To the One Who Is Ready to Stop Flinching at Their Own Power

Dear friend,

December arrives like a soft knock on the door — a shift in the air, a widening in the chest, a quiet truth settling into your bones.

It’s not asking you to fix the year behind you.
It’s not asking you to wrap things up neatly.
It’s asking you to tell the truth you’ve been circling:

You are no longer the person who flinches at your own power.

In the grief you metabolized, in the clarity that kept showing up uninvited, in the nights you chose honesty over habit — you’ve been returning, piece by piece, to a version of yourself you almost forgot:

The you who never learned to flinch. The you who doesn’t apologize for depth. The you who doesn’t contort for belonging.
The you who understands that becoming more yourself requires courage, but remaining the same costs far more.

And so let me tell you a truth the world often hides:

The world is deeply messy yet you are far more powerful than its mess — and your depth was built for this season.

Yes, the world wobbles. Yes, the world overwhelms.
But you? You were not made fragile. You were made discerning.
You were made steady. You were made capable of carrying what the world drops and transforming it into wisdom.

Look at what you’ve moved through already. You have always been more powerful than the noise surrounding you.

And here is the part most people miss, especially right now:

Refuse to make the world the protagonist of your story.
You are the center. Return to center stage. The world is a supporting character.

It is not meant to narrate your life.
It is not meant to define your truth.
It is not meant to shrink your capacity.

You are the one who decides the shape of this next era.

December is not a deadline — it is a doorway.

Not pressure — permission. Not performance — presence.

This month whispers:

Come home. Come whole. Come standing tall in who you were always meant to be.

Return to the you who doesn’t flinch at your own instincts.
Who trusts the ache of truth more than the comfort of pretense.
Who knows the difference between shrinking and surrendering.
Who feels the quiet thrum of your evolution in your ribs.

Because the moment you stop turning away from your power?
The moment you stand in your depth long enough to feel its shape?

Everything shifts.

Your breath deepens. Your clarity sharpens.
Your boundaries root. Your longing steadies.
Your intuition rises. Your life expands to match who you actually are instead of who they all told you to be.

So here is your December invitation:

Come home to the version of you who never learned to flinch. This authentic one is ready to lead your life now — and they’ve been waiting for you.

Onward — held and summoned, awakened and rising.

Forever with you in this practice,

Practice Postscript

where the letter stops being read and starts being lived.

The Reflection:

• Get real with yourself. Where have you been flinching at your own power this year? Not in judgment — but in recognition.

• Name the moments where you stepped back when something in you wanted to step forward. Name them gently. Every flinch is a map pointing toward your becoming.

The Somatic Practice:

• Place one hand on your sternum and the other on your lower belly. Take a slow breath in — not to deepen it, just to notice it. On your exhale, whisper: “I am returning to myself.”

• Feel your body respond — the softening, the subtle release, the truth rising through tissue.

• Now imagine the version of you who never learned to flinch standing directly behind you. Feel their spine against yours.
  Their breath syncing with yours. Their steadiness becoming your own.

• Ask them one question: “What would you have me claim next?”

• Listen with your whole body, not just your mind.

Living in the Question:

“What shifts in my life when I stop flinching at my own power?”

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If something in this letter stirred your chest,
dropped your breath, or reminded you of the self you’re ready to become — trust that.

This is the work I do privately with clients inside The Courage Practice: a devoted 1:1 container where your depth is not too much, your growth + healing is not rushed, and your clarity is met with the kind of partnership that accelerates transformation.

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If you’re ready to rise into your next era
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