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The Making Space Blog

Musings about authenticity, empowerment, and the subconscious layers protecting it.

By Jen Pillipow

Desire Meet Resistance

Maybe you've heard the saying, "what you want wants you too?"

 

Or maybe, "because you want it, you know it's for you."

 

When I started a business I naively thought because I was answering a calling it would all immediately work out, as long as I did by part by working...

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Are you a Cycle Breaker? authenticity healing

Are you the Cycle Breaker in your family?

You're able to see unhealthy cycles of behavior in your family and you intentionally work to break that cycle. You're the one that asks, "why?" and has the desire to change.

  • You're aware of your patterns and you seek information and help to...
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Finding my Spark (you've got the music in you) authenticity conditioning empowerment goals

This New Year I’m not making resolutions, intentions, or setting big goals.

Honestly, I'm a little burnt-out of all that.

And Ha Ha Ha ... as I typed that, I just realized why.

I've had the same goals for YEARS and they haven't happened (yet)....and it's discouraging, disheartening, and...

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Contract to Expand self-awareness self-compassion self-healing self-knowledge self-love

There are many ways we get called or tapped to do the healing work we came here to do.

 

‍Sometimes we're forced to stop and do the work because we get sick. Our physical bodies literally put a pause on our activities.

‍Sometimes it's when you get tired of self-sabotaging a...

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Why We Self-Sabotage (and how to break free) healing limiting beliefs sabotage

Why we Self-Sabotage & How to Break Free 

Recently I responded to a post in our Making Space Community about why we sabotage.

There are many reasons, but today I’m focusing on this one: we sabotage ourselves in order to uphold beliefs we created as a small...

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Self-Improvement Burn-Out & Real Healing Factors authenticity autonomy control empowerment healing self-knowledge

Self-Improvement Burn-Out

As someone who's been on their own personal healing journey approaching a decade or two (but who’s counting), it can sometimes feel like Groundhog Day. "I thought I already dealt with this, why is it coming up again, have I made any progress?! What's the point!"...

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4 Steps to Disrupting Limiting Beliefs + 4 Pattern Interrupters hypnosis limiting beliefs pattern interrupt

Last week it snowed in Saskatchewan for two days straight – there was a LOT of snow. 

I was DEE-LIGHTED!  

But I kept that mostly to myself  

People who grew up here have weathered 2, 3, 4 or more decades of these storms – and this year has...

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Build a Strong Authenticity Muscle: Part II (Orienting) authenticity grounding orienting self-awareness self-compassion self-knowledge self-trust

The foundation of my work is teaching self-awareness tools to increase self-knowledge, self-compassion, and self-trust for a strong authenticity muscle.

 

Grounding and orienting are powerful exercises to get into that self-awareness state and to learn about yourself. 

 

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Build a Strong Authenticity Muscle: Part I (Grounding) authenticity curiosity empowered grounding orienting playfulness self-awareness self-compassion self-knowledge self-trust

The foundation of my work is teaching self-awareness tools to increase self-knowledge, self-compassion, and self-trust for a strong authenticity muscle.

 

Grounding and orienting are powerful exercises to get into that self-awareness state and to learn about yourself. 

 

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My Approach to Anxious Feelings anxiety coping feldenkrais habit meditation people pleasing perfectionism safety worthiness

The energy of the world has felt heavy these last coupla weeks. Heavy, overwhelming, and anxiety-ridden.

I started to notice these anxious feelings creeping in the last two weeks. 

True, I did a whole big systems change for the business during Mercury Retrograde and my email broke for a...

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Worthiness is inherent...but it sure doesn't feel that way! failure not good enough worthiness

Maybe you relate to this story...

My worthiness is very much connected to my work and money - something I've been working at untangling.

Being a people pleasing perfectionist at work meant overdelivering and over giving to the point of exhaustion and burn-out.

A hundred years ago I worked as a...

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10 Signs You're A Perfectionist all-or-nothing anxiety authenticity control failure perfectionist sabotage self-awareness
 

Maybe you’ve already got some awareness around your own perfectionism. Or, maybe you're someone who doesn’t resonate with that word at all.

Either way, I’d live to invite you to read this with curiosity, and an open-mind, and if you catch yourself saying...

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