Have you ever thought about what hidden blocks might be stopping you from living your best life, and how you can overcome them? 

You have so much potential, my love. To reach the FULL and magnificent expression of who you are, we have to get deep and discover the unseen and unrecognized blocks that hold us back. Let me just say, it won't be comfortable, but it IS worth it!

One of the things that consistently comes out of sessions with clients or even mama meet ups, like the one we had last week, is the very real blocks that we as women, and particularly working mamas, face at getting where we want to go. If you haven’t listened to episode 49 of the podcast, I highly encourage you to go back and listen. In that episode, I talk about creating a life you actually love, and not the one society says you “should” and instead, casting a vision for your life.

In today’s episode we are going to take a deep dive into what the hell is getting in our way of taking the steps we need to take to bring that vision into our reality. There are so many like mamas who have a big dream on their heart and on their mind, and they're telling themselves that they can't have it because fill in the blank. They don't deserve that next level of success because fill in the blank. There's all of these things that get in our way.

Listen, here’s the thing about blocks, they are 99% of the time unconscious when you're beginning this personal development work and journey. This means they are out of our awareness.

In order to create the life you want, we have to identify what’s holding us back.

We really have to go back and unearth some of these things to clear them out, heal them, to integrate them. We have things including our childhood upbringing, core beliefs about ourselves, systemic issues and mental health issues that all have an affect on what is limiting what’s possible for us.

These are very real blocks that are not as simple as put yourself out there and try harder, and these are the ones that are buried in our unconscious.

Today I want to give you five real questions to ask yourself to unearth your biggest block because you can want something until the cows come home, but what you don’t know, you don’t know you know…ya feel me?

Before we dive into the questions though I want to say this: This work you’re about to do is deep and having the courage to look at what’s actually holding you back is going to require you to take a hard look at yourself in the mirror. So show yourself grace, compassion, love and kindness. All too often we want to blame other people or our circumstance for blocking us but honestly, most of the time it’s ourself holding us back. 

Also, having these blocks or anything that you discover in this exercise is normal human behavior. Let me say that again: it.is.normal. If you’re new here, we normalize normal around here - there’s a wide range of it, but no-one talks about it. 

Saying yes to looking at what's holding you back has an energetic of taking personal responsibility. 

So here we go…

5 Questions to Ask to Identify Your Biggest Block

1. Where am I setting limitations on myself and in my life?

2. What makes you feel the most shame?

3. What is the sneakiest thief of your time, energy and sanity?

4. What are you tolerating?

5. What triggers me the most? 

You are deserving of a big and beautiful vision in your life my love. So long as you are willing to ditch the belief that you can’t. And today, right now, we are facing your biggest block that’s holding you back from getting where you want to go. Remember to be gentle and loving with this work because it is not for the faint of heart. 

When we become aware of all of these things, we automatically level up and disarm those blocks. And mama that IS what we’re doing in 2024! 

As you end this exercise, how that I am so proud of you for showing up. I am proud of you for doing the hard and messy work. I am so glad you’re here mama. 

On the other side of all the perfectionism is truly more ease, more joy, more success, more abundance, you know, less anxiety, less overwhelm, less burnout, because you are deserving of just that.

Take care of yourselves and therefore each other!

XO, Brooke Jean