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Hi and welcome to
Lead Like a Mother.
I'm your host, tara Preston,and we are on episode four.
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Today I want to talk aboutconversations with the masculine
, because it's been a theme withthe women that I work with and
it's often something that willshow up when we are saying yes
to more of our needs, more ofour desires, more of our vision.
And what often happens is thatwomen will be asked to have
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conversations that honor theirdesires, their vision and their
boundaries, and it can push upagainst trauma, response from
different situations where wehaven't necessarily felt safe to
express our truth with themasculine, and that can be.
You know, when I'm working withclients, there's multiple
timelines that we travel, so itcan be past life, it can be
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ancestral, it can be present,lifetime, right, it can be
whereas young girls it didn'tnecessarily feel safe to have
our truth or speak our truth,and it could be some of the
conditioning that we've pushedup against in terms of what it
means to be a woman and how weperceive what that means in the
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context of relationship dynamics.
It can be something that we'vemaybe seen play out between our
own parents, our own mother, andhow she felt safe to express
her truth and, honestly, you canhave a masculine presence who
isn't necessarily threatening inany way, but it becomes more
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about our trauma right and wherewe push up against that, and so
it's not necessarily that thepartner is intimidating in some
kind of way, but that we haveour own trauma response to work
through and how safe we feel incommunicating our needs, wants,
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desires, vision with themasculine.
And so today I want to give yousome steps, because this is you
know, I've been working withwomen for the last 14 years
through very natural that we'llneed to rework relationship
dynamics to create more spacefor that, and also it becomes a
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part of the embodiment journeythat needs to happen so that we
can understand how to holdourselves in this new place of
power, and oftentimes that meanspushing up against the
masculine.
What the beautiful pieces,though, that happens in this
place of pushing up against themasculine, is that a reworking
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happens.
There's a dismantling right aswe create more space for our
feminine expression, as weanchor more of our power and
learn to hold it right, there'san energetic response from the
masculine counterpart and itoften creates dis-ease.
Where there's an invitation towork through that so that we can
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hold a new vibrational space inthe context of our relationship
with the masculine and healingcan occur.
There's a new level ofconnection, a new level of
communication, of understanding,but often women need to work
through those layers aroundwhere it hasn't always felt safe
to be able to communicate inthat way.
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It can be from pastrelationship trauma.
I've certainly seen that.
So a lot of this work you know Iwill do in some of my deeper
containers with women.
So if this is something thatspeaks to you, please reach out.
I've got my three monthmatriarch container as well as
my nine month soul level rebirthcontainer for those that really
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know that they want a deepcontainer to be held in, know
that they want a deep containerto be held in.
Okay.
So I want to give you somesteps.
So if this is a piece you knowyou're pushing up against, right
there's.
You have a deep desire, youhave needs, you have wants and
it hasn't felt safe to reallyclaim that or speak to that.
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There's maybe an uncomfortablefeeling or maybe a downright
contracted level of fear in yoursystem when it comes to
speaking to what it is that youneed, what it is that you want
in the home for your life, foryour vision, right, being able
to really hold that.
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And so one of the first thingsthat I will often do with my
clients is, well, first of all,is clearing work, healing work,
unraveling some of the traumaresponse and where that's rooted
, right, to bring those storiesup, to really look at what no
longer serves and to start tocultivate a healthier, more
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empowered framework and how westart to communicate and show up
in our relationship.
So we have to kind ofrecalibrate the system to a
degree, right.
We have to untangle whatdoesn't serve.
We have to get to the kind ofnooks and crannies of where the
body and the subconscious isstill holding on to some of that
trauma imprint, right.
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And that's where having spaceheld is really really beautiful.
And that's the beauty of theFlower of Life Akashic Healing
Method, in that there is asoftness to it, there is a
container that's held, there islayers of shamanic support as we
untangle what no longer servesso that we can open up this
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space for a new way of being.
So part of the initiation thathappens through these
conversations requires that wedo move through the discomfort.
So it's like, even though we'vedone some of the clearing and
untangling and unraveling, we'reopening up space for the new
communication, the new dialoguearound maybe what's not working
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in the relationship or what youwant more of, and that becomes a
really important piece, anddeepening into intimacy,
allowing our partners to see usin more of what we want, to
giving space and a voice to moreof what we want right.
And so, even though there'sbeen clearing work essentially
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right, there's been healing workthere's still often a layer of
discomfort because the actualaction is so new, right, and
that action is what we need totake to embody a new way of
being right.
