these patterns from your past, things that you thought you would work through, if you're noticing

these things come to the surface again, put yourself in a position, be vulnerable enough to

allow someone else's expansion to shine a light on your limitation and realize that it's showing

you exactly the next step in the direction of the growth that you want to achieve.

I want to share a little personal story from the past few weeks that highlighted to me the importance of surrounding yourself with people

who can act as expanders. And I love that term. I've used that term for a while. I know a lot of

other people use that term just to describe people who expand what you believe is possible. Yes, expand what you see

for yourself. Yes. But I also believe that a true expander is also going to highlight where

you are currently limited. Whether they mean to or not, just the way they show up in the world helps you to see the ways

that you are currently limiting yourself and what is possible for you. And over the last couple of

weeks, I don't know if anyone else is going through this. Just so much change, so much uncertainty, yes,

but not in the traditional way where uncertainty is coming from some outside force that I can't

control. This feels a little bit more like I'm being asked to step fully into the unknown,

into the gap, and just trust and learn how to

anchor myself into a feeling of certainty within me that isn't coming from anything outside of me.

And it's almost like this dance of, okay, how long can she hold that feeling of certainty without anything externally

showing up to validate it? So if you've felt any sense that you're being asked to step into

something new or you're meant to change something, you're evolving, and you haven't seen the external

results show up yet, and you also feel like the external results show up yet.

And you also feel like you're in this gap phase of you aren't the person you once were,

but you haven't fully embodied the life and the external reality of the person you feel

like you're becoming or stepping into. And I think there's this

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