How Bright Will You Let Yourself Shine?

by Lorree | Jun 25, 2018 | 0 comments

Fear stops us from living. It kills our dreams and prevents us from being who we truly are.

Fear paralyzes us. Fear leads to feeling separate and alone.

Fear is a big part of our life and much of the world is controlled by it.

Fear is often an illusion. Some would say fear IS an illusion.

One of my biggest fears was being visible. I still remember times in my life where I had to be visible and I was scared. I thought if I showed up as who I really was people wouldn’t like me, they would criticize me, make fun of me or plain out reject me.

Did those things happen when I allow myself to be visible? No.

Did they happen when I was a child? Yes.

So there you have it, I have been operating from a childhood trauma of being bullied and rejected. I’m not a child anymore so why am I still fearing these things that aren’t even true?

Back then I bought into the belief that being visible is not safe because of those traumas and it stayed with me and ran my life. I stayed safe and small so I could remain invisible.

Can you think of a belief you bought into from childhood that is still controlling you from showing up, being your true self and shining bright?

This is all part of our soul’s journey, we find ways to create separation, we add all this drama and illusion to it and we believe it’s real.

We feel the pain which is necessary and often we suffer from it, which is not required. We get stuck in patterns, energetic loops, and as much as we want to we don’t know how to get out of them because our fears are holding us hostage.

Underneath it all, hiding in the darkness, is who we truly are. It’s our real, authentic self which includes those lost parts of us that are feeling deprived because we have denied, suppressed or repressed parts of who we are because it didn’t serve us way back then.

Does this sound familiar?

This is the soul’s journey and we all go through it in our own ways. Many of us get stuck and lost in our pain and we are scared of the unknown.

Another part of our soul’s journey is to go on our Soul Adventure!

Our Soul Adventure is when we decide we want to change the status quo of our life so we can live fully. It requires us to go into those places we may be fearful of going so we can find freedom, peace and happiness which leads to being successful in our life.

Many of us are hearing the calling to be/do/have more. Whatever more means to you is relative but it always means being who we truly are inside and letting go of the person we have shaped our self into to feel safe, loved and accepted.

When we are not being real we compromise our self and we feel it in our body. We feel off, unsatisfied, anxious, down, depressed, tired, stagnant with little to no drive or energy to be better. We are hiding, dimming our light, and we are not living to our full potential.

Is life really worth living if you aren’t living it fully?

Some may say yes and there’s nothing wrong with that if it’s working for them, it’s their journey and they are meant to be on it. However there are many of us are being nudged or even pushed to go on the adventure our soul is calling us to take.

It all starts by beginning to trust our self and Spirit, and take a chance.

It’s not easy to trust something you can’t see and often can’t hear. I can relate to this and I had to push through that fear and surrender to the unknown. I had to put my faith in something bigger than me and say Yes to taking the adventure because what I had been doing wasn’t working for me.

An adventure is an exciting experience and it’s all about growth which means taking risks that can be bold, scary and uncomfortable.

When we shine the light into our darkness we discover things about ourselves, we uncover our gifts and we learn it’s not scary. We are safe to be our self and we grow. Clarity shows up, we feel more aligned and hopeful. We begin to lighten up and allow our self to have fun, explore, create.

The core of our life is about growth and the exact reason we are here.

Over the last several years I’ve changed a lot and have become more visible…. and it’s been uncomfortable many times. I’ve come to accept I’m meant to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and Spirit keeps telling me in various ways to be more visible! I also know I feel so much better now that I am following my soul’s wisdom and being who I truly am!

When we are our unique self we can’t help but shine, affect others positively and create magical results to all we do. We are ok with ‘failure’ because that means we are learning more about who we are and growing into being completely authentic.

I’m taking a Soul Adventure – Journey to the Real Me and I know when we do things that are uncomfortable with others we feel understood, connected and supported so I’m inviting you to join me!

The Soul Adventure Game is for you if:

You want to take off the proverbial masks, connect with your true self and be that person all the time.
You want to listen, trust and act from your intuition and quiet your logical mind.
You want support and community with other like-minded women who are on a similar path of awakening.
You are a light worker (someone who is called to help others and/or the planet) and you need support with all your emotions to cut through the noise and focus on one thing per day.
You want to build consistent habits to support your idea of living a conscious life and moving towards your goals, dreams and desires.
You want to have fun, stop taking life so seriously, be the REAL YOU and shine!
You want to do this in a short amount of time per day with permanent results.

If playing the Soul Adventure game sounds like it’s for you take a look more closely here.

