This is week two of four of our discussion around how to rock your retrograde.

And, if you didn't catch the first one, it's really important that you do because we explain what exactly is a Mercury Retrograde, how often can we expect to enjoy being on one. So go ahead, if you haven't, stop here, go back on my blog at victoriawhitfield.com and look that up.

So this week in particular, the guides want you to know that in order for you to rock your retrograde, you have got to do one thing, but it has two words. Are you ready? Get your pen ready. Slow down! Slow down. Slow down. You see because when we're in Mercury Retrograde, there's a lot more coming up. Last week we talked about the molt, our shedding skin and all these things are coming up in our business processes that worked before but are a bit wonky or team members that were perfectly fine before now have an axe to grind, or being used to being able to express yourself normally and people get it and understand you and things click but now there's more back and forth and some misunderstandings.

In order to rock your retrograde, if these things are coming up and you're getting delays, and people are driving crazy on the road and you're thinking, "Hmm, what's wrong with them?" - the operative is to slow down. It's not them needing to slow down but it's actually you.

And here's why: the purpose of Mercury Retrograde is to bring up, this is what we discussed last week, to bring up all of the pieces of the former you and the former successful version of your lifestyle, health, business, communication style, and so on and so forth. It brings up all of the old to get it out so that we can make way for the new. And in order to appreciate rather than, oh my god, stress, and just gnaw, gnash and gnaw over how much is going differently or not according to plan, you want to have enough space, whether it's in time, physically or even mentally moreover, you want to have enough space so that you can slow down. Mental space, by the way, looks like being more mindful.

In fact, my guides said you slowing down can actually be a pleasurable experience. Now I know for some of you who are watching who are Type A for awesome and achiever, love it, right there with you. We want to go at a million miles an hour and we want it yesterday. Right? In a New York minute. Be kind to yourself: during retrograde it ain't happening, baby. And it's not happening not to torture you or because you're wrong, but actually this pace is adjusting you because there's a lot of cleaning and clearing happening. And remember the areas that we're looking for the cleaning and clearing happening: it's commerce, communication, travel, technology. Right? That's what mercury governs.

So how does one slow down? If we're used to going a million miles a minute or getting things done and moving on to the next thing, and hurrying up other people, because we wonder why is everyone else going so slow, how can we even begin to slow down? Be kind to yourself. The way that you specifically slow down is connect to your senses, this week in particular. Count them with me. Five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.

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Sight.Are you really tuned into the pleasure or the simulation rather of how things are looking? Sight.

Sound, are you really only listening to things that are feeding your energy or is there noise and racket that you could do something about clearing out of the way? Sound.

Taste, how are you savoring the food that you're putting into your body? Or are you using food or wine to numb this trip, these trips up in your pace? Right? Are we numbing the bumpy ride and the interruptions, positive interruptions that we're going through? Taste.

Touch, do you have textures around you that are pleasing and calming or are the textures around you and the way that your clothes are fitting, right, and so on and so forth, are the textures not sensually pleasing? Or what type of communication do you want the texture to give? Do you want safety, pleasure, clean? Do you want svelte, smooth, et cetera? What are the textures around you communicating? Touch.

Smell. How are the scents in your environment? Are they reminding you to stop and enjoy? If it's a scented candle or your favorite perfume or no smells, that may work. Maybe there's too much going on, maybe someone in the office is wearing those crazy oils and broadcasting, "I smell like a giant peppermint!" to everyone. Be kind to yourself. If you need a little bit less of that. Now, more than ever, is the time to tune into your five senses to help you slow down so that you can be present to what's coming up and clearing through you. Smell.

I'm hearing the oracle cards calling in the energy. I'm going to come on up. Indigo Angel oracle cards we're journeying with all this month. Thank you Doreen Virtue for making this deck. One of ... Whoa! Did you see that? I didn't even get to tell you, "Oh, we have oracle cards and stuff here at the Dojo that you could come and play with". One just lept out.  All right, what do we need to know right now about slowing down angels?

Nature. Couldn't be better. Hello-o! I mean you can't make this stuff up. So the angels are bringing up nature in particular this week because nature is so grounding. Get out of the house, get out of the office. Take time, make time, create time to reconnect to nature. Whether it's gardening and getting your hands in the dirt, and enjoying all of the five senses massage that comes with gardening, or if it's going for a hike, or even if it's just a four or five minute walk outside. And yes, even in the rain. Grab your umbrella and enjoy the sensual massage of being out in nature. Feel the warmth. Or the breeze knocking the dust off of you and helping you to remember to relax and slow down. Allow the letting go process to be pleasurable.

So I want to know what's coming up for you around this. Go ahead and comment below or send me an email back at info@victoriawhitfield.com. And if you need help slowing down, because you're a Type A and you want things done yesterday and you're wondering why you keep hitting that upper glass ceiling in your life and business, head on over to https://victoriawhitfield.com/contact and get on my calendar so that you and I can talk about that. Okay? Happy enjoying nature and rock your retrograde! We'll see you next week. Bye.

(Original post 08/13/2018)

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Feeling financially blocked?

Are your creative flow and abundance manifestations interrupted at best?

Have you been pushing and pushing to make progress in your business lately, but to seemingly no avail?

Guess what: the guides say you’re spiritually constipated. Yes, really.

And it’s time you got some relief!

Watch this week’s 11-minute Love Letter video, the second in our four-part series on Let It Go, to have a giggle about releasing your blocks in life and business.

"I'm always attracted to this specific type of person."

We're on week two of four in our exploration in a new series of letting go. So, last week we talked about why it's time for you to let go and exactly what are we letting go towards. If you didn't get to see that, hit stop now. Go back on YouTube or back on my blog at victoriawhitfield.com and rewatch that now.

Share this with your tribe if you know somebody who needs to let go of more so that they can receive. However, receiving is next week. I told you. I was not supposed to tell them that, but oh well. This week before we can even get there is release. We gotta release.

Take a deep breath in and let it go. This week in particular, we're talking about release and I have a bit of a strange thing to tell you, so bear with me. My guides want me to let you know that you've been experiencing symptoms of spiritual constipation. Oh yeah, hashtag me please. I feel so spiritually constipated. Let's get into this, right? Because I want you to have relief and release. Oh my goodness.

