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19: Monday Moment: Even Anchors Can Wobble · Banish the Lies: Outsmart Your Inner Critic

• 0:00
  Speaker: Happy Monday, wherever this moment finds you, I hope it's a good one, and as always, I have a small reflection I'd like to share.
• 0:10
  Speaker: Here's the truth.
• 0:12
  Speaker: This morning felt a little shaky.
• 0:15
  Speaker: I felt waves of anxiety knocking at my window and right behind them, the imposter voice saying.
• 0:23
  Speaker: Who are you to record a calming Monday moment when you don't feel especially calm?
• 0:30
  Speaker: And I realized there was a rather unforgiving belief behind that voice.
• 0:36
  Speaker: The belief that if I wanna support others and feeling steady, I better not be shaky myself and.
• 0:45
  Speaker: Just saying that out loud is it's rather humorous, like somehow I'm supposed to have outgrown my humanity as a prerequisite for showing up for others.
• 0:55
  Speaker: And as I thought more about the people who are anchors in my own life, the ones who are always there, always willing to stay up at all hours to listen.
• 1:07
  Speaker: The ones always ready to jump in and help.
• 1:10
  Speaker: Well.
• 1:11
  Speaker: In thinking about these people, I realized I would never expect them not to have their own human moments.
• 1:18
  Speaker: In other words, the people who anchor us in our lives are still allowed to wobble their need for support doesn't cancel out their capacity to give it and having a shaky moment doesn't erase the good you bring to people.
• 1:34
  Speaker: And that got me thinking maybe the real work for some of us isn't learning how to serve better.
• 1:41
  Speaker: Maybe it's learning how to receive.
• 1:44
  Speaker: So if you're the strong one in your circle, the one always at the ready to help others, I gently ask you, are you willing to receive the same kind of support you so freely give to others?
• 2:01
  Speaker: And if today happens to be one of those shaky days.
• 2:07
  Speaker: What would it look like to let yourself be supported?
• 2:12
  Speaker: Maybe that's the invitation for today.
• 2:16
  Speaker: Cheers.