You are tuned in to Lightworkers Lounge, a podcast for spiritual souls on their journey of

enlightening the world. I'm your host, Stephanie Powers. Welcome.

Energetically, you know exactly what to do in every situation. You just question it because

you've been taught to not trust in yourself.

Whoa.

Now, is that a quote or what?

I just read that on Instagram and it really sticks with me because pretty much my entire life, I haven't trusted myself.

And starting from when we're children, we are taught ask parents for permission, and then we're

taught ask teachers for permission, and then we graduate college and we go to work, and we're

taught ask boss for permission. So when you remove yourself from that matrix of asking for

permission, seeking validation, you're confused. You don't know how to parent yourself.

You don't know how to give yourself permission, to give yourself validation. And that's where a lot of us

feel lost as to what is my purpose in life. You know your purpose in life. It's

been inside of you since you were born. You were born with that purpose or multiple purposes,

because you guys know from listening to the podcast, I'm a firm believer that we have multiple

purposes in our lifetimes. But along the way, you lose it. You lose it in our socially conditioned system to believe that you cannot

think for yourself. You must follow the leader. You must follow the parent, the teacher.

You know, we're so conditioned to follow the rules. Don't think outside the box. Don't do this.

Don't do that. The thing that's coming to mind as an example is marriage. You sign papers

and that means you're married. So if you think about dating someone else, you are breaking the law.

Like, don't even get me started, you guys, on marriage and getting the government involved

with love. Hell. No. You guys know from the podcast, I was married before and i did the traditional route

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