What are some symptoms of feeling backed up spiritually, right? For one, you are indecisive. You've a hard time knowing what's the right next step for you to take in your business or the right next hire for you. You have a hard time knowing what's the right next step for you in your personal life. What diet should I use? Where do I want to go on vacation et cetera. We have this creative block, and that's a symptom of being spiritually constipated.

Flowing from that, also is a lack of creative ideas. We're doing things and feeling like we're going around and around and around in circles, not moving forward. So, in the business side, for example, you're still marketing in the way that you've always marketed, and you have amazing programs and things worked before, but for whatever reason, you're still doing the things that worked before and they're not working. Hello, constipation.

Be kind to yourself if that's what's happening, right? Remember, remember. Gotta be kind. And then on the personal side, if you keep attracting the same kinds of relationships. I'm always attracted to this type of person or why is this person always attracted to me? I don't want this type of person in my life. That's another symptom of being spiritually constipated.

And lastly, a final symptom of more feeling spiritually blocked, is having persistent issues in your physicality, your physical body. Such as weight gain or inability to gain weight, a chronic pain or that pain in your hip that always just keeps following you, it wasn't always there but it's not persistent. So chronic physical issues is another symptom of being spiritually backed up.

If you've got a yes, yes, and yes, this is the week where it's time for you to start your detox. I mean constipation is constipation is constipation. I can't believe y'all are making me say this, but hey I'm not going to hold back from you. If I have a message for you, you need to hear it.

Know this: ‪Low financial flow and experiencing the same problems over and over are symptoms of spiritual constipation in #business. 💩 LOL!

But this week in particular, you've got to start a new detox program. Now I know, maybe you've seen me mention different forms of detoxes in previous videos. But this week in particular, we went you to adopt one that you haven't done before. That's what I'm hearing specifically to recommend for my guys. Whether it's ... and I mean it, I mean like physical detox if it's psyllium husk cleanses or doing dry brushing, getting a body scrub, going on a juice cleanse, or only just a water fast. Make sure, by the way I'm not a doctor, so if you are not under medical supervision, be careful. Make sure you talk to someone who can help you through taking on a new detox program if you are changing what you're putting into your body.

Again, as always, be kind to yourself. But the body, once the body is in alignment with releasing and letting go. If it's releasing layers of skin or releasing fluids and waste, your energy body sees that and, quite frankly, your bank account sees that too. Wherever awareness goes, healing flows. And awareness breeds more awareness. When you start clearing yourself, and taking better care of this body, this physical body, it has a trickle effect. It ripples out.

The ripple effect continues into the way that you approach your relationships because you are more mindful. You've decided to be more mindful with your body.  Now you're being more mindful with the people that you're letting in your life. Now you're being more mindful with the types of clients that you're interacting. Now you're being more mindful with your vendors and how you're spending your money in business. And so on and so forth.

So, this week, in particular, is release week. Release week. Time for you to get it out. If you need to write it out, if you need to go to the bathroom and get it out. If you need to sweat it out, work it out, dance it out. This is release week. We're gonna come in with the Oracle cards of the week. Well, of the month, actually. Indigo Angel Oracles cards, this is the deck that we're journeying all month with. Let's see.

So we're letting go, and angels, what do we need to know about releasing and doing cleanses and detoxes? What's going on that we need to know about that? Ooh, beautiful. Think about it. Think about it. My guides are saying that the angels are bringing this card forward, in particular, because they want you to re-evaluate how you are treating your body before you go into any detox programs first. This is a re-evaluation before release.

And I really thank you, angels, thank you so much for bringing that forward, because just for today I want you to think about and really track, how you are taking care of your physical and spiritual health. You know your physical body is a stand-in and a representation, an avatar if you will, for your mindset, your consciousness, your spiritual body here in this lifetime.

And how you treat this is a microcosm of that macrocosmic health of your energy. How you do anything is how you do everything.  So, go through and take stock of what is my daily self care routine, if there is any. And am I promoting the healthy release of toxic energy out of my body, out of my relationships, out of my business, and out of my life.

Now, let me know what comes up for you around this. Go ahead, send me an email back at info@victoriawhitfield.com. Or you can go and grab the team for me at victoriawhitfield.com/contact and let us know if you need help releasing.

If you want some more suggestions on what would be the best detox for you, or reiki master here, I do detox attunements, that set your energy to release and clear over the next three to six weeks.

So if you're interested in that, again, reach out to my team at victoriawhitfield.com/contact and we can get you set up with that.

All righty, so we will see you soon. All right, muah, bye.

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This is week four of four of our exploration of what is at stake being an empath entrepreneur.

If this is the first time you're seeing me, please make sure you stop now and go back on my blog at VictoriaWhitfield.com to start from part one so that you're grounded in this process. For week four of four my guides have asked us to discuss the power of minding your tribe. Mind your tribe as an empath entrepreneur, as an empath with professional engagements, as an empath growing and advancing his or her career. Mind your tribe.

You know, last week we discussed what your needs are, and we explored understanding the power of environment. Environment meaning the physical environment within which you work. This is super important because how grounded and clear your environment around you is really dictates how productive, focused and effective you're able to be in business and in your career. Now, we're taking that one step further to mind your tribe as an empath entrepreneur.

This is regarding not only the physical things that you have in your environment, making sure that it's clean, orderly, gentle, loving, reminding you of your highest self, reminding you of your own positive inherent nature, your own inherent clarity and empowerment. It’s not just having lovely things – to some extent, if you're by yourself, okay, that's a great start – but now the guides want us to discuss the power of minding our tribe of people around us.

What is this concept of tribe, by the way? Well, a tribe is similar to a family. It is a group of those of us who are cut from the same cloth, emotionally and spiritually speaking. That's what we mean when we're talking about a tribe. What we’re talking about is not just if you are an indigenous person, like your tribe genetically speaking, but I'm talking about for everyone, for all of us. It’s feeling like we have our posse, our cheerleading squad, our equals, the people who are on that same emotional, energetic, spiritual and even professional level. Mind your tribe.

I want you to think for a moment right now as we invoke this topic. Who are the five people you spend the most time with? Who are the five people who have influenced your outlook the most? Who are the five people that you purchase the most things from? Who are the five people whose books, articles and blogs you read or listen to the most? Who are the five people, if you have five, who when stuff hits the fan, you could call them and lean on them? Mind your tribe. Be kind to yourself. Having those who are strong enough to uphold you as the strong one, having five is uncommon. We're lucky if we even have one, maybe two.

