Consciousness

  • 6 Things I Never Expected to Unlearn After Losing My Dad A Decade Ago

    May loss not define you

    10 years later the journey continues and I can’t quite believe I’ve lived 1/3 of my life without him 🥹

    Grief has no expiration date.

    It is never too late to grieve.

    In the early days it was raw and overwhelming.

    I numbed it. I suppressed it. I ignored it. I resented it.

    The myth that time heals all wounding is understandable however really we learn to grow around the grief and expand.

    Grief does not end or stop.

    It becomes part of the journey weaved into the everyday, a mosaic of joy and sorrow all at once that is part of the human experience.

    Loss and grief have shown me it doesn’t end with the loss of our loved one that it isn’t useless, in fact it’s led me to become a life coach something I never would have comprehended a decade ago (I was meant to be a lawyer or CMO!!).

    And that is the beauty; the twists and turns of life and how pain can turn into power and purpose.

    Now I honour it. I lean into it. I feel it. I’m grateful for it.

    As a coach it has been a privilege to support and witness individuals navigate the complexities of grief in learning to feel the feelings, redefine the narrative and unlock the strength and resilience that emerges from heartache.

    Here’s to the journey 🫶🏽

    May loss not define you but propel you into greater depths of living: with gratitude, with radiance and to embrace the immense gift of not just being alive; but living 🚀

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • You get to choose…

    You get to choose

    Choose to believe that anything is possible.

    Choose to believe anything can suddenly change for you.

    Choose to believe in the infinite spectrum of possibilities and outcomes.

    A whole world unseen

    It doesn’t matter what you see.

    There’s a whole world unseen.

    What you hear going on in your brain matters, what you believe matters.

    💡 After all, beliefs are simply repeated thoughts you have…

    📖 The Great Unlearning by Phi Dang

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • Welcome to the darkening of the light

    Follow the pulls of your soul

    Surrender your heart and soul to the universe.

    Shed what no longer serves you like a snake sheds its skin.

    Let go and flow with the stream of life.

    Listen to the rhythm of your heartbeat.

    Follow the pulls of your soul.

    Release your fears and doubts, child of the universe.

    The stars and angels support you.

    When the world is dark, your inner light shines bright.

    We need darkness to find the light

    Welcome to the darkening of the light.

    Just like the dead of winter or the dark night of the soul, we need darkness to find the light.

    We need darkness to use as a veil to shield and protect what is growing beneath the surface.

    What will surface is your endurance to channel your crisis into change.

    Your strength, your capacity and willingness to feel will liberate you and set you free… 🦋

    📖 An excerpt from my book — The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living An Aligned and Authentic Life by Phi Dang

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    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • Thank your past self

    Old memories...

    In this lifetime, we will mourn and hold funerals for all the versions of ourselves that we’ve been.

    You aren’t who you were in the past anymore.

    You are who you are now, here, in this present moment.

    Thank your past self for helping you survive.

    Thank your past self for being strong and enduring pain.

    Thank your past self for doing their best and fighting hard.

    Thank your past self for being brave.

    Thank your past self for getting back up and continuing to try.

    Thank your past self for making you who you are today.

    Thank your past self for making mistakes which you’ve learned from.

    Thank your past self for letting you move forward.

    Thank your past self because even if they no longer resonate or align with who you are today… you couldn’t have done it without them.

    Let go in order to be you are now

    It’s understandable if you’re mourning for who you used to be and feeling all of the feels that come with change: sadness, joy, fear, excitement, anxiety and elation.

    You’re allowed to mourn for who you used to be whether you were proud of past you or not.

    And when you’re ready, truly let go… in order to be who you are now 💐

    Who you are becoming.

    Who you choose to be.

    Whilst remembering with great gratitude to the past you, who has enabled you to be who you are today and where you are today.

    How you show up today, will result in who you become in this moment, in tomorrow, in the future.

    An excerpt from my book — The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life.

    Available worldwide June 23, 2023.

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • CHANGES…

    Change pushes you to expand...

    Why do you only want change if it’s on your terms?

    That is not how change works.

    Change pushes you to expand.

    The circumstances of life and the universe will show you what is happening.

    Some doors are closed to redirect you.

    A door to another path will open and show you another way of doing things.

    Rejection is protection.

    You cannot control the pace of change.

    It just happens and is inevitable, so you might as well embrace it because you’ll emerge stronger, wiser and smarter than before.

    Trust and surrender...

    There’s one common thing that most of us do that stops us from growing and changing 👀

    That very thing?

    The desire to control.

    So very human of us.

    You are a powerful creator collaborating with the universe and life force itself.

    You’ll find your life fill with more ease when you realise the only thing you can control is you.

    Your inner reality.

    Choosing what thoughts you’ll follow and go into the rabbit hole with.

    Choose your perspective on the world and what you’ll do with those feelings.

    Choose your impact on the world through the way you move and what you do.

    No matter how hard you try — you cannot control life.

    It’s the beauty of life, it will unfold as it should.

    Trust and surrender beautiful soul 🌊

    Let go of the heavy need to control it all because you can’t and why would you want to?

    It would be a heavy task and where’s the fun in that?

    Enjoy the ride 🦋

    📖 The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life by Phi Dang

    Now available for pre-order worldwide at all good online retailers and bookstores, releasing June 2023.

    love & positivity ✨phi

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  • On letting go

    Free your soul

    The truth is sometimes life is leading you to let go.

    Not getting what you want is setting you free.

    You’ve got to let go of the past to make way for your future.

    Letting go is the portal to the power of the present moment.

    To land and arrive fully here.

    Letting go is opening to the world of infinite possibilities.

