Stop Waiting. Lead.
Gaining awareness of our wounds and patterns can be a powerful catalyst for change, but it can also be a thread that we keep on pulling to find the final answer; the one thing that makes it all make sense, the last thing we need to heal. In this way, the never-ending healing journey can become a track we loop on. Instead of accepting that there is no one final fix and moving ON with life, we can get caught in the cycle of always needing to heal — telling ourselves that if we could just fix one more thing, we’d finally be ready.
Healing can be beautiful, but when we place too much focus on this one element of life, it can turn our lives into a waiting room where we feel like we are doing the work but in fact, we have not yet stepped into true leadership of our lives.
Shift your perspective
The longer we spend in this loop, the more we start to unconsciously believe the story that we aren’t capable of leading our own lives. Beliefs and the actions that reinforce them are interconnected. So if we act as though we aren’t in full leadership of our lives, we will start to believe we aren’t capable of it, a painful and immobilizing story to live in.
Rewrite the belief
Instead of living the belief of “I can’t move forward until I’m fully healed,”
Remind yourself: “I can lead myself right now, as I am. My healing continues, but it can follow my leadership rather than hold it hostage.”
When your inner leader steps forward, healing is no longer the gatekeeper to life but in fact can become an amazing by-product of living fully.
Take this with you
Ask yourself these reflection questions today:
Where in my life am I waiting to feel more “ready” before I act?
What would it look like if I led myself forward now, even imperfectly?
What is one small action I can take this week to embody the leader I already am?
You don’t have to finish healing before you begin. In fact, leadership creates the conditions for your healing to deepen.
Stop living in the waiting room.
Start living in motion.
xo
Emma
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