You will keep making it a bigger deal than it is, and stay stuck in never-enough preparation, until you take the tiniest action that proves it's safe.
In this episode of ONE | Shift, Mandi Lynne rounds out the week on self-permission. She shares the story of her poetry book, To Be Held: she put off publishing it for years because she was terrified of the judgment, and the moment she held the proof in her hand, the excuses she had made for over a decade were debunked. Mandi then walks through how to start. Begin with the areas where you already feel comfortable and borrow from them with a T-chart or Venn diagram. Pair a strength with a stretch, the way you'd stack a habit. Then check four areas (biological, psychological, social, and spiritual) to see where influences have turned into inner obstacles.
Finally, she invites you into the ultimate trust fall: you've got to hit publish.
You'll learn:
Why self-permission is a choice, and how tiny actions prove it's safe
How to use a T-chart to borrow comfort from your strengths
How to check four areas (biological, psychological, social, and spiritual) for inner obstacles
Why you have to trust yourself to fall, and how to start
Key Insight: "The permission is just the choice. But the way you transform is by doing actions of the choice." Because permission is the bridge from self-acceptance into self-ownership.
This is your call to choose it, then take the tiniest action that shows your inner child it's safe.
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This episode is Week 9 of the free, 16-week School of SELF the third week of the SELF-Focused phase.
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Content note: This episode includes explicit language and brief mentions of anxiety, panic, and depression. Resources
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