August Energy Forecast: Courageous Visibility | E271

This is episode 271, and this week's episode is the August Energy Forecast episode, although it is going live a few days late on the 5th of August.

it has a lot of wisdom.

So allow yourself to grab a cuppa or listen in your car or on your walk, because this episode really does lean on July's theme, which was all about embodied alignment.

And August feels like the next journey or next step in that journey.

July asked us to stop simply knowing what we needed to change and actually start living it.

To embody our boundaries and to embody rest, especially if you're living in Australia as it's winter, the deepest season of the year, which is all about rest, rejuvenation, hibernation, recharging your batteries.

It might be about embodying new habits or embodying a version of yourself that you want to become.

And so that was July, allowing you to actually start living what you already know you want to change or the person that you want to become.

And August asks you, are you willing to let yourself be seen as that person? Because the theme for August is about courageous visibility.

And when I talk about visibility, I'm not simply talking about being louder or posting more on Instagram or putting yourself in front of more people.

Courageous visibility is having the courage to let yourself be seen as who you actually are.

So it's really about allowing yourself to be authentic wherever it is that you go, with your partner, with your friends, with your family, in your work, career, business, wherever it is that you are showing up today, allowing yourself to be seen as who you actually are.

It's time to stop hiding the parts of yourself to make others feel comfortable.

Stop waiting until you feel completely confident, qualified, healed, ready or perfect before you speak, share, lead or take up space.

And this isn't only about business, career or your work.

Visibility shows up everywhere.

It might mean speaking honestly instead of saying what you think someone wants to hear because you're worried about their emotions or how they're going to react to what you're truthfully having to say or share.

It might mean asking for what you need, expressing your ideas, creativities and opinions that perhaps you have been suppressing or being a good person or a good girl and not allowing your ideas, creativities or opinions matter.

It's owning your expertise and the value you bring as a human being.

It might mean setting a boundary, even when someone might not like it.

Because what happens when we constantly set boundaries because we're pleasing others, we're constantly diminishing our own value, our own worth and our own power.

and we end up just being yes people and perhaps you're ready to start saying no and honoring deep within you having those honest conversations deep within you about what you will and won't say yes to what you will and won't put up with and allowing yourself to be seen while you're figuring it out a change transformation and stepping into your authentic self can take it's a journey It can take days, weeks, months, and years.

But August's really allowing you to start to make one step in the right direction or one boundary, one honest conversation.

Sharing the messy middle rather than only showing the polished outcomes.

and letting your external life finally reflect the changes you've been wanting to make internally or have been making internally and doing the work within, but maybe not necessarily fully being visible externally.