We are often told to channel our future self so we can honor her and reach our goals. And it’s great advice, channeling your future self is such a great tool for achieving goals because, let’s say your goal is to make a certain amount of money – it’s helpful to spend time with the version of you that’s making that amount of money. What does she believe about herself? What does she believe about money? What does she feel regularly? What does she think when she fails? What does she think when she wins? What does she do most days? How does she show up?

It's so helpful to visualize your future self to shape and direct your life into the version that you love and that is intentional. It’s helpful to spend time with your future self to get to know her belief systems and perspectives. In fact, I recommend spending time each day – just 5 minutes if you can – to be with her. Get in her mindset and fill your present self up with the love and belief that she has to offer, because she has so much of it to offer you.

But before recovery, my future self was not me. She wasn’t real. She was a perfect robot and she wasn’t attainable. She wasn’t’ me. She was some version of me that I thought I had to be to be considered enough.

What’s changed, is that I’ve opened up space for Young Me as well. Because Young Me, had lots of wisdom and truth to love to share. She’s the real me.

What I think you’ll find, is that your future self is just a larger, more expansive version of your young self. The little girl who knew that her worth wasn’t contingent on achievements or appearance. The little girl who was there before she was made to doubt her worthiness, before all that pain and trauma was put onto her. She, too, has so much wisdom; so much love and belief to offer. In fact, she’s the one who started it all.

What did she think? What did she feel? What did she do?

Before she was told she wasn’t good enough, what did she believe? Maybe to her, growing and expanding is desirable simply because it’s fun. Not because she has to to be good enough. What if you could embody that energy?

So maybe it’s about channeling our future self, but doing it from a place of being grounded with our Young Self. Maybe it’s about re-discovering our Young Self who’s been with us all along, trying desperately to get us to listen. Instead of living how everyone else thinks we should live, maybe she’s screaming at us to tell us to love her, trust her, believe in her and honor her by living as authentically, as truthfully, as we can.

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