Surrender isn’t about giving up—it’s about letting go. In Lesson 3, we’re exploring the magic of surrender. What does it mean to surrender and what does it look like in personal growth as well as in relationships?

Surrender is the deep trust in the unfolding of your path.

Surrender in relationships isn’t about rolling over or giving up your needs—it’s about loosening your grip on control, allowing love to evolve naturally, and trusting the process of connection.

Surrender is not a weakness, passivity, or resignation.

Learning to surrender is a process and it doesn’t have to be a massive life shift. You can practice in small ways.

These life lessons are often learned the hard way and they become our greatest teachers. My hope is that by sharing my experiences in my special 10-week “Coming Home to Yourself” podcast series, you’ll recognize these universal truths in your own journey and move through them with a little more ease..

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What you’ll hear in this episode:

The Role of Surrender in Healing and Personal Growth: How surrender is deeply tied to self-trust (which connects to your work around self-abandonment)
Surrender in Relationships: what it looks like, for example, letting go of rigid expectations and softening into trust; and why it matters.
How to Practice Surrender: how to surrender to your emotions instead of suppressing them.

Resources from this episode:

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Lesson 1: Self-abandonment, codependency, and self-trust

Lesson 2 - The Four Holy Emotions: How Grief, Terror, Rage, and Shame Unlock Your Power

Book recommendations:

I love a good personal development book, and you do too, right? I’ve compiled a list of book recommendations, as mentioned in past episodes. Check out these amazing book recommendations here. Happy reading!

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