Embodiment: Building Your Next-Level Self With Gratitude, Creativity, And Faith

Ever wish you could pick your future self like an avatar and step into her today? We dive into embodiment as a living practice—choosing the character you’re becoming, loving who you are now, and letting your everyday rituals bridge the gap. From morning movement and breathwork to decluttering old loops and stories, we share what’s actually working for us: small, consistent actions that align mind, body, spirit, and emotion without the grind.

We talk about gratitude as a frequency setter, the relief of dropping performance and people-pleasing, and why endings can be sacred when they clear space for a truer life. You’ll hear how breath unlocks stored tension, how “mindcrafting” helps you build the room before you walk into it, and how play, joy, and creativity make transformation feel light. We get personal about faith, intuitive nudges, and the little synchronicities that unfold when you manage your vibration instead of forcing outcomes.

If you’re craving ease, authenticity, and a practical path to your next-level self, this conversation will give you permission and tools to start now—no perfect plan required. Choose one ritual, speak your vision out loud, and act the part with love until life meets you there. If this resonated, follow and share with a friend who’s ready to stop renewing old subscriptions and start writing a new story. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: what’s the first trait you’ll embody this week?

Chapters

• 0:00 Defining Embodiment
• 1:45 Choosing Your Future Character
• 2:50 Decluttering For A Clean Slate
• 4:40 Daily Practices And Morning Rituals
• 6:45 Gratitude And Unconditional Self-Love
• 9:00 Spirit First, Body Follows
• 11:00 Feeling To Heal: Breath And Release
• 13:10 Conscious Creation And Vibration
• 16:00 Letting Go Of Loops And Performing
• 19:00 Infinite Choices, Not Hamster Wheels
• 22:00 Mindcrafting Your Life
• 24:30 Signs, Play, And Joy As Practice
• 27:00 Creativity Can Be Anything

Transcript

Defining Embodiment

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Welcome back again to the Lip for Life podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:04

I am here, Kaylene. And I'm Tanisha. We Lit Baby. We're so excited to bring this word forth today. And the word of the day is embodiment. Say it together. Embodiment. So when we say embodiment, we think about the character that we are desiring to become. Who is this person? What does this person do on a day-to-day basis? How does this person feel? What resonates for you that you can allow yourself to see mentally first? And then in what ways can you step into that character? So we're gonna build our character today.

SPEAKER_04 0:53

Dress up. Literally choosing, like swiping, like, nope, not that one, nope, not that one. Like you literally get to choose who you desire to be, who you're gonna show up as in 2026. But that doesn't start in 2026. You have to build that out now so that you can walk through as her.

Choosing Your Future Character

SPEAKER_00 1:13

We get to do that. You know, sometimes we do it without thinking about it. Like, I know for me when I get my hair done, new characters loaded because now I want my eyebrows done, and now I want to wear a cute outfit, and now I want to step outside. So it's like that. It's building that character, but that character represents the person that you desire to be in this new timeline. And that's what we are doing actively right now. So we've gone through the process of releasing the things that got in the way of that character, and now we get to step into that character. So there's been a lot of decluttering going on between the both of us, like getting rid of old things, things that are stagnant, sitting around, and I'm talking about things, relationships, places, like you have to let all of that go. And when you get that clean slate, you get to rebuild and recreate. So, what does that look like for you? I want you to take some time to think about that and how you can best represent that person.

unknown 2:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 2:18

And don't be afraid to make it big. Like you don't have to say, oh, but here's where I am now. Uh I'm not gonna No, it's not about that. You just get to literally build that character. Who do you desire to be? Who do you see yourself as and walk towards that? What steps can you make little by little to get there? Because that's the end goal in mind. You have to see that ultimately.

Decluttering For A Clean Slate

SPEAKER_00 2:43

And it's a total self-love journey. It's not a beating yourself up for where you currently are, like that's not gonna get it. It's a total, I love myself so much, I desire to see this version of me born.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

And for me, I know my newest character, she works out, she takes care of her mind, body, spirit, emotions. So I'm doing that now. I started a new routine this week, and I love it. My morning routine is 10 minutes of a little bit of everything: the vibration plate, the rebounder, which is a trampoline, yoga, um, calisthenics, and I've been loving it. I put on a good podcast, and I just flow and I connect to that newer version of me, and I look in the mirror as already seeing her and like touching myself in the way of accepting my body and the parts of me and embracing it all and being grateful for the way my body has carried me through these 45 years of time, and just it's the love, appreciation, and the connection to your now self that's gonna bring that new self in.

