You are feeling a strong desire for change, Dear One; how you look, how you feel, what you do, how you live, what you have, who you love, who loves you, and so on.

And you are uncomfortable with it. You are unsure of how exactly you want to change, and what exactly you want to change into, and how you are going to make all of this change happen. And you want to make the discomfort stop.

But to relieve the stress, the unease that accompanies not knowing, the frustration that comes with not having, the self-loathing that comes with feeling unworthy or undeserving or unprepared, the answer is not to stop wanting, to stop trying, to stop moving forward in an effort to avoid confronting the distress.

The answer is in fact, to do the exact opposite of that.  The answer is to embrace the change, and embrace the lack of clarity, discomfort, uncertainty, and insecurity that comes with it.

Because stopping, turning back, giving up, or running away is never going to get you to where you want to go.  But moving forward just might.

And the truth is that both directions, forwards and back, hold the potential for discomfort, equally.  It is unavoidable, nearly impossible to escape the feeling all together.

So the question that you really want to be asking, when it comes to dealing with the discomfort of change, Dear One, is not, How can you avoid it or make it stop, but….  Do you want to confront, deal with, and work through the discomfort while you are moving forwards, backwards, or standing still?

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Some days you will be confident, and some days you will be insecure. Some days you will feel pretty and some days you will feel plain.  Some days you will be adored, and some days you will be lonely.  Some days you will be creative, and some days you will be dull.  Some days you will be kind, and some days you will be cruel. Some days you will do no wrong, and some days you will do no right.

But know this, Dear One, that in this life that is full of contradictions, full of realities that are true one minute and not true the next, one thing will never stop being true, and that is that you will never stop being powerful.

You can never stop being powerful.  It is who and what you are.

Now you can choose to use your power to create things that you want in this life, or you can choose to use your power to create things that you despise, or fear, or secretly think that you deserve.   But either way, Dear One, no matter what, you can never stop being powerful, you can never give your power away, or run out of it, or lose it, or have it taken from you, ever.

You can be tricked into thinking it is gone, you can trick yourself into thinking it is gone too. But regardless of how you feel, what you have been told, or what you believe, you will still be powerful, you will still have the power that creates worlds running through you, at your fingertips, at all times, to do with as you please.  You will still be the one with the pen in your hand, writing your story, creating your world, with every thought that you think, word that you speak,  action that you take, and belief that you hold in your heart.

The time for believing yourself to be weak, incapable, powerless, unworthy, unimportant, unoriginal, or anything less than you really are, is so over, Dear One.

The difference between taking a risk and acting foolishly, Dear One, is simple.

One involves following your intuition, and the other involves ignoring it.

One holds within it the potential for enlightenment, learning, and growth, while the other creates only the potential for injury or harm.

Now that you know how to tell them apart, we hope that it will be be a little easier for you to choose.

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Don’t worry that you have missed your chance, Dear One, that you have missed out, that you are missing out.

– You haven’t
– We promise
– You can’t

It’s just not possible.

You are the only one who determines what experiences, what opportunities, what relationships you are, and are not meant to have in your life.

If it didn’t happen, if you didn’t choose it, (or if it did not choose you). then it was not meant for you.

Don’t regret, worry, or fret over that which you did not have, do, or choose.

Instead, focus you time, energy, and attention on enjoying that which you did!

And if you should discover that you have made a choice that you are not enjoying, Dear One, accept it, learn from it, and then simply choose again.

Which do you want more, Dear One?

• To keep yourself protected
• To experience a deeper, richer, stronger, and more meaningful connection than you have ever had before

It’s not possible for you to do both at once.

You’re going to have to choose.

When the choices you are committed to don’t seem to be leading you towards a better feeling state, Dear One, it may be time for you to start thinking about making different ones.

• You are not here to be liked, Dear One – You are here to be yourself and make connections.

• You are not here to find “The One” — You are here to know true love.

• You are not here to win awards — You are here to create, bravely, confidently, authentically, and from the heart.

• You are not here to accumulate wealth — You are here to have an experience of abundance.

• You are not here to achieve notoriety — You are here to learn just how powerful, creative, and capable you really are.

Are you starting to get the idea?

Imagine if you can for a minute, Dear One, things exactly as you want them to be.

Imagine having everything that you want, having everything that you need, having every single thing that you desire for yourself, and then some.

Are you doing it? Are you picturing it? Are you imagining what that would look like, feel like, and be like for you to have it all?

Is the thought making you smile?  Making you feel good?

Good. Keep doing that!

Take a deep breath in, let it out, and begin again.

Starting over can be as easy as that, Dear One, if you let it be.