Awareness

“I knew what I wanted, and I was so afraid that I wasn’t going to get it. But when I let myself surrender and just felt the disappointment of not getting it, I ended up getting it.”

This first episode for 2022 has been an entire year in the making. Welcome to my 2021 reflection – a culmination of hours of intentional reflection to extract and share the lessons and insights that life has been teaching me.

Tune in to hear a deep-dive account of all my highs and lows and discover how these experiences led to a lot of healing, growth, feeling, expansion, and love.

This is one of my favorite episodes to record and a tangible representation of my commitment to living a lifestyle of awareness. I hope this episode inspires you to create your own 2021 reflection. If you want to understand my process for creating this reflection, you’ll want to check out last week’s episode (#211), where I reveal all my secrets!

As usual, my dear friend Georgina El Morshdy is here to hold space and guide us as we navigate this conversation into all the events, challenges, celebrations, and inspirations that made my 2021 a year I’ll never forget.

Here are some of the key takeaways you’ll hear us discuss:

• How my breaking open earlier in the year invited deep connection.
• The lesson of living an inspired life rather than hustling to be an inspiration.
• The joy of finding a deeper sense of self.
• Learning to trust that everything is happening FOR you.
• The secret to getting what you really want.
• What I learned about cultivating energetically sound endings.
• What are we robbing ourselves from by keeping one pinky on the shore?
• The role symbology played in my year.
• What I learned about crafting a lifestyle of awareness.
• Why does the universe love us so much?
• How I stayed grounded in 2021.
• And more!

I’m so grateful for the man I’ve become thanks to the life I’ve been blessed to live in 2021. It’s been a spectrum of highs and lows. I’ve experienced some of my biggest challenges, but in the process, I was able to feel a depth of love and connection that I’ve never been able to touch before.

If this reflection inspired something in you, please let me know. Share your takeaways on Instagram or DM me. I love hearing from the Stay Grounded community. I’m so grateful you’re a part of it.

It doesn’t matter if you’re closing out a year or 10 years, the act of closure feels the same.

When I think about my pace of growth, I’m so clear it’s because I’ve cultivated a lifestyle of awareness. This means I intentionally carve out time to reflect on the things that are happening in my life – and how I move through them.

For me, hindsight is 20/20 vision. Reflection reveals all the lessons and secrets life is teaching me. You can avoid repeating mistakes and integrate discoveries with more ease and grace by pulling them out.

If you’re a regular listener of Stay Grounded, you’ll know I reflect monthly. I reflect on an annual basis too. It’s actually one of my most favorite things I do.

And in this episode, I’m revealing my entire process- step-by-step – for the first time. Check it out.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why your annual reflection starts with a month-by-month overview.
• Why we look for the highs and lows – not the wins and losses.
• Annual reflection as a game of two halves.
• Really learning from ‘mistakes’.
• My closure ritual (and why it’s not for the end of the year alone).
• My 7 reflection questions.
• Finding your theme.
• Crafting goals around the way I want to feel – instead of the things I want to attract.
• And more…

BONUS! Here’s a list of the reflection questions I ask in the episode:

1. Who or what would you like to acknowledge?
2. What would you like to acknowledge about yourself?
3. What are you ready to let go of or forgive?
4. What did you love most about 2021?
5. What do you want more of / what do you want to do differently in 2022?
6. What would need to happen for you to feel complete closure of 2021?
7. What’s next for you RIGHT NOW?

This reflection process is here for you to explore whenever you choose to take some self-awareness time for yourself. It’s perfect for closing out the year, but you can also use this sequence anytime you’re at an ending.

If you want to see this process in action, check out next week’s episode of Stay Grounded when I share my personal annual reflection.

Your inner critic is actually meant to serve your brain. It’s not meant to hurt you.

The month of July was hectic, heartbreaking, and healing for me. An incredible friend of mine passed from stage 4 cancer, and yet again, end of life taught me some potent lessons, which I share in this episode.

Looking back, it’s clear to me that this month’s events have allowed me to become deeply intimate with the critical, judgy voice in my head. The voice that scolds me for not being enough, not doing enough, or the “fact that I should have known better.” (how many of you are familiar with that one?!)

Thanks to these experiences, I was able to gather some deep insights into the role that my inner critic plays in helping me experience the life I desire.

I don’t believe that the negative voices in our minds are here to stop us from being happy. And when we can find the compassion in our hearts to hold space for the voice of our inner critics to evolve, we create more holistic internal operating systems that serve our highest and best good while empowering a culture of ease and grace.

As usual, my dear friend Georgina El Morshdy is here to hold space, provide reflections, and help us navigate this important conversation about self-leadership and learning how to heal the judgy voice of your inner critic.

Here are some of the key takeaways you’ll hear us discuss:

1. What it means to be a leader.
2. Why we have an inner critic and how it keeps us safe.
3. Tristin’s passing, the commissioned painting, and what it taught me about self-trust.
4. Where the voice of judgement originates [and how to spot it in your external world].
5. Judging the ‘Tornado in a t-shirt’.
6. How the inner critic protects you.
7. And more…

I hope you find this month’s reflection episode illuminating and thoughtful as you learn to love yourself in deeper and more magical ways. This is the beautiful work that will change your life. If you enjoy this episode, please rate and review the show.You can also DM me on Instagram. I read every message personally.

