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I'm Lindsay, an author, dreamer, and life coach empowering creatives to fully embrace their potential by showing them how to break free from blocks, gain clarity, and tap into their unique brand of magic.

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Overwhelm is no fun. We all experience it from time to time, sometimes too often depending on what's going on in our lives, and it can make us feel like we are struggling just to keep our heads above water.
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This feeling makes us think that we have lost control of our circumstances. However, in almost every situation, it's our perspective that is making us feel that way. It's just a signal from your brain that you need to shift your focus and look a little closer at something.
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By taking a moment to step back, breathe, and evaluate the truth of the situation, you'll often find that the answers are there, waiting to be discovered so you can move forward with clarity.
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The next time you feel that sense of overwhelm coming on, go through the steps on this list and see if it helps. 🙏🏻

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❝Fear is imagination undirected.❞ — TONY ROBBINS

Our fears feel very real but in reality, they are as much a part of our imagination as our most hopeful dreams are. They are the worst-case scenarios playing out on the movie screen in our minds. 🎥

Fear is a necessary ally. It's a survival instinct that has been honed for a reason and it kicks in to protect us when we need it. But that's all it is ─ an ally, NOT your captain. You're the captain. You get to weigh the information it gives you and then decide where you are going to put your focus.

When fear starts to run away with your imagination, stop the film. Change the narrative. Redirect it.

What's a more positive, compelling scenario you can imagine for the situation you're facing? Think of more than one if you can, to show yourself all the possibilities. Make them 🍿-worthy.

Fear amplifies when we FOCUS on it. When we give it all the resources of our imagination to make that fear as big and vivid and real as possible. The more we focus on it, the more real it feels because our brains don't know the difference between what we imagine and what we've actually seen.

Keep that in mind the next time fear starts directing your mental movie. Because what you see on that screen affects the way you think, feel, and act in your reality. 🎬

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One of the coolest parts of the personal development journey is when you start getting so familiar with how you tick that you actually become an observer of your own reactions to certain programming.
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You get used to how your fears manifest into specific blocks and intercept them when they are forming. You notice your triggers and instead of falling into them, question what has set them off.
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This is true self-awareness. Your brain is like a computer. It can run on its own and drag you along for the ride through mood swings, blocks, and self-sabotaging patterns, or you can take the time to learn how it operates and what is at the root of what drives these reactions.
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Then, you can be like Baby Yoda. Cool, calm, rebellious, and one with the Force.

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Let's talk about intuition.
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt something in your gut but let your analytical side (or someone else) talk you out of trusting it, only to later regret that decision. Big time. 🙋🏻‍♀️
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I’ve made many mistakes and wasted a lot of time that could’ve been avoided if only I'd trusted that feeling rather than second-guessed myself.
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In 2019, I made a promise: I’d trust my intuition on every decision. Whatever it said, I’d listen. Whether it was a big life choice (like one regarding my career) or a small one (like choosing something at a restaurant), I'd follow its guidance.
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Something really cool happened: the more I listened to my intuition, the stronger and clearer it became. Now, I make decisions quicker and more confidently because of it -- and the only ones I regret are the ones where I slipped and let my emotions take over instead of heeding my inner guide.
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Whether you believe it is something spiritual or scientific (there are actual studies on it), you can't deny its validity. It's universally experienced and has been discussed for as long as humans have been exchanging ideas. People like Oprah, Steve Jobs, and Albert Einstein have all spoken of the important role it played in their lives.
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Einstein said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
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It’s true: we’ve been taught to value our rational mind over our intuitive one, but your intuition is able to access information your conscious mind isn’t always aware of. We have information stored away that we don’t consciously remember, as well as instincts that have been honed over millions of years. Our intuition cuts through the noise of our rational mind, which is filled with things like other people’s opinions, limiting beliefs, fears, and other factors that muddy the process. It's our direct line to our truth.
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🔮 How connected are you with your intuition?

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A PSA for all my creatives out there. ✌🏻
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Perfection is a concept, not a reality. (And a boring one at that.)
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Done is better than perfect.
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Everything that has ever been done, said, or made has been criticized by SOMEONE. Just take a look at the reviews on your favorite book, movie, or TV show. Did everyone like it? Nope. 👎🏻
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Release the pressure to be perfect and avoid criticism. They are just your fears trying to avoid judgment, but if you avoid judgment, you also avoid doing anything worthwhile.

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On November 30th, 2019, I accomplished something I have been wanting to do for several years:

I won #NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).
50,000 words in 30 days.
Almost an entire novel written in one month.