Ensuring that as an empath, you have nourishing people around you is part of building that nourishing environment that keeps your energy clear, productive, bright and uplifting. If there aren’t good people around you, be kind to yourself. If there are people around you who shoot down your creative ideas, who encourage you to be pessimistic, fearful, competitive, insecure or doubtful, be kind to yourself. These may not be nourishing people for your tribe.

How do you know if someone is nourishing for your tribe? Because when you're around them, your energy feels clear, or in other words, when you're around them, emotionally you feel safe, uplifted and inspired in a positive way. So, how many people do you have around you that make you feel safe, uplifted and inspired? They don't have to be physically next to you in order to nourish you. As an empath, we have this gift of being able to absorb others' physical and emotional feelings, but not just in person, like right here physically in the room with you and I. We can feel them at a distance.

In fact, time and space have no dictation, they have no governance over how effective your empathic sense may be. It could be that you spend your time really soaking up your grandmother's wisdom. When you think of what to do or how to make a decision, immediately your mind goes to your grandmother. Who's an excellent example of this? Other than myself, I would have to say Lisa Nichols. She's always talking about all that wonderful, wonderful wisdom she soaked up from her grandmother. Bringing that up in her. Her grandmother, although she may be more than alive at this time is still part of her tribe, and through Lisa, her grandmother inspires millions. Now that’s a high vibe tribe. Positive vibes only!

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So, mind your tribe. Does this mean you need to cut people out of your life and stop being around them? I would say leave that to your own discretion. For someone who's survived abuse, there comes a certain point where you say no more and then you're out, or in my case, there came a point where I said, "I have to leave." I had to cut this person out of my life. It was not healthy, but at the same time, maybe this is a complicated relationship that is not necessarily abusive. It's just an opportunity for you to learn how to communicate better. Maybe it's your life partner or your child, so on and so forth.

In that respect, what you want to do, if the people who are very close to you aren't very nourishing, is to go and seek out those who are nourishing. Add more good rather than subtract the bad. Just keep crowding yourself with more good, nourishing, uplifting, inspiring and safe people. Pile them on. Pile them on. Five to one ratio, some people have recommended, if you're a numbers person, to bring in more of that love to surround you. As an empath, you need nourishing people. You need that high vibe tribe to keep your energy clear and flowing abundantly, organically.

I'm hearing the oracle cards calling in the energy. All month long we have been journeying with Archangel Michael. Again, he’s the patron angel of protection and clearing and he's a wonderful archetype to start with, and to call on, to keep your energy clear. Okay, Archangel Michael, what do we need to know right now about minding our tribe as empathic entrepreneurs? ... This is where we'll leave off for the week, and for the month. My goodness! Innocence.

Innocence. Dear God and angels, thank you for helping me see that all of your qualities of pure love and light are reflected within me and all others. Help me embrace my God given innocence so that I may be at peace.

Okay. So I just heard very clearly in the energy that someone watching this right now has a mindset that says, "I don't deserve any better than what I have right now. I don't deserve to be around people who are safe or I'm not worthy because of X, Y, Z.” Or “I'm not good enough, so that means I cannot bring in people who are high vibe.” Or “I should just be satisfied with the people who are around me, no matter how much they hurt me." If that was you thinking that just now, I want you to know that the angels are assuring you that we are all at essence innocent. We are all at essence worthy, and what I mean by innocent is just as innocent as nature.

Whether or not you believe in the inherent beauty and dignity of nature, you would never assume evil of a wild animal. They're just there. They're just a part of nature. That kind of innocence is what we're talking about. Sure, we may do bad things, like a lion might cut apart another animal and eat it, but is that really bad? It's just the circle of life. I mean, sure, it's perceived bad to the one getting eaten, and for us it may appear violent, but at essence, that lion is still just a part of nature as is that other animal that they're consuming.

Remember your innocence. You are just as worthy as the next person to receive love, to feel safe at work. You are just as worthy whether you've done things that would earn you the Nobel peace prize or if you never got out of bed or even open your eyes. You are just as worthy of love and support. I love that the sun is coming out to affirm that, and on that note, please make sure you comment below or send me an email back at team@VictoriaWhitfield.com. What's coming up for you hearing all of this?

Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get these love letters first every single week. If you need more support, by the way, don't forget to go to VictoriaWhitfield.com/contact to set up your call. I would love to talk to you about how you could join our tribe here of high vibe entrepreneurs if you're looking for people who would be happy to be in your corner rooting for you as we altogether glow as we grow. I'll see you next week.

May you feel loved and safe at work, and please: Enjoy the journey.

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This is week two of four in our exploration around being an empath entrepreneur.

What's at stake? What's it like? Let's own it. Let's talk this through. If this is your first exposure to me, I would highly recommend you go back on my blog at victoriawhitfield.com and make sure that you start from week one, part one in this four-part series.

Without further ado, last week, we discussed what are some of the pitfalls and the challenges illuminating that of being an empath entrepreneur, so this week, we're going to talk about why this makes you a freaking superhero. Let's talk about it. Yeah, it's clear that there are things that are extra-challenging about being an empath. You are an emotional sponge, just to summarize. Whether or not you ask for it, you're soaking up what's going on in other people's emotional bodies.

Meaning, if they are feeling angry, or sad, or overwhelmed, or anxious, you're absorbing that without asking. You're just sponging it up into you, and you're also soaking up what's going on in people's physical bodies as well. If they have ache in their head or in their shoulder, or pain in their gut or jaw, so on and so forth, you feel that as well. When you're talking to them, you're thinking, "Ugh, why does my head hurt all of a sudden now that I'm in this space / now that I've walked into this new home?” For all my realtors out there, how many of you have walked into this new space, and thought, "Ugh, why am I getting all this back pain all of a sudden? I'm fine. I never had anything wrong with me before." Right? This is what happens when you're empathic. You soak up the emotional or physical energy of an environment.

But here's the thing: being an empath is not a curse. Absolutely not. It is a freaking advantage when you know how to work it properly. And here's why: Empaths are superior communicators. Superior as in like supercharged, superhuman communicators. So anyone who's watching right now, if you are a manager or a coach of any kind or a teacher of any kind, and you are empathic, that means that the people who you serve, those that are under you feel extra-heard, understood, seen, held, and honored by you. You more often than not happen to be the best boss that they have ever had or the best manager that they have ever had, the best coach that they have ever had because they usually say to you, "You get me like nobody else gets me. I don't know why I end up telling you way more or entrusting you with way more information or things about myself than other people. For some reason, you get me, and I feel so connected to you."

