Gentle reminder: You are loveable, and you are loved.
You are trying your best and I see you.
Even when...
Even when you make mistakes. Even when you try your best and don’t succeed. Even when you snap because you are angry and frustrated with the world. Even when you’re annoyed at yourself and others. Even when you’re caught up in an anxious loop. Even when you fall asleep with tears in your eyes. Even when you feel like a burden to everyone. Even when you are caught up in the past. Even when you feel stuck in your head and feel like you’re making everything about you. Even when you doubt yourself. Even when you have a critical self-voice that says otherwise. It can be easy to forget and this is why this reminder exists 🥹
An excerpt from my book 📖 The Great Unlearning by Phi Dang
At times it can feel like life isn’t perfect and neither am I.
Even knowing and experiencing that, I am grateful.
I am grateful when I did not get what I want because life was protecting me.
I am grateful when life stepped in and gave me a life greater than I ever imagined for myself.
I am grateful that everything that seemed to be going wrong was really steering me in the right direction.
I am grateful for all the sadness, struggle and pain because life provided a contrast to truly appreciate all the beautiful moments, the highest of highs.
I am grateful for the hardships I have faced because I have gained strength and wisdom that I never would have otherwise.
I am grateful to still be here because traversing rocky roads have led me to conquer mountains I never thought I could.
Ultimately I have come to understand through the imperfection, that really, life is perfect and who I am right now is exactly who I am meant to be.
On perspective...
Whilst you can’t change or control life circumstances, you’ll always have a choice when it comes to perspective.
Often in hindsight we can find gratitude for the very things in the moment we dismissed as undesirable.
Never underestimate the power you have in any moment to use your mind, not let it use you 🧠
The truth is sometimes you won’t understand why certain things are happening in your life.
It will feel frustrating and difficult.
You will question yourself – who you are, the choices you have made, the decisions you came to, your past and ultimately you still won’t find the answers in that.
We think that the more we know and understand, the more peace we will have but that isn’t always the case.
There are times in life all you can do is surrender and ride the waves.
To have faith and trust in the process.
That everything is happening for a reason for your greatest season.
I believe in you...
This is for you beautiful soul, if you’re in the fog, the uncertainty — doubting yourself, questioning yourself…
It may not make sense right now and maybe it isn’t meant to make sense right now, but one day it will.
We can’t always navigate life in our head, intellectually… logically.
And thus sometimes life will shake itself up with the twists, turns and all things unexpected to get you out of your head and into your body.
May my heart no longer be heavy; but light and full of bliss.
May my mind no longer worry, but radiate with inner peace.
May my soul no longer fear; but deepen in love and faith.
Endings give way to new beginnings
& sometimes we need the rain to fall, to wash away and release all that no longer serves us, to nourish us with the waters of contrast in life, to remind us of who we really are in testing times.
May the rain heal you.
May the rain relieve you.
May the rain provide mercy to you.
After the rain we know growth will emerge.
Our wounds are soothed.
Endings give way to new beginnings.
If you’re reading this, it’s a sign of reassurance that the tough times will ease. The worst of it is coming to an end and now you can take the wisdom of the rain into the bloom.
This is symbolized by the beautiful flowers I had in this reel coming to the end of their life but reborn again as I spread them in the sea, transforming into new life. Part of the ocean. Part of the nutrients that feed life within the sea.
Your soul didn’t sign up for a pretty picture perfect life.
Your soul signed up to be HUMAN on this adventure we call LIFE.
The curriculum for this involves mess, grief, heartache, despair and so too does it include pleasure, ecstasy, laughter and joy.
Your heart, your soul, your spirit don’t want to be controlled.
You signed up to be truly liberated – raw, wild, dynamic and free to experience it all.
You came here to grow
Because what would life be if it was happy and comfortable all the time… 😮💨 b o r i n g
What would be the point!?
You came here to grow, to expand 🌟
It’s in the contrast of life we truly live.
This is something you can be aware of yet still challenged by.
We intellectually understand that to experience life with a spectrum of experiences is necessary yet we unconsciously desire to only have feelings and experiences we label as “good” and “positive.”
In challenging times we can return back to the words of this post which contemplates our very purpose for living and breathing.
To experience!
So when you’re feeling low, in the depths of darkness and running into shadows — know that it is beautiful. It’s beautiful because in the pain of it, is also your wisdom and gold.
Here’s to being human, the full spectrum experience of it ✌🏽
Can you tell I’m an emotional authority in human design? 😋 grateful to have learnt that I’m designed to experience the waves 🌊 and with time gain deeper understanding and clarity. Don’t know yours — book a reading with me!
And of course, happy energetic lunar new year, bring on 2023 🚀 to you beautiful soul reading this — I appreciate you 🥰 thank you for being on this wild ride with me ✨✨✨… LETS GO 👊🏽