Well, hello, beautiful butterfly. Welcome to this week's Flying Higher moment. A couple of weeks ago, I taught a class to the incredible women inside our Flying Higher mentorship community. The heart of this workshop was all about how the way we interpret our circumstances or our beliefs about what's happening to us

can radically transform our emotional experience and ultimately our lives. Okay. So the way we think,

you know, these things happen to us, right, in our lives, but it's the way we think about them that creates

this transformation. Let me share a story about a woman named Lauren, and maybe you'll see

herself reflected in her story. Lauren had been divorced for two years, but emotionally she felt

trapped, constantly overwhelmed by the stress of navigating life as a single

woman. She was overwhelmed by her lack of finances and penny pinching all the time, the feeling of

loneliness, the sense that she was behind in her career because she got a late start after the

divorce, dealing with the grief of having two adult children who no longer spoke to her

because she had divorced their dad, she often found herself thinking, life should not be this way.

I should be further along than I am. I can't do this. So one afternoon,

while she was dealing with yet another unexpected bill and feeling completely defeated,

she caught herself in a moment of clarity. Lauren realized she had been spending years telling herself that she was powerless, that her circumstances

were controlling her life, and that her life shouldn't be this way.

And those beliefs had become her reality.

Right there, sitting at her kitchen table, Lauren remembered a phrase she had heard in my program.

Radical acceptance. She began using the C-L-E-A-R model I teach to question those painful thoughts, and something profoundly shifted.

Lauren chose a new perspective.

She realized she wasn't powerless.

She was simply stuck in resisting her reality,

fighting against it and spending all of her emotional energy

on wanting it to be different,

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