An interesting confirmation happened for me, after writing this post these are the Soul Adventure cards I drew…and it couldn’t be more true!

Is your soul calling you to go on an adventure? Let’s play and create!

Besides impacting the lives of others to ‘be real and love life’ the most powerful thing about the work I get to do is the reflections of the teachings that come back to me. I always receive some type of wisdom, healing or blessing from the experience, whether it’s a private, group session or a speaking event.

Whatever the message is that I’ve conveyed I am somehow reminded of how it applies to me as well and it guides me towards the next stage of my growth.

Being aware of the subtle messages that are being sent to guide us forward is very empowering.

Last weekend at the Soul Full Day conference, I guided a group of 70 women through a visualization meditation to identify and let go of a fear story holding them back from what they truly wanted for their life, freedom to live their love story.

It was remarkable to witness them releasing the fear and claiming their love stories, seeing and feeling themselves living in the higher potential of their dreams.

This week I’ve been deeply reminded of the fear story that I’ve been carrying, ‘not being well enough to live a fulfilling life because my digestive health is failing’.

This is the same story my grandmother carried, and she died in fear with this story in her which was unconsciously passed on to me, and I accepted it.

For 8 years now I’ve been having various challenges with my digestive health. I’ve seen many different professionals and tried many different remedies and lifestyle changes. Some have worked and some haven’t. Over time things seemed to have mostly settled, then just a month ago the issues flared up again in a bigger way.

This brought up the old fear story for me as I prepare for a trip of a lifetime. I’m going to Egypt on a sacred pilgrimage to the visit the lands and ancient sites with 13 other women. This will be my first trip overseas and I’ve always been fascinated with Egyptian history, never thinking I would get the opportunity to visit until it showed up to me. I was very drawn to go, and decided I was going, even though it felt way outside my ability to be able to take such a trip.

Worries and a wide range of emotions have been coming up for me since these flare ups have been happening. My mind races and makes up stories based in old fears.

What if I am not well enough to fully experience this trip? What if I am stuck in my room and miss the tours, or what if I am not able to digest the food there? All that disappointment and money spent if I might not be able to full experience it.

These stories are very similar to what my grandmother used to tell herself. She was afraid to go far from home, let alone on a plane to another country. Everything centred around her digestive limitations and she was petrified of having an ‘accident’ while out in public. These fear stories debilitated her and she became a hermit and was very lonely in her later years.

I will never forget seeing her in the final days of her life living in fear. I visited her almost every day and seeing her like that was very sad because there wasn’t much I could do other than comfort and reassure her that she would be ok.

What it did do was motivate me to face my own fears and not go down the same path as she did. In this regard, she was a great teacher to me and not long after she transitioned I was divinely guided to take the Radical Forgiveness Master Coach 10 day training in Atlanta.

It was a huge step for me, and again way outside my comfort zone, but in the end it was one of the best things I could have done for myself because it set me on the trajectory of facing my fears, and the journey of living my love story.

I am eternally grateful to be on this path of self-forgiveness and self-acceptance just as I am, and in time I have learned to love myself. I’m still on this healing journey however this year I’ve had some major shifts in this area of my life and feel truly worthy and deserving of this love for myself because I have freedom from the fears.

This is where the synchronicity comes in again.

It just so happens that this Friday, the day I fly to Egypt, is the 9 year anniversary of my grandmother’s passing, and it’s a full moon! You just can’t make these things up. I didn’t realize the mysterious alignment of these dates until just a few weeks ago.

In numerology the number 9 represents endings and completions and I have a strong intuitive feeling that this trip is going to be transformational for me as a new beginning.

The other day when I was dancing my grandmother came to my mind, she was dancing with me, and I know she is leaving me these breadcrumb signs to follow to complete this stage of my journey. I made a promise to her that I was going to end the cycle of fear she carried and commit myself to healing into wholeness.

I have no doubt that this is all happening for me, rather than to me. And unlike my grandmother, I will face my fears and take this trip and I will trust in the divine unfoldment of it all.

I am reminded that everything is always working out for me, even if it doesn’t seem that way and she is cheering me on all along the way.

These are the same phrases I spoke to the women when I was on stage just a few days ago and they echo loudly in my mind as the beautiful blessings of having the freedom to live my love story.

If you would like to experience the guided visualization for yourself listen to the audio recording so you too can be free from your fear story and claim your love story.

In my next blog I will share about my travel adventures so stay tuned, and if you would like to be notified when I share it you can join my email Love Letter list at the bottom of this page.

Until next time… thank you for being here.

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