“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself
and the ones that have been told to you.”
– Maya Angelou

The feeling of ‘not being enough as we are’ often results in internal banter as we struggle with deeply held beliefs that hold us captive.

Untended to, these can run feral and rule our lives in unruly ways.

Anything that calls into question our enoughness is worthy of deeper exploration so that these thoughtlines do not pervade our lives. When we doubt our own worth we lead life from that contracted place. Our lives become confined by this diminishing stance as we allow external narratives about who we are, who we should be, and what’s possible for us to have the weight to displace us and who we really are.

Becoming aware of the internalized messages about how we should be in the world, and locating the beliefs that limit the expansive possibilities available to us because of who we are, is an everyday ‘fight the good fight’ sort of inner wrestle. Beliefs lodge deeply. They constellate with other beliefs in our body-mind-heart complex and create boundaries from which we operate in the world.

In this course we explore:

• How often do you feel you have the right to be yourself?
• What factors or situations cause you to question it?
• What stories do you live by or have you inherited about the way the world is or what is possible for you?
• How does the belief or feeling that you’re not good enough, or that you don’t belong here, or that you don’t deserve x, y, or z, feed the motif of keeping yourself small and disconnected from being who you are, fully, and keep you from what you really want?
• Where do those messages come from?

The internalized messages that can shape our sense of self are subtle and social. We learn them in our early conditioning, from our parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers, churches. They are gendered, classist, racist, misogynistic. We learn them from society and cultural norms.