Good morning and welcome to another episode of Sacred Spaces and I am pleased and grateful to bring you a series that addresses an energy and an archetype that is bandied about and pathologized.
Together we will debunk and reframe the narratives that permeate why so many play small.
We will explore another take on the imposter syndrome and the imposter as an archetype in a different form,
As an added assist on our spiritual path.
We kick off the series with At the Edge of Becoming.
Why resistance isn't what you think.
This is a companion piece to the hidden contract why the imposter always shows up at the threshold.
Today I meet you at the threshold,
At the edge,
That moment right before everything changes.
You know the one,
Where the resistance kicks in,
Where you suddenly question your readiness,
Your worth,
Your voice,
Where the old fears whisper,
Who do you think you are?
And maybe,
Like so many,
You name it,
The fear of failure.
But I want to offer something deeper today,
The truth that I've seen in myself and in every woman I've ever walked beside.
It's not fear of failure or failure that you fear.
It's becoming someone new.
It's identity death and beneath it something even more subtle.
A hidden contract,
One you never signed in ink,
But one your nervous system holds.
Let's talk now about that hidden contract.
This contract says,
I will stay as she is.
The version of me that's palatable,
Likable,
Acceptable,
As long as she keeps me safe.
It's the contract with survival,
With approval and with a world that told us who we needed to be in order to belong.
And so when your soul asks you to step forward,
To tell the truth,
To serve with deeper power,
To show up unapologetically,
The resistance that rises isn't weakness.
It's that contract beginning to tremble.
Because it knows if you say yes to who you are becoming,
You're going to have to lay that old version of you down.
And that's not just change,
It's grief,
It's wholly undoing.
And here is what I want you to hear.
You are not sabotaging yourself.
You are grieving the version of you that kept you safe for a long,
Long time.
And the imposter that shows up at the threshold?
She is not your enemy.
She is the doorkeeper.
She is the part of you who still believes the old contract is required to survive.
That to be safe you must be smaller.
That to be loved you must edit your truth.
But she is not the whole of you.
She is the echo,
Not the essence.
So what do we do at the threshold?
We don't push through it.
We don't coach over it.
And we certainly don't spiritually bypass it with affirmations that don't yet feel true.
We pause.
We honor what's dying.
And we listen for what's being born.
Because right there in the trembling,
In the tears,
The tenderness,
Something holy is unfolding.
You are not blocked,
Nor are you broken.
You are becoming.
And if you're feeling resistance right now,
If the imposter has shown up in full regalia,
Take a breath.
For you are not alone.
You are not late.
And you are definitely not failing.
You are standing at the edge of your next becoming.
You are rewiring the contract,
Not with fear,
But with truth.
And that,
Beloved,
Is sacred.
Together,
May we greet this work with reverence,
With courage,
And with the fire of our soul.
For you are not who you were,
And you are not yet who you are becoming.
But the path is already unfolding beneath your feet.
Walk on,
Beloved one,
And I will meet you there.
Blessings,
Love,
Light,
And abundance on every level.
Namaste.
