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Aug. 20, 2024
PT 2: Fear of Visceral Joy
Today is a part two of sorts.
Last week's episode felt too big to just move on from and I've been burrowing myself into it ever since.
I uncovered a really deep insecurity of mine: being redundant. Feeling like what I have to share and what I feel so deeply compelled to say is obvious.
But isn't that what pictures are? redundant.
and thank goodness.
The most important things in the world need to be repeated over and over again.
My clarity problem revealed its true nature in this episode- it's a courage problem.
And what is so scary? the visceral joy that might come from setting myself free.
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Transcript
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It doesn't require courage for me to take the pictures I take anymore.
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At one point it did.
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And while in some instances there are moments where a form of courage comes into play, it is far more flow.
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And honestly, I don't think that there's anything wrong with that.
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Some might say, maybe you need to push harder then, but that doesn't resonate with me in this.
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I think the only problem here is that I've been so consumed with feeling like I was having a clarity problem and trying to figure out what I'm trying to do, I didn't realize it was actually a courage problem.
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I don't like that.
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I don't like that at all.
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It's really hard to swallow that.
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It's really hard to say that out loud.
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writing.
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writing would mean singing, not out of fulfilling a primal need, like my photography feels like, but to cross over into the courageous act of allowing visceral joy.
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Have I ever allowed myself visceral joy? I have never paired the word visceral with joy, never.
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Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing.
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It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for.
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My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy.
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One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now.
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You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets.
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All you have to do is see.
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In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision.
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Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully.
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You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life.
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What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long.
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Come exactly as you are.
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It's perfect.
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Honor your instincts.
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Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view.
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Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life.
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Let's dive in.
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Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Help Me See.
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Today I am doing a part two of sorts.
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Last week's episode felt too big to just move on from, and uh, I've been burrowing myself into it ever since, quite frankly.
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Um, if you didn't catch last week's episode, it was Uh, in uncovering around, uh, a really deep insecurity of mine of being redundant, um, feeling like what I have to share and what I feel so deeply compelled to say and share is, is obvious.
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It's, it's not, um, it doesn't feel like something that is, um, You know, fresh and new.
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It feels like this, like, of course, of course.
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And I've really walked myself through this.
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And I think about how, of course, of course, of course.
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No shit.
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I ground my whole knowing and philosophy into the fact that all I'm ever doing is reminding.
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And I'll hear.
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Oh, wait.
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Did you see that? Here.
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I was on a call the other day with one of my coaches, and she's someone who I've received support from for years now.
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Uh, her name is Amber Lillestrom.
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She's a magical human being.
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If you don't know her, please go check her out.
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I'll put her, um, link in the show notes.
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I had her on, um, uh, one of the podcast episodes you may remember, but she was speaking on this call and I was just pummeled, like completely brought to my knees in, in a way of, It what she was saying really, really hit me and I left her a voice note afterwards and I was saying to her that I have been a part of her world for years now, and there's nothing that she said on that call yesterday that was new.
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Like that was anything.
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Like completely off the beaten path, like in some way, shape, or form.
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I have heard her say Everything before and yet It entered me in a way that felt like it changed everything and Also, most of the call was prompted journaling So, this is not someone that's like, here, here are my answers.
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Here they are.
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And I'm like, Oh, I hear it now.
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No, this is someone that's committed to reminding me of my answers.
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It's the same reason why I format my Nostalgia Now, uh, visual journal templates in the way that I do.
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Go find, go look in your own photos.
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Go find your truth.
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Go find your answers.
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Go find your wisdom.
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Go find your pain.
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Go find your love.
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In your own photos.
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It's all there.
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Anyway, I, I went and I sent her a voice memo and I, I told her that, I had been really struggling with this weird insecurity around redundancy.
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It just feels so like anticlimactic.
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I'm like, really, that's the thing that's been fucking with me.
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And I told her how I would never consider her redundant.
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That has never even crossed my mind.
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And not only that, but you know, it hit me in such a way.
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And I was I was laughing through crying on this voice memo when I told her that, you know, no one ever said, I love you.
