Wes Richards
@wawrich75gmail-com
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Wes Richards posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
I wouldn’t have thought of this as a creative outlet but connecting with others in various groups on Facebook through writing vulnerably in either my own posts or comments on others posts gives me a lot of insight into myself. And insight comes about from creativity. I also like being creative in my responses to triggers that I encounter.…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Thanks Chas! Glad you found it helpful.
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Wes Richards posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Hey everyone. Wrote this previously and wanted to share it here. It’s a bit of my story. It’s copied from a previous share of mine and was a response to a post about masculinity and how I was learning what it meant to me. Specifically, the post to which I commented was about the fallacy of the idea of the alpha male. I think it speaks well to…[Read more]
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Thanks Wes for sharing that. I appreciate you honesty and openness. I helps me to look deeper into my own thoughts and feelings.
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Thanks Chas! Glad you found it helpful.
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This is a wonderful creative expression and I’m really glad you shared it. I’m blessed to have witnessed you blossoming. I love to know that we have both feminine and masculine energy within us. I can tend to be very masculine in a lot of ways: work, relationships, my ambitions. I honor it all. I used to think I wasn’t feminine enough but I don’t…[Read more]
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I just reread it and it reminds me of the blogs I used to write. Difference being I didn’t put as much thought into this as I wrote it. I kind of just allowed it to be whatever it took shape as…. That’s a great point you make about being ok and honoring the masculine parts of yourself. I’ve always been more resonant with feminine values and…[Read more]
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Our experience isn’t wrong. Learn to appreciate and be with all of it. That’s where freedom lies.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
1. Prudence, being careful consideration of consequences, can be used as an opportunity to honor my silences. What I mean by this is that, often in a conversation, I don’t know what to say and am afraid of saying the wrong thing. This feeling of dread arises that if I say nothing or do nothing other than not in agreement, I appear stupid to th…[Read more]
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Great process here, thanks for sharing your learning out loud. So helpful to hear your process.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Beautiful strengths! Did the test results reflect these or were there some surprises?
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3 and 4 were a surprise since I always say I don’t resonate with gratitude but I took that one to mean that I have deep appreciation that leads to joy in my life so it does make sense. 1 and 2 NOT a surprise at all. I quite liked “perspective wisdom” and really resonated with that one, just never quite heard it that way. Thanks for asking!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Awesome step!
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Thank you…feels good to move forward with this piece and get some support and accountability in place to make it happen.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Prudence didn’t mean much to me before. Seems to be about not taking undue risks, thinking before I speak or act, considering the consequences of my choices on myself and others, and generally being overly cautious…. explains a lot really. This “strength” also is what holds me back and keeps me wanting to play it small and safe. Judgment as a…[Read more]
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What was so interesting is using these as strengths for yourself versus against yourself. It’s a matter of perspective and choice.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
These are my top 10 results
1. Prudence
2. Fairness
3. Honesty
4. Judgment
5. Perspective
6. Humility
7. Gratitude
8. Leadership
9. Forgiveness
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Great noticing and honoring of yourself by choosing something more pleasurable. Sounds like a great choice and could even lead to you learning to find more enjoyment in your more “productive” classes.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Feels liberating. I’m not bound by anything any more. Like you say, I get to decide and that insight feels incredibly true in this moment. This is a belief that I’ve been releasing and reframing for months or years now but it always came back. I feel like I released it for the last time. I so appreciate your insights! I will be deciding what…[Read more]
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Yes, and even if it comes back into your consciousness you just release it again. You don’t have to take it back anymore.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Awesome! Thanks. I used to experience a ton of resistance to coming up with a list of my strengths but these just flowed effortlessly.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
5 strengths
1. Innately wise
2. Willingness to be vulnerable
3. Desire to serve and empower, never to harm
4. Consciousness, awareness, wakefulness
5. Empathic and able to see beneath the surface level of others words and behaviors-
Incredible strengths all cultivated from your life experiences. Thank you for sharing your truth with us Wes. I totally see these strengths in you in every interaction we have together.