For those of you who are empaths and that serve others, you are super communicators and super connectors because of your empathic sense. You communicate with another person's energy. You pick up on what has been left unsaid. I want to tell you a brief story of when I was working with one of my private clients - she owns a bed and breakfast. She is incredibly brilliant, champions feminism and has had a long history of women’s sexual health advocacy, and she's just a freaking rock star. She's an earth angel. At the same time, she's so frustrated with me on our call because she's saying, "Victoria, I don't ... I can't get over how much I'm absorbing from people. I keep getting the feeling like I'm doing something wrong."

Remember last week when we spoke about that same feeling? How sometimes if you're an empath business owner or an empath professional, you feel like there's something wrong with you to the point that you're in the wrong vocation, no matter how much passion you have for it? She was at that state, and my guides sent me a vision for her because she was just so frustrated with being overwhelmed as an empath.
Sound familiar? Maybe this has been your situation, but the vision that my guides sent to me for her, and now I'm going to share with you, is this: they sent me a vision of, if you would remember, 9/11 where the Twin Towers fell. All of the rubble. So many lives lost, but at the same time, right after the towers fell, after the dust for the most part cleared, there was this whole other level of rescue missions that had to happen because people weren't all dead. They were trapped underneath the rubble.

So, picture this with me: all this concrete... huge piles of broken concrete, and twisted metal, and whatnot. Underneath the rubble, there are people who are praying to God, "Somebody come find me, please," or shouting, but their voices beneath all of that are just completely muffled to human ears. The real heroes - other than the courageous firefighters and our awesome first-responders, police workers, and volunteers, all humans out there searching - the unsung heroes of recovering people and finding them who've been trapped beneath the rubble of the Twin Towers were actually the rescue dogs. My guides are showing me these dogs who are going through all of the rubble, hearing the sounds of the screams from stories down or smelling the sense of bodies of people who are still alive, but don't even have the strength to make a sound and cry out for help. They can hear beneath the rubble. I'm getting the chills as I say this to you right now.
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As an empath, you can hear those who are crying out for help, silently crying out, who are in deep need, and they are trapped beneath the rubble of their lives. Perhaps, they have no voice left, but you can hear them because you have that empathic sense, just like a canine has super smell and super hearing - and animals are also empathic, by the way. Let's throw that in there.

The same way that they're able to hear, and dig, and start clawing through until they get down to that person that they could feel the energy of and bring them, pull them back up from the darkness, out of being trapped, into the light, that is what you have been equipped to do in this lifetime. That is why being empathic is a freaking superpower. Can you feel it? Type it below. Enter it in the comments below, "I embrace my empathic superpower. I can hear people beneath the rubble of their lives." Own it!

For some people, they're buried in so much grief or so much shame that they're not comfortable enough, or don't have enough energy, or just don't give themselves enough time or permission to reach out and to start that healing process, or start that transformational process, but because you as an empath can hear what's going on beneath the surface, you're able to pull them up from the darkness and back into the light like none other. That's why they say, "You get me like none other." That's why they say, "Ah, I can entrust you with so much more," because they know you can hear them.

With that being said, I'm going to take it to the Oracle cards for the week. We're using the Archangel Michael Doreen Virtue Oracle cards deck. We are journeying with this deck all month. Alrighty. Such a powerful message this week. Isn't it good? Tell me, tell me. Is it good? Yeah! All right, angels. What do we need to know right now? Archangel Michael, what do we need to know right now about stepping into and owning our superpower as empath entrepreneurs and empathic professionals? I feel this one. Oh my goddess! I got a little bit of Déjà vu here. Sense of humor.

Sense of humor. "My prayer, thank you for helping me see the humor in this situation so I can lovingly laugh at human nature. I am willing to view my experience in a new light in order to attract love and healing energy." I love it. I love it. I love it! Brought you all the way down deep into your soul with that channeled message, and the angels are like, "Bring it back up. Turn it on!" One of the ways that empaths call people out of the darkness and into the light is actually through having a great sense of humor, being able to find the laughter in that incredibly oppressive and heavy situation.

Laughter is the best medicine. It is said that shamans, true shamans will keep you laughing the whole time while you are working with them and going through the healing process. The best coaches know how to keep their clients or their audiences giggling their way through their transformation, right? Being able to move through our pain with ease and joy. And the best mothers know that when their kids get a boo-boo, it's time to have them laugh their way through it so that they feel better and recover the energy that they think they may have been lost by getting hurt in the first place.

Is this vibrating with you? Are you feeling aligned with calling on your sense of humor about your empathic sense so that you can claim that power, the power that has always been yours by birthright? Comment below or send me an email back at team@victoriawhitfield.com, or if you need help connecting to your sense of humor about it because you've been in a state of overwhelm for too long, YOU might be the one who's beneath the rubble in your life right now. Make sure that you reach out so that we can book a session and talk about how I can best support you and glowing as you grow your business, so I'll see you next time.

May you feel loved and safe at work, and please: Enjoy the journey.

Bye for now!

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Choose to embrace your empathic sense as your superpower at work.

Activate your superpower and spread positive energy with laughter and deep listening as you work with others.

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Welcome back to another installment of your weekly love letter from the dojo at naturalintuition.com and victoriawhitfield.com, my blog. These are your sources for channeled holistic stress management techniques and guidance for developing your natural intuition. Whether you're looking to improve the quality of your personal and professional life, let this love letter be your reminder that you are not alone and that together we can make that happen.

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This is a new series and my guides have shown me that we are going to be talking about what is it like to be an empath entrepreneur: an entrepreneur that happens to be highly empathic, or someone who is highly empathic, who happens to be an entrepreneur.

Over the next four weeks we're going to be journeying on this topic. And this week in particular, my guides asked us to shed some light on what are the unique challenges of being an empath and owning a business, being empathic and leading your team at your office. For those of us who are called to serve in a professional status of some sort, whether you are the manager of your shift or your office, whether you are the owner of your business or you are just getting started serving more clients as an entrepreneur, or even in the prelaunch stage – regardless of your current status, you are called to serve at a greater level. If that's you, then this one is to support you in particular. Make sure that you subscribe on YouTube so that you get your first notification every week of when these new love letters come out. Let's get to it. The pitfalls of being an empath entrepreneur.