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And the other person was like, Oh, that's redundant.
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I didn't need to hear that again.
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Like what? Of course the most important things in the world need to be repeated over and over again.
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Take a picture of your dog and then go to take a picture again.
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You're like, oh, wait, actually I already have a picture of him No, or your kid or your spouse or your parents or no What Every moment is completely new and remembered at the same time You know, I've said before It's not See it, I'll, I'll believe it when I see it.
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It's, Believe it until you see it, and you will.
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And that is what photographs are.
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They're pictures of your beliefs.
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They're pictures of your beliefs.
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That are representative and not comprehensive.
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They are whatever you need them to be.
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I'm actually going to read, um, The other day I was journaling in the morning.
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Okay.
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So.
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Please forgive me because.
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I'm not the best out loud reader.
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But.
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I know I'm going to include this in the sub stack.
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And I would like it to also be in the video in case that's what you prefer and don't want to read.
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Um, Also yes.
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Side note.
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I am every podcast episode.
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Now we'll have a.
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Sub stack, which is the place to really sit with myself and.
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Refine what I said in a way that feels like.
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Coming home to myself and not just, you know, when you like.
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You know, when you like.
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Give advice or something, or like you're talking to a friend and then all of a sudden you're like, yeah, but I don't know, just in case, you know, You know, on a really ruin their life, or you don't want to act like, you know, everything.
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So I feel like I do with myself.
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I record podcast episodes.
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And then I can't listen to them back.
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I post them and I'm like, Well, I hope that makes sense to somebody.
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Okay.
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Here's what I wrote.
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Um, photographs as invitations and barriers.
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A free pass to leave the scene.
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The ignorant confidence of.
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I can always return to this later.
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This is how photos have betrayed me.
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They give me the comfort of proof evidence effort.
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And with that, I turn away as soon as I press and release.
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It has given me.
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Perpetual.
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Oh, It has helped me perpetuate my inability to bear the depths of what I feel by letting me touch it and move on.
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It lets me off the hook.
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If I make pictures of what is unsayable to me, and then feel relief in the thisness of putting my finger on the outside of my insides.
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Wouldn't the next step be to sit with it.
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Not to try to figure it out.
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Not to explain it away.
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But to be with it.
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I've been telling myself that's what I do in the editing process.
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But I'm starting to think that's not true.
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I mold and work with an image until it feels right.
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And then I leave.
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Onto the next, when I feel satisfied enough to stop, I move on.
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I don't sit with it.
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The photographs demand.
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I speak.
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They demand a response.
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It wants to have a conversation with me and I have turned away time and time again.
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Frantically searching for my stillness.
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Frantically searching for what the photographs have been trying to tell me all along.
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That's makes me really.
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I actually haven't read it back.
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Ironically, I haven't read it back until just now.
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Uh, I sat with a photograph the other day and bald.
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So close to the surface.
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It took less than 20 seconds to start crying.
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Over looking at this photograph I had made.
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Uh, photo therapy.
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I've spent a lot of time diminishing.
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My work as a writer.
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It even feels strange and uncomfortable to say that sentence.
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As a writer.
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I'm not articulate enough.
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I'm not concise.
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I'm redundant.
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I'm not great at communicating.
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Those criticisms felt okay because I wasn't looking at the writing as my art.
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And I think that was so painful, the fact that I couldn't see through myself.
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My photographs were the untouchable heavenly experiences of freedom that exist because I am in my fullest expression.
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No questions, no doubts, no pollutants, just pure connection to life.
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But I read an excerpt from a book recently that gave me the exact punch in the fucking face I so desperately needed.
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And this is a quote from Mark Nepo's book, um, The Forever Practice.
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What is it? Sorry.
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Oh, no, no, no, duh.
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Um, drinking from the river of light.
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Well, actually what's so crazy about this is that I believe I opened drinking from the river of light as I finished it a long time ago and I was Deeply madly in love with it.
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Go get that book right now, whatever you're doing.