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When your power is attached to feelings you can create inside of you, there’s absolutely nothing that keeps you caged.

As I bring you my June reflection, we’re now officially halfway through 2021. This episode is especially powerful for me because I’m noticing how my reflection process is deepening and evolving as I dig in more. As a result, my personal growth is accelerating, and my insights are helping me to step into new possibilities for myself and my life.

My reflection process is one of my favorite personal development tools.

It’s a catalyst for spiritual growth, it deepens my connection with myself, and it’s taking me to new levels of self-awareness and personal responsibility.

I hope that by sharing the way I navigate my reflection [as well as some core takeaways from June], you can extract some ideas to expand your personal practice.

I’m grateful and excited to share this month’s reflection because I feel like I’m getting to a place where I’m working on the thing beneath the thing! As a result, my insights are deepening.

If you’ve listened to any of my previous monthly reflections, you’ll know that Georgina El Morshdy is here to help us navigate this conversation.

Here are some of the key takeaways you’ll hear us explore:

1. How my reflection process has evolved and deepened with time.
2. What it means to be the weather instead of the thermostat.
3. Specific ways that my way of being is evolving.
4. How to access desired emotions without the external trigger.
5. Learning that the universe has my back.
6. The power of family board meetings and ‘keeping the glass clean’.
7. How I process challenging emotions to avoid conflict.
8. And more…

When I look for the thread that wove itself through June, I can see that this month has been about cultivating trust. Trust in me and trust in the way that the universe is holding me as my life continues to unfold. There’s so much intentional growth to be created when you look for it.

What did the month of June hold for you?

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To me, the courage to rise in love is the idea of facing everything in front of us with the lens of love.

It’s that time again! The episode where I take you through my monthly reflection and all my learnings from May 2021.

This is my fifth reflection this year and I’m seeing such a huge benefit from this deep-dive process. When you get intentional about your life and pay attention to what’s actually happening, you unlock the gifts, lessons, and experiences of the moment. For me, this level of self-reflection is an accelerator that leverages hindsight as a personal and spiritual growth tool.

Reflection helps you get the lessons faster, so you can bend time and condense your life.

It’s one of the ways I’m able to have my cake and eat it too.

May has been a growth-fuelled, wildly fulfilling month most notably marked by the end of my 20s. This milestone inspired me to purge things that aren’t originating from an internal source or my heart, creating space to rise in something new.

If you’ve listened to any of my previous monthly reflections, you’ll know that Georgina El Morshdy is here to help us navigate this conversation.

Here are some of the key takeaways you’ll hear us explore:

Key takeaways:

1. How it felt to write a eulogy for my 20s.
2. Leaving Austin and marking the end of a chapter.
3. Making the shift from being an inspiration to living an inspired life.
4. How to purge things that no longer serve you from your life.
5. What it means to shatter the idea of you [and how this creates opportunities for growth].
6. How to know when you’re rising in love.
7. Trust, synchronicities, and faith in the universe.
8. What is time and how can you bend it in your favor.
9. My definition of faith and how to cultivate it.
10. What you find when you strip away what isn’t yours.
11. And more…

As well as finding something for yourself in this episode, I hope my monthly reflections inspire you to look back over your own life so you can extract the lessons that life is teaching you.

When you can trust in the unfolding, you know that every hardship you’re experiencing is only a hardship because it hasn’t fully blossomed into the blessing yet.
I’m super excited to release this latest reflection episode. April 2021 held a lot of teachings and because it was also the last month of my 20s, this reflection holds an extra special meaning.

This month, I’ve been learning to cultivate faith.

Sometimes, life doesn’t unfold in the way you imagine. Sometimes, projects and plans can take longer to come to fruition than you would have liked – and that can create inner friction! But when you believe that everything is happening FOR you, delays create an opening to explore uncomfortable emotions and experiences.

In the process, you grow and evolve at lightning speed!

I’m super grateful for this month. April has given me the circumstances that have allowed me to experience who I am at a deeper level – and as always, I’m sharing all the juicy details with you in this week’s episode.

If you’ve listened to any of my previous monthly reflections, you’ll know that Georgina El Morshdy is here to help us navigate this conversation.

Here are some of the key takeaways you’ll hear us explore:

1. The important difference between the paths of evolution and achievement. 
2. Differentiating between the idea of you and the real you. 
3. Faith and the gift of believing everything happens FOR you. 
4. Recognizing that painful moments often deepen relationships and cultivate intimacy.
5. Cultivating the courage to ask for help from those you would normally support. 
6. What it means to ‘keep the glass clean’.
7. And more…

The universe asked me to step up in so many ways this month.

But in hindsight, I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Allowing myself to see who I am at a deeper level, is an experience I’m always grateful for.

It’s my hope that by discovering my recent experiences and listening to this conversation, you’ll have more trust in the lessons life wants to teach you – however they choose to show up.

Check it out.