If you've never really heard of the term being empathic, let me break it down for you really quick. It is not the same as being empathetic. When you have empathy for others, this is a choice that you make to see yourself walking in somebody else's shoes. That's a compassionate mental move that you make to better communicate with others around you, and that's awesome.

However, being empathic removes your choice. This is where whether you want to or not, you feel what it's like to be in another person's emotions or to be in another person's physical body. You can feel the pain sensations that are going through somebody's body while you're interacting with them, or even if they're far away. That's being empathic. You can also feel emotionally when someone may be suppressing or hiding more intense emotion such as anger or great big joy, as if they're sitting on it, hiding it underneath a performance of a different, more acceptable emotion. You may pick up on that, or even in a space where someone passed away and they're not even physically there anymore, but you are able to sense the sadness or sense the happiness in their home. That is a sign that you are empathic.

Now, for those of you who already know that you're empathic, it can be super challenging. Because you are an emotional sponge. And as an emotional sponge, this is extra tough if you work in retail, or you have to handle a high volume of people physically coming to you. Maybe if you work at a stadium, serving crowds or you work at a storefront serving walk-ins. Your job requires you serve whoever walks in; maybe as a salon owner, you don't know who's the next person that's going to walk in to want a haircut. Or as an artist. Who's the next person who is going to come around and take a look at your art and want to give you a commission. Especially in those types of vocations, you don't really know who you're going to get – being a massage therapist is another one.

Be kind to yourself because you, more than ever, have got to learn about how to protect your energy, as an empath entrepreneur, as a professional who happens to be empathic.Why? Because you're an emotional sponge. So, shall we take a look at what can happen when you’re like this? By the way, comment below or send me an email back at team@VictoriaWhitfield.com of your Empath Entrepreneur experiences. Ok?

See if some of the following challenges describe your previous situations. Maybe you've come in, you're juiced, you're ready to go, happy for the work day and a client, customer or prospect comes in and just derails all that good energy and sucks the life out of you. Have you ever had that? Those vampire clients and customers? Oh Man. Other pitfalls of being an empath and a professional person, or a business owner who's an empath is that you have so much love and so much passion for what you do, but unfortunately because of the emotions, the crappy emotions of the people that you work with, whether they're on your team or your clients, it just sucks the life out of you.

Perhaps you're at that point where you're feeling, “is this really what I should be even doing with my life? In the beginning it was so great, but now the people are just vultures.” Oh my goodness. Be kind to yourself, again if that's your situation. Other pitfalls of being an empath entrepreneur is that where some people are able to get so much done in a day and just be able to maintain their focus and, wow, smash through their goals, breakthrough, breakthrough, breakthrough... for some reason, something about the environment that you're sitting in or something about the people that you're interacting with just completely sucks the energy and the focus, the productivity out of you.
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Maybe it's your loved ones who derail you if you work at home, for example. This is another really tough situation that we're going to talk about over the next four weeks. Maybe your home life is not that supportive, and as you are still absorbing all of the frustration of your spouse and the anxiety of your kids into your body, you still have got to be on that client call. If you're a marketing coach or you're a life coach that does video coaching, you've got to be ready to be supportive while your energy is all funked up. As an empath entrepreneur, you sponged up, soaked up so much negativity, anxiety, anger, frustration from your environment that it's affecting your ability to perform at work. If any of that speaks to you, please stay tuned. Subscribe on YouTube so that you get these love letters first, and if it's bringing anyone to mind, make sure you hit that Share button and say, "you had better subscribed to this because she's talking to you, baby!"

Let's get to the oracle card of the week. We're going to be journeying with all month with Doreen Virtue's, Archangel Michael Oracle Cards deck, because Archangel Michael is a wonderful archetype for protection and covering. We have got to make sure that your energy feels nourished as you get out there and serve in a big way. You're called to it and you deserve to feel safe and sound and full of life and energy no matter who or what you are called to serve.

Okay, Angels, what do we as empath entrepreneurs need to know right now, especially when we're dealing with the challenges, the frustrations of being an empathic person who happens to own a business or who is a professional serving others? Whoa... We've got some pretty serious energy going here. What do we need to know? This card on top – hey! This is where we'll leave off for the week: Lean on God and the angels for support.

“Lean on God and the angels for support.My prayer: Dear God and the angels, I give you this situation now and completely. I step out of the way and allow divine miracles to shine through everyone and everything involved.”

As an empath more than anybody else in business, more than any other kind of person out there who is a professional and has a career and decides to participate professional activities, YOU have got to lean on Spirit, whatever that means to you. For those of you who are atheist, this means leaning on your human potential, your belief that life is going to have positive outcomes and is bringing you more good, rather than more bad. It’s about you committing to having more of a pronoia or a positive mindset rather than a paranoia or a negative mindset: give it all over to positive expectation.

Feed your faith, my dear, because you're going to be sponging up energy, anyway. You had better know that you've got someone or something watching your back - your power animals, your spirit guides, your angels, your fairies, whoever, your grandma. My grandma has got my back, in the energy. Lean on spirit when you feel depleted, that's what the angels want you to know this week in particular as we start owning it and opening up the conversation around what it means to be an empath in business.

Now, I want to hear from you. Make sure you comment below or send me an email back at team@VictoriaWhitfield.com. I am here to support you. If you want to know more about how you can shift your state in business so that you feel like you are glowing, rather than draining yourself out, as you grow your business, reach out. Let me know and I'd be so happy to schedule a session with you so that we could talk about how we can best turn your light back on.

All right, I'll see you in the next one.

May you feel loved and safe at work, and please: Enjoy the journey.

See you soon!

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Acknowledge the unique challenges you or your loved ones face as empaths at work.

Be kind to yourself, and be conscious of your need to lean on Spirit moreso than the average person.

Notice how you feel in that moment - you're already healing!

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This is week two of four in our exploration of money as spiritual, money as good, being open to, loving and healing our relationship to money.

Be kind to yourself, if this is your first video please hit stop, go back on my blog at VictoriaWhitfield.com so that you start from the very first part of our series so that you're grounded in this process.

Without further ado, this week in particular my guides are saying that we've got to talk about sales shame and scars. Sales shame, and scars. Now, this comes up all the time with my clients. Doesn't matter if it's someone who I've met while on the road or networking or for the first time or if it's one of my clients who's been with me for the last, gosh, six, seven years straight. We all, myself included, have a sense of sales shame and sales scars.

