Let yourself want what you want.

These words are so simple — yet weirdly edgy, right?

Last year, while teaching at the Gathering of the Shamans in Sedona, I met the amazing Whitney Freya. I was teaching on soul healing and nature (as I do) and she was teaching on art as a catalyst for transformation (as she does).

I went to Whitney’s workshop, of course. And during this experience, Whitney guided us through a powerful journey to meet the Goddess Kali.

Kali, the dark goddess who comes to us from Hindu traditions, she who destroys demons and anything that prevents us from remembering our true nature.

Kali, who had a serious message for me: I needed to let myself want more.

It’s as if she unleashed a hunger that already existed within me — a gaping mouth that I’d been feeding crumbs when it really wanted the whole damn meal.

It turns out that the energy it takes to suppress our soul-aligned desires is more harmful to our well-being than we realize.

Our energy becomes depleted and it’s almost as if our souls slip away: Not so much as with the old shamanic models of the soul actually leaving the body — but more like parts of our divine blueprint for this lifetime start to dim and retreat until we no longer remember they’re there.

Not letting ourselves truly want what we want is a form of self punishment, and this fiery Aries era is bringing us a cosmic opportunity to end that pattern.

If you still feel a little hesitant about all this — I get it. Like really, really get it.

In large part because of how this idea has been warped in our capitalist, colonizer culture.

Our news feeds are full of people who let themselves want what they want and destroy the world along the way. And it is really easy to get caught up in cultural conditioning that obscures our true desires, replacing them with a frenzy of never-enoughness.

So part of our work is to decondition, deprogram, and rewild ;)

​In this article, I break down the top five internal obstacles so many of us need to work through when it comes to simply “letting ourselves want what we want” — and a few steps for softening any resistance.

For now, I want to invite you to a few really lovely free and low cost opportunities to study with me LIVE.

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Many blessings and I hope to see you at one of these live events soon!

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