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You just have to "Give Yourself Permission"

The internal conversation you have to have a million times.

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SL Sourwine
Jan 04, 2023

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A few years ago I wrote “A Little Book of Permission” and it took me on a journey I had long hoped for, but never really trusted to expect—to becoming a writer. The book is a weird and wonderful little list of everything you don’t have to do.

What I realised the first time I read it to a group of other writers in a circle was that it had an important gift. A sigh. A release. An acknowledgement of the LONG internalised list that we carry that is full of things we have to do, things we should do, ought to do… all which get in the way of choosing what you want to actually do.

I realised that as a woman I had never been taught to understand how to figure out what I wanted. Think of all the jokes about women changing their minds. We are so filled with what we have to do or think we are supposed to want in order to be loved and valued that we are completely out of touch with how to listen for what we actually want let alone decide to take any steps towards it. For me, adding more I “had to do” was never going to get me closer to my dreams until I shed a few layers of obligation. I know that’s true for a lot more people than just me.

I also noticed in the online business world that was selling women their dreams of independence and seven figures that the phrase “You just have to give yourself permission” was repeated over and over. Whether it meant getting on a Live Video or asking someone to buy what you were selling. But no one was telling people how to actually do it. So I did.

In this publication I will write here about all the ways this can come up for us, how to ease the difficulty of applying it in situations, why we aren’t taught this in the first place. Please subscribe for the posts here for free, but if you get something from my writing and can support my work that would be fabulous.

You can also purchase the short audio course “How to Give Yourself Permission” here for just $25.00. I promise it will create an opening for you to jump through. If you need a sigh of relief you can order A Little Book of Permission directly from me or via any online book seller.

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