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You know, before you level up, before you level up in life, because, ooh, things are happening for you. It's going to be beautiful. You may experience a trigger season where the deepest parts of yourself consistently get checked, get poked, where the parts of yourself finally get relieved, place right in front of your view for you to see. And simply because these are the parts of yourself that need safety, that need strength, that need nurturing, that need love for your next level up. These parts of ourselves cannot remain in hiding, cannot remain in a cocoon or a bubble. So life will give you a trigger season. A trigger season. You may experience it in the workplace, you may experience it in your family, maybe in a relationship. The deepest wounds, from your heartbreaks to childhood memories. Oh, maybe it's just disappointments with, you know, friends and other adults. They will come all the way to the surface. And this is not a time to run or react too negatively. This is a time to pay attention. This is a time to feel. Oh, damn. This triggers me. Why? This is a time to fully recognize what needs to be loved. Because you're about to transform. You know that, right? You're about to enter a new season. Oh, it's gonna be a beautiful season, too. Like, do you know what's gonna happen in your life? Do you know, you may be like, I can't see it. Ah, open up the possibility in your mind. A new level, a new position, a new era is on the horizon. And although a trigger season is difficult, it is exciting that we are moving into this new space. You know, in the reminder deck, my own deck of cards, you can, you know, get your own. @johno.com link in the description, I have a card in there that says a breakthrough is about to come. When you're struggling in life, struggling to find clarity for so long, you know, wrestling with it. Ah, what. What am I supposed to do? When. When will it happen for me? All these questions, you know, when you're just really struggling, wrestling with life, that is a sign of tension building up. And the natural course is a release, is a breakthrough. So remind yourself of that, that when you're struggling for clarity, when you feel lots of tension, it means a breakthrough is about to come. You just have to experience what was meant to experience. There is something for you to learn in this season that will carry you forward and give you the ability to maintain and nurture your next blessing. It won't slip through your fingers this time. You won't push it away because the parts of you that were secretly controlling you will no longer have power over you. They will be softened, you understand, beautifully, and integrated back into your being. But we have to sit with them, you know, we got to ask questions. Why does this trigger me? Why does this get me going? Why does this make me feel unsafe? Why does this make me feel unseen or unheard? And then observe, roam. Let the answers appear. You know, reflect, journal, whatever it may be. And don't feel guilty about it. Don't feel shame about it, because your greatest power may be right in there. You're about to discover something so big, beautiful. I love that about life, you know, like how some of our deepest insecurities or fears actually reveal another layer behind it, which is our greatest power. Our greatest power. But power must be claimed, right? Power isn't just given passively. No, confidently. So the triggers that we feel sometimes in these seasons or these dynamics or these situations or these environments, they're not random, Especially when they're piling on top of each other, their doors. They're asking you to grow. They're asking you to grow the emotional capacity you'll need at the next stage of your life. Because you don't want to carry this stuff into the next stage of your life. You want to feel lighter. Life is better when you feel lighter. So this is not chaos. This is a cleansing. You understand? You may be like, why is life poking me? Why is life on top of me? Just give me a break. Life. Life is cleansing you for what's about to happen next. A breakthrough is about to come before you rise. Parts of your old identity just must fall away. Our old ways may not serve us in this new space. Everybody is not equipped to go through it with you. Some people will not be going into this next season with you. That may trigger you. You may have to observe why, but every trigger is simply asking, are you still this version of you, or can you release it? Can you write a new story? Can you rebuild your nervous system? That's a big one these days. I just love the idea of rewiring and giving ourselves new experiences to regulate and nurture our nervous system. So the things that once triggered us or gave us anxieties or fears no longer face us at all. Because our nervous system knows I'm taken care of. Things are moving in the direction that matters beautifully. This is strength building, not suffering. Yeah, you've been going through some triggers, but this is strength building, not suffering. Don't even look at it as suffering. Just look at it as strength building. Oof. The resistance training from life. So beautiful. And a trigger season Is going to be a beautiful mirror. Sometimes life puts people in front of you who reflect your greatest parts of yourself, but also your wounds. Could be a friend, a business partner, a romantic partner, even a stranger in a conversation. Each one of us, we are having a human experience, all traveling the full spectrum of it. And we will come in contact with one