Unda Presha: My 5 Best Ways to Show Up and Grow This Week
Like me, you want to SHOW UP and GROW in your life! Let’s do it!
Here are my best ideas for the week!
1. UNDAAAH PRESSHAAH….(cue the David Bowie Tune) … Pressure never works so why not try something else? This very morning I was feeling ever so discombobulated. When I checked in with myself, I realized it was because I was putting SO MUCH PRESSURE on myself to be everything (sex goddess/perfect mother/prolific artist etc.). This felt horrible. Then I remembered in a class last week, artist Kellie Day said,
“We cannot succeed from a place of urgency.”
I have never heard a truer thing.
When we are living in a state of PRESSURE to be a sex goddess, perfect mother, or prolific artist, it feels awful.
The tension causes us to be in FLIGHT/FIGHT mode which is not good for sex, mothering or art making!
What’s the antidote? I had to visit my Mother Bear in the lower world today to get the profound answer from her:
“RELAX.”
– Mother Bear
Relax into being a sex goddess. Relax into being a wonderful mother. Relax and be a prolific artist. What would relaxing into your day or life feel like? Look like?
EVERYTHING works when I relax.
2. DON’T ANSWER IT. Phone boundaries are kind of a wonderful place to start if you’re wanting to create better fences in your own pasture.
Phones don’t give you the stink eye or get triggered when you enact a personal boundary like people will (sometimes) do.
I used to have an absolutely irresistible urge to answer my phone- even when I knew EXACTLY WHO WAS CALLING AND I KNEW I DID NOT HAVE THE BANDWIDTH TO SPEAK WITH THEM.
I could feel my hand raise the phone to my ear and the internal shout (from my soul, no doubt!) arising, “Nooooooo….!!!”” and then I’d suddenly be answering that phone and feeling terrible.
I wasn’t doing anybody any favors- especially myself.
These days I have no problem letting calls go to voicemail. Though I still struggle to “protect” my time when it’s one of our kids or my partner Mark. Baby steps…
I also have a policy…. if I don’t know who is calling I do not under any circumstances pick up. They can leave a message if it’s the president or some other imagined important person who might ring me!
For more ideas and lessons on BOUNDARIES- please preorder my fully illustrated Boundaries Workbook (available everywhere Sept 24!).
3. Chris Roberts Antieau is An Artist You Should Know: I discovered her beautiful (and FUNNY!) work in Santa Fe at her gallery (she also has one in New Orleans!). She is a delight. Her artists statement is something I wish everybody could read! CHeck out all of her gorgeous and FUNNY work here. Her Tragic Snowglobes (murder hornets at the Nude beach) Series is sooo good!
4. Adding PLEASURE to Creative (or other) Tasks You Don’t Wan’t to Do is Powerful. Hate Mammograms? Try wearing a gorgeous outfit and your most amazing red lip to your next one? Add a post-mammo lunch part with a friend (or 3!) to bring even more contentment and JOY!
Need to pitch yourself for a project and it’s scaring you? Could you slip into comfy jammies, light a candle and call on your favorite Core Beastie before you write the pitch and ask for their help?
How could you appeal to all of your SENSES in order to bring sweetness and yumminess to this HARD THING that your SOUL KNOWS THAT IT must do? (and by all means if you don’t need to do it – quit!)
These ideas are part of the pleasure class I taught for SHINE this week.
Our 🌞 SHINE creative community members are taking 🚀 FLIGHT! So much has happened in 2024 so far!
One has created an art corner in her home and is showing up for her work more consistently than ever before!
One has learned CANVA and she’s using it to share her Haikus 🖼️ which are getting noticed!
Another published her first book 📕 and it was a bestseller at Amazon!
Another created a whole new type of 🌈🌸healing session from scratch that she’s so excited to be offering her people!
Another rewrote her ☕️bio and got a whole new group of people interested in her creative work!
Another created a project with video 🎥 🎞️ about her spiritual teachers that’s received over 200,000 views at Instagram.
There is so much JOY in traveling, learning and WORKING CREATIVELY TOGETHER! Are you ready to feel supported in your creative work so that you can do what you came here to CREATE?
Join SHINE (or just learn more)!
4. A Book That You Will DEEPLY Enjoy! “The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards” is HERE! And it is FABULOUS.
Now a national bestseller in Canada and a noteworthy book according to the Washington Post, Jessica Waite‘s new memoir
Learn more and get the book here: https://www.jessicawaite.work/
5. Quote That Moved Me:
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move away.
The moments that used to define them are covered by
moments of their own accomplishments.
It is not until much later, that
children understand;
their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories
of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones,
beneath the water of their lives.
-Paul Coelho
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You can go here to book your shamanic healing or coaching session.
with love,
Sarah
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