06/24/2026
I didn’t show up the way I wanted to recently. And my first instinct was to shame myself back into alignment.
Which, if you know anything about shame, you’ll know doesn’t actually work. It just makes you smaller. And smaller was never the goal.
Expansion includes the moments you fall short. It includes the activated nervous system, the reaction you wish you’d handled differently, the version of you that showed up when you were caught off guard.
Honest accountability without self-destruction. That’s the practice.
You don’t have to shame yourself into becoming her. You just have to keep choosing her. Even after the moments that didn’t look like her at all. 🦋