Daily Practices And Morning Rituals

SPEAKER_04 3:58

Oh, yes. If you don't appreciate where you are now, you're not gonna get to where you desire to be. So it's kind of twofold in that way. You have to still be present with who you are, be grateful for all of the things that you've accomplished, all of the just all of who you are. There's so many times that we can look at ourselves in the mirror, like I'm guilty of this sometimes, looking in the mirror and saying, Oh, I can lose weight there, or you know, picking apart yourself, and God doesn't see you that way. And when you can tap into just that same love for yourself, and you see that and really embody who that is in your mind, not just the physical, that will flip to match that. If you can make that make sense.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

If you can tap into the unconditional love, that's what source has for us, unconditional love.

SPEAKER_04 5:11

Completely.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

And we have to learn to have that for ourselves. Unconditionally.

SPEAKER_04 5:18

Because then the conditions will change to match how you feel. It's like what came first, the chicken or the egg, but the gratitude has to come first in this case. You don't get all of you desi You don't get all of your desires by not starting with the gratitude. You won't be grateful when you get there either, because then you'll pick apart things in other areas, and it's always gonna be this cycle, but you break that and learn what unconditional love of self is. Everything around you is gonna reflect that.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Um I'm allowing myself to think of how we're so much more than just this physical body. And I I made a post like this before that when I speak, I want people to feel me, not so much necessarily see me. I want to be felt, and what allows us to be felt is the nature of our spirit, and I desire to have this internal spiritual journey first, and when I'm tapped into that, that allows the external to become so much easier of a reflection. So tapping into who you are internally will allow the external to represent the internal.

Gratitude And Unconditional Self-Love

SPEAKER_04 6:38

Absolutely. It's definitely about flipping the script. You can choose to look at yourself one way, but again, there's that word right there is choose. You get to choose how you look at yourself, how you value yourself, how you love yourself. And it's a lot of unlearning things in order to get to who that true version is of you. Like I've been recently doing a lot of hip opening exercises because I know that that's where a lot of tension is stored. We store a lot of memories and emotions and trauma. And breaking all that up allows you to really feel it to heal it. Like a lot of times I would sit and I'd be like, man, like this hurts. Like I want to stop. It's tight. It's tight, but I want to stop. And then you run from it. And it's like, don't run from the pain. Sit and brace it, embrace it.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

Breathe through it. Breathing is the key to when you're doing a pose that is really uncomfortable. You allow that breath in, it becomes easier and lighter. Yes. And that's true in so many facets. Literally. Like breathing, taking a moment to breathe and tap into who you really are.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

And know that a lot of the stuff that we're seeing are illusions. And we have the ability to consciously create through what we're seeing. And you have to be tapped into yourself to realize that's who you really are.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

And I love that we're able to share in this way a lot of the things that have helped us in this next level of embodiment. And we want you along with us in this journey. Like we're better together.

Spirit First, Body Follows

SPEAKER_04 8:32

All of our individual stories are woven together in ways that we can't even comprehend. But you're listening to this for a reason. We definitely hope that this lands in your spirit and that you feel the things that we're saying. That you allow yourself to go deeper with you. Not just listening to us, but really sit with you. That's where the real transformation comes in. You can get caught up in listening to all the YouTubers and all the podcasts, and you can know all the things, but until you actually apply it for yourself, you won't see those changes. So really take that time to sit with yourself before this year is up. Learn who you are, learn what your desires are. Not just car housing, like not that. Learn what your desires are, your values, the things that aren't gonna change no matter what your exterior looks like. Build that part of you. You're choosing your avatar. You're getting to choose all of it, internal, external, it's not just what the physical is. It's choosing how you connect with God, it's choosing how you show up for yourself.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

And I'm telling you, when you start just with the don't don't underestimate the power of the Most High and what spirit can come in and do for you when you start to acknowledge who you really are. You have no idea what's on the other side of your current situation. But only when you tap in, ask for help, ask God for help and guidance, pay attention to your intuition. If you feel like your character is a person that knits and get paid, gets paid to knit, you're thinking that for a reason. Start knitting. Just start. You don't have to have a plan, you just have to have a passion. The passion will bring all of the next steps for you. But it's the excitement and the joy of doing something that you really desire to do.

