Wes Richards
@wawrich75gmail-com
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Glad we talked about this. It wasn’t high on my radar going into the call but I’ve also, since the call, realized where I’ve been avoidant in this area and some opportunities that may exist here to express authentically and possibly to be of service as well. Contacted my cousin again last night and it felt particularly vulnerable sharing with…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
I can only truly speak through writing. Speaking on the call today was full of self judgment for me. Pausing too much, going off on tangents, not making sense, fidgeting, looking at myself in the camera then away then at it then away again, stuttering (even if mostly only mentally)… gonna say some self forgiveness/truth statements for all of t…[Read more]
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Also seems like a lot of opportunity to love and accept yourself. Still feel like you are avoiding that work and practice and that seems to keep you in this space of judging yourself. What are your thoughts?
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Very true. I have no shortage of opportunities to love and accept myself. And instead of using them for that, I’m still more attached to using them to defend my ego, even while (here’s that theme of paradox again) I literally want to destroy my ego. The answer here is to both stop defending or destroying it. Love and acceptance for myself can…[Read more]
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Having compassion for it doesn’t mean you are identifying with it unless you say it does. You “destroy” the ego through love. If that’s the way you want to look at it. I like to look at it as lessening it and strengthening my connection to Source and intuition. Great acknowledigng here.
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I can relate!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
So admire your knowledge of yourself and your intuition Karen. Supporting you in being more and more at peace.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Ooooh, nice “a heart doesn’t open to a heart that isn’t open in return”. Not sure if that’s a common phrase but I know I’ve never heard it before. Totally lands with me though. I 100% hide behind that excuse. Karen, I so appreciate your process and your awareness, your vulnerability and willingness to share. And I resonate with so much of it…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
I came into the call with a sense of disappointment in my own process. Didn’t bring it up during the call at all but that was what I was feeling going in and actually for the last few days as well.
Old mechanisms came up during the call and I’m recognizing I’m currently in the grips of so many of these right now. Grateful for this awa…[Read more]-
Wes, I find your “nonsensical novels” to be very helpful. I struggle every day with even speaking at all because I don’t feel worth the space I take up on the earth, even though I know thatwhat I have to say is valuable and worthwhile, and it is okay for me to take up that space. Not sure if you can relate, but please know you are seen and heard…[Read more]
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I can only truly speak through writing. Speaking on the call today was full of self judgment for me. Pausing too much, going off on tangents, not making sense, fidgeting, looking at myself in the camera then away then at it then away again, stuttering (even if mostly only mentally)… gonna say some self forgiveness/truth statements for all of t…[Read more]
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Also seems like a lot of opportunity to love and accept yourself. Still feel like you are avoiding that work and practice and that seems to keep you in this space of judging yourself. What are your thoughts?
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Very true. I have no shortage of opportunities to love and accept myself. And instead of using them for that, I’m still more attached to using them to defend my ego, even while (here’s that theme of paradox again) I literally want to destroy my ego. The answer here is to both stop defending or destroying it. Love and acceptance for myself can…[Read more]
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Having compassion for it doesn’t mean you are identifying with it unless you say it does. You “destroy” the ego through love. If that’s the way you want to look at it. I like to look at it as lessening it and strengthening my connection to Source and intuition. Great acknowledigng here.
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I can relate!
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I LOVE reading what you write. It’s part of your expression. I think we get to a point in our process where we get tired of expressing our ego’s fear. That may be happening for you. So use the vulnerability that’s coming up in your intuition and go underneath the vulnerability to see what wants to be expressed. Great insight is that it’s not your…[Read more]
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I connect more with spirit when I write, and ego when I speak. What needs to be expressed for or through me is all the things I write but through my voice, or even through writing with others that don’t feel as safe. I want to literally be standing in my truth, and that happens when I can speak without fear. My old story is feeling not…[Read more]
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Huge realization…spirit = write and ego = speak.
You aren’t going to speak without fear when you start. You are going to have to speak regardless of the fear so you can share truth and your light. How come you can allow all those things when you write but you have all those judgments about speaking. Doesn’t really make sense, does it? Wondering…[Read more]-
Exactly! It’ll deal. Some of the ways it hasn’t been dealing: I still experience fear about speaking on the group calls in front of you guys. I’m nervous just answering you when you ask how I’m doing at the beginning of calls. I always find myself somewhere between desperately wanting to share on camera with the group and wanting to obs…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
My entire life, I’ve avoided any and all relationships, from romantic to friendships to even keeping family at a distance (I’m honestly not sure how I ended up married except that I was ready for a change at that time in my life when I met my wife). No doubt, this avoidance was due in large part to anxiety and inferiority, inadequacy and…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Beautiful. Honoring your expression and new births. “Write your story or someone else will.” That’s something I’ll keep in my consciousness moving forward. Thank you.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Short answer is that confidence, capability, and fearless nonattachment need to become part of my new story, despite not having much prior experience with it in my old story.
