Stop Your Internal Diss Track

You have been shielded with a cloak of dissatisfaction masquerading as taste. It satisfies your need to solve puzzles by forcing you to take out your spy glass and get all the way down into why so-and-so or that event or the group cannot, will not ever succeed…even while they seem to be doing at least that.

You see, the drug of dissatisfaction is a comfort like no other–you get to pretend that you are going to do the thing, but you are just waiting for the right crew, space, people, grant, funding, sign to get going. You get to investigate forevah! You get to keep it a 100 forevah! You get to spill the tea forevah! You reign supreme in your lack of action because you do in fact have receipts of several times when you did get it together and do the thing…for someone else!!!

The irony! The sadness. The exhaustion. The loss.

Here’s the truth: you set the pace, you raise the bar, you define the crew that you are craving by starting. If you keep talking about when, then why and how, you’ll continue to have emotional complications around accepting that all the pieces of the puzzle have already fallen into place, save for one. You are the final piece. 

This series is for you if:

You have recently noticed that you complain a lot…ALOT ALOT;

You have trouble enjoying your wins;

You would rather organize yourself around creativity, collaboration, and pleasure;

You care deeply about your peeps, but have conversation patterns that keep getting in the way.

I invite you to let it all go on the spiritual dance floor. Maybe get free of a few habits of mind that have you trapped in your poise. Let’s get loose. Let’s get deep in those sinews and pull out all the old stories that you tell to get that dose of Dissatisfaction that holds you down and back. Let’s become present to what is and discover the safety and power of joyful, radical acceptance.

Usually here the coach or class leader will tell you how much value they are going to provide. Because this is as much a spiritual undertaking as it is a physical one, so I am going to tell you what you need to bring to and leave on the altar of transformation. You’ve got to give to get.

You will need to bring an open mind.

You will need to bring the willingness to be uncomfortable.

You will need to bring your attention.

You will need to bring your biggest bag of emotional garbage you keep dragging around.

You will need to bring that Tea Coat of Arms.

You will need to bring your Cloak of Dissatisfaction.

You will need to come prepared to sweat.

You will need to bring your go-to, multipurpose diss, beautifully written out on a nice piece of paper

You will need to bring any physical receipt that reminds you that you need to keep playing small.

It’s important to decide how many nights of the process you will engage.

Each evening is one hour in length, addressing a specific aspect of the way we create stories to justify hiding our shine under criticism. I have developed a full week long program, but for our first altar call in Memphis, I am offering three of them. Here they are.

Let’s investigate releasing  the need to send oddly worded email replies that require that your colleagues, clients and cheer squad decipher them. Let’s release the apologetic sigh “because you just can’t tonight” once again with your alleged squad. Let’s repair the urge to vanish behind a wall of to-do lists and calendar reminders. Let’s accept that we have nothing to prove to anyone.

This evening’s session might as well be called, I Ain’t Mad With You. Tonight we let go of needing an imaginary villain to fuel our success.

As you have developed your techniques of practice and survival, you changed, and by necessity, so have some of the scenes and people that can be with your Genius. Maybe you went back to school or took a certificate program that had you buzzing with hope. Or maybe you took that big trip you were always talking about but not all the homies could go. This practice is designed to allow you to grieve your maturity while allowing you to accept the gifts that it brings if only we celebrate it.

Maybe they all speak to you or maybe there is one in particular that you would like to take. Know that each night, the classes build on each other, giving you the effect of an energetic deep scrub. This is the workout that will work you back into alignment with your destiny.

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