episode
#031
Why Receiving Feels Unsafe
episode
#031
Why Receiving Feels Unsafe
In this week's episode:
Give yourself room to receive the help you need.
You want support, yet accepting it feels unfamiliar. When you're used to handling everything, making a clear request and letting someone contribute takes practice.
Continuing the sovereignty conversation, Alanna starts with an everyday request: asking someone to pick up their socks. Explore how receiving support makes room for your time, creativity, and work—and how practical action belongs alongside naming what you want.
Watch the teaching, listen below, or read the full transcript. Begin the free, three-part Feminine Reset to reconnect with your own needs, energy, and choices.
Show Notes & Timestamps
Explore the ideas in this teaching:
- Why being valued for what you give can make receiving feel unfamiliar.
- How to express a feeling and make a specific request for action.
- Why accepting support takes practice when you’re used to doing everything yourself.
- How practical action and clear desires fit into creating work of your own.
Go deeper
Find a moment in the episode
- 00:00 — Learning to receive
- 01:40 — The queen archetype and receiving
- 02:05 — Being valued for giving
- 04:54 — Why receiving feels difficult
- 07:56 — Starting with an everyday request
- 09:52 — Asking clearly for help
- 12:43 — Recognizing your yes and no
- 14:26 — The discomfort of accepting support
- 17:55 — Taking action beyond wishing
- 19:49 — Naming what you want to earn
- 22:27 — Alanna’s personal business story
- 24:31 — Continuing the work
Original recording. References to earlier offers reflect its release date; use this page for current resources.
Full Transcript
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Welcome to this second episode in my
minieries on sovereignty, success,
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and satisfaction. Every month, I pick a
theme and go through it each week on this
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podcast. And if you missed the first episode
in this little series, I definitely recommend
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you go back and listen. But if you're ready to
roll along right here with me, that's perfect,
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too, because this particular episode is all about
receptivity. So maybe you're here because this is
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exactly what you are meant to receive. Welcome
to the Satisfied Woman podcast. I'm your host,
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Alanna Kaivalya. This podcast is dedicated to helping women lean into their femininity and rediscover
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the power of their feminine gifts. We take a look
at what it means to be a modern woman and how we
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can live a satisfied life on our own terms. Visit
the hub at the satisfiedwoman.com. And of course,
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don't forget for my podcast listeners,
I have that special page for you, the
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satisfiedwoman.com/mpowerme where you can get the
starter kit for free to set you on your satisfied
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path right away. Guys, I mean business. I am
serious about this stuff. Satisfaction for women
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is paramount, especially in our modern day age.
And in the last podcast, I not noted that look,
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you know, things aren't perfect. We are still
searching for an equal footing in this culture,
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in this world. But we right now have more power,
agency, and choice than we ever have before. And
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I write about a lot of this in my book, The Way
of the Satisfied Woman. So, if you haven't picked
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that up yet, make sure that you do. And chapter 9
focuses on us really settling into the throne as
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queen. As queens of our queendom, we stand firmly
in our space. And that is where we receive. Now,
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um, if you're watching this on YouTube with
me, you'll see my hands creating kind of a
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bowl shape. And essentially, that's what I use to
demonstrate the receiverhip of the feminine. The
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feminine is meant to receive. Now, I really want
that to sink in because we have been fed a load of
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nonsense by our patriarchal culture that says that
a woman's greatest value is in how much she gives.
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and how much we deplete ourselves and how much
we overgive and give ourselves away. And we're
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trained to understand that we won't be included.
We will be discarded if suddenly we can no longer
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give of ourselves. And look, you know, many
women that I know are generous with their time,
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their gifts, their energy. I think a lot of us
turn to service positions as careers because
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we love the idea of giving. But the giving can't
happen from a feminine perspective unless we truly
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are rooted in our own sovereign space to receive
and that we have the option to choose exactly
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when and where we might offer or give ourselves.
