What’s Pulling You Out Of Freedom In This Season Of Life?

Inside:  What people, habits, or circumstances are pulling you out of freedom? How will you take action to walk in greater freedom?

Freedom is one of my core 5 values. It’s also one of my top 2 values.

As a personal value, what freedom means to me (us) as individuals can vary season to season. It needs to be personal and precise. We need to reevaluate and reorient on occasion for it to be a meaningful source of direction or a meaningful filter.

This week, as I write the module for the spring session of the Brave + Beautiful Community, I’ve been taking notes, gathering info, and listening inward.

What does Freedom look, sound, and feel like for ME in this current season of my life? How am I practicing freedom? How am I walking it out in concrete ways? Where am I not in freedom? What precisely is interfering? Where am I holding onto old stories, habits, feelings that pull me out of freedom throughout the day?

What people or circumnstances have been showing you where you’re not free?

The primary way I’m reflecting on my experience of freedom, my journey to freedom, and my lack of freedom in this season is around my relationships. In the spring BB session we’ll be doing lots of inquiry, skill-building, and practicing in this area.

I heard a quote this morning that aligned with where my mind and heart have been. “Life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you’re not free.” -Peter Crone

I’m not a ‘everything happens for a reason’ person or a believer in predestination or soul-contracts – that kind of thing. I do believe that if we’re awake and willing, every experience in life can be an opportunity to learn, heal, grow, and become. 

In this episode, in addition to talking about ways I’m seeking more freedom in a few specific relationships, I also share other ways that I’m practicing greater freedom in this season of my life – in finances, in my mind-body health, in my healing work, and more.

In addition, I share briefly about 3 different conflict styles or “social stances.” Understanding our dominant stance, and recognizing that of others we’re in relationship with, can be a huge help when it comes to practicing healthier, embodied conflict.

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Krista xo