Cut the Shit, Kristin

Hello friend,

This past weekend, I spent two wonderful days leading MindScape Online and it was such an expansive, fun, and lovely experience. It was really really great, full of fun, and deeply healing. I actually didn't want it to be over. I would've loved to have a third day to dive deeper with this wonderful group. Lucky for me, my MindScape membership group has a call this week, AND I get to lead Advanced MindScape in 10 days. WOO. 

I have so many insights to share that seem to have all come together in integration, and while this email seemed to just be barfed up in its entirety through my fingers, this has all been brewing for a looooooong time. It's a longer read today, but it's potent AF and I hope a potent truth bomb or two will land in your mind and resonate in your heart. 

Here goes:

I have been in an intense healing cocoon for the past number of months, possibly years, and definitely decades--I've lost track.

Recently, I emerged through some pretty painful experiences and who I've come out as on the other side is someone I really, deeply love and am so proud of that it brings tear to my eyes. It was hard as hell and I wasn't sure I'd make it through, but the view from the other side is one full of reverence.

I've been moving through so much reflection, deep introspection, and healing my relationship to so many aspects and parts of myself--including my relationship to emotional expression, to my vulnerable parts, to my voice, to my wounds, protective beliefs and coping mechanisms, and so much more. The layers run deep and I've been so blessed to be so supported and resourced with loads of therapies and my network of loving humans who've held so much space for me.   

In this healing and reassessment, I've been sitting with my business, my direction, what I want to do moving forward, and have been assessing and getting curious about my path. While I know it will be a constant unfolding that I will trust as more awareness and clarity shows up, I have also intentionally reflecting on if I'm still lit up by sharing MindScape. I've realized that MindScape is way more potent than I've allowed myself to share and express in a long, long time. This past weekend, I found myself deeply reconnecting with the magic of MindScape, integrating all the healing I've done to view MindScape in a new light. I have realized just how many business, visibility, and self-expression blocks I've been allowing to get in my way around sharing MindScape. This awareness--just like any aha moment--has allowed me to create choice.

Here's what popped up to say to myself:

"Cut the shit, Kristin. The buck stops here."

MindScape is truly an incredible and empowering way to connect with your inner self, your subconscious mind (that stores the boat load of beliefs we've accumulated over our lifetime), your heart, your soul, your inspiration and creativity.

And, ironically, MindScape helps you get out of your head.

It is ironic, though, isn't it?

That we would use a tool called MIND-SCAPE to actually get us out of our heads and get reconnected with our hearts and souls, our intuition, inspiration, ideas, and our sense of playfulness.

But, it's true.

MIND-Scape allows us to HEAL our minds in order to access our hearts, souls, passion, truth, and authentic selves.

The purpose of MindScape is to build a mental workshop where you can explore your inner world to help heal your limiting beliefs that have been running behind the scenes, controlling your decisions and actions without you even being aware that it's happening that way. 

We are all running on wounds, which we have attempted to make sense of, and in order to do so, we've formed protective belief systems to keep ourselves safe from having to experience those painful experiences again. Each time we form a protective belief, we add a brick or build a whole dang wall to keep our hearts safe.

It is, after all, our ego mind's job to keep us safe.

So here's how it goes:

> We have a painful experience.

> We feel bruised and hurt.

> We try to make sense of why it happened.

> Our mind forms beliefs to explain and understand, and as a result, we avoid, judge, or react to experiences that feel the same way in order to keep ourselves safe and protected. 

> These beliefs get stored in our subconscious minds, so we have reactions and responses to situations that feel like a reflex. We may not consciously know why we are responding in a certain way, but it is a defence mechanism or coping mechanism for our survival and safety. 

> Until we examine what is underneath--our mental programming-- through self-awareness, self-reflection, etc, we actually cannot create change in our experience because we don't even realize it's happening.

> Rinse and repeat with each hard life experience we have, and all the coping mechanisms and limiting beliefs our minds create to keep us safe end up bottlenecking us into a limited experience of life.

And here's the result: 

We say no to possibilities to stay in our comfort zones and avoid risk.

We people please to avoid conflict and to avoid feeling uncomfortable.