Now I remember hearing at a speech by Myron Golden where he said that by the time a child turns 18 years old, in the media the child has seen over 10,000 business owners killed on TV, online, and in the news. His point was that in that figure right there we see a systemic epidemic of putting down salespeople, of demonizing business owners, entrepreneurs, and people who are out there making money. There's a strategic demonization of that.

Our minds and our hearts become scarred seeing all of this. That figure really shocked me, but it makes sense because how many times do we – wait, I'll put it on me. I personally have been to so many sales presentations. I've walked in hoping someone would sell me what they're selling, legitimately excited to buy, and I've also walked in having made a commitment to myself, “I swear to God, if this person tries to sell me, I'm walking out.” Sound familiar?

I even have equated bad sales with unwanted touching, like being physically attacked. In my opinion, it is a mental rape when done horribly wrong. By the way, comment below, send me an email back at Team@VictoriaWhitfield.com if that's you, where you're finding yourself bracing when somebody's trying to sell you, as if you're about to get attacked mentally, emotionally, financially, and even spiritually by someone. Here's the thing, we have scars. We have scars because some people in the past, for all intents and purposes, used this powerful tool to, unfortunately, cut into our energy.

These are soul scars that we carry along the way and it's doubly bad for those of us who are entrepreneurs and business owners because part of the way that ... actually the only way that we're able to share our gifts at the level that we've been called to by God, by Source, is to sell - which means to serve. We've got to make the offer to invite people to work with us. If you sincerely are doing something that's going to help somebody, it's your divine duty to invite them to work with you. You shouldn't be ashamed of it.

But here we go with carrying our soul scars around sales. The feeling of having been - and I'm going to go there, and I'm going to repeat it just as I said without limiting myself - mentally and emotionally and even spiritually, financially raped. Mentally “raped” or attacked or scarred by someone whose done sales on us; this unwanted touching, mentally and energetically. Be kind to yourself if that has been your experience before, and you got totally taken advantage of. If that happened to you, from my heart to yours, I am so sorry. It's terrifying. You work so hard for your money, and then someone turns on your emotions and then leads you down a path that is unfortunately destructive to you.

It's heartbreaking when that happens, and because of our soul scars around sales, then we carry the shame, the shame, the shame – which hides the secret rage. This is especially prevalent in the holistic healing community, amongst life coaches, business coaches, marketing coaches, amongst reiki masters, massage therapists, naturopathic doctors, osteopaths. I'm just going through all the different clients that I've had in my head who’ve had this sales shame: my goodness, bookkeepers, everyone who's loving and kind and really sincerely wanting to help people.

There's this haunting shame that comes for all of us when it’s time to share our gifts... Where you start thinking, “what if they're going to tell me they can't afford it? What do I do? I don't want to make people spend money, I feel bad.” Or, “who's going to pay for that? Maybe I shouldn't be charging so much. I should really even be doing this for free. Who gets paid to listen to their intuition and who gets paid to listen to people?” By the way - you're looking at and reading a blog someone who does, and I get paid well because I do tremendous work. I give massive, massive value, and I am grateful that my life’s purpose fully supports me.

Gosh, it is such a gift. And I pay good money for this spiritual and personal development stuff as well, for people to do energy work on me and to help me hear my intuition better and also to hear myself better. Absolutely. I pay five figures a year and I've paid out in total six figures now over the last few years to ensure that I am fully self-actualized. You absolutely should be charging for that, whatever you're healing gift is, but there's this haunting, persistent shame that we are carrying around charging. I'm hearing the word “why”, and the reason why we carry that shame is because we have the mistaken thought that we are protecting other people by not sharing our services with them.

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Maybe you don't have your own business yet, but you're working at a company or working for a nonprofit that you sincerely believe in, that you absolutely love, and you're rooting for. You see the good that they do in the world, and then you see someone who could really benefit from the service or from donating to this gorgeous, fabulous, charitable cause.

Then here comes the shame of: “but I can't tell them because they're going to have to spend money,” or “I can't ask for the donation, I should be ashamed of myself, asking for this person’s money.” No, you shouldn't! No, you shouldn't! Don't should on yourself, please, if you have something powerful and healing to share with the world, if you have more love that you can pour into this world by sharing your product or service, please, please DO.

If I'm the only person who gets to tell you this, please believe in yourself, please believe that sales is service. Don't let your shame or your mistaken thinking that you are protecting people from spending money keep you from shining bright. We're in a dark world and we need your light, but in order for some of us to turn on, we have got to learn how to invest in ourselves.

I know for me, my life changed when I started to invest in myself. Personally, I am completely unrecognizable - go ahead on my Facebook and ask some of my friends who first became my friends when Facebook first came out, "Do you recognize Victoria now? Is she like she was 15, 20, 25 years ago?" They're like, "Nope, she's completely different” and some may even add “but she's more of herself than she's ever been." It's because I learned how to invest in myself by being open to receiving sales.

Now, this also has to do with discernment, and the more you cultivate your emotional capital - meaning your ability to value how you feel, and accrue good feeling, generate good feeling - the more you will cultivate your discernment, so that you don't have to be afraid of people selling you, and you don't have to be afraid of sharing your service with people who are desperately seeking it.

The only reason why you're carrying around that sales shame is actually because you haven't cultivated enough of your emotional capital. Pour into your positive feeling emotions, pour into that on a daily basis, that's the first thing I do every single day, and I've been doing it for 11 years straight, is to pour positive feeling, good feeling, raise my vibration, get into the vortex, shift my state, change my mind, raise my standards, put my mindset at the same level of the Universe to make sure that I am seeing with clear eyes. I’ve cultivated my discernment, my emotional capital, ceaselessly.

I'm hearing the oracle cards screaming in the air, "Oh my God, Victoria, hurry up and pull us." Okay, lol! Let me just stuff them back in this box because I was just sifting through them... This is the Angels of Abundance oracle cards deck by Doreen Virtue and her son, Grant Virtue, if you want to pick it up yourself. Okay. Angels of Abundance, what do we need to know right now? About, gosh, our sales shame, our sales scars. - I love this: Bountiful Nature. This is where we're going to leave off for the week.

Bountiful Nature. Spending time in nature helps shift you to a higher vibration and reminds you of God’s infinite abundance. Go outside and enjoy a walk or hike with your pet, meditate beneath a tree, garden, sit under the stars, or do some other activity to connect with the limitless vastness.

