It is Safe For Me to Receive More
For a long time, I didn’t realize how much of my thinking was shaped by FEAR. I didn’t even know I had anxiety until about three or four years ago. I assumed my brain worked differently than other people’s, always scanning, always preparing, always looking for what might go wrong. I thought that was NORMAL. Necessary, even. Looking back now, I understand where it came from. My dad was a police officer. His job required him to be vigilant, to anticipate danger, to look for the bad in order to keep himself and others, safe. That way of thinking wasn’t just part of his work; it became part of our environment. And without realizing it, I adapted it too.
That mindset kept me alert, and it also kept me stuck. When you’re wired to look for what could fall apart, it’s hard to see what’s already working. When your nervous system is constantly bracing, abundance doesn’t feel exciting, it feels risky. Receiving can feel unfamiliar, even unsafe. Restructuring that kind of thinking doesn’t happen overnight. It takes awareness, compassion, and consistent practice. It means learning how to pause before defaulting to lack, before assuming the worst, before shrinking possibilities down to what feels realistic or manageable. It means teaching the body that it doesn’t have to stay on high alert to stay safe.
This year, I’m choosing something different. I’m intentionally working on my abundance mindset, especially around money, but also around health, energy, opportunities, and how I relate to my body and my life as a whole. I’m practicing seeing from a place of prosperity instead of scarcity, from possibility instead of protection. More than anything, I’m practicing the belief that it is safe for me to receive more than I ever have before. More support. More ease. More opportunity. More goodness, without waiting for the other shoe to drop. Part of that practice includes beginning a 21-day abundance meditation by Deepak Chopra. Not because a meditation alone changes everything, but because repetition matters. What we expose our minds to again and again shapes what we begin to believe is possible.
This work isn’t about pretending everything is good all the time. It isn’t about bypassing reality or ignoring hard things. It’s about learning to hold a wider perspective, noticing what is working alongside what isn’t, recognizing growth even when things feel slow, and understanding that abundance doesn’t only show up as money. It shows up as resilience, choice, health, support, time, and self-trust. And maybe most importantly, it’s about realizing that scarcity thinking isn’t a personal failure. It’s often a learned response one that once served a purpose, and one that can be gently unlearned. Safety can be rebuilt. Capacity can expand.
As I move through this year, I’ll be sharing tools, reflections, and strategies that support abundance in all areas of life, not just finances, but movement, nourishment, mindset, and the relationship we have with our bodies. This work weaves through my coaching, my writing, and the way I choose to show up each day. My theme for 2026 is simple, but deeply intentional: it is safe for me to receive more than I ever have before. Not because life is perfect, and not because nothing ever goes wrong, but because I’m learning that I don’t have to brace for impact in order to be prepared. I’m allowed to experience goodness, expansion, and enoughness without constantly earning it through struggle.
This is the lens I’m choosing to practice, and this is the work I’m committed to continuing.
