Happy New Year! Are you feeling the energy of this year already?

Over the holidays I received a great lesson that only this morning made complete sense to me and I wanted to share it with you.

Early November 2016, I pulled my inner thigh muscle on my right leg doing yoga.

I thought, like many other times this happened in the past, that it will go away on its own. I didn’t think much of it and continued with my life, including yoga.

I went to Mexico where I hosted my Empowered Woman Retreat: Wild Woman Experience and came back. Then I traveled to Miami to see my niece and I don’t think I paid too much attention nor did I feel much pain, although if I moved in a specific way I would feel a little pain so I chose not to make those moves and let it heal.

A month and a half later I woke up one morning and I was in real pain. Apparently it wasn’t a simple wound that will heal on its own. It needed more attention that I was giving it.

So I did what I knew to do. I put “Icy Hot” cream and stretched the area very well. I stopped going to yoga, took some Epsom salt baths and I even took extra time applying pressure directly on the muscle with a roller.

It was getting worse!

I was so confused. I was doing everything I knew to do and the pain was stronger and stronger.

Over the Holidays I went to Kripalu, a yoga center in Massachusetts. I booked a massage because I couldn’t stand the pain at this point and I didn’t know what else to do.

When I got to the session the therapist said she couldn’t even work on me as my muscle was so inflamed, she didn’t want to make it worse.

When I told her everything that I was doing, she showed me that even though I thought I was helping and doing the “right thing”, I was actually doing everything to aggravate it.

What?

I thought I was doing everything right….

I thought I knew what I was doing….

I felt so disempowered.

Long story short, she recommended to stretch the opposite muscle instead of the direct muscle like I was doing and sure enough, in a couple of days it started to feel so much better.

Here’s the moral of the story and why I wanted to share this story with you today:

I thought I was taking care of myself.

And I was but in more aggressive way rather than a more gentle, caring way, which is what my body actually needed.

The ego and its false sense of confidence…I thought I knew what I was doing and the truth is that I didn’t…

I was aggravating it more than helping.

I had struggled so much with my body in the past that now looking back I could see my resistance and how I didn’t want to be bothered with it again so I went for the “quick fix” approach instead of taking that time to explore what my body really needed.

Sometimes we get stubborn.

We think we are doing the right thing and we have the best intentions but we are not really allowing ourselves to receive what we truly need.

This was a very humbling experience and a great reminder of how easily we can fall in the trap of “I got it” instead of reaching out to receive the help we really need.

I couldn’t believe I was here again.

I thought I was over the fact that wanted to do it all on my own and that I knew better.

This experience also reminded me of the time when I used to do this as I started my Empowered Woman work.

I would often convince myself that reading a couple of books and/or listening to a few webinars that I would be healed…only to find out a couple of months later going back to the same stories and patterns that caused me so much pain.

Can you relate?

This is a common trapped for us women who like me, are self sufficient and we are used to do it all on our own.

As this New Year is starting, I’d like to invite you to explore where in your life you might be thinking “I got this” or “I can do it on my own” when what you truly need is support?

Do you want to wait until you are in excruciating pain in order to ask for help (like I was) or you might want to take a more gentle approach on yourself and reach out to receive the help you need now?

If you feel that something in your life is not fully working for you and you’d like explore this deeply with me so you can start YOUR Best Year ever, I invite you to have a clarity session with me this week.

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I SO LOVE working with women who are TRULY committed to their lives and willing to receive in bigger ways than they think is possible for them.

So if you’d like to gain clarity about what you want this year 2017 to look like for you and desire to plan out your BEST year ever.

Let’s chat!

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Looking forward to speaking with you soon!

Love, love,

Paula

P.S. I just received this in a email from my new client:

“After our call last week I immediately applied for a credit card. I have been a pay with cash person for more than ten years so this was a big step for me, but one I knew I needed to take.

Once that was done I moved my attention to faith that everything would fall into place as it was meant to. I admit my faith started to waiver some, and yesterday when I received your email, I thought I would have to reply and say now is not the time. But something stopped me from writing to you, and said keep the faith.

And then yesterday evening when my husband brought me my mail, the card I applied for was there, with more than enough to cover the full expense of working with you!

I am so excited for this journey and grateful that God has guided me to the right place at the right time. I have already received so much from you and our time together last week that I have been able to put into place in my day to day life, so I have no doubt this next few months is going to be incredible!”

She is no different than you. She was willing to trust and keep the faith…so she received.

Let’s create your most powerful year ever!

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