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Awesome! Thanks. I used to experience a ton of resistance to coming up with a list of my strengths but these just flowed effortlessly.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Good enough for me! I’ll do the dialogue. For now, here’s something else that came through me to be expressed:
“Dumb” isn’t my truth. It was projected onto me by others who couldn’t understand me and associated what they experienced as being dumb. Adopting their projection as a belief protected me from risking voicing my opinion and being h…[Read more]
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P.S. You just did a dialogue:) That’s why this came through you. You started to tap into dumb and your Authentic Self. I see a big learning here that you don’t have adopt other people’s experience, judgment or misunderstanding of you anymore. You get to say what it is. You get to share yourself into the world in a way that feels authentic to you.…[Read more]
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Feels liberating. I’m not bound by anything any more. Like you say, I get to decide and that insight feels incredibly true in this moment. This is a belief that I’ve been releasing and reframing for months or years now but it always came back. I feel like I released it for the last time. I so appreciate your insights! I will be deciding what…[Read more]
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Yes, and even if it comes back into your consciousness you just release it again. You don’t have to take it back anymore.
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Wes Richards posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
I’ve long held a belief that I’m not intellectual aka “dumb”. This was mostly based on my social anxiety and awkwardness and hearing myself referred to as an idiot one too many times rather than my ability to learn and do well in school. I came to believe it myself, for a very long time. It’s also based on my belief in myself as a slow le…[Read more]
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I think your wisdom that trying the tool that doesn’t resonate and perhaps is reflecting back some resistance could be really helpful in your process. The intention being to befriend our parts and learn from them. I love this because it’s us honoring these parts that our ego judges. The spirit knows that all our parts of wisdom to share with us.…[Read more]
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Good enough for me! I’ll do the dialogue. For now, here’s something else that came through me to be expressed:
“Dumb” isn’t my truth. It was projected onto me by others who couldn’t understand me and associated what they experienced as being dumb. Adopting their projection as a belief protected me from risking voicing my opinion and being h…[Read more]
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P.S. You just did a dialogue:) That’s why this came through you. You started to tap into dumb and your Authentic Self. I see a big learning here that you don’t have adopt other people’s experience, judgment or misunderstanding of you anymore. You get to say what it is. You get to share yourself into the world in a way that feels authentic to you.…[Read more]
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Feels liberating. I’m not bound by anything any more. Like you say, I get to decide and that insight feels incredibly true in this moment. This is a belief that I’ve been releasing and reframing for months or years now but it always came back. I feel like I released it for the last time. I so appreciate your insights! I will be deciding what…[Read more]
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Yes, and even if it comes back into your consciousness you just release it again. You don’t have to take it back anymore.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Thanks Jane! Yeah, it’s great we’re seeing these signs of growth 🙂
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Great ideas Jane!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Thank you Bev! Looking forward to working with you again and going further and deeper in my process!
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Wes Richards posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
So what’s great as I progress through these dimensions in recovery life lab is that I’m noticing I’m doing 3 foot tosses before even being called on to do them. This means I’m making positive changes in one dimension almost automatically, or as a byproduct of work I’ve done in another. For the intellectual dimension this month, I already o…[Read more]
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Incredible! I love your insight on the connection and continued development you are making in the different dimensions. And love hearing that you are coming up with 3 foot tosses for yourself before being prompted, that’s true ownership of your own evolution and growth! So great Wes!
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Thank you Bev! Looking forward to working with you again and going further and deeper in my process!
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That’s awesome Wes!! I’ve noticed the same things about working in one dimension contributing to positive changes in another. Congrats on all the positive changes physically!!
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Thanks Jane! Yeah, it’s great we’re seeing these signs of growth 🙂
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Hi Nanci and welcome! I feel the same way, more and more, about belonging wherever I am in the universe.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Congratulations Jane! Amazing growth 😊 Grateful to be a part of this process with you!
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Amazing! I’ve seen such amazing commitment to your inner work these last 6 months. You are an example of true recovery. You are elevating your consciousness with commitment and action. I’m so happy to on this path with you!
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Thanks guys 🙂
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Great perspective! I like how you are looking at all the little ways that we can be creative.