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Just stop everything go get it um, but I'm listening very, very, very slowly to an audio, another audio book of his, I think it's something about the Art of Forever Practice or I don't know.
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And um, I opened to a page that was the, he referenced the book I was listening to on Audible.
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So, anyway.
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So this was from the audible book I was listening to, but really I read it in the book I had read forever.
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Okay.
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You didn't need to know that, but I wanted to tell you because I thought it was very synchronistic.
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And so, okay.
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The quote is such openness requires two things, the risk to be, which asks us to slow to the pace of creation where all things join.
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And secondly, the courage, not just to let what comes up through, but to sing it through.
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It takes courage to give voice to what we experience.
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The way a coyote howls, not just out of hunger, but out of a visceral joy at being part of the infinite secret revealed.
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In this way, we're angels wrapped in skin and fur, racing through thicket because we sense, we sense what can't be seen all around us.
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We sense what can't be seen all around us.
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So, I read that and it came rushing in.
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It doesn't require courage for me to take the pictures I take anymore.
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At one point it did.
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And while in some instances there are moments where a form of courage comes into play, it is far more flow.
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I think the only problem here is that I didn't realize I was thinking that since I wasn't feeling resistance in my quote unquote real art, I wasn't recognizing the struggle in my writing as I've been so consumed with feeling like I was having a clarity problem and trying to figure out what I'm trying to do, I didn't realize it was actually a courage problem.
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my photographs is letting what comes up through But my writing is me needing to sing it through I know this is a bitch slap from the universe because I've had this annoying Nag to take up singing lessons lately.
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writing would mean singing, not out of fulfilling a primal need, like my photography feels like, but to cross over into the courageous act of allowing visceral joy.
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Have I ever allowed myself visceral joy? I have never paired the word visceral with joy, never.
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Not a clarity problem, but a courage problem? Game fucking on.
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I can hold space for that, but my question for you after uncovering this for myself is What problem in your life, what issue, what tension in your life are you overcomplicating to think that it is very complex, that there's something that you can't see or get a hold of, but now when you hear, maybe it's actually a courage problem, it opens up.
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What comes up for you? What is far more simple than you'd like to realize.
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So the plot twist here in this part two is I thought last week that the monster under the bed was named Redundancy.
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I can allow myself the photographs because they're like my own special secret, private language that no matter what I show or say, I have an indescribable relationship to them and they're quiet, but using my voice, using my words requires a level of ownership and power that is so scary, and yet, Refuses to be dismissed.
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So whatever came up that felt like, oh, maybe I just need more courage.
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What part are you afraid of? It's just so crazy how we live our lives.
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Like, what is the answer? What is it? And it's like the most simple thread.
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Oh, humans are so silly and wonderful.
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This will be my second post and sub deck.
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So sacred seeing slash nostalgia now.
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Um, it's all the same thing.
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Uh, you get access to all of the, um, posts, all of the page posts from the podcast episodes that will include.
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Pictures and embellishments and, um, You know, The experience of me exploring this new self identified art form of my writing.
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Uh, world is I make these templates and I utilize my background in neuro-linguistic programming and, uh, my philosophy and my photographic practice.
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Your complete centered core of wisdom has already.
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Seen it, and you're about to see evidence for it by picking it, foraging it, putting on this template, and then the experience of witnessing yourself in that way, in that act.
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It's bringing that intentionality.
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Um, back to a month by month basis with this kind of reflection.
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So if you want access to that, um, that will be in the, um, private subscriber, uh, section of the page.
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And then also there is a special founding member option.
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And if you choose to be a founding member, not only do you have the year long access, but you have, a remote photo session with me, Remote photo sessions are something that I've recently gotten into and absolutely loved them.
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They are their own species of intimacy and weirdness and wonderfulness, and allows me to come to wherever you are without travel and.
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Um, make very private, personal imagery in that way.
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And, um, It's a wonderful thing.
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So there's the information there.
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The links will be in the show notes and I look forward to catching up with you next week.
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It doesn't require courage for me to take the pictures I take anymore.
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At one point it did.
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And while in some instances there are moments where a form of courage comes into play, it is far more flow.
