Hi, welcome back. This is week four, can you believe it in your failure to freedom course. And I hope you're enjoying what you've been working on and feeling as though the journaling is helping. But most importantly, you're showing up and doing the work. Because transformation can't happen unless we're constantly showing up every single day. So, today's affirmation, I know you're going to love it, it's all about release.

And I think for many of us, this idea of releasing something or letting go can sometimes be kind of scary. So when we think about release, we want to think about, what are we holding on to so tightly? What is it that just our grip is so tight, we can't bear the thought of letting go. When we release, we finally create space, the necessary space to take on something new in order to obtain reach goals, dreams or desires. You must release that which is no longer ours to hold on to. And I think that that's such a crucial and pivotal topic or idea that we have to really take into consideration when we're trying to move from failure to freedom when we're trying to progress our path, in any direction that we choose to go in and releasing someone or something, we acknowledge that which is meant to stay, and that which is not ours to keep.

So, when we think of this idea of release, at least for me personally, I am constantly reminded of my early days in my business, and so my brick and mortar business copper tree, my studio has been open for about 10 years now. And in my early days of that, I was a new business owner. I never went to school, I had a lot of emotional issues. I was early in recovery. So there was all this stuff going on and anytime something would come in, I'd be like, gobbled onto that in fear that if I would let it go, someone else was going to get a step up on me, that teacher would get my dream or reach my future before I would, or that other person was going to steal my idea if I let it go, and I gotta be honest with you. It's just not a mentality to have when you're trying to move forward in life, and nothing else for me nonetheless, for me as a yoga teacher, I'm trying to teach people how to be in their bodies and to embrace life and to love themselves and more authentically love others.

And I was unable to do that myself because I was desperate being everything in my path and fear that someone else would get there before me. And long story short, a lot of distance to my childhood and that was reason why I had an addiction issue. But this idea of releasing is the understanding In the back, which we let go. When we read it, though, it's meant for us, it will stay. So when I started to let go of these situations, these ideas, these topics, these work type of things, and I started to say, Okay, I'm going to stop death gripping everything in my business, my business actually started to accelerate forward, I was hindering my own growth by holding on to everything in my path. Now, can you imagine going to school every single day and taking every single book that you own and need for school with to inform every single day?

That's kind of like how I was doing my business and living my life. I was death gripping all my tools. I was covering them because I didn't want someone else to get them in fear that somehow that would hinder my growth. Now, we can also do this with people And I think this idea of releasing people from our lives is a catch 22 we often talk about releasing people in our lives when they're dying or nearing the end of their life. And it's like, oh, I have to release them, I have to let them go. And it's such a beautiful thing.

But sometimes we have to release people in our lives, while they're still alive, while we're still alive. And sometimes we need to release toxic people from our life. Sometimes we need to release people from our lives, just because it's not our place to have them in our life right now. And whether you're releasing toxic people or just releasing people, period, because the timing is not right, we have to always fall back to the understanding that that which is there to stay will stay. So if you're in a personal relationship right now, and you're struggling with whether or not that person is right for you, what happens if you just stay Back, what happens if you let them be themselves. And if by chance, your paths are meant to walk side by side by each other for your entire life, and it will be and it's not in your past will will separate separately and you will continue to move forward is that is your choice to move forward.

So in the effort to release we make space and the effort to release we understand that the universe God, however, that we're not going to be left empty handed, we're not going to be left in the ditch. We're not going to constantly be making failures. We're not going to constantly be in the septic tank of mistakes and screw ups and mess ups. We are going to move into freedom we are right now. Are you taking this initiative and working with me over these six weeks, you are taking the initiative to say I'm letting go the crap it's not for me. Whatever is my To stay will stay and you are choosing a better life for yourself.

You are choosing to let go of the toxicity of the worry of this fear and you are making space as a result of it. Okay. So this week, do the work show up, work with the affirmation. I am releasing that that that I am release, I'm embodying release, and as a result, I am going to receive the abundance that I deserve. Alright, so until next week, for my or to yours to my soul to yours today