Healing Heartbreaks: How to Find Your Stride Again & Accelerate
Are you experiencing burnout, lack of energy, and low motivation?
Are you feeling confused, apathetic, and unclear about what you want going forward?
Are you trying to fix these issues simply by changing your diet, taking meds, and forcing yourself to perform?
Are you judging yourself?
Are you feeling low, as your performance doesn't meet your expectations?
When all of that fails, did you take time off work? Either leave work, take a sabbatical, an unpaid leave of absence, etc.
I know this is an overwhelming amount of questions to start with, but if you've said "Yes" to most of these questions, then you have to reflect on what exactly is causing you to have these symptoms.
It's typical for us to be so focused on tasks and goals, and not consider the root cause.
From a logical perspective, the events and the symptoms may not seem related.
What if I told you that you're experiencing it all because your mind and body are boycotting: "I can't do this anymore."
You're not giving enough attention to the heartbreaks, betrayals, and relationship pains you experienced, and gently resolving them.
All the old pains accumulate, starting from your childhood, and it's how you get into this state.
That letdown and betrayals you experienced and observed with your parents, the argument you had with your sibling, the power struggles you have with your partner, the amount of work you have to do to be understood by your so-called best friend, and the constant overperforming to prove your value, have accumulated, and your mind and body finally said, "enough," and decided to go on a strike.
While you try to connect the dots right now, rest assured that this is the best experience you could ever ask for.
Without being in this state, people never arrive at a place where they can question and realign themselves to feel happy.
Most people have never experienced true happiness and joy.
They experienced the excitement and highs of a win. They have felt inflated from achieving a huge milestone. But these feelings aren't happiness.
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Happiness is feeling connected. It's a sense of peace. It's a sense of enoughness, which acts as a sustainable fuel to strive for more.
It's the very opposite of being fear-driven, or being driven by the endless internal pressure, "I'm not good enough until I achieve more."
On the flip side, happiness isn't toxic positivity. It isn't about pretending to "let go" and being okay with everything.
True happiness comes from acknowledging the relationships you have from an objective perspective, owning your unhealthy habits and coping mechanisms, and lovingly making changes.
This leads to reprioritizations, and creating sustainable systems in your life and business.
A happy life is honest and simple, yet very nuanced.
As a happy person, you know how to choose good people in your life, and as a result of this community, you grow.
You're lucky because this is the intervention you really needed!
Unless you experienced these heartbreaks, you wouldn't even know what changes you needed to make.
Accelerating requires gentleness, and from that gentleness, you have sustainability, and from that place of peace and balance, you have the foundation and the fuel to expand into your greatness.
Take your time with your heart, because this is your brand new opportunity to make the best out of your life.
Julia Cha is a Holistic Success Coach for change-makers and change leaders of the world. Love this? Subscribe, and check out her latest book, Bad B!tch On Top.
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