Episode 208: Declare Your Independence & Get Loud

Welcome to part four of a series of four episodes where I address speaking up and elevating our voices

part one Episode 196 called why we don’t speak up

Take the opportunity to explore reasons why we and women particularly don’t speak up

Part two is episode 199.  Called The cost of keeping quiet I share multiple ways in which our inner peace and alignment is disrupted when we continually ignore or actively push down those inner whisperings.

Part three is episode 204 where the focuses the joy that we find when we are able to break our silence

And finally part four today’s episode 208 declare your independence and get loud!

Before you decide, this isn’t for you and you turn the player off I invite you to consider a few things

And I won’t lie have I been a little nervous to release this episode because it is bold and I am inviting you to step in into and not just tolerate discomfort, but hopefully embrace it! So in my efforts to be an example of what’s possible, I share my thoughts with you today on declaring your independence by getting loud or louder, invite you to ask yourself what does declaring your independence mean to you and how will you declare your independence by getting louder?

This morning this question came to me- how can one be in sacred surrender AND declare their independence and get loud?

They almost seem contradictory at first glance, but let me tell you why they are not

If you want to truly be in alignment, in Divine surrender you must seek then ask receive and do

And the more you act the more you do the more peace you will fill notice. I didn’t say comfortable, but you will feel at peace because you will know inherently that you are stepping into your purpose

Why get loud because it’s a muscle and the more you get louder and get louder the stronger it becomes just like your bicep or tricep would

That means overtime what brings you great discomfort today make feel like a piece of cake a month a week or even a day from now

The more you speak up and advocate for yourself first and foremost, and then for others if that is part of your call, the healthier you will feel mentally emotionally spiritually

Not to mention, it will become clear which relationships you have are based on love, trust and mutual respect relationships will be refined and purified as you speak up and get louder

No more asking permission from sources outside of you. Instead, seek first to connect with your Inner Wisdom.  That means pausing not just for a minute, but setting aside time regularly to get quiet get still and listen. And as you are in that still and quiet, space of surrender, listen for the messages that you may want to dismiss at first, but as you pause and give them heed, you realize you need to listen to them precisely because you might feel uncomfortable. The discomfort does not come because they are wrong or bad, but because they are causing a cellular disruption that needs attention and cannot be ignored.

Notice patterns that will want to come up and claim their usual spot in your mental space using up mental and emotional energy that they have in the past. I invite you to notice with compassion and not judgment.  What does that mean? Well that sounds like oh that’s interesting. I’m feeling this desire or this hug to get up and walk away or to ignore this thing. I’m feeling impressed to do or to say” and see it from a place of oh that makes sense that’s what I have done in the past when something has been uncomfortable.

The more you seek listen receive, and do the more clear that line of communication becomes the more open that channel becomes, and the next time you may hear or quickly more assuredly with deeper knowing

All of this requires leaning into a terrible amount of vulnerability. I say that tongue and cheek, but seriously get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Get used to peeling back the layers, taking down the walls and just letting your inner heart be available be seen not all at once you get to choose your your pace it’s OK to go out at a safe pace.

Here’s the remarkable thing about vulnerability. I believe because I have experienced that vulnerability begets vulnerability. You being vulnerable will invite and pull it out of others like a magnet draws another magnet nearer.

As you get loud those around you who have maybe contemplated voicing their thoughts or opinions will feel strength in your voice as they will be exposed to your energetic influence. They’ll know they have a safe place in you too get loud themselves even if it’s just to their own person first and foremost

Eventually they may feel safe confiding in you and the more that you share truly the easier it gets or maybe a better way of saying it is the less uncomfortable it gets

What’s going to happen the more you declare independence and get loud? Your self-esteem self-concept self perception however you refer to that viewing of ones Self.

Self-esteem, self-concept self perception rises, and by that I mean,

it becomes more and more in alignment of who you already are because you’re stepping into that vibration

into the presence of the vibration of who you have already been called to be

Although you might feel a little nervous, maybe a little anxious this vibration this energy will have a sense of familiarity to you like a coming home

That is why it’s so important for you to declare your independence

own your thoughts and thoughts is another word for ideas, insights, beliefs, opinions, inspiration, personal revelation, or guidance from spirit, or however, you refer to those divine downloads when you receive them

And by the way, you can do all of this without saying a word. Just committing to yourself internally, writing it down or promising yourself you will put you first all of these our steps in owning your voice.

As you own all of this beautiful creation that is coming from you your inner being your essence, you will truly step into owning your voice

There is no shame in owning your voice nothing has gone wrong if and when you own your voice, this is a gift all are born with my divine decree on your voice because there is no other one out there like it may you have an eventful and celebratory independence Day