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everything else is just a distraction // Conquer Avoidance course is live!!!

Isabel

May 19

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Pre-essay announcement: I am offering a course to help you conquer your avoidance and liberate your creativity . If you have been avoiding something within yourself ... See more

First: to get the ego to back off, you have to shove against its comfort zones. So, pick stuff it doesn’t like. If, say, public speaking terrifies you, agree to give a speech. If heights bother you, go parachuting. If the dark bothers you, walk in the forest at night like I did. Each week, devise one thing that you will use to challenge yourself—to

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Aligning our lives with what strengthens us requires us to own our power. This means we take our stance as an adult, step into our own sense of inner authority, and do the work to clarify what we want. But we don’t stop there. We then take responsibility for creating what we want. And to do this, we learn to expand our capacity for greater physical

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