We need to kind of move throughthe discomfort and that can be
a place where women will oftenget stuck, and I've certainly
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been there before too.
I do find with the Flower ofLife, akashic Healing Method,
what happens is that there's anease, there can be more of a
naturalness to how theconversation does want to open
up.
I remember one past lifetimewhere I was doing some clearing
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work personal clearing workaround some piece that I wanted
to bring up I believe it wasaround money with my husband and
I just was not.
I was feeling uncomfortable, Iwas having some edges of fear, I
just couldn't have theconversation.
I cannot remember all thedetails of it, but it was what
felt at the time to be astretchy, important conversation
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around finances.
So I went into the Flower ofLife, akashic Method, and what
came through was me as a nun ina past lifetime and I could see
myself sitting at an altar inservice to the church, in
service to this masculineconstruct, right, and me feeling
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like in that lifetime I neededto kind of obey the masculine
construct and sacrifice my ownneeds.
And I could feel this sense oflike not having a voice around
what my needs were in thatlifetime, like it wasn't even an
option.
It was kind of like just youknow, you play by the rules,
especially as a woman.
You do.
You play by the rules,especially as a woman in that
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lifetime.
You play by the rules, yousacrifice your needs, right, but
then what happens is it leavesa really limited, tight
expression and there was thissense of like fear in that
lifetime, like over not needingto just play by the limited
constructs that I had to existin in that lifetime and what
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would happen if I evenidentified my needs or gave
voice to more of my needs.
So I did the clearing workaround that.
There was a lot of energy, ofsacrifice around that and after
it was like a day or two, I justremember, for some reason the
money conversation came up and Ispit out what I had to say and
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I cannot, for the life of me,remember exactly what this was
about.
I can't like, I cannot.
Maybe it was like a businessinvestment I wanted to make.
I can't quite remember, but Ispit it out.
There was like a naturalness Ihad untangled some of what
needed to be untangled in mybody and in my system and I was
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able to give voice and also hewas able to receive it.
So he was able to receive it.
And then there was like thisnew pathway that opened up in
our ability to communicate andfor him to receive in here where
my financial priorities were.
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So I just wanted to give you alittle bit of an example on how
this can all work and how thiscan unfold.
And then I want to give yousome additional, and I'm talking
a little bit faster today.
We're taking off on holidays,but I wanted to make sure and
get this out.
And also I want to make thisshort and sweet.
But one of the more practicalsteps that we often push up
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against as well when it comes tohaving edgy conversations with
our partners or with themasculine, is it doesn't feel
safe, and the part that doesn'tfeel safe is often the inner
child.
So you know that we're going tobe reprimanded or that there's
going to be some aspect.
You know the unhealthymasculine is really rooted in
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that controller, dominator,suppressor aspect, right, and so
the inner child can really kindof like, feel unsafe as we push
up against some of those layers.
And that's an aspect of theunhealthy masculine, of
patriarchal consciousness, andit sits within us.
You know we can untangle thatthrough the clearing work, but
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we also may push up against thatedge within the partnership,
and it doesn't have to be severe, it can be just enough that
there's something that wants tobe dismantled in the
consciousness of our partnershipand in the consciousness of the
relationship, and so we cansense it, our inner child can
sense it, and we need to be ableto learn how to, in this space,
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mother ourselves to be able tohear the concerns of the inner
child, hear what doesn't feelsafe, and be able to honor that,
nurture that, and by doing thatwe start to cultivate a
foundation of safety, right, westart to reparent ourselves, we
start to bring the love of themother right into the framework
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of our inner child.
And so, looking at what do youneed to feel safe?
You know, for me it's just loveand reassurance, like that.
Sometimes that's the piece I'vegot you, what's going to allow
you to feel held, so that youknow I've got you right.
And sometimes it's just hearingthat inner child, the
insecurity, and journaling thatout and then sending love and
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reassurance Like I've got you,I've got you.
Sometimes, though, I find it'slike you make a warm, yummy
drink, like something reallyyummy and nourishing.
I'm making sure that, when I goto have this conversation, that
I'm like holding that warm,yummy drink in my hand.
It's like soothing to my system, right, so we can like listen.
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What might I need to do afterthis conversation to honor my
inner child?
Right, so we learn how to takecare of ourselves, to create a
sense of safety as we go to havethese conversations.
And this also becomes animportant piece because we want
to be able to process ourinsecurities, to move through
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our layers of our own stuff sothat we can grow in our
sovereignty, so that we can growin our feminine maturity, we
can go and have theseconversations and we're not
spewing our emotions all overour partners so that they all of
a sudden feel overwhelmed andreactive from all the emotions
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that we haven't processedourselves.
