Ease is a Devotional Practice
For me, ease is a devotional practice.
It makes me giggle to even type this, but ease takes work! HA!
And not like elbow grease kind of work, but it takes effort and practice and intention.
That it!
Ease, for me, is an intentional practice.
It’s a commitment that I made to myself.
A decision.
A promise.
Because I know the energy of ease suits me.
It centers my humanity.
It allows me to be a vessel for my work and purpose, my creativity, and my presence.
But real talk– it also helps me be wayyyyy less anxious. Less rooted in expectations and prone to frustration, and less likely to be reactive, raise my voice, or to be unkind. It helps me be the kind of human I believe myself to actually be! 😉
Because for me all of that stuff is a reflection of inner turmoil anyway.
And I aspire to be a human who takes radical self accountability for her own inner stuff and healing.
Ease isn’t the same as easy.
It doesn’t mean life is always smooth sailing or that everything feels easy all the time.
It’s not the absence of challenges or struggle.
For me, ease means that I am not part of what makes things more difficult.
For me, ease feels aligned.
It feels right.
It feels like the way that I want to live and be in the world.
And it requires devotion.
Commitment.
Practice.
It requires me to be really attentive to its presence, and especially attentive to its absence.
To notice when I’m feeling turmoil or friction, and to get curious about what’s under that.
Is it my own brain, my thoughts, beliefs & patterns getting in the way? Maybe it’s my own expectations of how I think things are supposed to be or go? Maybe it’s my body: my nervous system or stored stress and pain? Or maybe it’s my intuition cuing to me that something doesn’t feel right.
Generally when I explore and get curious about the absence of ease, I find one of these things. I find a limiting belief or unspoken expectation, a nervous system that is activated, a nudge from my intuition that something isn’t aligned, or some combination of them all.
I ask myself:
What would it look like to accept this as it is right now?
I get curious about what my needs are and how to prioritize them being met.
Because ease is an inside job.
And spoiler alert: so is literally every other thing I’ve wanted and craved in my life! Love, money, acceptance, collaboration, creativity, feeling free… it’s all an inside job.
Today I invite you to consider what more ease would feel like in your life? What would it look like? And what would you need to accept in order to feel more of it?
You deserve it.
with love & solidarity,
Victoria
PS: If you've been thinking about one on one coaching with me, now is a perfect time to gets tarted. I currently have one slot remaining for coaching in October, for one new client, and I would love for it to be you. Imagine feeling more ease, more alignment, less anxiety, frustration, and more you in the matter of a few months. Imagine how much more energy you'd have if you weren't second guessing, carrying resentment, and worrying. The life of your dreams is available to you right now. Let's hop on a call to see if we can make it happen! 💕
PPS: Hear what former clients are saying about working with me...
"Victoria created a brave container to help me heal and make a more robust commitment to social justice. The healing was the most transformative part! She helped me heal in service of being my best self, but also in recognizing that healing work is bound up in this contribution that I want to make to social justice and liberation of all humans, because it's all tied up together in this messiness. I think prior to working with Victoria I would have used terms like learning and growing and skill building, and all of that is still pertinent, but I think there's something deeper and more intimate to the work that she helped me do, which is to heal, to transform myself, and to make the choice to be my most authentic self. And in doing that, allowing me to show up and center connection in the service of social justice and liberation. It was transformative!"