Creating Your Unapologetically Authentic Life

“Pain pushes until vision pulls.” – Michael Beckwith

It wasn’t a pleasant birthday. Yeah, I was happy to have been given another one. But this one had something it needed to tell me and it wasn’t going to stay silent.

As I approached this particular birthday, I began to hear some annoying voices I’d thought I had repressed. Annoying in the sense that I just didn’t want to deal with them but they showed up yet again. But I guess when you’re willing to have open and honest conversations with yourself about yourself that creates a safe space for some uncomfortable feedback.

There had always been this feeling of a misalignment of sorts, a long-running inner conflict between who I was and who I knew I was created to be. I’ve always been very grateful for What Is, but there was an unrelenting gnawing that I’d yet to allow myself to fully embrace what was possible for me. With yet another birthday just ahead that repressed voice of inauthenticity began to scream. Loudly.

There are many reasons why we live a life of Less Than. Of settling. Of abandoning our own authenticity, of habitually taking what we are given instead of creating what we know is possible. We will get the life we feel we are worthy of living, even if we know deep inside that there is a life we know we were created to be living. It’s an unseen inner conflict, a brutal dichotomy to carry within. And we are the only ones with the power to reconcile those inner conversations and decide which life we are willing to live.

Are we worthy of living the authentic life we know we were created to be?

That fateful birthday served as a catalyst for asking myself some gut-check probing questions. Was I worthy of living the life I was created to live? If so, what was preventing me from doing so? Were the stories of limitation and lack and scarcity that I was telling myself actually true? Was I willing to get to the end of my life regretting what I never allowed myself to become?

These questions, as difficult as they were to answer, changed my relationship with me. A pivot point of compassionate redirection. Especially when it came to accepting that, yes, I am inherently worthy of living the life I know I was created to live. Unapologetically. Because we all are. Creation is always intentional, and the intention of Creation is for the fullest expression of that which has been created.

That includes me.

That includes you.

No matter what the past may have looked like.

In the years since this shift, life has become far more intentional. I’ve spent time defining the life I know I was created to live and started intentionally living it. I’ve spent time defining and becoming the person I know I was meant to become.

It’s like becoming the center of your own universe, glowing outward because you’ve learned to glow inward.

The authentic me has become my priority, no longer simply an option, no longer negotiable.

To protect my vision, core boundaries and foundational standards have been established. For others and for myself as well. My new rules of engagement have at times adversely impacted some relationships and interactions with others. And while that may feel sometimes uncomfortable, it’s far better than the discomfort of compromising who you know you really are in order to be in compliance with what they expect you to be.

Some people will resist the birth of your authentic self. Let them reveal who they truly are. Rage against any human machine that requires you to be less than you know that you are. No need to do what they told ya.

You know what you’re truly worth.

You know who you really are.

The energy of being aligned with your authentic self generates a powerful and transformative vibrational shift, creating a space where the only thing you honestly need in life is for you to show up as you authentically are. That’s all. Nothing more. This Universe-supported aligned energy will then bring you more of who you are in the form of people, relationships, and opportunities also aligned with with your beautiful authentic self.

There’s one life. It’s yours to live. Fully. Authentically.

Unapologetically.

Only you can bring you fully alive.

It starts with your decision to do so.

Ready?

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