Wes Richards
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Loving the process 🙏
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
3. Take a moment to acknowledge that this pattern is playing out a major life lesson and is an opportunity for spiritual growth. What might that life lesson be?
My life story, the old one, led me along an incredibly unique path to my awakening process but ultimately it was all in service to this awakening in this present moment. My…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
You’re so right. This one life lesson seems to be having a healing effect ever since it happened a few days ago. Something is shifting.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
I’ve never used the word aloud but secretly I love the word “woke”. Definitely an apt description of your process and I’m extremely happy for you. Not to mention inspired by your awakening process as well as the others that have been shared in this circle… I’ve heard of ACT before but never explored it. I think I even have an as yet unread…[Read more]
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Thanks, Wes. I am enjoying that we can explore topics like anxiety in a more spacious place rather than on the thought track in my mind. I like that anxiety can be “normalized” if I am changing patterns or speaking truth or trying something new. Anxiety is part of the grief process for me. I couldn’t protest when I was little so I went into…[Read more]
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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
Jane! Thank you! I can’t tell you how much growth I’ve felt and experienced just in the last few days of engaging this finishing unfinished business process. Been working on step 3 and I’m super excited to keep moving forward! Haven’t felt this good in a long time.
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That’s great Wes! So happy for you!
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
The life I intend to experience, not just 6 months from now, but even today, is one of appreciation for what is. Simplest way I can put it. It probably starts today (I’m fact, its been in motion for a while now) with recognizing how I hold my anxiety. I currently hold it as my normal state, meaning I’m comfortable, or more accurately, fami…[Read more]
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Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing!! I’m so excited to support you while this journey continues to unfold!
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Jane! Thank you! I can’t tell you how much growth I’ve felt and experienced just in the last few days of engaging this finishing unfinished business process. Been working on step 3 and I’m super excited to keep moving forward! Haven’t felt this good in a long time.
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That’s great Wes! So happy for you!
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Anxiety is part of my experience too. There are times I still judge it or resist it. And there are other times I easily let it go. I know it’s part of my human experience and I accept that. Because I accept anxiety and any feeling really, it comes and goes. I hear so much more acceptance from you today in your writing. Acknowledging your…[Read more]
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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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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Happy one month Anniversary! “The process is the gift”: One of my favorite takeaways, of many, from your month here. Looking forward to many more.
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Thanks Wes. I have gratitude for the circle and the process. A few years back I taught on anxiety- the rupture of connection. It was for a small bank introducing them to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. What I realize is that the simple steps of Naming, Noticing and Neutralizing were not being practiced by me. It one thing to know things…[Read more]
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I’ve never used the word aloud but secretly I love the word “woke”. Definitely an apt description of your process and I’m extremely happy for you. Not to mention inspired by your awakening process as well as the others that have been shared in this circle… I’ve heard of ACT before but never explored it. I think I even have an as yet unread…[Read more]
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Thanks, Wes. I am enjoying that we can explore topics like anxiety in a more spacious place rather than on the thought track in my mind. I like that anxiety can be “normalized” if I am changing patterns or speaking truth or trying something new. Anxiety is part of the grief process for me. I couldn’t protest when I was little so I went into…[Read more]
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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
Thank you for the support. I feel ok about it. I was less embarrassed about the shakiness than I have been in the past. I had to consciously decide to let that go and it actually worked. If I had to guess, I’d say expressing myself felt more empowering than anything else.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Its through an app called insight timer. Here’s the link to the specific meditation.
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
Had a rare, extremely out of character expression of anger at work tonight with my supervisors that I think shocked them (shocked me anyway) and that I’m replaying over and over in my head. Not sure how to feel about it. I feel some regret while also recognizing that what’s said is said and it must’ve happened for a reason. I also notice my…[Read more]
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Thank you for sharing and want to support you in not making yourself wrong. I really liked that you expressed yourself. Often when we don’t and then we do there is a learning curve of what that looks like. So don’t be too hard on yourself with what the expression looked like. The more you do it the more you will find your way of expression. When I…[Read more]
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Thank you for the support. I feel ok about it. I was less embarrassed about the shakiness than I have been in the past. I had to consciously decide to let that go and it actually worked. If I had to guess, I’d say expressing myself felt more empowering than anything else.