another. And I don't feel like it's by luck or just randomness, but I feel like it's by design. And we will mirror parts of ourselves to each other for us to learn. And sometimes you have some rough situations with people, and to be honest, they're just a mirror. They're just a mirror to show you how much you need to respect yourself. They're just a mirror to show you how much love you actually have within yourself the capacity you have for love. And you're not going to settle for those who have the capacity at all or the space to love back. Pay attention to what they awaken in you, not what they took from you. Trigger season, you are about to level up. You are about to go into a new space, and patterns will be revealed. Patterns. That's the beautiful thing about being an observer, student of life. You start to notice patterns. You start to be like, oh, yeah. A breakthrough is about to come. And in this trigger season, patterns you've repeated for years suddenly become impossible to ignore. You see your habits, your loops, your emotional shortcuts, your emotional shutdowns, your awareness will break the cycle. You can't change what you don't look at, right? If there's a part of you you've been ignoring, at some point in life, it will amplify itself. And that's why we go through trigger seasons, because it's time to finally look at it and release so we can move into the next era feeling a lot lighter. Because life is better when you feel lighter. This is soul collaboration. Collaborating. Our soul, our mind, our spirit. Rewiring it. Oof. You are being collaborated to a higher standard. Emotionally, spiritually, energetically. So remind yourself that this discomfort in life, if you've been feeling it, it's just life tightening the screws so the next chapter doesn't fall apart. This discomfort is just life tightening the screws so the next chapter doesn't fall apart. Beautiful, right? A blessing without preparation becomes a burden sometimes, right? Sometimes people get to situations and new positions, and then, you know, all their negative parts of their cells that they've been ignoring amplify and actually ruin the blessing. That's why some of us, we get the blessing of a trigger season so we can see ourselves release what need, what needs to be released and step into the new life lighter. Because again, life is better when we feel lighter. And all trigger seasons have a message. It's time to come back to yourself. Your truest self, your highest self. Not the wounded self, not the self that is stuck in that old storyline, gripping it, but your rooted self, the one that could release and create a new story and fulfill your destiny. This season is guiding you back to the parts of you that forgot how powerful you are. It's time to come back to yourself. That's all clear the dust and the debris and get centered in yourself. Peace isn't just sitting in your own cocoon with massive walls around you so nothing can touch you or see you. Peace is being able to be rooted in almost any environment. Peace is being able to be rooted when someone is mirroring something back to you and you can observe, understand, observe and see what is happening in that moment and move through it with grace. And the thing about a trigger season is we don't like. We don't like to show our triggers. You know, sometimes they become very noticed because maybe you can't control it, but this is a quiet upgrade, okay? Because this is happening inside of you. Hey, think about it. You could be at work or at a family dinner. Someone says something and you're triggered. But you keep a poker face, right? You ain't trying to let people know something's wrong. That's okay. It's a quiet upgrade. But don't let the trigger drift back into your system. Observe it, question it. Why does this trigger me? Oh, well, maybe, you know, when I was a child, there was some abandonment there. And now I really get triggered when I feel like someone is abandoning me. Who knows? Become a student of yourself. Have fun with it. You understand? Like, ooh, it's almost like reverse engineering ourselves. Ah, beautiful. So we can understand ourselves grow and evolve. Proper preparation prevents poor performance, right? But this is a growth that is happening in the private moments and thoughts. You don't post emotions, sometimes you don't share. Questions you ask at 2am in the morning, 3am in the morning. But these quiet upgrades are the foundation for your next era. Know that. Oh. A necessary nutrient for your foundation. It's beautiful. Life is upgrading you right now, within and in the background. So don't mistake the silence for stagnation. And don't think that life is just having its way with you because it has something against you, because you're being triggered. No, life is preparing you for your next era. And it's about to be so, so beautiful. And you don't know, in hindsight, everything is going to be more than all right. If you're on Spotify, you probably noticed there's a video. Now, I was never really interested in doing video podcasts on here because I just like the idea of just only audio. But I have a Spotify partner manager, and they basically said, hey, video podcasts are getting pushed on the algorithm more. So, you know, to keep this podcast alive and moving, you know, I want to try to always be here for you and be more consistent. You know, we gotta. We gotta move with the times a little bit, but we're gonna stay rooted in what we do still, you understand? So you don't have to watch the video, but if you want to watch the video, hey, here I am. Hey. See you soon.