25. Self Love & Self Discipline - Learning to Listen to Your Intuitive Cycles of Rest & Action

This episode calls for redefining discipline in our external world and understanding when it's necessary to retreat in order to continue expanding.

What can you give when your natural energy stores are depleted?

Who are you when you have nothing left for yourself, because you've spent hours and days and weeks saying yes - against your natural knowing of what you need?

What sacrifices  do you make to be what you find "valuable" in the world, turning off the intuitive compass that calls you to rest, to joy, to surrender into calm solitude?

How do you find a balance?

We rush through this life, making moments a means to an end.

Self discipline as a form of self-love -- but not the discipline to do, to act, to force --

Discipline to rest, to say no, to set boundaries, and to take time to come home to ourselves when we feel the call to do so.

The importance of staying in sync with our inner selves while pursuing external goals is a harmonizing of listening to our inner voice and knowing how to find it.

To live an intentional life, we must align our intentions with our needs -- or we will lose ourselves along the way.

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Questions for you to reflect on if you feel called to do so <3 (Episode guidebooks will be created in coming episodes as requested!)

-  Where are you being intentional, without being intuitive? Where are your intentions not aligning with your needs?
- What sacrifices do you make to be what you think you’re supposed to be?
- What does balance mean to you?
- When was the last time you felt truly at peace? 
- What would it be like if you could set boundaries with your time, energy, and space that felt good to you? How would you show up differently in your life?
- What does "coming home" and finding refuge, mean to you - right now in your life?
 
Book References: Women who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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