This stream of consciousness writing is for the woman who is tired of the formulas. The templates. The custom GPTs and the generic “you’ve tried everything before” language that is plaguing the internet. Let me start with what just happened to me.
Illusions and smoking mirrors everywhere.
My heart dropped to the floor, my jaw slightly clenching, nausea took over my body when I saw my distorted face on a “professional” poster of a summit I was to speak at this week about “whole-you”. Long story short, the host of the summit used AI to create their posters. During this process, AI distorted my image to that point that it definitely and definitively wasn’t me.
Fuck.
“The summit starts tomorrow and this is the face that will be associated with my name. Now what?”
Yuck.
I could easily tell you a story about how this took me by surprise (and in some not fully considered version of this story, it did), but in the truth of the heart of it, I knew. I just didn’t want to know until the misalignment was SO obvious that I couldn’t ignore it, because now I was consciously aware: to continue to pretend would inevitably have disastrous consequences for me. So I pulled myself out of the summit.
But here’s the the thing: the ick lingers because by the time I reached out to the host, it was already too late. All I can do now is live with the consequences.
In the era of post-truth, post-consent, and post-consideration or any common sense, we are being tasked with navigating a vastly different reality. Our mothers and grandmothers did not have grapple with losing their humanity. No one in our history has had to deal with such rapid, intense, and invasive external reality. So we won’t find the template of how to deal with it from our history. Instead, we must develop capacity.
There is no dispute that AI has invaded our lives suddenly, quietly and unwaveringly. This is dangerously problematic because it is happening without anyone’s legitimate and considered consent. We each go along to get along pretending all is fine — wouldn’t want to tow the party line! But what are we sacrificing in the meantime? Our minds? Our culture? Our children?
AI has blurred the lines between “real” and “artificial”. Was that distorted image me? I suppose the politically correct answer would be: it depends. But my body has a different story to tell. Every bit of me felt betrayed and enraged; like I was trapped in a reality I would rather not have to face. Truly, it’s moments like these that I’m eternally grateful for Quantum TLC™!
I can’t help but wonder: Has consent become a barbaric has-been?
How many of you reading this post are terrified of the future your children will face? Email me, please. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Redefining “reality”.
What is reality, anyway? Does reality really exist? You and I were taught growing up that there is an objective reality and that we can access it through neutrality. So we set out with out scientific methodologies intended to help us capture and define whatever “reality” is. Yet every time we define it, reality gets increasingly more bizarre. Like, what does it actually mean that we are all quantum beings? And what does consciousness have anything to do with it? How do you know what is really real?
What you and I call reality is a reflection of our internal state. This includes our beliefs about the world, ourselves, and ultimately, what it means to be human. In my nineteen year old journey of self-discovery and reclamation (note: not what I was googling back then), I have come to conclude that a human being is a living godForce.
I spent years unpacking what that means and why it’s relevant to me in my personal, daily, and practical life. Today, I conclude that it’s relevant because it’s the highest context from which I might choose to define my reality. That means it is the water in which the fish swim in, the soil in which the plants grow, the air which permeates my awareness creating “what is”. Think logical levels because there is always a higher order context that you don’t yet see.
The cultural is personal.
We don’t like to talk about this, but each of us has been programmed to be predictable. One way to ensure this is through installing a belief system that says: the answers we seek live outside of ourselves. Ask your parents, your teachers, your institutions for the answers. Codify into culture what makes a good and reasonable person, then ensure compliance through a reward and punishment system that is impeccably designed and refined over millennia to ensure it doesn’t fail.
Keep in mind: Culture has a context of continuity. It precedes, yet it is transferred through, you and me. So long as you remain distracted by trying to find the answers “out there” based on the version of the story you prefer (Left, Right, Atheist, Devout…), you’re not fully Present. Your attention remains fixed on external narratives and your judgement of those narratives rather than on your own capacity to discern. That, dear reader, is how you lose access to the deep, divine, ancient wisdom that lives only within yourSelf.
As a deeply devoted mother to a young child and woman solopreneur in the consciousness field, I know well the pressures to comply that we are all facing today. The pace of the world is accelerating and we are tasked with both keeping up and slowing down. Our cultural conditioned mind relentlessly chattering: I am the only one falling behind!
This is the kind of mindset that paves the way for us to to create a life desiring abundance, while firmly rooted in lack and scarcity.
How many of us spend our entire lives fundamentally believing that who we are in our core is somehow both too much and not-enough?
How many of us spend our precious moment constantly chasing what’s next?
This pattern repeats because not because of the content of your thoughts, but the process you engage within the context of those thoughts. In other words, it doesn’t matter if you’re chasing more money, fame, or spirituality; what matters is that you unconsciously subscribe to a context of scarcity and therefore act accordingly (familiarly). This is why decoding what’s presenting to unveil and integrate the deeper layers is essential. Because so long as you believe you don’t have “enough” — time, money, energy, knowledge, skills, capacity, etc. — you continue to create a world of scarcity, competition, and a deep sense of uncertainty.