We hold our tongues and swallow our truth to keep the peace (within us and without us).

We settle into comfort, even if it is not truly what we desire. We go through the motions or keep ourselves busy to avoid the lack of alignment we feel internally.We settle into poor habits that snowball to avoid facing our inner truths.

But it's time to cut the shit if you want to experience a life of growth and possibility.

It takes courage to get honest with yourself. It takes courage to hold up your inner truths up to the light. It takes courage to create change.

It takes courage to show up for yourself and question the way you've done things up until now. It takes courage to get curious. It takes courage to sit with your pain.

It takes courage to heal.

It takes courage to make new choices. 

I'm not going to tell you that it's easy, but I know you're brave and courageous, and this work is so deeply WORTH IT. (Because YOU ARE SO DEEPLY WORTH IT.)

Here's why:

When you do the inner work, you begin to peel back the layers of conditioning and limiting beliefs that you've slapped over your most authentic self in order to attempt to guarantee you'll be loved, accepted.

But it's all bullshit. 

Because if you are wearing all kinds of masks and moulding yourself into certain cookie cutter shapes in order to be loved and accepted, then the people in your life don't actually even know who you are.

Here's what your ego doesn't realize:

The rules you've learned about how you have to live your life aren't actually true at all. You wrote the rule book based on what everyone else told you from way back when. You collected experiences and adopted learnings, most of which are supremely outdated and no longer applicable to the person you are today. 

Your rule book needs a MAJOR OVERHAUL. (Mine, too).

Your manual for life needs to be edited, updated, and overhauled on a regular basis to be in alignment with the person your are NOW, TODAY, not the your from 10, 20, 30 years ago.

Because as you go through your life, you are meant to change and grow. Duh, right?

You are not ever going to be the same version of yourself all throughout your life, so why should you be playing by an archaic rule book that was written decades ago?

What if you gave yourself permission to update your rules of life? After all, it is YOUR life. You get to choose to overhaul or edit your outdated manual of how to do life. 

THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS:

< As you do this potent inner work, you'll notice there are wayyyyy more options and possibilities available to you than you ever realized.

< Choice will open up all around you. All the rigid mind stories that you believed were 75 foot tall brick walls will begin to slowly crumble.

< Glimmers of light will begin to peek through, showing you your own light, inspiration, and joy.

< You'll begin to open up, feel more like yourself, and be more freeeeee. 

< You'll feel yourself soften to the rigidity that used to govern your actions.

< You'll start to get to know your true self better. You'll feel yourself loosen up, slowly. (Yes, you'll meet resistance along the way, but that's just part of the ebb and flow.) 

< You'll be able to assess, question your experience, and find alignment through small, consistent adjustments.

Over time, you'll be able to alter the trajectory of your life to something so magnificent and aligned with your heart and soul that you'll wonder what took you so dang long to see the magic all around you.

But, here's the kicker: you're right on time. You are soooo divine. It is all unfolding as it should, just as you're ready to meet the next, deeper version of you.

And although your mind may be scared along the way by your potential, the unknown, how it'll all unfold, and if your people will still love the real you as you peel back the layers to your authentic self... the whole truth is that I bet you'll fall in love with this deeply authentic version of you so much that, in time, your people will deeply love the real you, too. If you have the courage to show them your truth and your heart, I bet they'll eventually even be inspired. 

All of this to say, MindScape is a fucking incredibly powerful tool to plug you into YOUR OWN DAMN POWER AND TRUTH. You can utilize it in countless ways for every area of life, but the best part of it is that it helps you reveal the truest, deepest version of you. And THAT is the most potent medicine there is. 

If you haven't taken MindScape yet, find an upcoming class.

If you've taken it and aren't using it, join my MindScape Membership program and get back on the MindScape train--for YOU, to meet YOU, to love YOU more deeply.

If you're ready to supercharge your MindScape journey with a lightning bolt, join me for Advanced MindScape Online on April 10,11,12, 2025 from 9am-230pm SK time. 

Do it for you. I promise the version of you that you'll meet is so much more beautiful, potent, incredible, and worthy of love, celebration, and joy than you've ever known. 

In your corner,

Kristin