The personal growth, spiritually and self-empowerment space is a double edged sword. On one hand it can be deeply empowering, transformative and healing, and on the other it can have quite the opposite effect and instead be disempowering, toxic and a way of running from or hiding rather than doing 'the work'.
It can also become a means of numbing or distracting from our true feelings, or a way to bypass things that we are afraid of and don’t want to face. If we are staying busy wether thats with work or 'workbooks' we can often (not always) bypass sitting with our feelings, which is actually where true healing and empowerment lies on our authentic journey.
The balance to a healthy relationship with spirituality and self empowerment, starts with our relationship to ourselves and how we approach our journey with awareness and intention. Ensuring we follow our hearts and trust our intuition instead of giving our power away to others or seeking fulfilment outside of ourselves.
In this episode I talk about my personal experience with spirituality and self empowerment and the toxic relationship I developed. I talk about how we can foster a deeper awareness of our relationship to 'doing the work" and how we can keep it truly empowering without falling into unhealthy practices. Our personal journey is truly unique, I discuss what questions we can ask ourselves in order to stay aware and stay true to our own authenticity on our self empowerment journey.
"Sometimes self empowerment and spirituality can take an unhealthy turn. We can get so caught up in needing to improve ourselves, fix or mend ourselves, that we start to feel broken, less than, that something is wrong with us or we are unworthy of love; our dream career or our desires until we good enough, worthy enough, healed enough. We can find ourselves feeling exhausted, wrung out and overwhelmed from all the deep shadow work we have been doing, and filled with a longing for rest, lightness and play". Kezra
SHOW NOTES:
Gabrielle Bernstein
https://gabbybernstein.com/
Marianne Williamson
https://marianne.com/
Abraham Hicks
https://www.abraham-hicks.com/