Now this is really important because if we don't
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have choice in where we offer our gifts, where we
give ourselves away, if we don't have that choice,
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then things are taken from us. And historically
that has also included forcibly taken. When we
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don't have a choice in how we give ourselves away,
then we are ravaged as opposed to ravished. And
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what lady wouldn't like to be ravished. I know I
do. I know I'm one. I'm signing up for that. So
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being ravished means we are the receivers. We
are receptacles. And look, just to get really
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nitty-gritty about it, think about the actual
feminine anatomy. the anatomy of a woman's body,
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the ones with the vaginas, the uteruses, that
literal receiving place of taking in so that
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we can be creative. The biological purpose of a
vagina and a uterus is to create life. Now, some
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of us are mothers, some of us are not. Some of us
choose to be, some of us choose not. Whether we
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are or are not mothers in this lifetime, whether
that's been part of our path or not, for whatever
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reason, this biology is also a huge underlying
part of our psychology. Femininity means that we
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are creative. We are literally bringing things
to life where there was almost nothing before.
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And for us to stand in that creative space, we
do need to receive. We need to be receptive to
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the energy that comes toward us, we need to be
served in that energy. So for more on that idea
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of sovereignty and queendom, definitely listen to
the episode just before this. But let's continue
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on with receiving because receiving is hard for
those of us who have grown up in this particular
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culture where the narrative has been your greatest
value lies in how much you give yourself away.
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to make that shift of, wow, I can just stand
in my power and receive can be a little scary
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because what happens when you stop doing
and overgiving and really offering every
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bit of yourself to the last drop to the point
of overwhelm and burnout, the people around you
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who are used to you giving yourself away like
that, they're going to be surprised. There's
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definitely going to be a reckoning and there
will be a shift. Now, there are ways to manage
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that surprise and that shift. There are ways
to hopefully elevate their experience into one
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of masculine providership for you or even feminine
companionship and contributorship to you. But what
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we can't do is collapse back into overgiving,
overdoing, and of course, by proxy overwhelm.
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So, here's the way I like to encourage this
idea of receiverhip because when I, you know,
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I do a lot of one-on-one coaching with women
around this idea. I coach women primarily in
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relationship and in uh business, creating
their own sovereign businesses. This seems
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to be where women are calling for the
most help and support these days. Also,
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because this is where women find the greatest
collapse is in their intimate relationships
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with the masculine partner and in their careers
or business where they're just not being served,
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where they're giving themselves away and not
pro not feeling a sense of contribution that
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is truly theirs. They don't feel creative or
alive. They're working in a masculine capacity
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as opposed to receiving in a feminine capacity and
drawing in energy and abundance and support. So,
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it's a huge shift to create a feminine business
for oneself where we can stand in our sovereign
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place and receive the support we need. The way
that I like to frame it is actually based on the
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laws of physics. Now, back in my undergrad, I did
study physics and there is a principle of physics
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that the universe hates a vacuum. Then essentially
anywhere there is space in the universe and you
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can imagine there's a lot of space all of the
molecules will fill that space equally. So if
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there is one part of space that has slightly less
density of molecules the molecules will literally
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rush in to organize themselves in that space.
So think of yourself as the feminine receiver,
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literal receiver with your physical body, but
even an emotional um psychological receptivity,
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an abundance receptivity that you need to create
that vacuum. And holding that vacuum open is
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your job. Holding that invitation open for those
around you to rise into that space is your job.
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So that's really where your only work needs to
be done. And I know that it's difficult work,
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especially if you yourself are used to rushing
in to fill that space. You know, if you normally,
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let's say, pick up the socks off the floor and
you decide that today's the day I am not rushing
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in to fill that space and pick up the socks. I'm
going to leave them there. There's going to be
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some tension that you feel when the socks start to
pile up. you know, it will get into your control
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self. Now, I I I know that's a surprise. I've
had many um coaching clients when I say, "Oh,
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no, stop controlling things." They say, "No,
control is a mean thing. It's a bad thing." No,
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control for women is sometimes what keeps us
safe in a space um psychologically, emotionally,
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you know, it makes us feel wanted and needed to
some extent. But let go of that. Let someone else
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take care of it. We can start with things as
simple as socks. Sometimes doing the low lift
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items first. Gradually clues people around you in
to the fact that you are now going to be holding
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your sovereignty. You are now going to be on the
receiving end of life and invite them to rise up
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to meet you. So the socks might might pile up,
but you'll keep calm. You'll settle the energy.
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you'll know that this is not yours to do.
