Laura recorded this one before she could chicken out. Something came into focus this week that she's been circling at different levels for most of her life, and she could feel it starting to fade. The episode goes somewhere she hasn't taken this podcast before, into the wound underneath the goals, underneath the metrics, underneath even the letting go of the metrics. She asks the creator a question she's never asked out loud, and it cracked something open that she's still sitting in the discomfort with.

What You'll Learn

The trap of trying to surrender your way into getting what you want, and what it looks like when you catch yourself doing it
Why the same core wounds keep showing up at every new level of expansion, even after you've "already worked through them"
The question she asked in prayer this week that surprised her with how wrong it felt to even say
What it might mean if the blessing was never the audience or the impact

From / To Pattern Shift

From doing the inner work in order to earn the external results → to sitting with the possibility that the results were never the point and the peace of not needing them might be the actual gift.

Connect with Laura:

Instagram: @think.laura
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Pod: Useful Thinking
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