Hello There,

I remember the first time I stood on a stage.

Tony introduced me. I heard my name. And I froze.

I couldn't speak. I couldn't think. I couldn't even remember my own name.

I stood there, completely exposed, in front of a room full of people and I had nothing.

When I walked off that stage, I cried and I cried.

I felt so stripped. So useless. So humiliated.

Haven't you felt that too?

That moment when the gap between who you are and who you're being asked to become feels so wide you can barely breathe?

Before the layers. Before the walls. Before the beliefs about who we were supposed to be.

She is still here. Living inside of me. Inside of you. 

Not just as a memory, but as the essence that is our nature.

So much of this human experience is spent caught in the noise of thought:

I'm not good enough. No one loves me. I'm too old. I don't like my body.

What I know now, that I couldn't see then, is that moment wasn't a failure. …It was an invitation.

To stop living inside the story of what I couldn't do. To take responsibility for my own experience. To close the gap.

Not all at once. Not perfectly.

But one courageous step at a time.

That moment, standing frozen on that stage, humbled me deeply. And it shaped me more than almost anything else has.

The things we resist the most have a way of becoming our greatest teachers.

It's a practice.

Of catching ourselves in the story. Of choosing differently. Of saying, enough and taking one step forward even when everything inside us wants to retreat.

I have come a long way since that stage.

And I continue to close the gaps.

That is the truth of it.

Not that I arrived. But that I kept choosing. And every time I did, something greater was waiting on the other side.

If this resonates, I shared the full story and what it taught me, in this week's video.

I'd love for you to watch it.

Thank you for tuning in to you, and to this incredible community of humans looking to live a kinder way.

God bless you,
Sage  🪷