Stop Pushing – Start Trusting!

You're reading Stop Pushing – Start Trusting!, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. "Write a book," they told me. "It's easy," they said. Ha! Not when you are bearing your soul in 200 pages, and detailing your business failures, and you want to make a book that’s worth reading! Not when you are blending in a controversial subject of BDSM and your past as a Dominatrix and turning that into advice for business owners. No, that is a very different story altogether. There were many times I would go back and read my own chapter on 'Digging In' so that I would lean into the discomfort of writing one more chapter or taking it through one more edit. The stories from the Dungeon were fun and lit me up to write and edit, but the ones about my business failures would sting. I would rotate between soothing the pain with a glass of wine (or two) and sitting my ass down to take one more pass at it. It was tempting to give up, and there were times when I had to stop for a month, or more before coming back to it. Having spent six years as a dominatrix, the best lesson I took away from the dungeon was how to lean into discomfort; not with teeth clenched and body tight, but with deep breathing, heart opening and surrender. This is the spiritual aspect of Kink, surrendering to what is! This is the message of empowerment that I wanted to bring to business owners. TH...
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