You are going to put down what is no longer
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yours. As women, we carry far too much.
We carry far too much of what isn't ours,
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and we can be done. I I give you full permission
to simply be done with carrying with what isn't
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yours. Now, what is yours, feel free to
carry. It's going to be a much lighter load,
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much more possible. You can control that if
you want to, I guess, but try not to step
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into a space where you're just filling
that vacuum that needs to be there. So,
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I love to frame these vacuum setting experiences
with a request first, right? It's not that just
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one day we're no longer picking up the socks.
We're calling people in with our words. Women tend
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to be incredible communicators and connectors with
their language. So, here's how the request goes.
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It would make me feel and you can insert
whatever your feeling tone is. Cherished, loved,
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appreciated, um you know, a beloved member of this
family. Whatever you want to name, name a feeling
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though. It's very important to name a feeling
because we as the feminine are really governed
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by our emotions and our intuition and that's right
and true and good. So, it would make me feel loved
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and cherished if you would pick up the socks.
the one simple action and particularly if you're
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talking to a masculine counterpart or a masculine
person in your family that's really going to
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activate them, right? The masculine in its own
way loves to do things and accomplish things. The
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feminine in its own way loves to receive and feel
things. Not that we don't like to accomplish. We
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can obviously I get it. But just for now, let's
settle into the feminine. It would make me feel
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so loved and cherished if you would pick up the
socks. And then we stop talking. We even leave
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that space a vacuum. And we just we stop. There's
no argument. It's a simple request. We just leave
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that out into the air. Let the ether fill it with
whatever it will. And now this person is on notice
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that the socks are no longer our job. And when
the socks pile up, you self soothe around it.
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You take a bath. You order pizza. You go out for a
bike ride. whatever you want to do. It's not a big
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deal. Like the world sometimes I like to work with
my coaching clients and ask them, you know, what
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is the worst that could happen if the socks pile
up? And I know I'm I'm using the socks metaphor,
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but you can insert anything really in here. Oh,
you know, well, then they will have no socks. Say,
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yeah, that's right. They will have no socks and
then they will actually have to do the laundry.
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I mean, wouldn't that be amazing? And these are
just some consequences, some basic consequences
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of not picking up the socks, which are no longer
your job and frankly are not going to it's not
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going to ruin your day. So, it would make me feel
if you would do this task for me and then you just
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stop talking and then you're done. You just don't
do that task anymore. And if the task doesn't get
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done, you know what? Maybe it never needed to get
done. It was certainly never yours to do or maybe
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someone in will help step up to support you. So
this can be one way to encourage those around you
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to step into that role of providership. That's
the counterpoint to receiverhip. But this is how
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you hold that vacuum open. You need to in order
to receive. Now the way that you know that this
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is right for you, the way that you know that this
request is right for you and that it's no longer
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something that you need to carry is simple.
It's through your yes and no compass. So, in
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last month's podcast series, we went through this
and I did a sacred activation of yes or no. But
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the simple recap of that is that when you consider
something, your intuition and your emotional depth
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will speak loudly to you as a feminine woman.
It just will. So, when you think to yourself,
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you know, do I actually want or need to pick up
those socks? Do I actually want or need to work
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overtime? Do I actually want or need to get up
early to pick my partner up from the airport?
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Do I actually does this serve me? The no is going
to feel some version of bad, a crushing weight,
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a crushing pressure, a tightness in the throat.
Your inner yes, your intuitive yes will feel some
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version of good, whether it's a lightness in your
mind or a a sparkle in your chest or whatever it
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is. Now your job along with holding the tension
of that vacuum, holding that vacuum open,
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is not to then second guessess yourself and try to
talk yourself out of your sacred yes or no. Okay?
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We have been holding that masculine energy for so
long that we're used to our logical brains being
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the final decision makers. that no longer does
the masculine need to make our decisions for us,
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especially our own internal masculine.
