Welcome back to the podcast, as you saw last month we explored the energetic theme of Leaning into Self-Trust. Well, as we enter August the energy shifts as does the energetic theme. Before we talk about what we are moving towards and exploring can we talk about August (these two topics tie together I promise!)

I am Leo and it is my birthday month. If it isn’t obvious, I think it’s the best month in the entire calendar year. While most people my age start to get funny about birthdays and numbers - not this girl. In my opinion it’s a gift to even see another birthday so why not celebrate! I love my birthday, I’ve always loved my birthday.

Over the last 10-15 years, starting at the beginning of August every year I begin to take stock of my life. I look at where I am, what I’m doing, who is surrounding me and where I’m heading and begin to percolate what I want from the year ahead. In effect my birthday becomes my actual New Year where, on the day, I set intentions, place the seeds of desires, declare goals, write my wishes. I cast the vision of who I desire to become or embody in the year ahead. I’ll usually give the year its own energetic theme (which I’ve done podcasts about before – see episode 11 on living boldly).

Here’s where the energetic theme for August ties in. On your journey of becoming or embodying the version of self you desire or envision yourself to be you will meet, bump into and be stopped in your tracks by edges – it is inevitable and it is a tale as old as time. So this month, we explore those edges. We will learn how to meet them, hold them, play with them, push them and move beyond them.

So, over the next 4 Fridays, we’ll be talking about YOUR EDGES. This topic can get a little prickly because your ego or what I’ve learned to refer to as you d*ck brain is masterful at explaining and justifying why it wants you to stay right where you are, safely inside your comfort zone.

So, let’s dive in.

Questions to help you meet your edges:

Think about where you crave or are being pushed to the borders of your comfort zone, of what you know and are being called to step into something new, an expanded version of self:

What is the edge you bump up against the most - and this might be where you always stop short, what you do over and over again, where the prickly-ness and resistance is. What is your edge?
What does it look and feel like when you are there?
What are the stories your brain is telling you to keep you away from or within the edges?
What’s stopping you?
What do you fear is on the other side? What do you fear will/won’t happen?
Who is it you desire to be beyond this edge?
What’s meeting you between where you are and what’s beyond the edge?

Spend some time exploring these questions and getting acquainted with your edge.

The key is to do this from a place of curiosity and not judgment.

I'm looking forward to the journey we will be going on together this month. If this is something you want to go deeper on, I invite you to join us inside The Heart Portal Digital Studio.

Breathwork has been one of the most powerful tools in my toolkit for meeting, and pushing past the edges that I’ve met on my journey. We meet for live online breathwork sessions 4x per month and can access hundreds of recorded session ranging from 90-seconds to 75 minutes inside the digital portal.

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