So much of my meditation practice has been about coming into presence with myself—witnessing what is here, now. Taking time to tune into my emotions, my body, my worries, fears, and anxieties.
A recurring theme, always but especially this week, is acceptance.
How can we come to peace with what is present in this moment?
How can we allow what is true to simply be true?
Often, we don’t even realize our resistance to truth. Yet so much of our anxiety stems from it—the quiet, unconscious struggle to bend reality into something more comfortable. We fix, improve, heal, communicate—hoping to shape the world around us into something that feels better.
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
But what if we sat with what is real?
What if we stopped trying to escape the feeling it provokes in us?
What if, instead of managing our external world, we turned inward and tended to the part of us that is struggling?
I know this might sound counterintuitive. You might be asking:
“But why wouldn’t I try to change what’s uncomfortable? What hurts? Isn’t that self-care? Isn’t that taking responsibility for myself?”
Yes, sometimes.
But how often does that external management of reality lead us to contort ourselves to make things okay? How often do we bypass how we really feel? How often do we make a situation tolerable—when deep down, it isn’t right for us?
How many times have you worked to hold something together, when in truth, you were meant to let it go?
If we really listened to ourselves—if we let what is true be true—we might begin to see the difference between what we ask ourselves to endure and what is actually supportive.
What if we stopped managing? What if we started listening?
Today in meditation, I came into a deeper knowing.
That God, the universe, Source—whatever you want to call it—doesn’t just want us to experience peace and security in divine connection.
It wants us to experience pleasure.
When we stop trying to control everything—when we release our grip on the world so we can feel safe—we start hearing what our spirit is actually calling for. What our body truly needs. What our inner child is really longing for.
And through that deep connection, we can finally give ourselves the love, focus, attention, and care that is truly nourishing.
When we stop trying to manage the world, we start living in alignment with ourselves.
And in doing so, we reclaim all the energy we’ve been using to hold everything together.
Surrendering control will bring up fear. It will awaken every voice inside that says, “You must hold on. You must work harder. You must make things happen.”
But what if we tended to that fear directly instead of letting it dictate our choices?
What if we built our security not on control, but on trust—on knowing we are always held?
That makes room for something far greater than survival.
It makes room for pleasure.
If you knew for sure that the universe wanted to take care of you,
If you knew that God/Source desires your pleasure as much as your peace,
If you knew that you are fully supported, always—
How would that shift the way you move through the world?
And how can you receive this as truth—
in the face of every belief you’ve ever held that contradicts it?
And if you’d like to explore your own relationship with your spirit, if you feel called to a deeper alignment with your divine path, I offer one-on-one support through my practice.