hey, raspberry rose soda.

we’ve all got intuition, but we don’t all feel like we have easy access to it

we’ve been programmed in a bajillion different ways to discredit the deep (and FREE, btw) wisdom within, so more important than anything else is for you to GO EASY on yourself with it

rather than make yourself wrong for not knowing where to start or how to hear that precious insight, give yourself grace + start here:

ask yourself what you LIKE to do, and/or what you WANT to do

this might seem overly simple, but i encourage you to really tune in to these questions and the answers that do + don’t arise

notice where you draw blanks, where your answers are based on or tied to what OTHER people like or want you to do

pay attention to what you feel in your body during this process

and again… grace grace grace for all the parts of you that might surprisingly struggle to answer

i’m here to witness or support you along the way, so don’t be shy, flutterby

xxoo, cc

CLIP EXCERPTED FROM: “trust yourself + watch what happens” – a podcast ep with emily horstman, RD, on Antidotes for Anxiety & Aging ( view in full here)

CLIP TRANSCRIPT:

what do I like to do? what do I want to do?

just that question! i mean, for very many different reasons, there was a long stretch of time that i just... my answer was always in relation to what either my husband or my mother or whoever, like what they wanted

and so it took a lot of intentionally asking the question — what do i like? what do i want?

and THEN dealing with that moment of, are you kidding me? i'm 30 whatever years old + i can't answer this question easily? like, that's absurd

and then having grace with myself around that, and then dealing with anger around that, and THEN actually answering the question, you know?

so i think there's something so powerful in asking yourself, for real, regardless of what anyone else thinks about it, wants you to feel or whatever:

what do i like? what do i want?

and just letting it bubble up, and then going a little further, and a little further, and then just DOING one of the things

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