Week 5: Cultivate Courage

Last week you set beautiful intentions for your life. Living with intention is easy...if you didn't have a brain full of fears, a body full of muscle memory and an emotional state that is at the mercy of your cycle!

For this reason, I devoted Week 5 to taking courageous action despite the fears and feelings that tempt to throw you off course.

This week you will tap into a deeper level of courage by thinking outside of yourself. You will commit to action steps based on the legacy you wish to leave instead of the fears you hope to avoid. When you can’t muster the courage for yourself, you can muster it on behalf of the future generations, colleagues, and cultures that will benefit from your courageous action. 

Always remember: Its not that brave to do something that is easy. True bravery is when you feel true fear, and move forward anyway.

Start your journey by watching the Week #5 Overview & Mindfulness Strategy Video. Then, download and complete the Set Your Intention PDF before diving into the weekly resources.

Step 1: Watch the Week #5 Overview & Mindfulness Challenge

Step 2 Set Your Intention

Set this week’s intentions and connect to the action steps you want to take this week (despite fear) with your Courage PDF:

Step 3: Listen to the visualization

Release Self Sabotage with this week’s breathwork and mindfulness meditation to Foster Courage.

Step 4 The Writing Exercise

Grab your journal so you can respond to the following journal prompts. This week’s Legacy Writing Exercise will guide you to own the leggacy you want to leave to the next generation. Then, you will commit to action steps that let you begin today.

Step 5 The Creative Exercise

Own your mission statement and desired legacy by creating and displaying a Legacy Wall Hanging. When you’re done, share a picture of the final product with me!

Thinking outside of yourself and toward the future is proven to shift us away from limited thinking and amore expansive view. This week. when you feel triggered, ask yourself:

What would my highest, most enlightened self do right now?

What would I guide my child or friend to do right now?

Sometimes courage doens’t need to come from within, but from above ;)

I am so proud of you for journeying with ,e through this Heal the Anxious Heart Series. These concepts come from my first book: I Can’t Beleive I Dated Him. That book is full of flaws, typos, and concepts I wish I could re-write, but at the same time, the meat of each chapter asks us to:

1. Compassionately accept how we feel

2. Curiosly explore the root causes

3. Get honest about our deepest wants, needs and values

4. Recconnect to our highest intentions, and

5. Take bold action despite the limiting toughts and feelings that seek to sabotage us.

I hope that this course allowed you to integrate these five choices more deeply. The book journeys through seven toxic relationship patterns that manifest as uncertainty, doubt, shame, insecurity, codependency, anger, and judgment.

If you have not yet read the book, and want to read examples and best practices in implementing these choices, grab a copy here.