SPEAKER_04 10:47

That is all that we desire to do, is to continue to embody this next level character of ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Yes.

Feeling To Heal: Breath And Release

SPEAKER_04 10:56

And step into continuing to get paid just for our knowledge, our experience, our fun that we create, the love that we share. There's so many moments that are so unexplainable in a lot of the things that have transpired since we've been co-creating in this journey, and you just have to continue to stay tuned to see because it's literally been some mind-blowing experiences.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

We were just sharing on the way in here, right where we are, downtown Juliet, how a few years back we were at the Mardi Gras Festival, and we were having a great time, Kaylin and I. We had a drink, and then a photographer said, Can I take your picture? And he took our picture and I said, Watch, we be on the front page. And I didn't think nothing of it. We walked away. And do you know the next day we were on the front page with the paper with our drinks in our hand? Like it's been experiences like that that have happened to us and more. But if you don't think your words have power, they do. They do. Your energy, the frequency you hold has power. And when you're in the upper registry frequencies, you attract all these amazing good things. And that's what we desire to show you is vibe high and attract all the things that you desire through your vibration. We've we know what the lower frequencies feel like. We spent a lot of years there in the guilt and the shame and the fear and the hurt and the trauma. And all that does is produce more of that.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

Yes.

Conscious Creation And Vibration

SPEAKER_00 12:38

But as soon as you elevate to creativity, to passion, to freedom, to love, to forgiveness, to hope, to trust, to faith, baby. Heavy on the faith. Baby, be ready. And don't be afraid of if that version of you might mean a divorce. It might mean a walking away from a job or a church or family members. Don't be afraid of it. I'm speaking from experience when I say there was a lot of loss, but that's because it was connected to so much trauma.

SPEAKER_04 13:17

And connected to all of the things from our lower selves, the things that we continue to recycle, the things that we knew from those points and those vantages. But that doesn't mean that you don't get to choose again. You always have that clean slate. You always get to start again.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Always. You are the manager of your vibration, and that's what we want to share the most. You are the manager of your vibration. You, no one else, not a person, not a place, not a thing. You. Can't blame anyone for that. Make better choices because it's better to, and I'm speaking from a person who spent a lot of years trying to get a person to vibrate like me. Sometimes you just gotta let it go. Let them go. Let them. The let them theory. Let them go and free yourself and let it go. Whatever is consuming you, that you're overthinking, that you're beating into the ground, trying to make it work, all these things, let it go. Because if it's meant, it'll be easy. It'll come with so much ease. My mind is constantly blown, even still, and it's been happening for a lot of years, the things that have happened with ease. I'm still trying to accept that things can come easy because we've been taught hard work is what you need to do to get the things you want. And that was one of the biggest things that I had to let go of was proving myself through effort. Keeping relationships through effort. Let me show up this way, let me do this, let me perform. It was one of the biggest things that I had to let go of. Performing is so draining too.

Letting Go Of Loops And Performing

SPEAKER_04 15:06

It's so you feel it, you know it when you're doing it, you know when you're being authentic, you know the difference between that light, happy version of you and the version of you that has to shrink your gifts and shrink to feel small around anyone else that you don't think that you can shine the brightest. But guess what? You can. You get to do that. It was like being we're talking about building characters, and it was like just hitting renew subscription, renew subscription, renew-like you just keep renewing the same things over and over again. But if you know that you're tired of renewing that subscription, you know you don't want to renew that lease, you know you don't want to continue in the relationship, you know the things that you desire and deserve, and you know that you're walking towards them no matter what that looks like. You know that. Do you know how powerful and special and incredible that you are? That you get to choose that Do you know that every choice has an infinite number of choices that you can make beyond that and beyond that? So there is literally an infinite number of paths that you can continue on to go towards your highest vision of yourself, of your life, of who you want to be. Don't just continue to renew a subscription because it's what you've always done.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

It's giving hamster on the wheel. You don't have to be the hamster on the wheel. Get off of it. Yeah. It's funny that that wheel goes in a circle. Throw that wheel in a circle. You you can't get off of it because it's just going cyclic, cyclic, but you get to choose.