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
I’m not sure how to answer question 4 of the finishing unfinished business process. It calls for a yes or no answer but it doesn’t seem that simple to me. In theory, I’d say that I’m willing to stop buying into this pattern, my old story, or I wouldn’t have been healing these past 3 years. On the other hand, I still haven’t healed which su…[Read more]
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Great job sticking with the process. What caught my attention is that I hear you always returning to your old story and wanting to understand it or justify it in some way. This makes it seem like you are more committed to the doubts and fears as truth than anything else. Not to compare stories but share my experience. At a certain point, I choose…[Read more]
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Short answer is that confidence, capability, and fearless nonattachment need to become part of my new story, despite not having much prior experience with it in my old story.
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YES!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Great list Karen. Wishing you much growth as you resolve your unfinished business.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Where you are is more than ok Karen. Love your awareness. It’s a feeling I’m extremely familiar with when I’m around others. And I think it’s a great sign of growth that you’re able to identify where you feel the anxiety in your body.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Healing vs coping… Its not that I haven’t been healing. I have. But maybe not as much as I’d like to have thought. Not a judgment but there’s probably a heavy element of coping to what I previously thought was healing, or had hoped was healing. And I think part of me always knew that.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
I’m feeling the answers coming in for me too Tami. Just not able to make sense of what they’re telling me yet!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Love it, thanks Jane!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
I’ve opened something up within myself with this post. Tapped into something but I’m not sure what. Its nothing bad, just some synchronistic events that happened tonight related to this that I’m at a loss to explain. If anything I feel a sense of awe. Love to talk about it with you if you’re able.
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
On my facebook profile, one of the first pictures that appears is that of myself and 3 women making faces at the camera, taken and posted this past January. Despite a prior, limited connection of only a few months previous on facebook, I’d only met these women in person for the first time less than 48, and possibly less than 24 hours, bef…[Read more]
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The ego has created a story that you are here to suffer. This is the story you are here to heal. You mentioned “dropping your guard” and that jumped out at me. It’s even part of your work experience too. What’s the purpose of guarding and might you upgrade it’s purpose or simply let it fall away so that you can experience more joy in your life.…[Read more]
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I’ve opened something up within myself with this post. Tapped into something but I’m not sure what. Its nothing bad, just some synchronistic events that happened tonight related to this that I’m at a loss to explain. If anything I feel a sense of awe. Love to talk about it with you if you’re able.
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Wes I love that you love that picture and are proud of it, it sounds to me like you identify with it because that is the truth of who you are. Just being Wes in the moment. And Wes is pretty great!
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Love it, thanks Jane!
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Wes, I am witnessing you externalizing your experience of living joy in the moment of connection. You are aware and sending compassion for wholeness. Keep on questing with your questions as the answers are within.
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I’m feeling the answers coming in for me too Tami. Just not able to make sense of what they’re telling me yet!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Thanks. As I’m experiencing/witnessing today, its definitely not a smooth, linear process. I’ve felt off today, similar to many of these same types of days in the past, and I noticed that tendency towards helplessness or despair today, but I’ve tried hard not to judge my experience, or make it into something it isn’t… Helps to hear your…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
I revisited my inner child today. During the meditation, it wasn’t always clear what was coming up for me. But my focus was different too, in that I was more focused on what was important which was just my presence, meaning there was no room for analysis, doubt or being caught up in an old story. This allowed me to not get confused by all the…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Beautiful process. I feel a lot of resonance with your words here, if through my own experience. The connection between anxiety and grief is looming particularly large for me now and your sharing of your past experience with this connection is leading me to reflect on my own past experiences that may have previously gone unnoticed. Thank…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Its been my pleasure. I’m allowing myself to feel and express excitement here in this space because its new to me and something my authentic self wants me to express in daily life, for the greater good of all. So grateful for your vision, your process and your space.
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Yes you are! So happy to hear you acknowledge yourself.