What does it mean to be the best version of yourself in all contexts? In the West, being effective at work and at home feels like it comes at a cost to your personal health. For women balancing their work, family obligations, passions, and community endeavors, something’s gotta give. What typically gives is either health or romantic relationships in favor of fulfilling obligations to others.
Recently, I was using the Wild Harmonic Oracle and Kim Chestney's intuition deck as tools for intuitive guidance to stay aligned in work, health, and relationships.
I have been pursuing excellence at work and in my business, while also wanting to maintain healthy routines and happy relationships. But what happens when you fall off the tight rope of personal excellence? Often, we push harder at work to maintain our high standard, and aggravation, frustration, and burnout can occur.
In working with the oracle and my intuition, some fruitful insights came up that can generalize to many women. The root cause of burnout may not be working too hard and sacrificing self. In actuality, the root cause of burnout is working from a feeling of unworthiness. Trying to prove worthiness through performing at a high level. Asking for external validation instead of working from a place of self-respect and self-worth.
This is nuanced, because in the work place, we do need to check in with our leaders and colleagues to ensure work is going in the right direction. But we must approach work from a sense of personal worthiness and self-respect. When we get low and feel self-doubt and insecurity, then try to perform to prove ourselves, that is where burnout and aggravation enter.
The solution is - using the will and focus to remember our worth. From this place of worth, we give our best in each moment, letting our potential continue to grow. Not to prove anything, but to give the best of ourselves to our communities and in turn receive abundance, safety, and love. From a place of self-worth, we trust to give and receive within the interdependent systems existing with each other and the earth.
Take a moment to reflect: How can you shift your thoughts and emotions to remember you are worthy at baseline? And from that place of remembrance, show up to give the best of yourself and receive the best from others?
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