We don't need to hold that anymore. So,
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when you have a clear yes and a clear no, you then
know what's right for you. You then know what to
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request and then begin to receive. Now, I see this
a lot actually in the women that I speak to every
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week on these discovery calls that I offer, which
is a place for women who are holding far too much
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to get on a call with me and we can chat it out
and I can help them release it or just let go or
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find out where exactly they could use additional
support. And one of the things I see over and over
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and over is we go through these conversations,
they become enlivened, they become invigorated
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with the prospect of finally going back to their
feminine nature, of holding open that vacuum,
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of no longer overgiving, of receiving the
support that they've always craved. And they
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give a fullbodied yes. And then suddenly, within
a few moments, or even just as the call ends,
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they once again collapse. And what that is is a
nervous system trauma response. We as women are
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used to being discarded if we don't overgive. We
are used to overworking ourselves. We are used to
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not having the support that we need. We are used
to carrying everything for everyone else. We're
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used to it. It's almost become a traumatic safe
space. So that when that shift starts to happen,
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the nervous system doesn't know how to regulate
around it. And so then I see collapse that a woman
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who has just really lived in her power, given
full expression to her yes, said yes to support,
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said yes to no longer giving, suddenly goes,
"Oh my gosh, but I don't deserve it. Oh my gosh,
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but I can't afford that. Oh my gosh, everyone
around me is going to judge me. Oh my gosh,
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I can't I can't do this. I can't have my own
sovereign space. I can't stop overgiving as
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a mother, a partner, a wife, uh a lover, an
employee. And then you get that nervous system
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collapse. So when you feel that happen, my dear
sister, what I want you to know, ironically, it's
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that actually you're on the right track. You have
just discovered that there is a part of you that
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comes alive in your femininity. There is a part of
you that comes alive in receptivity and support.
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And then there is a dominant culture inculturated
hardened over masculineized part of you that wants
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control and collapses around that support. The
overthinking, the talking yourself out of it,
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the giving 90 million excuses of why you can't,
shouldn't, don't deserve it. That is your history
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talking and it's exactly the thing we need to
move out of in order to achieve satisfaction.
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It's exactly the reason why you and every other
sister out there deserves receptivity and to
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have her own sovereign space where she is served,
where she is abundant, where she is calling in the
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prosperity that she needs, where she is calling
in the support that she needs, that safe space,
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where her creative energy creates magic in
the world, and the world is better off for it.
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Because you cannot create that magic in the world
if you don't have that sovereign place to stand.
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We cannot call in the abundance that we deserve
if we don't have our creative juices creating what
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it is that generates that abundance. Now, this is
not the law of magical thinking. I saw the secret
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in 2007 too, guys. I was all about it. I loved
the idea of thinking my way to $1,000. Nope. No,
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you cannot do that. You cannot think your way
to anything good. It has to be followed up with
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action. It has to be followed through. I'm not
saying it's not going to be hard work to create
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your own sovereign space. I'm not saying it's
going to be or I'm not saying that it's going to
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be easy work to like, you know, restructure your
life in such a way that you finally stand in your
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power as queen. Queen queen's work is hard. It
is holding that vacuum open. It is calling in the
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service of others. It is holding them to their
highest account. And it is the creation of the
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things that are worth your time and energy, not
of giving your time and energy away to the things
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that aren't worth your clear value. Okay? That
is where we short change ourselves. When we give
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ourselves away for less than the full dollar,
we are literally giving ourselves away. Now,
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we have this power and this magic and this ability
and this choice and this agency right now in this
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time in this world with all of the tools that
we have with the shifting social climate with a
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greater realization of what femininity can do and
what women can be, we have this chance now. So,
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for you to call in that full dollar of value, for
you to call in your worth, for you to call in the
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people who are there to support you, you have to
stand in sovereignty and you have to be receptive.
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Because I still see this too often. I still see
this too often where women are invited to rise
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into their femininity and receive that support
and then they collapse. But not you. Not you.
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Because we don't need to overthink it. We don't
need to be certain about how it's going to happen.
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We just need to be certain about our yes and our
no. We need to be certain about what we do want to
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receive. Money. Yes. I had a a lovely woman the
other day on a discovery call. And I asked her,
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I said, "All right. How much every month
do you want to make?" And she just looked
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at me stunned. And she took a moment. She took a
beat. She took a pause. And then she said, "Wow,
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I'm so glad you asked me that." I said, "Yes,
me too. And I would like to know your answer."