    Letting go is expanding beyond what you think you want and allowing what you deserve.

    Letting go is freeing your soul.

    Letting go is liberation.

    Trusting in the universe

    It’s not easy to let go but what if you knew everything you desired and wished for was on the other side?

    That a clearing and space is needed for all of it to arrive.

    Have faith that you are always being led to something better and greater, more than you could’ve imagined for yourself.

    To trust in the call of the universe and beat of your heart when you know deep down inside, it’s time to let go…

    Everything is always happening for your highest good and growth, not to you, for you 🦋

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • There is always more

    There is always more...

    Maybe today what you need to be reminded of is: 

    Your existence is wanted and life is still worth living.

    You’ve lived many lifetimes preparing you to be here right now.

    There is more to your story.

    Your story is still unfolding and you’re about to enter into one of the greatest chapters of your life.

    Good things are coming your way beautiful soul.

    Be here to see it, feel it, touch it and experience it.

    Let go of lingering in the past and make space in your heart for your future.

    Free yourself from the bind of your mind and be here in this moment.

    We know all things change in the blink of an eye.

    Keep turning the pages, for there is always more.

    Keep turning the pages

    Sometimes we read a story and there’s parts that don’t make sense until the story progresses… and maybe that’s your life too.

    The only way to know?

    Keep turning the pages.

    You are living the life you are because you have the capacity and resilience to.

    In some spiritual sense your soul chose this story like for the greatest growth and expansion of your soul.

    That is not always pretty or fun, but that’s growth.

    We don’t grow as quickly and greatly in pretty and fun… there’s nothing like a baptism of fire, crumbling tower moments and dark nights of the soul.

    You got this beautiful soul ⚡️

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • On slowing down…

    Welcoming your highest self

    Beautiful soul, you are allowed to take your time and slow down.

    You don’t have to push, push push, force force force, hustle, hustle, hustle.

    Your pain whether physical, emotional, mental or anything else is real.

    No matter what anyone else says.

    It’s not attention seeking or dramatic.

    You aren’t being selfish or lazy.

    You are brave and doing your best.

    That takes true courage.

    Take it day by day. Moment by moment. Minute by minute if you need.

    Even second by second.

    Your highest self and soul is waiting for you to pick and prioritise yourself.

    Your highest self and soul yearns to be acknowledged for your resilience, strength and tenacity.

    Hold on.

    You’ve got this.

    You are creating a beautiful life for yourself.

    When you slow down...

    there’s nothing wrong with taking your time and slowing down, there’s nothing wrong with you.

    we live in a society that is obsessed with the fast pace and instant gratification.

    sometimes we need to just stop, pause and be still.

    to be truly present and savour the moment.

    especially in moments of pain.

    remember you’ve overcome all those hard times you didn’t think you would yet here you are reading this.

    listen to your soul.

    it always knows the way.

    it can be scary to listen to but trust and have faith in yourself.

    your soul is your in built GPS system completely customised and unique to you.

    slow down and tune into it like the radio 📻

    when you slow down you can feel the sunlight dance on our skin.

    when you slow down you can hear the symphony of sounds in everyday life.

    when you slow down can you truly taste your coffee and the chocolate melting on your tongue.

    anything can happen at any time, so it’s okay to slow down.

    be gentle and kind to yourself, you are doing your best.

    you got this 🧡

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • Finding light through the darkness

    Your journey through darkness...

    People may be jealous of your light, but they won’t be jealous of the the journey through darkness you had to take to shine.

    Let your light shine

    Let your light shine so bright that others can see and find their way out of darkness ✨

    I still remember when I first was told the below quote by Marianne Williamson it sent tingles up my spine…

    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous…actually…who you are you not to be?”

    It made me realise whilst I was afraid of failure, in a subconscious conditioned way I was scared of success.

    What people would think of me?

    Who I would become shedding my old scared self in the process?

    Know that all your triumphs and successes are yours.

    Know that you were born on this earth and discover your purpose – to be the best version of you which allows your highest self to shine.

    Remember this, happy people never tarnish or diminish your light and if someone is jealous of your light you know you’re clearly up to good because no one is jealous of pain, misery and suffering.

    Imagine if you got out of your own way today to be your true, free, liberated self.

    What would you achieve?

    Who would you become?

    Be like the sun 🌞 the sun shines everyday evenly blindingly so and doesn’t give a damn 🌻

    You weren’t born to be ordinary.

    You weren’t born to be bland.

    You weren’t born to fit in.

    You weren’t born to shrink yourself.

    You weren’t born to be mediocre.

    You were born because you are EXTRAORDINARY ⚡️

    I hope you dare to shine beautiful soul because the world needs your light more than ever 💫

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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  • Checking in with your soul

    Start with your soul

    Stop with the shoulds.

    Start with your soul.

    Letting go of the "should"

    Stop should-ing on and all over yourself 😳

    I should work out more.

    I should eat more healthily.

    I should be able to do it.

    Ask where the should is coming from? (Most likely your mind, your ego stemming from guilt, over extending yourself, shaming yourself…)

    Realise the place that it’s coming from isn’t serving you or the world.

    Negative emotions don’t work in creating positive behaviours 💡

    Even if they do temporarily it’s not sustainable or healthy.

    Instead check in with your soul.

    What do you DESIRE to do?

    What FEELS GOOD to you?

    Tap into your soul and feeling, bringing your conscious intention with you.

    Maybe you CAN do something?

    You GET to do something?

    You CHOOSE to do something?

    You WANT something?

    Ahhhh that feels better 😌

    Give yourself a choice instead of starting off with shame and failure.

    Power to you ✊🏽

    love & positivity ✨ phi

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