How To Access Your Potential

In this solo episode, I reflect on one of the most challenging years of my life and how I’ve felt about myself through it. As the New Year approached, I found myself asking: “With what you were given, did you utilize your potential?” In this conversation, I share what that question opened up for me—and how you can begin accessing your own potential by seeing the light, goodness, and beauty within yourself.

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Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to the Body Image Revolution. Today is a solo episode. It's just you and me, baby, and I'm gonna talk about something personal and I'm going to talk about potential and how you can uncover and start to unleash yours, and hopefully some other fun and deep and interesting things mixed into it. I wanna be honest with you guys, I think this last year has actually been one of my most challenging ones, and I've been through a lot of hard shit in my life. But I think that when you get thrown back into certain feelings and sensations and circumstances that you thought you had already overcome, sometimes it feels harder. And thankfully I've had tools, but I'm human and no, I don't always use all the tools that I have. I'm sure you can all relate to that. And this, you know, foundation that I have with my body, my relationship with my body really has carried me through and my relationship with my husband and my relationship with God. And because of all of this, I think the Jewish New Year felt really big for me. Like something big was happening and changing, and shifting. And even in the last couple months I've hit some more challenges than usual, and some things in my childhood came up full force and my anxiety went through the roof and I wasn't sleeping well. And right before Rosh Hashanah, I was listening to one of my colleagues and mentors, Raizel Devorah, talk about Rosh Hashanah, and she said that it's often known as the day of judgment, but it's not judgment as in like, you're wrong, you're bad, you must fix yourself. It's actually God saying, you matter to me. You matter to me. And God asking with what you were given this past year. Did you utilize your potential? And that hit me with what you were given. Did you do your best? Where could have you stepped forward more? That potential, all that light, all that goodness, all of that, that you're meant to offer the world, did you help that come into fruition? Because we all know that it's not about being perfect like we're human. But did you use what you were given in ways that help you evolve and grow and become who you were always meant to be? So I reflected on that and I reflected on my last year, and I realized that it was hard for me to say I 100% did my best. You know what I mean? Like that was hard to just say that. And maybe it's because it's not true, because we all know that there's times when we choose things that don't serve us, when we aren't compassionate, when we aren't self-loving. But one of the cool things that I did realize in that was, whoa, like. I do feel that potential in myself. I feel that there are big things that I'm really meant for. I feel the light inside of me. I feel healing that my soul is supposed to go through and help others with, and that's huge. And there were many, many circumstantial parts of my life that did hold me back this past year from that light emanating through me. But I kept going and I kept showing up and I kept helping others, and I gave myself healing experiences and I went to therapy and I journaled, and I did use the tools even though I didn't all the time. And that made me realize, okay, I mostly did my best and that felt good. There's always room for growth that felt really, you know, like loving and kind and right. The things that are still blocking me that I realized while I've been meditating these past few days are things that have been deeply ingrained in me from a very young age, like feeling like I need to prove myself and fear and perfectionism. Layers of that, okay? Because of course, I've been on my healing journey for a long time, but there's layers of healing and I know that I'm moving through them as I help my clients as well. But that part about potential, that's huge because you can't even answer that question. Did you utilize your potential? If you don't feel or see that potential in yourself. And that's so much of the work that I do for women is helping them see themselves truthfully and clearly. Physically, yes, but also spiritually and emotionally because it's all the same thing. The way you think about your physical body mirrors how you feel about yourself and vice versa. You are a soul, but you're also a mind and you're also a body, and it's all. Just as sacred. It's all important. So how do you see that light in goodness in yourself? Well, it's definitely a process. How do you let those layers that, keep you from seeing and believing it kind of dissipate? The first step, and I'm sure you might've heard me say this before, but this is the first step of my process, and it's called"Meet Yourself Where You're At". But that's really what we need to do. Where are you? Where are you holding? It doesn't need to be, oh, I'm positive. I'm grateful. It's all good. Like anything that you think it should be, but where are you actually? And meeting yourself there with love and honesty and compassion because you can't go to all the places you wanna go and do all the things you wanna do and become who you wanna become if you can't even face yourself. And all the parts of yourself, even the parts that you've been told or that you might even still feel that are unlovable. There's so much beauty in those layers and those different parts of ourselves, and being willing to face them with curiosity and love and compassion. That's everything. So if you feel like you're already there on some level, the next step is really tuning in and listening to yourself and your body. And like I was mentioning before, the past few days, I've been really getting into meditation it's something that I ebb and flow with and it's felt very powerful, like in a way that I've never experienced before. And I think it's because I'm really noticing, and not just noticing, but experiencing my strengths and my goodness and my power and my potential, and of course knowing that it's not just me, but coming from the Divine. I actually saw a reel on social media that said, you're not self aware if you're only aware of the things that you don't like about yourself. If you don't actually see the good things too, you can't call yourself self-aware. And I was like, yeah, duh. Of course. And we all do that. We're all like, I'm so self-aware. And then we list all the things that we need to work on. But what about seeing the good. That's also self-awareness. Self-awareness needs to be seeing the whole of who you are. And that's so true with body image work too, because people often say that you know, it's on the insides that matter, or they say that like, loving the way that you look is not important or it's vanity. But like I was saying before, you're a mind, body, and soul. That's all you. Loving one part of you, or learning to love one part of you teaches you how to love all the other parts. It gives you like a foundation and a way of relating to yourself that is kind and compassionate. And this might be controversial, but if you've healed parts of yourself. You've healed parts of your inner child and you meditate every day, and you're like, I am so far along on my journey. But then you look in the mirror and you are wishing things away, or you're disgusted with how you look, or you're constantly trying to maintain or control or change your body. Then there's still a lot of work to be done. I mean, there's always work to be done, don't get me wrong, But the body image stuff cannot be bypassed. There is magic there. It's foundational. And it also frees up so much brain space so that you can connect to your purpose so that you can utilize your potential. So if you're listening to this and you're like, I wanna take this next year and tap into my potential in a way that I never have before, start with meeting yourself. Start with your body. Look in the freaking mirror. Start with how you see it, how you take care of it, how you treat it, and talk to it, and all of it start relating to yourself with that love and care. And wherever you are right now, that is good. It's good wherever you are right now, that's where you're supposed to be. Don't bypass that either. Face it with love. Be there. That's the portal to your potential, and you have so much of it.