Hi friend,
It's never too late for a second act.
It doesn't matter how long you've been living out past trauma, you can change your path.
It takes courage to let it all go when we've made choices and created a life from the wounded parts of ourselves.
For some of us this looks like letting go of the marriage that we know deep in our bones isn't right for us, even if we have children.
For some of us this looks like quitting the job, ending the relationship, moving to a new place, letting go of being busy and slowing down.
For some of us this looks like acknowledging all of the ways we've distracted ourselves from fully inhabiting our body and letting ourselves feel again.
It doesn't matter how old you are, you have the power to alter your destiny. It may be incredibly challenging, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
In fact, the challenge is often the sign that it matters most.
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You don't have to burn it all down. Sometimes the most profound change begins with simply allowing yourself to admit that you want more.
✨ Practice for the Week: Meeting the Life That Wants to Live Through You
This is a practice to help you feel, from the inside, where you are holding on, where you are ready to release, and what your body already knows about the life that is waiting for you.
You can do this seated, lying down, or even standing with your feet on the ground.
Begin by taking three slow, full breaths. Allowing yourself some time to arrive and get present.
Step 1: Feel the life you are currently living
Let your attention drop out of your thoughts and into your body.
See what you notice in the internal landscape of your body:
Where do I feel heaviness or constriction right now?
Is there anywhere I feel numb, held, or braced?
What has my body been quietly carrying that my mind has been too busy to acknowledge?
Stay here for a moment. Let whatever is present be present.
Step 2: Locate what you have been afraid to let go of
Gently bring to mind something in your life that no longer feels nourishing: a relationship, a role, a version of yourself, a way of living.
You don't need to make any decisions. Just let it be there.
Notice:
What happens in my body when I bring this to mind?
Where do I feel fear, grief, or resistance?
Where do I feel, even faintly, a sense of relief or longing?
Let both things be true at once. The fear and the knowing can coexist.
Step 3: Feel into the cost of staying
Get curious, ask your body:
How long have I been holding this?
What has it cost me to keep things as they are?
What parts of myself have gone quiet in order to maintain this?
You are not looking for answers from your mind. You are listening for what your body has already been trying to tell you.
Step 4: Imagine the release
Now, softly, let yourself imagine setting it down. Not fixing it, not knowing what comes next, just the sensation of no longer carrying it.
Notice:
What shifts, even slightly, when I imagine letting go?
Does anything in my body soften, expand, or breathe?
What wants to emerge in the space that opens?
Your body is showing you what is possible.
Step 5: Meet your courage
Place one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly.
From this place, ask yourself:
What is my soul asking of me that I have not yet been willing to honour?
What would it mean to trust myself enough to change?
What is one small truth I can carry with me from this moment?
Let the answer come as a feeling before it comes as a word.
Step 6: Close
Take a few deeper breaths and let yourself land back in the room.
Notice the ground beneath you. Notice that you are here, that you are safe, and that you have just done something courageous simply by being willing to feel.
You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to be willing to begin.
Journal Prompts
What is the life I am currently living, and what is the life I feel called toward? What stands between them?
Where in my body do I feel the weight of staying stuck? What does it feel like, and how long have I been carrying it?
What is the "second act" that I have been afraid to let myself want? What would it look like if I allowed myself to imagine it fully?
What choices have I made from my wounded self that I am still living out today? What would I choose differently if I were living from a healed place?
What am I most afraid people will think if I change my life? Whose voice is that fear speaking in?
What have I been using to distract myself from fully feeling? What might I discover if I put those distractions down?
What would I do, release, or walk away from if I knew I could not fail, and no one was watching?
What is one thing in my life that no longer nourishes me, that I have been too afraid to let go of? What am I protecting by holding on?
What does my soul keep crying out for, even when I try to silence it? What would it mean to finally honour that?
If this truly is my one precious life, what is one courageous step I can take this week toward the chapter that wants to birth through me?
So many of us remain stuck in lives that don’t nourish us because we’re afraid of looking like failures. But this is your one precious life, don’t let pride keep you locked in fear.
It may be painful, it may be hard, but you do have the power to alter your own destiny and change your life.
Death feeds life, whatever you let go of is making space to nourish and regenerate the next chapter that wants to birth through you.
Some of the most courageous people I know are the ones who were willing to let it all go in the spirit of honouring their deepest souls cries.
Love,
Shay
P.S. The second act that changes everything almost always begins with coming home to yourself. That is what my book Becoming the One is about…moving through the patterns, wounds, and places you've been settling, so you can finally show up in life and love from a place of wholeness.
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