Living Authentically
I'm so inspired by people that show themselves.
That have the courage to BE themselves, unapologetically.
They are the fearless souls who remind me of what it means to live authentically.
So here I am.
A 33-year-old woman who is incredibly emotional.
It is me.
It is my way of life.
It’s how I weave myself through the world.
It motivates me and it fuels me.
It’s my superpower and my kryptonite.
It has inspired a level of emotional intelligence that makes me truly an exceptional healer and teacher.
And what also makes me (still) spend entire days in bed, completely consumed.
I feel everything.
It can paralyze me.
And it can empower me.
To an equal degree.
I am no stranger to depression.
It runs in my family. A product of the hundreds and thousands of years we have oppressed, abused, and marginalized women in this country. This story isn’t new.
It’s also a product of losing my father at the age of 20 and coming to grips with finding myself all over again, and for the first time.
In the times I have spent consumed and paralyzed, I was learning.
That’s the silver lining.
I was learning everything about what it feels like to be in darkness. So I know exactly how to be there and exactly how to pull myself out of there.
Which is how emotional intelligence is born.
I've spent the last 13 years exploring almost every dark place in my heart.
And then returning back to the light. Over and over again.
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
— Henry David Thoreau
I am an empath.
I can feel your feelings.
Which means when I say "I feel you", I actually CAN.
I am a woman who feels my way through life. Guided by my intuition.
I make mistakes and I learn from them.
I take risks and then trust like hell.
I am guided by a profound and ever-evolving faith.
And I love learning (often the hard way) about how we as humans are invariably interconnected.
My emotional guidance system is my truth.
No one can tell us what we want or how to feel. It is yours to know and follow.
It's what makes you and I human and it's what makes us, us.
When you learn how to be led by your dreams and guided by your soul's desire instead of by your wounds and fears, THAT is to know what your truth is.
“Our own self-knowledge is a knowledge of God."
— Socrates
“The kingdom of Heaven is within you.”
— John 8:32
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle
And all that is required, is that you are willing.
To heal, in my definition, is to return to yourself and harness your birthright...
Be curious, get inspired, reach out.
I’m here.
Loving you,
LuLu
Free Guided Meditation
I want to offer you this special guided meditation and journaling exercise from my Sacred Alchemy course. We're all meeting our own challenges right now, which is why I feel called to share this meditation with you and be in (virtual) community together. It's all about meeting yourself where you are in this moment (mind, body, heart) and releasing the desire to shift or change anything. There is nothing to fix.
This feels like a message we all need right now. It's my gift to you.