I am looking to move the Living Mirror Gathering meeting to a different day and time. It has been a few meetings now where people have not been able to attend. It has always been my intention to have participation from the group live and after talking with a few people it is clear Thursday's right now conflict. Please take time to answer the survey below to select the time and day where you would be consistently able to attend more often. No answer is right and no answer is wrong, they all help unite the experience and help it unfold. This weeks Recording will be available tomorrow. Thanks for your participation.

Reflection: - What have you felt called to change… but keep avoiding? - What does your mind say when you think about doing it? - What does your body feel like in that moment? Mirror Prompt: “Is this resistance, truth… or familiarity trying to pull me back?” This reflection can be the one we want to skip over, or put off. It is not easy to look at what we avoid. Is is not easy to question what our mind has been telling us day in and day out for years. However, it is the simplest exercise we can do. Asking our mind to provide the evidence of our beliefs opens the door to a deep truth. Our minds are here to offer opinions, provide options, process information, provide realization, rationalize, answers, and ideas. It is not here to be in charge and make decisions. It is not meant to never be questioned. Think of your mind like ChatGPT, GEMINI, PERPLEXITY, or any other AI program that filters information and provides options and answers to questions. We do not blindly believe nor do exactly what it returns back to us. We take it in, we weigh it, we question it, we intuit its validity and we still are responsible for making our own choice and the experiences of those choices. We would not return to any one of these programs and blame them for what happened. That would be comical. Yet for some reason we have never questioned if our mind has been running our life and we have been unconscious to the fact that at anytime we can step in and take that back over. Where have you been letting your AI Chat bot (Your Mind) run the show?

Reflection: - If you watched your life from the outside… what would stand out immediately? - What would you feel watching it? - Where would you want the character (you) to make a different choice? Mirror Prompt: “Where am I aware… but still choosing the same thing?” This is such a powerful reflection. I did this reflection a few weeks ago and here are my aha moments. Immediately what stood out to me is I had allowed some autopilot predictable patterns to return into my days. For one my boys are getting older and in a transition from no longer being kids, but young men. Reflecting on question one gave me perspective. I had been living in the pattern of Mom taking care of kids. That is not who I am nor where I am in life. I am Mom transforming kids into young resourceful men. Question 2: Would I watch the movie of Mom taking care of kids everyday? My Answer is a resounding no. It is an exhausting movie that is braced for arguments, fights and constant push back from my two boys as I kindly ask them to step into taking responsibility for themselves. Question 3: Where would I like "me the character" to make a different choice? Immediately I would chose to recognize my new role in my two boys life. I would have a heart felt difficult conversation to each of my boys separately. I would connect to each of my sons with the transition of kid to young man themes that are relevant to each of them. I would start with one thing that exhausts me the most to watch in this movie and play out each day. I would embrace the uncomfortable conversation and reactions, and stay resolute in my decision to step into this transition phase of being a Mom. My awareness came that this was a needed change when I started to recognize a subtle phrase reappear into my consciousness. "It is easier if I do it." That one statement has been the non truth of my existence, yet a lived one that shaped not just how I am a Mom, but how I operate in all that I do in life. It has never served me and provided the flow and freedom I seek. It has always locked me into doing everything and having no fun. It is one I thought I had conquered, but the truth is we never conquer the belief, the truth is we form a new relationship with it. We form a new understanding and a new awareness. The truth is to stay aware of the belief popping up and the choice we have to believing it or choosing something different. To not give it weight, and power, or to let it slide this time and deal with it later. The funny thing about later is it sneaks into being your now.

Reflection: - The last time you went searching for answers… what state were you in? - Were you calm, clear, and open… or stressed, urgent, and needing relief? - Did the answers you found actually change you… or just give you something new to try? Mirror Prompt: “Am I seeking truth? … or Am I seeking relief from how I feel?” Comment Below your answer

The Loop Feels Like Truth Reflection: - What do you call “yours” right now? (my anxiety, my stress, my pressure…) - How long have you been saying that? - Who would you be without that label? - Is it actually you… or something you’ve practiced? Mirror Prompt to ask your body: “What have I mistaken as identity that is actually just repetition?” Comment any aha moments or anything you feel called to share.