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Beyond Pop Culture Healing: You Don't Need to Be Fixed

Dec 29, 2025

Pop culture healing can have people believing either that something is wrong with them that needs to be fixed, or that there is a "place to get to" that will feel good and comfortable all the time if only "you work harder on yourself, invest more in yourself."

A friend told me last week on the phone: "I now know life beyond pop culture healing, I now recognize the grief, longings, unlived dreams, mysteries and contradictions inside make me human, I don't need to fix them to be an empowered human who is self aware, growing, and connected to God, my soul, my intuition/inner knowing and life's path"

A client told me on Friday: I live as a loving, complex, layered, feeling human. Creating, living, person from my State of Being. From a place of I am. From there, things flow and sometimes don't flow. Either way, I am in the flow of life.

If you desire to join A State of Being, a retreat, or any other course or session with me from a place of wanting to receive something that you believe you do not have, this is not the place for you.

You do not need a course from me or anyone else to fix you, change you, or make your life better.

Only you with God can do that.

All I can bring to you is my embodiment, self compassion, humanity, empowerment, and capacity... my soul, my state of Being, my presence, my skill, my discernment, my boundaries, my love, my human heart, my own strengths and challenges and grief and feelings felt, my self acceptance, and my support to you in resting in my becoming.

Every ounce of medicine you will ever need lives inside of you. And knowing that allows you to BE the medicine to receive all the medicine outside of you in a discerning, safe and open way.

Please only join these spaces because you feel excited about Being a part of a special community, because you want to expand your capacity to receive, and be with life for you, your life, the world, your family, because you want a space to BE, because you want to remember what your soul always knew with more embodiment. Because you want to learn and grow alongside others who want the same. Because you want to be held and supported and loved and cared about and celebrated in your becoming.

By joining these spaces, nothing will change in your life if you don't. You are your own magical person. I have skills and modalities and love and learning YOU have all YOUR medicine.

And you will hear and see through the perception that you experience life. Some of you will receive far more than I ever offered... and that will be all You, and your openness to receiving.

If your Mental Health/coaching/therapy/healing route is not supporting you in feeling more coherent, human, balanced, empowered, permissionfull, sovereign, and alive...

If you are outsourcing your intuition and autonomy in these space...

You can always choose to create a new way.

And no, I am NOT telling you to join my course and that that is the New way. It is not. Please don't join my classes to create that for yourself. Please join because you have learned to trust yourself, you feel called, and you are excited to Be inside of them.

If you choose, you can create a new way and THEN join the classes or courses if they are truly aligned for your mind, body and spirit.

If you choose, you don't need to outsource your intuition, your LIFE to anyone ever again.

And... having sovereignty and Being Empowered does NOT mean that you can't be loved, held, cherished and cared for in community, sister/brotherhood, and connection.

Sovereignty and community care is not mutually exclusive. It gets to go together. Empowerment can have a truly feminine embodiment.

I tell clients who apply to retreats all the time that it's not the right time for them to join if they are looking for this to be the Fix for them, to fix the thing that they were diagnosed by themselves and others to believe was broken about them inside.

Someone asked me recently... have you ever stopped to think how much potential income you have lost by turning so many people away from working with you before they were ready?

My answer?

NOT EVEN ONCE.

I have never thought about that, not even once.

If you are ready to join Legacy Leadership, a State of Being, Medicine without Medicine or a Retreat with me and my team,

Please do so only if it feels calm and right in your body and soul. If you feel called, if you feel excited and aligned and curious.

Not urgent because someone told you to, or because you saw a post somewhere online about something you felt like you needed to embody yesterday in order to be a "good" or "conscious" person.

It's brave to learn to make choices from your state of Being, from your soul. Your soul is your compass, Listening is the way you Talk to God And Listening is the way you Walk with God Trusting is the way you Lean on God Following is the way you allow God to Lead Choosing/creating is the way you co-create with God Loving is the way you emulate God Being is the way you let God move through you


Did I just share with you a desire for you to use your discernment before applying to any program with me, especially the new ones... Legacy Leadership, and A State of Being? Yes! The new Memberships are some of my first programs (besides for speaking events, podcast events, and some online events/classes) that don't have an application and/or interview process. And I want to request that you use discernment as for your intention to join this space. I want you to join if it feels genuinely aligned, peaceful and easeful in your soul. A woman who joined told me: "I joined A State of Being because when I join your spaces, I learn more about what I know vs. What YOU know... and that is rare for me. That's why it's a soul aligned yes" Please join us if that feels true for you too. If you feel more connected to your intuition, to your own soul, to your authentic path when you are in these spaces. Where you get to learn from/with and alongside others while having your own experience. Join these spaces if you are ready to enter into a field where we are all a student and teacher of life. If you are ready to bring 100 percent of your energy and responsibility to receiving and contributing, if you want to surround yourself with souls like you - also Being, together with You. And P.S. Someone asked me recently: what does The Frequency of Freedom mean to you? To me, FOF means to find peace within my becoming, the fact that we will always be becoming, and to keep living, from right where I am, in the present moment, with balance, confidence in God, nourishment, and faith, connected to my soul, body, others, and the creator. It's about all of it. It's about going inside, about allowing our lives to matter. It's about embracing and learning to be and be with ALL of it, not spiritually bypassing, one day at a time. It's about feeling what we feel and creating from our Souls. It's about coming into our lives, as honestly as we can each every day and learning to walk with God, in congruence with our spirit and our authentic path that may look different from someone else's. It's about getting lost in a sunset and found in a song. It's about receiving, allowing, becoming.

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