything that I desire.
Speaker 1:Right, and it's only because I was so connected in that moment I was so connected to I'm not tolerating this crap anymore. Right, this is the kind of person that I want, right, listing out all the attributes without second guessing that that person existed, that that person was waiting for me, that that person would be available to me, that that person would want me. Right, something in my being just said yes to that. Okay, and that is the biggest takeaway that I want you to get. It has to be this deep energetic shift where you are so connected to your own truth and again, your own truth being, whatever it is you desire, right, giving yourself permission to say, yes, I want to make multiple six figures a year. Yes, I want to make multiple seven figures a year. Yes, I want it all, whatever that looks like for you. You need to be so connected to the truth that that is available for you when you say yes to it and when you stop tolerating anything less, anything less, anything that doesn't get you to that very thing that you want. Right.
Speaker 1:And again, when I manifested finally getting my act together and being able to stick to a workout routine and losing the weight and, even better, stop judging my body, like I had been doing for the past 20 years of my life right, maybe not quite that long, but a long time, ever since I was young, right, like having body image issues I energetically decided in a moment again, there's another podcast episode about this that I wasn't going to judge my body anymore. Instead, I was going to offer it love and gratitude. Again, that love and that gratitude piece. That is my truth and that is your truth, right, our highest self. There is no judgment, there is only love. Right, there is only worth on all levels. Right, our worth is inherent, like it's only the ego, it's only our humanness that creates these stories of lack, and that's where the suffering comes in. Right, when we get into lack and scarcity and victim mindset right, that's where the suffering happens.
Speaker 1:But when you can energetically connect to who you are right, the abundance that you are, the love that you are, the worthiness that you are, the creative life force, power and energy that lives inside of you, when you connect to that and you feel that anything is possible. Right, and the women that are the most successful, the women that live the most fulfilling lives, the women that achieve the freaking things that they want to achieve, are the women that aren't willing to tolerate anything less. They keep going. Right, they're so connected to their truth. Right, and I don't mean that you have to be on this big spiritual journey Again. There are tons of women living this way, probably completely unbeknownst to them. Right, like they're so connected, they're just like already embodied in it, and some people have to do a lot of healing.
Speaker 1:Some people have to go on this like big, you know personal development and healing journey to get to the next level. Whatever that is, it's all available for you, right? It's all okay, it's all part of your journey. Don't discount it. I'm saying this for myself as much as I'm saying it for you. But stop trying to get to the end. Stop trying to get to the next step.
Speaker 1:Embrace where you are. Embrace that where you are now, whether that's in a deep place of joy and gratitude or it's a deep place of stuckness, or wherever you are, it's here for a reason. It's here to serve you. It's here to allow you to grow and expand and you can quantum leap in your life and in your business when you embrace that now and it's so hard because we don't want to embrace and feel the very crap that wants to come up, right, because it's re-feeling that, or in feeling that that brings up whatever you know it might bring up. That's what feels really uncomfortable and that's what we're getting. But when you allow yourself to feel that very thing that you've been resisting, it allows you to get to the next step so much faster and it's so much lighter and easier when you just can approach it with okay, what do I need to see here? Right? What am I ready to accept fully. What is the lesson? What is life trying to show me? What is the next greatest thing I can do for my own growth and expansion? Because that's what we're here for. We're here to grow and expand, but we've forgotten that. Instead, we're just stuck in our head and we're just stuck in again the humanness of life, and there's nothing wrong with that, right, like we are human, I get that. But when we can stop taking things so seriously and instead connect to our highest self, our future self, what would future, healthier, happier you be doing right now and do that thing, take action, what feels good to you, even if you're like, even if you think I think that with, maybe like a health journey, that's a little bit easier, right, we all know, okay, I can move my body. Okay, I could eat better. Right, that's a little bit easier.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, when we're on a fulfillment journey or an inner peace journey or a joy journey, it's like well, how do I get there? Right, how do I get to the inner peace? How do I get to the joy? How do I get to the satisfaction? What if you let go of the how and you just allowed yourself to find even a shred of that right now, in this moment, even if it is only present with you maybe for 15 seconds today.