So when we learn to holdourselves and we learn to take
care of our part and ouremotions and we process and we
prepare our own foundation, andthen we have the conversations,
there's a recalibration that canhappen in the space of our
partnerships.
It is so powerful.
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So, really inviting you intothat place of tending to the
inner child.
Also, you know doing your ownhealing and clearing work.
You know whether it's, you know, a process similar to the
flower of life Akashic healingmethod that I work with.
You know, or maybe you justneed to take some time and just
feel and move through your ownlayers so that we're not
bringing all the unprocessedjunk to the table right, which
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can make the clarity of thecommunication that we want to
have a to process, untangle andmove through and heal right Some
of what might be present.
We're tending to the innerchild.
We're looking at how tocultivate safety right Prior to
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the conversation.
We're coming into relationshipwith the divine too.
It's like setting thatintention with the divine and
just asking the divine to likehold you through this
conversation, to set anintention that it open and
unfold for the highest good ofboth parties, that the right
words flow through in a way thatcan be received for the highest
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good of all, that you'll begiven exactly what you need to
be given at the right time asyou step into this conversation.
At the right time as you stepinto this conversation.
So we're kind of bringing inthat like more soothing father
energy to hold you as a part ofthis foundation that I'm talking
about.
So that's an important piecetoo.
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Now, as a final piece, oncewe've kind of set the stage and
we move through all these layers, taking some time to cultivate
clarity around your truth, youknow, what is it that you do
want to say?
What is it that you want tobring to the stage of the
conversation?
Finding the words?
You know, sometimes withclients.
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I'm asking them to kind ofjournal it out.
What do you feel is the nugget,the kernel of truth, what feels
very important and relevant,that needs to be said, right?
So it's finding ourauthenticity, it's finding our
clarity, finding our truth andfinding our words and that
becomes an important piece forus, right?
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So it gives us kind of a placeto land as a part of that
foundation and cultivating truth, right?
And so we have that clarity,that calmness, right, that
connection to self before we goin and have these conversations
with the masculine.
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So, just journaling it outuntil you find that nugget.
And you don't even necessarilyneed to have a script If you're
going in for a conversationwhere it feels a little
uncomfortable, where you knowthere's an important truth to be
brought forward, something thatfeels important to you that you
need to like, hold and groundin relationship to yourself, to
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your partner, maybe to yourfamily unit, maybe relevant to
your vision, right, your desiresas a woman, just trusting that
through your own processing yourown, the cultivation of your
own foundation and thecultivation of your own
foundation and the clarity ofyour own truth, that in the
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conversation that's going to beenough.
You can kind of lean into thatright.
You can trust that you've gotyour truth.
You've got it and that theright words are going to flow
out in a way that they need to.
Words are going to flow out ina way that they need to because
the clarity is there.
The clarity is there.
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So those are often the stepsthat I am working with women
through holding space for andthis is my invitation to you.
You know this could also applyto masculine partnerships in a
work or business environment.
It absolutely could.
It could apply to a fatherfigure or it could apply to your
partner.
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So I hope that some of thesesteps feel supportive, that
support you in leading right andknowing that.
You know I just kind ofchanneled through the other day
that part of stepping into ourmatriarchal leadership is
knowing when to mother thyselfand that's that real important
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piece of identifying what wewant, where it's time to bring
that forward and being able tonurture ourselves into and
through important conversationsso that we can step into our own
leadership and so that thefamily can recalibrate to that
truth or so that relationshipscan recalibrate to our truth.
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And there's healing in that foreveryone.
Always when we honor our owntruth.
It's for the highest goodAlways.
I'm sending you so much love Ifanything that I've said has
resonated with you, if you'relooking for a deep container to
feel held and supported in asyou recalibrate to more of your
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purpose, your leadership, yourprosperity.
My work is especially relevantto mothers, as a lot of this
work that we do is aroundrecalibrating relationship
dynamics to create more spacefor you.
But through that journeythere's the embodiment of more
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of your power, your purpose,your expression.
Right, it's creating space formore of your expression in the
world.
So if that speaks to you,please reach out on Facebook.
We can explore if a three-monthpathway is better, if the
nine-month pathway is better, ifyou want to get started with a
single 90-minute session, andotherwise you can join me in the
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Facebook group the Wealthy Wombfor conscious mothers and
leaders.
Email me, tara, atTaraPrestoncom.
If you want to explore workingtogether, and I hope this has
served you.
I will talk to you very soon.
Bye for now.