From Fear to Freedom: Embracing the New You

I am sitting in my lounge on a grey wet day, reflecting on my theme for the month of February, which is ‘Releasing Yourself from Being Trapped: Letting go of your Fears’. I start reflecting on how am I trapped?

Quickly I began to see how I am trapping myself.  I have a heap of work to do for myself, it is work that I am passionate about and love doing, and yet, there is often, not always, but often this deep seeded dread that can rise up in me when I need to do it. Why? 

Why, does this happened again and again, so often people want a quick fix, but self-entrapment isn’t like magic and just suddenly appears one day.  It creeps up like a slow burn, born into the world a babe, I believe, with agreements already made to ourselves about what we want to learn in this life, and there begins our life’s stage for all to play out.

If we look at the complexity of life and all we have to navigate, work, families, relationships, society, and the one constant of continually facing changes, all of this bringing out our engrained fears and creating new ones as well.  The requirement of us, as humans, to respond and thrive in this melting pot of modern-day stress, anxiety, societal expectations of what we are meant to be, how we should look, act and meet what has been deemed successful, looking after our partners, kids, parents, being the support system to everyone that we have put upon ourselves and all the while trying to learn who we are and how we manage ourselves.

I don’t know about you, but just the act of writing this down can send me into a spin, spiralling down into overwhelm and exhaustion.  It doesn’t leave much space for me to feel good about myself and I find myself again stepping into the fear, belief and pattern of ‘I’m not good enough.

And there you have it, I am now back full circle to my opening question. How am I trapped? And there is the answer? I am sitting down to do my work, for me, with no one else’s input, just me. This is confronting. Why, because, at the same time, I am opening space to really lean in, notice, my fear and acknowledge the impact it is having on me.

What rises up in me is an awareness of my resistance to healing.  The letting go of what I know and stepping into the unknown. Layer after layer after layer on and on it goes. And I realised my passion, my work, my coaching and guidance to you all also means -I am designing my own healing journey, and my work is actually for you to join me on this healing journey. Let’s do it together, because we don’t need to do it alone, we are stronger together, in community.

Over December and the New Year I began to plan out what the year would look like, for all who are on this journey with me.  Building us a scaffold, a practice, if you will, providing safety and space for us all to explore who we are and how we want to live. I say we, with intent, as I am also on this journey, growing, expanding learning more and more about myself and this is what I love and do so well, I would even go so far as to say, it’s one of my super powers.

In setting up this practice, a sacred space, I to live and experience shifts of evolution of our sacred initiation of being beautiful midlife women, transitioning into a time where we get to become the true creators of our own lives, no longer being pulled by outside forces, instead being pulled by our own experience, knowledge and intuition.  It is now time that we create our own map of life, building new paths for us to navigate.  How exciting? And how scary at the same time.  What does this mean? How does this look?  Will I be the same person?

All of the above questions and more will be addressed this year in the practice of 2026, our theme;

THE NEW YOU
Laying foundations by building clarity.
Claiming your power by finding your voice
Embedding the real you by stepping up with action
Taking flight by celebrating and finding joy in all you are

This is why I am here, in February, and my fears are rising, because I have deliberately designed this month to be all about how I can help you release your fears, and to do this authentically, with compassion and understanding for you, it is required of me to have had this experience myself.

I am writing this as a part of my journey in releasing my fears and sharing my practice with you.  

My fear – I am not good enough, I thank you for being there and helping me survive to now, opening space for me to lean in, accept and release as it is now just a construct that is keeping me trapped, small and it no longer serves me and who I am.

I choose and intend to release my fear of ‘I am not good enough’ and I now make space of love to flow in instead of fear.

Thank you! It is done! It is done! It is done! And so it is!

Kim xxx