April 4, 2023

It’s Not Good Enough

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We spend so much of our lives trying to figure out why we have certain coping strategies, or why we do what we do in relationship.

To me, it almost always comes back to ONE thing: We’ve given our power away (or feel as though it was taken). The way we deal with the pain of thinking we’re powerless — but knowing in our soul that we are not — is to get addicted to shit and chase power and significance through things outside of ourselves.

Your power doesn’t live outside of you. You won’t find it through the latest marketing gimmick. It will not come from trying to look younger. It will not come alongside more muscles or more money.

It is innate. And the work is to remove the thoughts/feelings/beliefs/choices that keep sending the message to you that you’re “not enough.”

Even in the pursuit of “enough-ness”: fuck being “enough.” Be all of it. Be more.

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