Today I’m pondering how fast growth can happen + how quickly we can expand.

Less than 3 months ago, I facilitated a workshop on art + grief. Today, I facilitated a workshop on the magic of ritual (same platform + similar audience size), and I noticed that it felt completely different.

The first workshop was solid. It went well. But I remember the shaky + slightly nauseated feeling of holding space for that many people.

But today, I felt clear + grounded with only a slight rumbling of nerves (apart from a mini panic spiral I had when I was 4 minutes late due to tech issues on my end).

It reminded me: when we do hard + scary things, it can seem like we’ll always feel that way.

But the truth is: things often get easier.

We grow + expand. We deepen our resilience + capacity. We learn to trust ourselves to do the things + feel the feelings.

Whether we’re showing up in the world in a deeper way, stepping into our work in the world, choosing ourselves + prioritizing our healing, or claiming our creativity + magic --

It often just takes a couple rounds of practice, a moderately-sized leap of faith, or some subtle shifts in identity to create unmistakably real + deep shifts for ourselves.

Sometimes, the changes don’t take as much as we think they will.

Sometimes, the small moves + brave tries work literal magic.

So what’s your next step into your own deepening + expansion?