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The Alchemy of Being With What Is True

Jan 12, 2026

In my own life, and in working with clients we do not feed the illusion that we/they can be fixed or changed, or healed...

Instead, I support them helping themselves help themselves to Be with what is true.

To expand their capacity to feel what they actually feel, and at the same time not identify with their feelings as who they Are.

All real alchemy happens when we be with what is true.

Being with what is real without spiritually bypassing AND without becoming the experience is an art form.

Becoming aware and accepting of our full range of emotions and feelings and being with them IS our medicine. Being with what is true is the deepest freedom. We won't transcend our humanity our freedom comes from Being free of the illusion that we will. And then we dance with it. We Be with that which is true and find the movement and grace, expression and space within it.

We find peace within the full range of it all and experiencing our feelings without identifying with them as who we are.

The openness to feelings without becoming them is what allows us to live our lives from our seat of awareness with the deepest aliveness.

Life does it's thing. Feelings and circumstances and experiences comes and go. When we allow ourselves to feel and be present with the full spectrum of what it means to be alive, we meet ourselves and life where it's at.

All real alchemy comes from Being with what is true.

In my personal life, or with my clients, whether it's with working with businesses, relationship dyanmics, or anything to do with their experience of their inner and outer world we do not feed the illusion that they can be fixed or changed, or healed...

Instead, I support them in helping themselves to Be with what is true. To create enough inner space and space between their experience, their identity, and their nervous system to be with what Is real. All alchemy only comes from that.

And underneath it all - I am that I am. I am not my feelings, my story, or even my experience. And it is still integral and important to feel it all.

All feelings just want to be felt. Not identified with. Not for us to become them. Not to by bypassed or avoided. Felt. Allowed.

My client told me this week: I understand on a visceral level that: My feelings ARE. I AM. And I feel my feelings, but I AM my soul. And every time I feel fully I remember who I AM again, in all ways: human, divine, and alive.

When I spoke to multiple clients this week they all shared that this was the gold they received from 2025. Learning this changed everything for them. Before, they were either drowning in, avoiding, diagnosing, pathologizing, making meaning of, judging, thinking about, or over processing their feelings. Now, they feel every feeling to the bottom, deeply, fully wholly, they allow for their full humanity, knowing that who they are in their soul is deeper than words can possibly say. P.S. you are not a doorknob that needs to be fixed or replaced. You are a person. Your symptoms, your desires, your yearnings, they are your medicine, your compass, your exact places to find You.

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