SPEAKER_04 17:05

My daughter brought home some homework uh one day, and they were different lines and like different patterns and things. And one of them, and I kept it, I still have it in my notebook because it was such a reminder. It was showing loops, and it was this like really long line of loops over and over and over again. But at the end of that page it stopped, and I was like, wow, this is the end of my loop. Like, I'm done looping in things, going round and round and round and round, thinking things will be different, but not making different choices, going round and round and round and round. Yeah. And that literally is the definition of insanity.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Mm-hmm. Doing the same thing and the results. Yeah, we can't do that to ourselves. No more loops. Unrenew your subscription. Unsubscribe. I decided that my passion for this life of freedom is way too important.

unknown 18:07

Yes.

Infinite Choices, Not Hamster Wheels

SPEAKER_00 18:09

Yeah. Way too important. And those moments of silence, I don't knock them anymore. Because it's the receiving. It's the receiving of what you're saying and the integrating it into your body and into your system. And we're real good about that. Sometimes you have to just take a moment and let it sink in. I don't take this lightly that we're doing this right now because it's something that we talked about. And now here we are doing it consistently. And I feel famous already. Like I feel famous. Like we walked in, and now this room is not ours yet, but in our mind, we came in here and we embodied what this room will look like with black and gold aesthetics and a banner and the things that we have in it. Like we're not there physically, but we're there vibrationally, and that's what matters. It's called conscious creating.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

You don't have to see it to see it. That part.

SPEAKER_04 19:21

It really is a constant build-out in your mind of everything around you. You're like playing, what is that game? Is it mindcraft? You get to like build stuff. Like it's like Minecraft in your mind. It's mindcrafting. Crafting your ideal life, the version of you that loves every day that you wake up, the version of you that gets to sit in gratitude, that the Most High gave you another day here on this earth to co create with all of its inhabitants.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Yep. The things that I used to just be so dismissive of, I connect to now, like trying. Trees, grass, clouds, birds, sitting here looking at a 3D cardinal bird.

SPEAKER_04 20:10

It's so cute. I wish that I knew the name of the business that I purchased this from, but a cardinal is like my spirit animal symbol for my grandfather. And it's like a lot of times I'll have a tough moment or a moment of indecision. And I literally'll ask for a sign and then see a cardinal. And so when I saw this cardinal at a vendor event and breakfast with Santa over the weekend, I purchased it because it's so freaking cute. It's so intricately done. And now it kind of like hangs around me.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

It's giving angry bird.

SPEAKER_04 20:47

No, that's what it looks like a little bit, the angry bird. It's not angry. It's a distinguished face.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Okay, gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

Look at the little feet.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

It is really cute. And it it's another form of creativity. It's the appreciation that I have for creatives.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

And that we can choose whatever. Whatever we want and create it. What was the name of that? Struggle beard? No. The song you sent the other day. Oh my god.

Mindcrafting Your Life

SPEAKER_04 21:24

So I was looking, so let me go back to the story just a little bit because I think this is funny to mention. I was coming to pick her up so that we could go get massages, and it was super aligned because we needed them. It was self-care time for sure. So I said, I'm pulling up in the wagoneer because that's our dream car. For now, that's what our higher selves drive. And I said, I'm pulling up in the wagoneer. I already got your butt seat warmed, like the massaging seats are on, painting the picture. And when we went to go test drive the wagoneer, they uh our salesperson was so amazing. And it was like riding with a friend. And the first song that was playing when we got in the car was 50 Cent.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

A little bit.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

A little bit. And so I was playing that song and it was bumping. Oh my God. That's our Grand Wagoneer song. It sets the stage for us. And she comes to get in the car and it's bumping. We're having a bomb time. And just envisioning again, sitting in this embodiment. And I'm so embodied in the story about laughing about the wagoner and putting us in it that I forgot why I was even telling the story.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Oh, we were supposed to relating it to the song. The other bit and I accidentally typed in Lil Butt and this artist popped up called Lil Butt.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

But I think it was buttsack.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Oh, buttsack. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:09

And the song names. Oh my God. I don't even want to say them. If you want to go music and go see Lil Buttsack. There were so many songs, and I was like, what in the world? You can be as creative as you want to be and do whatever you want.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Yes, people are out here doing whatever they desire. So that was so funny when she sent me what she typed in accidentally, and it was just the laugh of people just be out here creating anything, but this is proof.

