
This is not your traditional journaling masterclass on how to do it….
Ohh no. This is going to be THE masterclass where I GIVE you the questions to ask yourself to let go and move forward.
Allow me to explain: Before you can step into the best version of yourself and move forward, we need to let go of the past. That means letting go of your past-self.
If you are so focused on who you were in the past, and what went wrong, guess where you can’t go? Forward.
We all have shame, guilt and regrets. Freeing yourself from this emotional baggage is critical, because dwelling on the past prevents you from being present. The past can undermine you, keeping you from any growth moving forward. It is so important to let go of anger other negative emotions. Unless you have learned to let go, one thing that may happen when you go for something big is that your mind quickly runs through all the baggage-unresolved issues, past traumas, mistakes, losses, and tells you it’s a bad idea.
Living in the past can invite mental stress, which is disguised as regret, fear and anxiety. One key to identifying these emotions is to check-in with your body. You don’t feel altogether lighter and clean. Instead you may feel heavy, tight, agitated or constricted. Negative emotions may come up such as guilt, fear, anger, shame, grief, regret or sadness. Let me help you let go of the daily little hassles that you don’t want to crowd your joy.
Oftentimes, self-defeating behaviors emerge as coping mechanisms for a way to satisfy our need for approval, affection and attention. It is time to start looking at your life and questioning if you want to continue on with the self-serving, but also self-deafening and limiting behaviors, because it’s not who you think you are supposed to be.
A wide array of emotions are cultivated from this experience: Sadness, depression, anxiety, anger, isolation, which leads to loneliness, frustration, grief and oftentimes self-pity. But don’t worry - you’re not the first person to go through it or feel all of these feelings. It’s not easy.
I have yet to meet one survivor, including myself, who did not say the mental side of this cancer journey was one of the most difficult parts. There is no playbook for it. There’s no mental health protocol.
I know what you are thinking, "What are we letting go of?"
Well, to be honest with you: Everything- all of it. In order to move forward, we need to look at the past. I know this isn’t fun. It wasn’t fun for me while I was going through it, either. It’s a sensitive subject because I am asking you to kindly look back at your life. Dig deep and look back to your past, which dictates how you are currently living. And if you’re like me, you didn’t exactly grow up in the most loving and supportive household. It’s time to start shedding those feelings of not being enough and letting go of what you were prior to cancer. You are not that same person anymore.
That’s right. Who you were before cancer is not the same person you are now. With kindness and compassion, you have to allow yourself to let her go. You also have to wrap your mind around the fact that you should let go of what your life was supposed to be or look like.
Everything about your life is different.
Oftentimes, when faced with trauma or traumatic events, such as death or cancer, you hold onto and covet all that confronts you, which includes hopes, dreams and wants.
These questions will allow you to do what my clients have done:
- Allow yourself to accept what you have gone through
- Move through letting go of your old self & life
- You can’t embrace the present you until we let go of the old you.
When you do this, it will give you the ability to…
- Have a future.
- Think about the future and move forward with life.
Once you get the news there is no going back or holding on to the same you anymore.
Cancer’s like a prison sentence - that shit changes you.
Journaling doesn’t have to be challenging, especially when you know what questions to ask yourself.
This is going to be so powerful…..
Join me.