I believe the summit host did not intend to alter my image or offend me. Instead, I believe she was simply following the voice in her head that convinced her: take the path that everyone says will make your life easier. It will by you time and decrease your workload. I wonder … Did this actually make her life easier? Did she notice what it cost? Or will she continue to create status-quo, telling herself the familiar story of what she needs to hear in order to continue to create status-quo?
Is this our saviour?
In a world where the mantra that runs the illusion is busy, who do we need to become to create the reality we wish to see manifest?
Ultimately, this is at the heart of my disdain with it all: When we fail to recognize that following the culturally conditioned path of “least resistance” is costing us our autonomy, our sovereignty, and ultimately, our capacity to consciously choose — we surrender one of our most fundamental birthrights as Creators: the power to choose.
The power to consciously choose and create our reality is one of our most ancient and fundamental expressions of what it means be human.
One that is easily being hijacked by something seemingly invisible, not-well understood, and profoundly disruptive and destructive to the fabric of each individual and society.
So long as you and I continue to subscribe to a belief system that conditions us to fear what we might miss out on if we slow down, or convinces us that we are somehow not “enough,” we remain vulnerable to manipulation. In that state, external voices can penetrate our minds, shaping how we see ourselves and our reality, while leaving us wondering what is wrong with us.
But there is no saviour outside of ourselves. And believing that there is, renders us profoundly and dangerously vulnerable to narratives that promise “change” and “heaven-on-earth” but deliver compliance, command and control. Will we notice, before it’s too late?
What is a human, anyway?
We are intergalactic beings of star light capable of shaping and transforming the world that we live in. We are the most powerful species on this planet because of our capacity to create matter from thin air.
When our thoughts are aligned with the Life Force that feeds the body, we shape our vision, and our vision shapes our choices. So long as we are conscious of our choices, we create whatever reality we wish to see.
This is our superpower.
We feel lost to ourselves when we forget it. We make choices that align with our puniness, not magesty. We succumb to the smallest possible denominator of our potential. We keep our head down, locking in our power center. We keep trying to figure it out. Get more data. More resources. More information. More more more.
We yearn for simplicity yet we keep getting seduced by complexity.
That seduction feels real. It draws you in because it pulls you out of your body, searching for answers out there. Scanning, reading, listening – all with the undercurrent of scarcity. As if you don’t know enough. As if you’re not the expert. As if you are missing something. So you keep searching for the missing piece of the puzzle, not noticing that no matter how many pieces you fit in, you still keep looking for the piece to fill in.
I want to be clear about this: this is not a personal failing. This is a systemic process that we all learn to live our lives from growing up. It is invisible, you just breathe in like air and trust that it nourishes your lungs. But what happens when you wake up and notice: this air is poisoning me?
The weird and wonderful journey of awakening
Your awakening journey will no doubt take you into all sorts of weird and wonderful worlds where you will learn so much about yourself. You discover that your body is a messenger. You will notice that breath changes your internal state. You will become adept at telling the story of why you are the way you are. You will know about topics like quantum entanglement and the nervous system. You will have read powerful books like “The God CODE” and “Finite and Infinite Games.” You will have attended cathartic experiences that leave you feeling hopeful, but somehow not fully satiated.
Because you hear people deeper than they hear you. You sense intuitively and accurately, but you constantly second-guess yourself. How could that be?!
So the search goes on. Somehow, you come across this post, our work, or WEL-Systems® and you get curious: how’s this different? I invite you to explore this line of inquiry, and read the following two articles written by Louise LeBrun (the Founder of The Institute):
If WEL-Systems is a gateway to a new paradigm, what’s the old one?
What is WEL-Systems? Discovering what it is by eliminating what it’s not.
The most intimate journey is experiential.
No matter what you read, what makes our work unique is experience. Bridging what we know intellectually to be true with how to live it. This cannot happen through understanding alone – it must be experienced. This demands you put your attention on something different: your potential, engaged. When you intentionally live like this, your choices will differ because no longer will you rely on your history or the external world to tell you how it is and how it should be.
Instead, your inner cues become your guide.
You choose to trust the unknown. To put your faith in that which you cannot make sense of. You engage the impulse first in order to discover. You listen for the whispers, not the invasive shouts. You focus on emergence, not limitation. You embrace abundance as you redefine: safety lives within.
When we feel deeply rooted in the safety of our internal truth, we become adept at deciphering the truth from the familiar noise.
What’s your familiar noise and why is it there? Take this diagnostic to discover. If you want to go deeper and unpack how to listen for the different signals your body is calibrating for, start here.
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Intimacy, belonging, and living the life you were born to live
Awakening to our own potential is the greatest gift we can offer ourselves and our loved ones. As you and I become adept at being ourSelves and telling the truth of our experience, our loved ones feel free to be themselves in our presence. In the presence of THAT, we know: we belong.
We call this intimacy. To create it, demands vulnerability. It demands taking a risk, being honest, not having the answers. It demands an unwavering presence and paying attention, and a ruthless commitment to deciphering the noise from the truth. It demands knowing how to be rooted in your body when everything screams “leave”.
At the end of the day, we will all come face to face with ourSelves, the life we’ve lived, and the one we wish we had. When it’s your turn, what conversation would you want to have with yourself? Did you live the life you were uniquely born to live?
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