This is a big accomplishment in general, but for me, it had an even deeper personal meaning because I struggled with crippling creative blocks for over a decade that kept me from finishing projects and sometimes, for months at a time, kept me from writing at all.

I thought something was wrong with me. I thought I must not be creative enough, must not be a good enough writer, must just not be cut out for this.

It was an enormous source of inner turmoil and anguish for me because writing fiction is genuinely my favorite thing to do. I feel like someone in love when I’m writing. I’m an extremely passionate person, so to not have an outlet for all of that emotion and creativity because of my blocks made me feel disconnected from myself and from life in general. I even experienced seasons of depression due to this struggle because it had a ripple effect on all other areas of my life.

Reading @elizabeth_gilbert_writer's book “Big Magic” was a turning point for me because I realized that a lot of what I was going through was normal. That the fears and self-doubt I experienced were not a sign that I wasn’t cut out for this but that I was simply human and getting caught up in very real but manageable responses.

I went on a journey of doing a lot of inner work. I absorbed every piece of content that I could find — books, podcasts, videos, blog posts, social media posts, etc — to help me overcome the fear and anxiety that had been ruling my creativity and thus, my life. I became an NLP practitioner and a certified life coach to take my transformation to the next level, and to pass on everything I was falling in love with learning to others
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It's often the simplest mindset shifts that have the biggest impact on how we approach a situation (and life in general).
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Creativity gives you space. It creates possibilities. It focuses on options and solutions. 👑
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A closed mindset only sees problems. It puts up walls and recycles old patterns. It expects the worst and gives up before it even tries. ✋🏻
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Do you ever find thoughts on the "closed mindset" side running through your mind? 🧠The next time you do (because let's be real, we all have those moments), switch it out with a statement from the right. Watch how fast magic happens. ✨
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Which one of these do you relate to the most?👇🏻

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❝Surface level healing is washing a pane of glass with a dirty sponge and ignoring the streaks.❞ — JESSICA J. EVANS (@felinegoddesswithin), 31 Days to Emotional Rebirth

If you’ve never heard of energy healing before, this journal is the perfect introduction to the practice through which you identify and release emotional blockages, as well as a great beginner’s guide to creating a stronger connection with your intuition.

These blocks are created by negative experiences that have left an imprint on your subconscious mind and manifest in physical, mental, and emotional suffering. (Even writer’s and other creative blocks.) Jessica used this process to cure herself of debilitating Chronic Migraines that she suffered from for over a decade. Everything she tried had failed to bring her relief until she was introduced to energy healing. In 4 months, she finally experienced freedom from the intense pain she had lived with for years.

She has other amazing stories like this of how she has helped her clients heal in various ways. Whether you simply want to get to the root of creative blocks or release unhealed trauma from your past, this journal is a great way to start incorporating energy healing into your healing journey. Besides her incredible intuitive gifts, Jessica also has the gift of making complex concepts easy to understand and implement.

In a short span of time, Jessica has become one of my dearest friends, and she will feel like one of yours as she guides you through your experience with this journal. She is genuinely one of the warmest, most down-to-earth people I’ve ever met. (And she’s as obsessed with cats, NSYNC, and Disney as I am, so to say we are kindred spirits would be an understatement.) .
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→ You can grab the paperback on Amazon or the digital version at Jessica’s website via the link in her IG bio: @felinegoddesswithin ☽

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#NaNoWriMo2019 officially kicked off yesterday. How did you all do? If you didn't get a chance to write or hit the word count you were hoping for, don't sweat it. There are 29 days left for you to catch up. What did you learn from yesterday that you can apply moving forward?

I'm grateful to report that I wrote 1695 words last night. 🙌🏻I was definitely a bit rusty. I hadn't written fiction in a while, but it felt amazing to get back into the swing of things. My inner editor was throwing all sorts of tantrums (per usual for a first draft) so I put on a pair of headphones and cranked up some loud music to drown her out. (Like #4 says, I'll rewrite it later! Which I also kept chanting to myself.) .
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I also published a new post on the blog on how to create a writing ritual that will help you get into flow faster. Writing as often as possible is the most effective way to strengthen those muscles, but you can "grease the wheel" so to speak and create conditions that will set you up for success from the get-go. You can check it out via the link in my bio. 👆🏻
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But wait ─ there's more! If you head to my stories today (or IG highlights later) you'll find some IG story templates you can screenshot and fill out to chronicle your #NaNoWriMo journey. Hope you enjoy them! 🖤

Good luck, tributes. May the odds be ever in your favor.

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