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August 17, 2025 - Today's Message

by Dana Retzlaff

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This is not a feel-good pep talk. It’s a wake-up call. On August 17, you’ll hear the truth most people won’t say out loud: why you still feel empty, even after all the healing, growth, and achievements. This deep, soul-level message invites you to stop performing, stop earning your worth, and remember who you were before the world told you who to be. Expect raw honesty, profound clarity, and the freedom that comes from meeting your true self. authenticity, self-worth, deep truth, spiritual awakening, personal freedom, stop performing, self-love, raw honesty, soul alignment, identity, transformation, consciousness shift, new earth, spiritual growth, empowerment

AuthenticitySelf WorthSelf DiscoveryInner FreedomSpiritual AwakeningSelf AcceptanceTransformationEmpowermentSurvival Mode

Transcript

Hey my love,

Today I'm going to tell you something that most people won't.

Because it's not comfortable,

It's not nice and it doesn't fit into the love and light narrative.

The reason you still feel empty,

Even when you've ticked all the boxes,

Even when you've healed so much already,

Is because you're still trying to earn your own worth.

You've been running your life like a never-ending audition.

For love,

For safety,

For belonging.

You've built a version of yourself that is palatable,

Productive,

Acceptable.

And yeah,

Strong,

Resilient,

But also exhausted.

Because you're not free.

Freedom isn't about breaking rules.

Freedom is when you stop betraying yourself to be loved.

You've mistaken your adaptions for your identity.

You've called your mask me.

For so long,

You've forgotten what your raw,

Unfiltered essence even feels like.

And deep down,

Your soul is starving for you to remember her.

The truth is,

The life you're living now was built from a frequency of survival.

And the reason it never feels enough is because it's not the life of your highest self.

You're not here to be liked.

You're here to be real.

You're not here to fit in.

You're here to wake up.

You're not here to follow the script.

You're here to write a new one.

Today,

I'm asking you to do the most radical thing you can.

Choose to stop performing.

Choose to stop explaining.

Choose to stop delaying the moment you finally meet yourself.

Because when you do,

The emptiness ends.

And what replaces it is not just joy or love.

It's something unshakable.

The knowing that you're already whole.

And you always were.

Meet your Teacher

Dana RetzlaffKarlsruhe, Germany

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Recent Reviews

Alicia

September 1, 2025

I’m learning to become my authentic self by unlearning everything I thought I knew 💕thank you for today’s message 🙏

Robin

August 21, 2025

This really hit home with me. Too often I find myself being some version of myself that others will like. It’s nice to be liked but not at the expense of being the real me.

Aimee

August 17, 2025

Yessss, today I will embrace my authentic self!!!♡♡♡♡

Alicia

August 17, 2025

Love ❤️ this Dana you hit the nail on the head every time✨💫 absolutely down to earth true so many of us do all the healing ❤️‍🩹 the spirtual work to only wonder why life is still not as perfect as it should be and you have just summed it up in a matter of two minutes perfectly why ❤️ your work heep shine your magical authentic soul brightly💫✨😇🪄🙏🥰

Anna

August 17, 2025

Thank you, Dana. Great reminder. I needed to hear that today 💙🙏🏻

Ian

August 17, 2025

Most time I choose to keep the peace ✌️. Thank you for affirmation for me to let it be… 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I love that your morning messages, I missed them 🙏🏻🌈💫🙏🏻☺️

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