i just bought that book, funny you mention it!

A client called for a reading. My guidance said to do an exercise with her instead. Took her on a journey where she met different aspects of herself around a campfire council: The Pusher and The Magical Timeless Knower. Got these parts of her psyche working together and supporting each other.

It was lovely how the journey came together and how I believe it helped answer her questions.

Wrapping up, I left her with a resource that would support her continuing this on her own and welcomed her followup if she got stuck with any shadow parts or wanted to do some healing around any parts where she feels resistance. I tuned into which book on this topic would be best for her and suggested she read, Dark Side of the Light Chasers, by Debbie Ford. It's a good basic and practical book on shadow work, an integral aspect of conscious expansion.

She laughs hard. "I just bought that book! I haven't read it yet." I hear her relax into trusting herself. Ahhh.

Isn't it perfect timing how tuned in she is to what she needs!? Gave her confidence that she knows what to do, and now confidence that she can do it since she experienced it already with me. I look forward to hearing what she discovers. She has such a beautiful, compassionate and strong spirit....I wish she believed in herself as much I believe in her. I'm keeping the fire lit for her.

I've had several experiences where I had intuitive insight for something in my own life then found a book that confirmed it. There is something about having it in writing that makes it feel more real and validated. I imagine similar things have happened for you, too...whether it is books or other concrete validations. Don't they help!?

sacred a$$hole

"You are comfortable with your guardian angel, but are you comfortable with your sacred asshole?!?"
Funny guidance that came through for a client recently, eh!?

"You've come far on being okay with what is...accepting yourself...being in the moment...but you still judge the asshole. Don't. Be real. Be honest. Be in your integrity. Be in the truth of your thoughts and feelings. Just allow your sacred asshole, Your Old Man Coyote Trickster, when the moment is right!"

Don't we all do this? Self judging behaviors we don't like in ourself or others. Over controlling our emotions. Over riding our gut with oughtas. For example, we intellectually know that being angry doesn't much serve us, so we disown it. But not dealing with the anger and repressing it is actually worse. We need to face it.

be aware of the anger, go into it. through is the way.
By digging into what is real, all parts of ourselves, our humanity, our ugliness, our beauty, our fear...embracing who we are...all of our selves...in this awareness, we can't help but naturally become more loving. Really. Sometimes tough love. But love.

confession of an anti-asshole
Someone told me a couple years to act Latin. He'd rather I walk across the room and smack him a good one then hold it in. I don't really think he wanted me to smack him (I tried it. It didn't work for either of us. Just saying.) He just wanted me to be in the moment, to be true. He was right. And, it was raw and ugly. But it was true.

your turn!
But like everything, don't take my word for it. Try it. Allow your sacred asshole when it comes up. And oh,
please share your stories to rid us all of our "too nice syndrome." Add a comment!


Motto: Embrace your sacred a$$hole.
How's that for spiritual guidance.

it's not impossible - please meet "Prove It"

Meet Prove It, my Inner Skeptic. Hello, Prove It. How are you today? Not sure. Okay.

I love Prove It. If I didn't have Prove It, I'd be just jumping on every bandwagon and drifting after every last crazy idea.

Thank you Prove It for keeping me straight, for helping me validate, experience, gain proof. You've kept me focused and I love ya.

I've developed a pretty nice relationship with Prove It over the last few years. We get along well now that we've stopped resisting each other and understand each other's roles. See, Meredith is meant to explore and learn and grow and stretch and try on new ideas and work through them. And Prove It is meant to keep Meredith in check. We collaborate.

There's a trick I've found to settling Prove It's intensity when he gets a bit out of hand. I remind Prove It that for some things, it can be a bit hard to prove but we've got lots of interesting evidence, enough to explore more anyway, so let's go. It's hard to prove 'I love you" too, afterall.

So...Prove It can sometimes be settled (though not sated) with the words....
"It's not impossible that _________________ is true."
I can't really prove it's true. But I can't really prove it isn't true either. So no need to get stuck. It's really not impossible that it is true. Keep going.

I so recommend getting to know and work with your inner skeptic. It's fabulously liberating.

Motto as of late: "And you don't believe it!??? That's shocking."

special shout out to fellow superblogger...i'm test driving a "motto" ending. totally dig your listening and feeling clever summarizers...may i adapt/adopt??