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And she said, 'Well, I don't I don't want to sound
selfish, but I I I'd like to make um you know,
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$10,000. $10,000 a month would be good. And I
said, "Oh, girl, you are not selfish." Because
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the kinds of things you're going to bring out
to the world in order to create that 10 grand a
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month funnel is selfless and it will be worth so
much more because you are giving from your most
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empowered place. But $10,000 a month is a great
place for you to start. This is how you call it
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in. You deserve that and more. You call it in from
your place of power, your place of sovereignty,
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your place of receptivity because you have now
the time and energy to create that magic in the
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world that only you can provide. Not by giving
it, not by giving it away, not by being demanded
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that you give it, not by being guilted that
you give it, not by feeling locked in to give
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it because that's just what you've always been
doing. Not because the world has told you that
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you're less valuable, but because someone
at the very least me has told you that you
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are. I have the great privilege of
speaking with powerful, incredible,
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smart, hypereducated women who balance
the unbelievably busy lives of career,
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household, family, community, all of
it. They are working miracles every day.
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It's these women who are stuck. It's these
women who are giving themselves away for
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less than their worth. It's these women who
are begging to reclaim their sovereignty,
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their little patch of grass in their life that is
theirs. And it's these women after they've given
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a fullbodied yes that collapse. And I understand
that and I know you do too. That's why I name it.
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But just as I give these women permission to
no longer collapse and to call in fully what is
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theirs and when they feel that fully fullbodied
yes for support and sovereignty and success and
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satisfaction that no matter what the roadblocks
they think exist ex you know are there that they
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just say yes. I have had women and and I've even
done it myself you know say yes to something that
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they know is right for them and then worry about
how they'll pay for it. Look, I know you've had
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moments in your life, as have I didn't know when
the next money or paycheck was going to come next,
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but we said yes anyway. Or we said yes to
something that we knew that we needed and
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we borrowed the money. We found it. It arrived.
The first time I had to borrow money to hire a
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coach for my business back in 2016, I was 5 months
behind on rent. And thank goodness I borrowed it.
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Thank goodness I didn't pay the rent those months.
Thank goodness I bet on myself and my sovereignty
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and my ability to receive and be abundant because
several months later I had turned that into a
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$25,000 a month business. I don't say that to show
off and I don't embellish it either. I actually
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just to check that story I looked back through
for my financial records in that year. Um and
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honestly it's even better than I thought. But it
happened because I said yes to my gifts, myself,
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and I said no to one more day of staying in that
cycle of scarcity and lack. I said no to staying
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one more day in that cycle of fear, devaluation,
and oppression. And I knew it was going to be a
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hard slog for the next few months with still
some more scarcity and lack. And it was. But
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it was the only thing that was going to get me out
of that because I didn't want to do it anymore and
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I don't want any of you to do it anymore. And
whether it's financial, whether it's familial,
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whether it's relational, in whatever way this is
most meaningful for you, I want sovereignty and
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success for you. I want receptivity and abundance
for you because it is yours. Because you are a
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powerful feminine woman and you deserve every
inch of what you call in. And that is not selfish.
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that is selfless because to call that kind of
thing into you, imagine what you've done for the
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world. So if you feel like you're carrying far
more than what is yours, if you're interested
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in creating a a little sliver of grass, a patch
that's yours, that is your own that is sovereign,
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let's chat, book a discovery call with me. I'd
love to hear what you have to say and what's going
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on for you. You can navigate it from my website,
the satisfiedwoman.com. It's easy to find. At
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the top there's a navigation bar that will say
work with me or you can go right to it at the
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satisfiedwoman.com/coaching-book-all.
Coachingbook call hyphenated in between. The
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satisfiedwoman.com/coaching-book-all. Look,
either way you find me, I hope that you come
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find me and participate with me and maybe even
in my growing membership of satisfied women.
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It's the rooted membership and every
month I provide even deeper wisdom
0:25:18.560,0:25:22.080
like this. A monthly workshop to call
you into your highest sovereignty and
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satisfaction and a place to have Q&A with
me and intimate coaching, hot seat circles,
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all the good stuff that women like you and
I love. So, however you join me, I hope that
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you will. And in whatever way you walk your
path towards satisfaction, stay on it, sister.
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