11-10-2026

Hey friends 🩵

When you were a child, how many times did someone ask you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

A doctor? A firefighter? A teacher?

But did anyone ever ask, “What five things would you like to become when you grow up?” Probably not.

From the time we’re young, we’re conditioned to think in terms of choices. One career. One spouse. One path. One right answer.

And somewhere along the way, we begin to believe that choosing one thing means rejecting another.

We develop preferences, opinions, and beliefs about how life is supposed to look. Eventually, those beliefs become so familiar that we mistake them for who we are.

But what if much of what we call our personality is simply a collection of beliefs we’ve never thought to question?

I was reminded of this during my recent trip to Mexico.

I spent a wonderful few days with my husband, Brian, and our dear friend Izzy. One afternoon, Izzy and I spontaneously walked nearly five miles to the beach and back in a tropical storm.

The rain was warm, the air was beautiful, and we simply enjoyed being in nature. No agenda. No destination we needed to reach by a certain time. Just experiencing life.

When friends heard what we’d done, they couldn’t believe we’d walked that far in such a hard rain storm. But why not? It was wonderful!

And it got me thinking about how easily we decide what an experience will be like before we've even had it.

Rain is bad weather. Walking five miles in a storm sounds miserable. But neither of those things was true for us. We were simply open to the experience.

And I realized that same openness was allowing me to see something else in my life differently.

I absolutely loved spending time with my husband, Brian. I’m excited that he’s getting much closer to finally being able to move to California with me. And I absolutely love living alone.

At one time, I might have assumed those feelings were contradictory.

ut why should they be?
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Who decided that loving someone means wanting to share every moment, every space, and every experience with them?

That’s a belief. Not necessarily a truth.

And it’s these hard edges of our belief systems that I’ve been becoming increasingly aware of.

We put ourselves inside these little boxes of what we believe is possible, appropriate, right, wrong, or simply “who we are.”

And then we spend our lives operating within those boundaries without realizing we’re the ones maintaining the walls.

If our beliefs shape our experience of reality, imagine what becomes possible when we stop treating those beliefs as absolute truths.

To me, authenticity is becoming less about defining who I am and more about releasing all the definitions that limit who I can become.

Living in alignment with love, truth, and the oneness of God requires openness. Curiosity. A willingness to imagine something beyond what we’ve already decided is possible.

Maybe the goal isn’t to figure out which box we belong in. Maybe it’s to recognize that we don’t need a box at all.

So here’s something to contemplate this week:

What have you decided is true about yourself or your life that you’ve never actually questioned?

And what might become possible if you softened those hard edges, even just a little?

🤍 Ready to move beyond the beliefs that have been limiting you?

Through my (re)Parenting Method, I help adults recognize the subconscious patterns and beliefs shaping their lives, question what they've accepted as truth, and create new possibilities for themselves and their relationships.

You don't have to keep living within the limits of beliefs you didn't consciously choose.

If you're ready to explore what's possible beyond those limits, I'd love to connect.

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Have a beautiful week, friends. 🤍

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