Protect yourself and your energy fiercely. I know it sounds controversial because we are pack beings and we need others. We need connection, love, community and belonging. Yet perhaps we need people for something much deeper – to mirror back to us what still needs to heal and to hold space while we do the healing ourselves.

So there are really only two types of people for you personally – those who drain your energy and those who fuel it.

It is your ultimate responsibility to protect your energy and not allow people and situations to continuously deplete you.

Each time you feel bad for someone, or even for yourself, you are leaking energy… it’s by design. Life will continuously test your ability to stay rooted in yourself. People, situations and circumstances will challenge your peace, your confidence and your sense of self. It is your sole responsibility to stay sovereign in your power and choose discernment every time.

Resolve your internal conflict – the shame, the guilt. Face your fears. Sit with your anger and resentment… not to live there, but to finally free yourself from them. Elevate your vibration until you become invincible within yourself and once you do… protect it with all your might.

Don’t feel guilty filling your cup completely. Don’t be afraid of coming across as selfish. You can only fulfill your purpose from a full cup. Otherwise your energy becomes depleted and the creativity, strength and inspiration that were meant to flow through you will no longer be available to help others. Eventually you fall into the very thing you were trying to save everyone else from – victim mentality.

There are so many low vibrational energies waiting to weaken your field throughout the day – people making you feel guilty, people wanting you to feel bad for them, opportunities triggering you into anger and challenging your inner peace. People criticizing you and you believing them… allowing their voices inside until you begin doubting yourself.

But what if there is nothing wrong with you?

You were created exactly as you needed to be. Everything about you has a purpose. Instead of constantly changing, twisting, people pleasing or trying to fit into places you don’t belong… dare to be fully yourself… And then see who stays. See who fans your flames instead of dimming them. Who celebrates your light instead of feeling threatened by it. Who accepts you exactly as you are while inspiring you to become even more of yourself. Those are the people you share your energy and vulnerability with.

The rest you energetically block by being unapologetically yourself and allowing people to own their victimhood, their judgment and their inner conflict. You don’t need to carry it for them. You don’t need to convince them. You don’t need to shrink so they can feel bigger.

You do you… And allow life to gift you with more blessings.

Believe you deserve more – without feeling bad about it, without worrying about outshining others and without confusing shrinking yourself with humility. Because only from this state can you truly be of great service to the world. Only from a place of fullness can your gifts and creativity completely open. Only when you stop abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable can you discover how much life wants to move through you.

Protect your peace. Protect your energy. Protect the flame inside you. Fill your cup until it overflows… and then give from the overflow. Because at the beginning and at the end of it all…

All you have is you!

Yours in being unapologetically yourself,

Ava