Speaker 1:Maybe you're really in like a really big funk today. Right, I get that. That happens to me too, right, but can I find a part of me that is okay with being in the funk? Can I find a part of me that sees abundance even in the funk? Can I find that part of me that sees the joy even in the funk? Right, it's when we can embrace all of it that we're allowed to move closer to the very things that we want, right, and then it's also like we're no longer causing our own suffering, because now we're just allowing whatever wants to come up to be there. Right, we're allowing our own suffering. Right, we're allowing the frustration or the fear or the resentment you know, the sadness, whatever it is right Just allowing that to come up. We're like, okay, I see this needed to show itself. You know there was a lesson in there, there was a story in there, there was something I needed to now get to this next level, to now show up in a certain way, to now feel better about looking outside of myself for validation, when now I just feel really good inside my own body and I don't need that anymore, right? Whatever that looks like for you. Again, we're all on our own journey. Get really curious about what that looks like and let's go Do the work to embrace taking action.
Speaker 1:Taking action when it again feels so scary. But you know deep down, you know that it's something you should be doing and again, I don't mean should by like you're told you should be doing it, like your body knows. Your body is like please do this thing, please follow this nudge, please like look this way, please walk down this path right. And you're resisting it for some reason, when you can radically and courageously and bravely trust yourself and trust that instinct and you know, follow that inner wisdom and take that step right, pursue something differently, tolerate something less, make the decision and then commit to taking action, oh my gosh, everything will light up for you. I promise it will. It will be a game changer in your life because not only will more like breadcrumbs and nudges like start to be illuminated for you along that journey, like continuing to call you forward along that path, you will feel so freaking good and that is the biggest reward.
Speaker 1:And if you haven't experienced this, you may think, no, like the money is the reward or the thing is the reward, but I can 100% guarantee that feeling so freaking, lit up by your own life, is the biggest reward you'll ever feel. And then, when you don't feel that, you're constantly like, how do I get back in alignment with that? Like, how do I get to that feeling of feeling so good again? Right, and we all know this to be true. We all know this to be true because we see the multimillionaires or the billionaires and they're still not like maybe some level of inner peace or joy or whatever. That emotion is right, we're always looking outside, but it's so much better when you resource it from within and you take that action and you take committed steps, showing up for yourself.
Speaker 1:When you show up for yourself, you're showing yourself that you can trust yourself and the more you do that, the more you get closer to standing in again. That like life giving energy, that life force, energy that lives inside each of us. And that's where the magic is. That's where everything that you want is available to you. Right, but you have to let go of the very thing keeping you from taking the step. So, in this moment, decide that there's something bigger for you and give yourself permission to explore this right.
Speaker 1:And then, in the next moment, what is the smallest action you can do? Right, in the next moment, commit to taking that action. And then, in the next moment, there might be resistance that comes up. Right, and that's beautiful, and that's why you need to take the action, because it's in taking the action that the resistance comes up. And then we can see it for what it is, to give it a hug and be with it and be with that part of ourselves that feels scared for whatever reason. Right, it's. Again, there's the subconscious fear and until we get that fully on board, we won't get to that next level.
Speaker 1:So, embracing that, and then you feel a little bit better. And then you take the next action and just keep following what feels good and again, in this process, you're trusting yourself. It feels so good, you're staying committed to yourself. You know, when you commit to yourself and you actually show up, you're like you're showing yourself that you're worthy of that right Again, when you're showing yourself that you're worthy of that, you're coming back to your truth, because what's your truth right? It's inherently worthy.
Speaker 1:And again, people who talk about this idea of worth around manifesting money and worth with things. I want to be super clear that you don't have to prove anything to be worthy right, your worth is inherent, but you do need to come back to your own worth and feeling that, simply because that is what helps you take the action right. The more that we feel worthy of the money that we want to create, the more we are able to resource, like safety or whatever that fear is inside of ourselves to then take the action to make the money. So that's how that works. It's like you are already inherently worthy, but when you feel it, you then take the action required to co-create with the universe and manifest whatever it is that you want, right. So I hope this was helpful today.
Speaker 1:I would love, as always, to hear from you. You can drop a note in the comments if you're listening or watching this on YouTube and let me know where you're at in your own journey. Let me know if this serves. I love to hear from you, I love to connect and, yeah, keep me posted. Keep me posted on how you're doing this. Is this really beautiful time where we're really being called to step into our highest potential and sometimes there's deep healing that needs to happen, and sometimes we're conscious of that and sometimes we're not. So again, just allow what everyone wants to come up for you come up. Sometimes it's simply in the smaller action that will get us to that next step. Right, embrace all of it, keep me posted, sending you so much love. I'll talk to you soon.