#252 This is the Key to Manifesting Your Dreams. (It's not what you think.)

Hello! I have not been around because I have been building a new business, feel free to check it out. Don't worry I will return to talk all about the trials and tribulations of that, just not as of yet. Today I wanted to speak on the subject of manifesting your dreams and how that is directly tied to your self-expression. Buckle up. I just finished up being a guest speaker for a podcasting class at Carnegie Mellon University. It was such an honor to talk to these kids about my experience hosting Marta on the Move this many... many years, and the biggest thing that came up? Expression and a fear of doing it perfectly. It aligned so well with what I am speaking about with my clients currently inside of my Rare Magic Membership So maybe you resonate with this... You have poured through all the books, listened to the podcasts, the courses, you are probably in therapy or have experienced it, and still you find yourself at a plateau. That information is amazing, it's incredible. The learning, consuming, the replacing the negative feedback loops with positive ones? Yes, you go girl! AND there comes a point where all that self awareness actually works against you. If you are reading this being like "but I worked so hard to get here! To be this mindful!" I get you. I was you. I read all the books. I replaced scrolling with self help. I took the courses and listened to them sometimes, plugged into podcasts. Writing notes after notes in my journals. Where are those journals? Everywhere in my house. Looks like A Beautiful Mind if you open one. I was in a holding pattern. What felt good initially, wasn't enough anymore, I could feel it, that restlessness. What moved the needle? You won't want to hear it. It's the PRACTICE of what I was learning. The integration of it all. The EXPRESSION. Because without it, I was hiding. Here's what that actually looked like- ~Showing up to sharing circles and speaking with other people about my grief. Letting myself be fully seen. ~It looked like stepping out of my house and taking that new movement, creativity class or retreat. ~It looked like putting my money where my mouth was and investing in the coach and mentor that didn't pacify me, but activated me and held me at the level I wanted to become. ~It looked like joining the thing that felt uncomfortable, foreign and out of my element. That is what you are missing, and I know it cause I lived it. What got you here won't get you there. You became self aware, now it's time to DO something with it. To allow yourself to not make it perfect, to fail forward because it is the only way we rise. And you aren't just doing something - you're doing it for the thing you were made for. I love being inside my membership for this. I created it because all of the rooms I was already in were more about consuming then acting. I created a space for you to practice what you have learned, what you have consumed, and what is swimming inside of your mind to find true freedom through your expression of aliveness and joy. The opposite of depression is expression, and I loved being able to speak about it with these kids today, and also to all of you. So I ask you... Where have you been hiding or holding back your own expression?