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And honestly, I don't think that there's anything wrong with that.
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Some might say, maybe you need to push harder then, but that doesn't resonate with me in this.
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I think the only problem here is that I've been so consumed with feeling like I was having a clarity problem and trying to figure out what I'm trying to do, I didn't realize it was actually a courage problem.
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I don't like that.
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It's really hard to swallow that.
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It's really hard to say that out loud.
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writing.
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writing would mean singing, not out of fulfilling a primal need, like my photography feels like, but to cross over into the courageous act of allowing visceral joy.
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Have I ever allowed myself visceral joy? I have never paired the word visceral with joy, never.
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Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing.
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It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for.
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My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy.
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One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now.
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You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets.
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All you have to do is see.
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In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision.
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Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully.
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You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life.
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What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long.
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Come exactly as you are.
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It's perfect.
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Honor your instincts.
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Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view.
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Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life.
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Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Help Me See.
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Today I am doing a part two of sorts.
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Last week's episode felt too big to just move on from, and uh, I've been burrowing myself into it ever since, quite frankly.
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Um, if you didn't catch last week's episode, it was Uh, in uncovering around, uh, a really deep insecurity of mine of being redundant, um, feeling like what I have to share and what I feel so deeply compelled to say and share is, is obvious.
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It's, it's not, um, it doesn't feel like something that is, um, You know, fresh and new.
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It feels like this, like, of course, of course.
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And I've really walked myself through this.
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And I think about how, of course, of course, of course.
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No shit.
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I ground my whole knowing and philosophy into the fact that all I'm ever doing is reminding.
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And I'll hear.
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Did you see that? Here.
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I was on a call the other day with one of my coaches, and she's someone who I've received support from for years now.
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Uh, her name is Amber Lillestrom.
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She's a magical human being.
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If you don't know her, please go check her out.
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I'll put her, um, link in the show notes.
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I had her on, um, uh, one of the podcast episodes you may remember, but she was speaking on this call and I was just pummeled, like completely brought to my knees in, in a way of, It what she was saying really, really hit me and I left her a voice note afterwards and I was saying to her that I have been a part of her world for years now, and there's nothing that she said on that call yesterday that was new.
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Like that was anything.
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Like completely off the beaten path, like in some way, shape, or form.
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I have heard her say Everything before and yet It entered me in a way that felt like it changed everything and Also, most of the call was prompted journaling So, this is not someone that's like, here, here are my answers.
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Here they are.
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No, this is someone that's committed to reminding me of my answers.
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It's the same reason why I format my Nostalgia Now, uh, visual journal templates in the way that I do.
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Go find your truth.
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Anyway, I, I went and I sent her a voice memo and I, I told her that, I had been really struggling with this weird insecurity around redundancy.
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It just feels so like anticlimactic.
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I'm like, really, that's the thing that's been fucking with me.
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That has never even crossed my mind.
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And I was I was laughing through crying on this voice memo when I told her that, you know, no one ever said, I love you.
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Like what? Of course the most important things in the world need to be repeated over and over again.
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Take a picture of your dog and then go to take a picture again.
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You're like, oh, wait, actually I already have a picture of him No, or your kid or your spouse or your parents or no What Every moment is completely new and remembered at the same time You know, I've said before It's not See it, I'll, I'll believe it when I see it.
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It's, Believe it until you see it, and you will.
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They're pictures of your beliefs.
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They're pictures of your beliefs.
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That are representative and not comprehensive.
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I'm actually going to read, um, The other day I was journaling in the morning.
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I'm not the best out loud reader.
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I am every podcast episode.
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Coming home to myself and not just, you know, when you like.
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You know, when you like.
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Give advice or something, or like you're talking to a friend and then all of a sudden you're like, yeah, but I don't know, just in case, you know, You know, on a really ruin their life, or you don't want to act like, you know, everything.
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I post them and I'm like, Well, I hope that makes sense to somebody.
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Okay.
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Here's what I wrote.
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Um, photographs as invitations and barriers.
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A free pass to leave the scene.
