🚀 JUNE Lift-Off Newsletter!🚀

I have a fly-fishing trip 🎣 coming up this summer and I’ve never gone a trip like this before. I’ve never braved a big river on my own with people I don’t know well at all. I could seriously tank this whole expedition, but I am actually quite excited! Even if I fall in the water, or get my line tangled somehow… I know it will be amazing.

Now, I didn’t always used to look forward to the future with excitement.

Far from it.

I used to be quite afraid of new things, because I was taught through my parent’s fear. My brothers were more adventurous but I learned to be more cautious. I did what felt safe, and what wouldn’t create fear or frustration in my parents. (We all do that to some degree.)

I made all those choices because I didn’t want to make them wrong. I believed that if I did, then I feared I would rock the boat and screw up my safety net.

But I became an adult and was not living at my parent’s house, so my way of being had to change. I needed to address what made me happy and find out what stopped me from creating the life I wanted.

After I made some fundamental changes in my beliefs, and I realized my parents wouldn’t die or disown me, and a few other naggling beliefs I had hidden deep in my minds cave… I then went to Morocco. I also bought a vizsla to get me out of the house and meeting people. And the more I did, the more confidence I felt, and the more connected I felt.

I started making my life happen in all the ways I truly wanted. But I had to take away the roadblocks of what stopped me in the first place. The rest was easy!

I am guessing that you would like to have a life that is more enjoyable and a bit easier than it is now, too.

So, what would you like to make better?

What roadblocks have you stuck?

It was NLP that finally got me to understand how I was creating and perpetuating my belief systems, some of which I adapted from my parents. I learned how I stopped myself before I even got started… on so many things!

We are all designed to seek out security, safety and love. And how we do that is to recreate what we survive. Why? Because we survived it and we know that our solutions/belief systems worked. We always use our best solutions, because they worked. Why reinvent the wheel all the time?

But, when we get perpetually get stuck in our own cycles of self-sabotage because we are working within old paradigms and frameworks. Our brain hasn’t gotten an update, which is why NLP is so awesome and the main tool I use to help people get through their self-limiting beliefs and experiences.

My husband and I teach our two girls that there is nothing that can stop you except you, and it’s up to you to figure out what your fears are, what you are telling yourself, and then figure out if that is really how you want to be in the world. We tell them to not blame the world for their plight, because when they change, the world changes with them. They just need to start, while we hold their hands and tell them that no matter what, it’s going to be ok.

Dream Big, Hold on Tight and Keep your Heart Open Wide!

Until Next Time,