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Wes, I am glad you can externalize your experience here in a safe place and give such important expression to what is. Open, Honest, Vulnerable as you find your way in being your best self. Life lessons sure happen to refine us. Protest is a sign of healing…….so is vomiting….( not to be funny but true). Glad to witness your journey of…[Read more]
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You’re so right. This one life lesson seems to be having a healing effect ever since it happened a few days ago. Something is shifting.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Glad you liked it. The book is full of pages with passages like this one. And its an easy, quick read. The line that begins “I’m basking in the light of my own recovery…” is probably my favorite. I love the imagery of the light as well as the theme of recovery of self as spirit, or recovery of my true self (just a personal interpretation).
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Sounds great! Thanks for the feedback.
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Thanks for sharing Karen. Appreciate hearing how you resonate with my experience and that we have much in common
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Great awareness that you know exactly what needs to be resolved! If this is what you decide to do, we’re all here to support you in resolving it. Know you can do it. And have an awesome birthday (turning 43 this year too)!
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Thank you Wes! Your support means a lot! Here’s to 43 being our best year yet 😉
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
2. How does this unfinished business show up in your current life?
My old story shows up in my current life, most prominently, in my anxiety. It used to be depression, and still frequently is, but anxiety has been more prevalent and extreme this year. Anxiety results from fear based living. When I notice it, I’m making a choice that does…[Read more]
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I’m wondering if this starts as fear-based thinking and then affects your living (which is what you got to you in your writing). You sound clear of where it shows up and how it shows up. If you are open to it…seems like writing out the life you intend to experience (like we discuss on the call) would continue to be beneficial as it puts you in…[Read more]
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And you can continue with the questions and see what comes up!
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Sounds great! Thanks for the feedback.
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Wes, this is awesome. Thank you for your courage to share openly. Helps to know I’m not alone. I can relate.
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Thanks for sharing Karen. Appreciate hearing how you resonate with my experience and that we have much in common
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Wes Richards posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
1. Identify an area of unfinished business you would like to complete.
I am enthusiastically resolving the story in my mind and updating and reframing it so its in alignment with the truth of who I am today in my life. I found a quote from a book called Embers by Richard Wagamese that beautifully captures my intention behind resolving this. “…[Read more]
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Great quote!
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I love this quote too! I feel like that’s so true, that we identify as being the warts, rather than the frog wearing them. And then going a step further to see that the frog wearing the warts is the prince, regardless of how he appears to others. They are one in the same. Beautiful!
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And I like the part about the darkness only serves to highlight the light/truth <3
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Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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Glad you liked it. The book is full of pages with passages like this one. And its an easy, quick read. The line that begins “I’m basking in the light of my own recovery…” is probably my favorite. I love the imagery of the light as well as the theme of recovery of self as spirit, or recovery of my true self (just a personal interpretation).
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Beautiful process Jane. I share a lot of these same judgments in my old story. As I read through your post, it brought up a lot of compassion for the human condition and the awareness that it is all part of my spiritual curriculum. I’m open to the learning that these judgments are here to remind me of my divinity and the more I align with it…[Read more]
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Such great feedback! Thank you. This was just what came up for me when I sat down to write and rather than over think the process or judge myself as doing the worksheet “wrong”, I just decided to share it because it felt like truth to me too, Jane! Excited about returning to this process later today with curiousity and nonattachment to how…[Read more]
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Never a “wrong” way to do it because there’s always valuable info that comes up for us to learn from. Keep letting go!
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Sounds amazing
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Wes Richards posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
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What deep knowing and wisdom. As I read your truth, the word manifesto comes to mind. Chuckling because manifesto comes from the latin word, manifest. You have mined for the gold and found it- it’s you! Your soul essence. As I read your words, I realize it’s been a long journey for you. Gives me hope to keep on keeping on in my own process. The…[Read more]
Great process and feedback here! Love the excavating in service to healing.
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]