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The ignorant confidence of.
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I can always return to this later.
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This is how photos have betrayed me.
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They give me the comfort of proof evidence effort.
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And with that, I turn away as soon as I press and release.
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It has given me.
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Perpetual.
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Oh, It has helped me perpetuate my inability to bear the depths of what I feel by letting me touch it and move on.
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It lets me off the hook.
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If I make pictures of what is unsayable to me, and then feel relief in the thisness of putting my finger on the outside of my insides.
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Wouldn't the next step be to sit with it.
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Not to try to figure it out.
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Not to explain it away.
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But to be with it.
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I've been telling myself that's what I do in the editing process.
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But I'm starting to think that's not true.
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I mold and work with an image until it feels right.
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And then I leave.
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Onto the next, when I feel satisfied enough to stop, I move on.
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I don't sit with it.
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The photographs demand.
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I speak.
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They demand a response.
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It wants to have a conversation with me and I have turned away time and time again.
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Frantically searching for my stillness.
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Frantically searching for what the photographs have been trying to tell me all along.
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That's makes me really.
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I actually haven't read it back.
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Ironically, I haven't read it back until just now.
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Uh, I sat with a photograph the other day and bald.
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So close to the surface.
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It took less than 20 seconds to start crying.
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Over looking at this photograph I had made.
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Uh, photo therapy.
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I've spent a lot of time diminishing.
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My work as a writer.
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It even feels strange and uncomfortable to say that sentence.
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As a writer.
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I'm not articulate enough.
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I'm not concise.
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I'm redundant.
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I'm not great at communicating.
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Those criticisms felt okay because I wasn't looking at the writing as my art.
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And I think that was so painful, the fact that I couldn't see through myself.
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My photographs were the untouchable heavenly experiences of freedom that exist because I am in my fullest expression.
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No questions, no doubts, no pollutants, just pure connection to life.
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But I read an excerpt from a book recently that gave me the exact punch in the fucking face I so desperately needed.
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And this is a quote from Mark Nepo's book, um, The Forever Practice.
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What is it? Sorry.
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Oh, no, no, no, duh.
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Um, drinking from the river of light.
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Well, actually what's so crazy about this is that I believe I opened drinking from the river of light as I finished it a long time ago and I was Deeply madly in love with it.
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Go get that book right now, whatever you're doing.
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Just stop everything go get it um, but I'm listening very, very, very slowly to an audio, another audio book of his, I think it's something about the Art of Forever Practice or I don't know.
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And um, I opened to a page that was the, he referenced the book I was listening to on Audible.
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So, anyway.
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So this was from the audible book I was listening to, but really I read it in the book I had read forever.
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Okay.
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You didn't need to know that, but I wanted to tell you because I thought it was very synchronistic.
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And so, okay.
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The quote is such openness requires two things, the risk to be, which asks us to slow to the pace of creation where all things join.
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And secondly, the courage, not just to let what comes up through, but to sing it through.
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It takes courage to give voice to what we experience.
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The way a coyote howls, not just out of hunger, but out of a visceral joy at being part of the infinite secret revealed.
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In this way, we're angels wrapped in skin and fur, racing through thicket because we sense, we sense what can't be seen all around us.
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We sense what can't be seen all around us.
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So, I read that and it came rushing in.
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It doesn't require courage for me to take the pictures I take anymore.
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At one point it did.
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And while in some instances there are moments where a form of courage comes into play, it is far more flow.
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And honestly, I don't think that there's anything wrong with that.
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Some might say, maybe you need to push harder then, but that doesn't resonate with me in this.
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I think the only problem here is that I didn't realize I was thinking that since I wasn't feeling resistance in my quote unquote real art, I wasn't recognizing the struggle in my writing as I've been so consumed with feeling like I was having a clarity problem and trying to figure out what I'm trying to do, I didn't realize it was actually a courage problem.
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I don't like that.
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I don't like that at all.
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It's really hard to swallow that.
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It's really hard to say that out loud.