This is so beautiful, this is a perfect ending point.

A lot of our fear and shame around selling, as well as being sold, is that there's not enough to go around. There's not enough even if you're selling something amazing or you're being sold on exactly what you need. That fear comes up that there's not enough to go around. Please let nature affirm you in that there is no limit to the amount of wealth, and abundance, and resource supporting you now, right now, in this moment.

Nature is a gorgeous example of interconnection and agreement, of constant inflow and outflow, inhale and exhale. Let that remind you of what true wealth and abundance looks like. Allow it to soothe your emotions so that you can raise your emotional vibration and increase your emotional capital.

All right, this is it, Bountiful Nature. Go outside, breath it in and receive. Okay. Send me an email back at Team@VictoriaWhitfield.com or comment below. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get these Love Letters first every week, and I'll see on the next one.

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Take a deep breath in, and connect to your divine purpose, and then open your heart and mouth and share your healing work for the good of all involved.

Notice how you feel in that moment - you're already healing!

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Are you hiding the fact that you are a healer?

Think that people won’t take you seriously at work if you were dealing your light work?

Or do you even actively resist your healer self?

We all do it, saying: “no, not me, no, not now,” protecting ourselves and others from our light.

You may think you’re helping by hiding your light, but actually we need you to shine bright now more than ever.

Watch this week’s 12-minute love letter video to find the courage to be your true self: the healer.

"I always feel like I have to do more."

So this week two of five of our exploration of the courage to be yourself.

We left off talking about why it's time. Why? Why do you need courage to be yourself?

We touched on it a little bit last time, but to continue that thought, and by the way if you new to the series, et cetera, go ahead, stop, go back on YouTube or on my blog at VictoriaWhitfield.com so you can catch the previous episode.

So this week in particular, what's going to lift you rather than you push to be yourself is one simple fact that has been hiding in your closet for quite some time, may have fell out, may have flashed people here and there with, but you know, you haven't really owned it, right, or brought it forward in your life in a way that you're meant to.

It's time to bring this out of the closet. Are you ready ready ready?

You are a healer. You're a healer. We're finding the courage to be ourselves. You, it's time for you to find the courage to be yourself. Why? Because you are a healer, and you just can't hide it anymore.

Incoming soapbox ... Our world needs what only you can provide. The insight, the humor, the love, the creativity, the solutions, right? You have a unique perspective. No one else has got your two eyes or your history, your fields of expertise, your passions, or your purpose.

No one else has got you, and it's the unique essence of who you really are, and in the previous video we talked about that being divinity, we need that unique essence to heal our world.

Now I believe in filling in the blank. So as I speak about this, what comes up for you about how our world needs healing? Could it be helping the oceans, healing our children, healing our families? For me, it's healing our businesses, and how business is done. I have a vision personally for a world of healing businesses, where people wake up and go to work and are healed because they decide to participate in engaging and professional activities. That's what my passion and vision is as a healer, but this week, this day, this moment in particular it's time for you to find your soapbox.

What are you here to heal? It takes courage though, in order to reveal your healer, as well as allow healing to pour forth through you. What would that look like, you showing up as a healer in your office space, or you showing up as a healer consciously in your family, or in your friend circle, you showing up as a healer at your school, you showing up as a healer in your business? What would that look like?

Okay, thank you. Someone in the energy just said "Savior complex." Now, I have a training on this, but imagine this is like my magic cape, and we're flying through the air coming to save the day, right? No. That's not what we're talking about.

So for some of you watching who are already high-achievers, who are go-getters and moreover go-givers, who are generous generous and happy to help others, you're very dutiful. So when I start talking duty you get triggered like "I'm not enough, I'm not enough, I'm not enough. I gotta do more. Get me an even bigger cape, or more people to help and save."

So it's important for you, especially if you're whipping out your cape to go save the day for somebody else, as a healer if you're being yourself you are healing yourself first. World healing starts with the individual. World healing starts with you.

Know this: World healing starts with the individual. World healing starts with YOU.

Whoever's on my team that just put that as the tweetable thank you. Felt that!

But world healing starts right here. Remember, courage, that's the heart, your heart is where the healing is going to start. So be kind to yourself. If, when we talk about this fact that you might have been hiding back there in the closet of "I'm a healer," or "I got a little woo in here," right let my woo hang out a little bit here and there, sprinkle some fairy dust, sneeze it on you.

Oh, you might get infected. Right? Be kind to yourself if you've been on the down low about being a healer, and if you're also putting in overtime on the down low saving the day for everybody else except yourself, this day, this moment in particular you're going to focus on being the healer between you and you. And I'm hearing the oracle cards calling in the energy as we continue to build on our topic in this series and God is Guidance. Love this deck, love this deck. Whether you are male or female this deck is absolutely powerful.

So goddesses, what do we need to know right now about being a healer, especially for ourselves first and finding that courage? Ooh, hello. Yay! Siege. See I feel some of my latino friends, we'd be like "Siege! Yeah!" I know it's siege, but yes! Familia, hola. So siege, quiet time. She's like so peaceful and rainbow-y with the night sky.

Take some quiet time alone to rest, meditate, and contemplate. And this is where we're going to leave off for the week with a homework. Your focus this week is going to create quiet time for you. Even if it's like a family or a team-wide, office-wide timeout where we're all gonna have time, like quiet time, so that I can. So if you are in a relationship in those ways, because immediately I can hear someone say "Well I can't have quiet time, it's always loud here, everyone's running around crazy," be kind to yourself. Let's all have quiet time.

But the reason why we desire quiet time, this week in particular, is so that you can sit and either think or write with the intent to find your healing edge. There's an area in your life that needs healing, more nurturing, more love, and in order to create that alchemical reaction of healing in that area we've gotta create the space for it. So that's quiet time.

Now tell me what's coming up for you around this. Do you need help creating quiet time? It's pretty quiet here, especially during sessions in the dojo. Whether you're coming in person or online, you're welcome to request a session or info at VictoriaWhitfield.com, or join us at the deep dive retreat where we're completely unplugged from technology for several days. It's the third week of every July. So VictoriaWhitfield.com/DeepDiveRetreat by the way. If there's still spaces left for this coming one it'll be for this year, if no it'll show next year's.