SPEAKER_04 23:40

Literal proof. The proof that what is that? The iPods that are like the little sack for you to put your ear pods. Something it was like a sleeve or something like that. Like it looks like a sock. Things that people just create just to be doing stuff. You can do whatever you want. Don't let anybody tell you that your dream is too small or too big or silly. If it makes you happy, do it. If you make yourself happy with it, do it. Be creative. Be silly. Be fun. Be my kids really make me tap into that so much. Yeah. Of like being silly and playing.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Like And find enjoying the little things. They're so good at that.

Signs, Play, And Joy As Practice

SPEAKER_04 24:29

So good at it. Things that you may like roll your eyes at or be like, like things that you can dismiss. But sit on that sometimes. Like be there in their fantasy too.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Oh my gosh. Yeah. So the other day, Naomi been on this role of wanting to play Uno with me. And one night, she was so damn silly, so giggly that it annoyed me. And I was on the inside, I was like, why am I so annoyed at her joy? Because the truth is she's joyful that we're spending this time together, and that's why she's acting so silly. But it was the serious part of me that was like, girl, stop it. And so it is like a represent what they represent. Because all they want to do is have joy.

SPEAKER_04 25:07

Yes. The joy and the fun bring the funds.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 25:15

Hmm. Well, that was a funny turn to the end of our show. But it's the embodiment.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

I love it. Lil Butt Sack was embodying. He was. What he saw for music or whatever, he created it.

SPEAKER_04 25:31

And I mean, he has like albums. Multiple albums. Things that I don't think that I wanted to listen to the catalog of, but it was just the embodiment. It's the. There it is. I'm looking it up on Apple Music now. The first song that comes up, it says Beethoven pen 15. I'm not gonna say the word. If you catch my drift, pen 15. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Got it now.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

So yes, lots of oh, come hungry, not C O M E. Lots of, lots of things. Oh my goodness. So yeah, if you want to go down the rabbit hole of his creativity, that's there. But you also can take this time to find some creativity for you. And what it is that fills your soul, the things that you love to do. It's like you almost can forget how good it feels to be in that creative flow if you don't allow yourself to be there. If you give yourself a gap of time where you're not, don't think that you're not creative anymore. Just start doing something.

Creativity Can Be Anything

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Yeah. Just start in. Tap in and tap into what feels good. Stop doing what does not feel good. If you can, to the best of your ability.

SPEAKER_04 27:06

And you can. Start small.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

You can get a pack of color pencils and a coloring book or a blank sheet of paper and just go crazy. Like start doodling. I doodle all day sometimes. It's just a like therapeutic. Yeah, getting it out.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

It's the nature of creative. I love word searches. Do I word searches? I have my coloring books. I write random freestyles. Like they come to me in the middle of just clear blue. Gotta put it down. Yep. So yeah. Tap in, guys.

SPEAKER_04 27:44

Embody the character that you want to see in this coming year. We love and appreciate every moment that we get to spend with you.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Yes, yes. We don't take it lightly. Thank you. Um if you could do us a favor and continue to support by following, by sharing, by tapping in on our social medias, um, on YouTube at Candle Queen1111, and Instagram and TikTok at litforlife l dot i dot t for life at F-O-R.

SPEAKER_04 28:17

You can find me on YouTube at Namaste K 333. That's namaste K A I three three three. I'm also on Instagram at D and Lulu. That's D-E-E-A-N-D-L-U-L-U. And TikTok too. That is Namaste K underscore. We're gonna have all of this stuff linked for everything to see. We got our website up and coming and a lot of new things shifting for this upcoming year.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

So looking forward to staying tuned.

SPEAKER_04 28:52

Yes, it's late. And scene.