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my photographs is letting what comes up through But my writing is me needing to sing it through I know this is a bitch slap from the universe because I've had this annoying Nag to take up singing lessons lately.
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I cannot Kick it.
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I can't, I, I don't understand when I was a little girl, I wanted to be a singer when I grew up little, little, but that never, it's not like I ever took singing classes before.
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I have no idea.
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And of course this message comes and tells me to sing it through giving voice to myself through images because I'm hungry to create, to scratch an itch, to touch something and say this, but writing.
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writing would mean singing, not out of fulfilling a primal need, like my photography feels like, but to cross over into the courageous act of allowing visceral joy.
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Have I ever allowed myself visceral joy? I have never paired the word visceral with joy, never.
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But now that I see what I want to say is not a communication problem.
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Not a clarity problem, but a courage problem? Game fucking on.
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Yeah, can't unsee that and I do not like that.
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Okay, I can soften to it.
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I can hold space for that, but my question for you after uncovering this for myself is What problem in your life, what issue, what tension in your life are you overcomplicating to think that it is very complex, that there's something that you can't see or get a hold of, but now when you hear, maybe it's actually a courage problem, it opens up.
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What comes up for you? What is far more simple than you'd like to realize.
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So the plot twist here in this part two is I thought last week that the monster under the bed was named Redundancy.
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But this week, I realized its real name is Courage.
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Well, I guess that's not the name.
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I guess the name is Fear.
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Dun da da da! Fear of what? Fear.
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of visceral joy, fear of singing, fear of singing it through.
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I can allow myself the photographs because they're like my own special secret, private language that no matter what I show or say, I have an indescribable relationship to them and they're quiet, but using my voice, using my words requires a level of ownership and power that is so scary, and yet, Refuses to be dismissed.
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So whatever came up that felt like, oh, maybe I just need more courage.
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What part are you afraid of? It's just so crazy how we live our lives.
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Like we're living inside the Pythagorean theorem.
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Like, what is the answer? What is it? And it's like the most simple thread.
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Oh, humans are so silly and wonderful.
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Alrighty.
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That is what I have for you to say.
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Aye.
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Want to let you know that I now have a sub stack.
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This will be my second post and sub deck.
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And I have some very friggin and exciting news.
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I'm moving my membership over to sub stack.
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So sacred seeing slash nostalgia now.
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Um, it's all the same thing.
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And this is going to be hosted on sub stack.
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So if you, um, If you want to just follow along on sub stack for free.
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Uh, you get access to all of the, um, posts, all of the page posts from the podcast episodes that will include.
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Pictures and embellishments and, um, You know, The experience of me exploring this new self identified art form of my writing.
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And, um, If you would like to become a, um, subscriber, a paid subscriber.
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Then you will get access to the monthly.
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Self discovery, visual journal templates.
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My one of a kind.
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favorite thing.
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Uh, world is I make these templates and I utilize my background in neuro-linguistic programming and, uh, my philosophy and my photographic practice.
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And I.
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Come up with a handful of very concise prompts for you to read and then burrow through your photo scroll so that you can reflect and immerse in your life and have that.
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Um, really intentional space to.
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Go forage.
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Look for evidence that you've already taken.
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Your complete centered core of wisdom has already.
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Seen it, and you're about to see evidence for it by picking it, foraging it, putting on this template, and then the experience of witnessing yourself in that way, in that act.
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Um, really it's bringing the intentions that we usually save for new years.
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Resolutions.
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It's bringing that intentionality.
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Um, back to a month by month basis with this kind of reflection.
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So if you want access to that, um, that will be in the, um, private subscriber, uh, section of the page.
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And then also there is a special founding member option.
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And if you choose to be a founding member, not only do you have the year long access, but you have, a remote photo session with me, Remote photo sessions are something that I've recently gotten into and absolutely loved them.
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They are their own species of intimacy and weirdness and wonderfulness, and allows me to come to wherever you are without travel and.
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Um, make very private, personal imagery in that way.
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And, um, It's a wonderful thing.
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So there's the information there.
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The links will be in the show notes and I look forward to catching up with you next week.
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