BreakThrough in Appreciating Who You Are

BreakThrough Blogcast – Episode 33 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, with resident co-host Evonne Weinhaus. Evonne is a professional speaker, a communications coach, and co-author of A New Fearless You.

Roundtable guest: Sandy Moss, Life Coach and Massage Therapist

In this episode, Sandy acknowledges the courage present in the creator, teachers and students of “BreakThrough” and roundtable guests from previous BreakThrough Blogcast episodes, and as a new life coach, she talks about the courage that will be required of her as she delivers her message expressing her authentic self.

Listen in as Evonne talks about seeing your actions, thoughts, and feelings through the lens of courage instead of fear, so it becomes an internal change and then you begin to appreciate who you are. Hear Sandy demonstrate courage as she accepts Jaimes’ challenge, live on the air.

This episode will inspire you to stop comparing yourself to everyone else and truly appreciate who you are!

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Don’t you love when you have one of those days when everything suddenly all comes together and falls into place?  When all that you have been striving for behind the scenes to manifest in your life actually begins to show up?   I had one of those days recently, and the joy and the excitement was so fun and energizing.  I was able to stay in that joyous place for several hours, but then, a few hours later, my dreaded gremlin began to rear its ugly head: Fear!   I had just spent several years totally transforming my life:  breaking through the door of so many of my fears, and stripping away limiting belief after limiting belief.  I had finally gotten myself to this wonderfully cool precipice of being “almost there”!  It is so comforting staying on the brink of really showing up in a big way in my life.  “Getting ready” to start my new career as a Life Coach and “getting ready” to launch my new website were such safe comfortable places to be.  I did not realize how much I loved staying in this “learning” and “getting ready” phase.  Now I was being asked to show up to do everything I knew I wanted to do and more importantly, TO BE who I wanted to be.  To allow myself to BE SEEN and to fully express WHO I AM in a public way.  This is everything I wanted.  So why am I so full of FEAR???

Wouldn’t it be so nice, if just for once, I could jump off the proverbial cliff and NOT feel the fear?  Okay, well maybe not.  I did that once, about 20 years ago.  I went skydiving, and was so out of touch with my feelings that I did NOT feel the fear. I jumped out of the airplane and broke my leg!   Yes, lesson learned is that stuffing your feelings does not necessarily end well. The other option to avoid that feeling of fear, is to play it safe, never doing anything that will challenge the status quo or take courage.  Gee, get to check that on off the list too.  I was hiding my inner light and who I was for many years, and created a life that was safe and where I could hide behind my mask of self-doubt.  When this strategy failed to work as well,  I realized maybe a 3^rd option regarding fear just might serve me better.  What would happen if I just allowed myself to FEEL my fear? In admitting, feeling and accepting the fear that I still feel in certain situations, something miraculous happens.  The fear no longer has quite as much power over me, as when it first rears its ugly head! So here I am, living the most wonderful life I can imagine for now, and day after day, feeling the fear, and continuing to jump off more and more cliffs.  I keep praying that those jumps will get easier, and some days, they do.  I have found that the more fun I have as I jump off each cliff, the easier it becomes the next time.

So as I step off my next cliff and into my destiny and share myself with all of you on the blogcast in a few weeks, I will be embracing all my feelings around this long sought after milestone.  I ask myself:  What am I really afraid of?  What if I fail?  What if I look silly? What if I do something wrong? All those are understandable, but when I really am honest with myself, I realize that my deepest fear of all just might be this ….. What if I succeed?

As Marianne Williamson so wonderfully wrote:

“My deepest fear is not that I am inadequate.
My deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure.
It is my light, not my darkness, that most frightens me.
I ask my Self, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually, who am I not to be?
I am a child of God!

My playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around me.
We are all meant to shine like Godlike Beings.
We are all meant to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not in some of us; it’s in all of us!
And as I let my God light shine,
I unconditionally give others permission to do the same.
As I am liberated from my own fear, my presence automatically liberates others.”