My dearest friend offered me the greatest gift just now. I don’t think either of us knew it at the start, but the gift she offered me was total freedom. It is a gift I was able receive fully, and I recorded (just about) my every response to it.

I literally peed myself while writing this post… Twice.

I bet if you choose to read along you’ll undoubtedly gain something wonderful from it.
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There is a power to being raw. The value of raw is that it’s unrefined. It comes out the way it came out. It’s the realest of anything you might create. And I’ve realized there’s a certain power to sharing this. To just being raw and trusting that the raw you is enough. That you do not need to be refined. That you’re perfect just the way you are. And that by being raw and real you can make peace with your rawest and most real stuff. You’ll release the idea that you need to make yourself look better than you really are and discover that exactly where you are right now is exactly where your power is. So raw, un-proofread writing is really fun and powerful to share. So I wanted to share some awesome rawness that just poured out of me. And I wanted to broadcast my desires, and share my big dreams, with people who will want to nurture those dreams. Not people who are incapable of seeing what I see (from their current perspective) and thus will think they’re doing me a favor by doing anything they can to talk me out of doing what I want to do.

There’s also a power to not trying to do everything all at once. To not trying to be totally encapsulating. If I try to share everything I desired I’d soon be overwhelmed by the task. Because there’s just so much worth wanting! So instead I just ran with my desires. I just started talking about something that interested me and ran with it. And I found myself dreaming bigger and bigger and touching upon more and more desires. So if you want to allow yourself to really desire, allow yourself to just start desiring. Don’t try to get your list of desires all perfect. Trust that you’re desires are already perfect. That going after any one desire will help you come into alignment with EVERY other desire. That there is no right direction or wrong direction. There is only releasing resistance and holding back. Read More

Exactly one year ago today I posted my first Twitter update. 365 days later, these are my 44 favorites from an amazing year of growth and transformation.

Truth

1. Everything is off limits until you’re willing to go there. Freedom is a territory mapped out by your mind.
2. If all you’re thinking is “don’t fall,” you’ve probably forgotten how easy it is to pick yourself back up.
3. Missing a once-in-a-lifetime chance can lead to stunning regret, or stunning creativity. Remember, what can’t be redone can still be outdone
4. The lows do not detract from the highs, the lows create the highs. Because contrast gives birth to desire and desire amasses into form.
5. Speak your truth. No matter how horrible. No matter what may come out. There is no hell more horrific than the silence of a beautiful soul.
6. I share all my thoughts with conviction. My truth is certainly never the only truth, but limp thoughts rarely birth strong brain children.
7. Don’t use where you’ve been to justify where you are. Use where you are to jump-start where you’re going.
8. What is envy, but a drink so bitter it cannot help but stir the soul? Like a divine emetic—once imbibed it spills out what you lust for most
9. If blessings didn’t wear disguises, there’d be no pathways for surprises.
10. Those who hold the grudge, carry the burden.
11. If it’s not clear, it’s not important. If it is important, get clear.
12. Want to believe in yourself more? Start doubting others less. Where you most easily doubt others is where you most easily doubt yourself.

Love

13. Loss is a reminder to return to the now. The next time you lose something, fill that emptiness with the fullness of the moment.

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Were you taught to play small? Did you inherit a long list of dos and don’ts from everyone who had a hand in raising you? Were you told that you could be anything you wanted and then criticized for who you chose to be?

When I was growing up there was a word for all the things I could not be, it was called inappropriate. But I didn’t come here to be appropriate. I came here to do things differently. To live a life like nobody’s ever lived before. To find my own path and determine for myself what is or is not appropriate relative to what I want to experience.

I don’t want to play the game by the rules of those who came before me—rules that were set up to avoid every possible pain one might encounter during their time on this earth.

I came here to ride my bike with no helmet. To dance even when I don’t know the moves. To risk everything that I am knowing that the eternal aspects of me can never be destroyed.

I don’t want to yield to anyone’s signs of caution. I don’t want to fall in love slowly to try to avoid being hurt. I want to rush in, to be impetuous, to love unabashedly for as long as it feels good to me and then move forth to explore the next manifestation of love.

I want to live out loud. Broadcasting the beauty of who I am for all who are ready to see. I want to unleash the music within me for all who are ready to hear. I want to step into the life I came here to live and shine brighter than I ever thought possible. And I don’t want to mistake another’s unwillingness to look for my ability to blind. Read More