So it's important for you to create quiet time so that you can find your healing edge, and be there. We're not gonna break through or anything like that, we're literally just going to be ourselves on the healing edge in our lives. So send me an email back, comment below what comes up for you around that.

Let's keep this conversation going, right. But I need to hear what you have to say for us to be having a conversion. Duh! I'm sending you so much love. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get these love letters every week, and I'll see you for our next one. Bye.

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This is week five of five in our deep dive into shifting our perspective, and we’ve been discussing the exact mechanics of how to shift our perspective so that we can step into our divinity fully in life and business.

For week five, my guides have asked me to speak to you on a pivot topic as we prepare for our next series of love letter videos. But before I get to the topic, if this is the first of the series that you are seeing, make sure you pause, go back on my blog at victoriawhitfield.com and start from week one so that you are grounded in this process.

This week, my guides have shown me that we need to talk about the empath trap. Don't fall for the empath trap. And I see this is shockingly prevalent, the more I've been going live on Facebook, actually. If you haven't seen my Facebook page, where I'm dropping what I call #lovebombs for you, then youre missing out on some real activating inspiration. Go ahead to Facebook.com\senseivictoriawhitfield to catch some of those. They really, really add a pep to your step and wake you up if you've been kind of asleep at the wheel in life and business.

What I found is that the more that I've been going live, the more I find people from all over the world falling into the empath trap. And here's what it is: where you expect somebody else to make you feel better. Now, that's it in a nutshell, but I'd like to just clarify a little bit more of that. First of all, if you don't know what an empath is, let's start there because that's jargon, right?

An empath is someone who is an emotional sponge. It's different than empathy. With empathy, you choose to see a situation through somebody else's eyes. You use your mind, your mental acrobatics abilities to construct the idea of what it would be like to walk in somebody else's shoes. You choose to do that, and that's compassionate, that's awesome, and develops rapport.

But someone who's an empath has the ability to really feel what others are going through, emotionally and physically, and it happens against their will. So that means, if someone's coming in in a grumpy mood, all the sudden, the person in the room who's an empath will start feeling grumpy, and they were fine before. Or if somebody has a headache, the person who's an empath will start feeling like their head hurts, or another part of their body is suddenly hurting too, not because they're mentally unstable or something like that, but because the way that their body is wired is that they're a sponge. They soak in the physical and emotional feelings of others in their environments.

We see this in the animal kingdom as well, not just amongst people. Think of dogs and cats. If you have a dog or a cat, it's not that they can speak English, necessarily, but have you ever noticed that they feel sad when you feel sad? Or they can sense in their bodies if something's not quite right with you? It's amazing because animals are highly empathic. It's our birthright as beings here on earth, being empathic. It's another sense that we have, to be able to sense the emotional and physical feelings of others around us, because it's another form of communication.

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Now, in more recent years, in the New Age, Metaphysical, spiritual-but-not-religious sort of soul-seeking communities online or the self-help or Angel Healing, energy healing and etc. groups online, there's this whole philosophy and subculture around being an empath that says, "Oh, you're special and you need special help. And we got to band together and got to protect and got to read all these books" and similar stuff like that. What I found is, when I'm going live on Facebook, I'll attract more empaths as viewers because I am one, and I understand that. But those who have fallen into the empath trap think that other people are going to solve their problem for them, or ease their symptoms, or give them the answers that they're seeking.

And when we're committed to shifting our perspective so that we can finally step into, meaning claim, the power of our divinity in life and business, we're not waiting for somebody else to come to the rescue. In the words of the fabulous Lisa Nichols, the mantra is, “I am my rescue." It's so important, as an empath, to honor the fact that you have power.

So if someone's sharing, like myself, intuitive readings or channelings or insights or talking about psychic development and so on and so forth, and you feel like, "Okay, this person has answers. Hey, you tell me blah blah blah about my parent who's passed on" or "Hey, you look at my aura and see if there's any blockages in it," then be kind to yourself: that's actually disempowering for you. That doesn't enable you to step into your divinity. Instead, that puts the onus on the other person and gives your power away.

I want you to know that you have power and that this is the week that you are going to get out of that empath trap. Because when it comes down to it, an imbalanced or dysfunctional empath feels good when others feel good or feels bad when others feel bad. That always puts you at a disadvantage. Please take your power back!

We're going to go more into this in the next series, but for now, we’re here at beautiful Washington Rock in the dead of winter to really open up and get that nature energy to help us process and reclaim our expansive power. I'm hearing the oracle cards calling in the energy. It's the Isis Oracle by Alana Fairchild. The last one of the series is ... Ooh, this couldn't have been better. The Eye of Horus. Awakening divine perception.

Here's where we're going to leave off for the week: Claim your ability to take control of your life. Claim your ability to create your life by design, to tune into Source, to plug in to Spirit. You can do this. Awaken your divine perception. You have it by birthright. You don't have to get it from somebody else secondhand. It's yours. You can cut out the middleman.

If this message was for you, go ahead, send me an email back at team@victoriawhitfield.com or comment below. Let me know what's coming up for you. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get these love letters first every week, and I'll see you next time for the next series.

May you feel loved and safe at work, and please: Enjoy the journey. Bye for now.

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Just for today...

Decide to take back your power by claiming your birthright as an empowered, empathic and intuitive being, and to stop giving your power away.

Declare "I am my rescue. I claim my birthright to create my own life and to connect to Spirit myself!"

Notice how you feel in that moment - you're already healing!

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Hello there. I am Sensei Victoria Whitfield, your business reiki master. And it's my joy to get to support empathic entrepreneurs and business owners like you in getting and staying grounded and clear in mind, body and business.

Welcome back to another installment of your weekly love letter from the dojo at naturalintuition.com and victoriawhitfield.com, my blog. These are your sources for channeled holistic stress management techniques and guidance for developing your natural intuition. Whether you're looking to improve the quality of your personal and professional life, let this love letter be your reminder that you are not alone and that together we can make that happen.

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Welcome back to another installment of your weekly Love Letter for helping you to live a life that is loving yourself, and also loving the business that you're in.

I’m Sensei Victoria Whitfield, your Business Reiki Master and it's my joy to help empathic entrepreneurs like you get and stay grounded and clear in mind, body, and business. I'm here at the gorgeous Washington Rock, here in New Jersey. This is a 20+ mile view, out here in the dead of winter.

The new topic that we're going to be talking about over our next series is really about Being Clear on what we're stepping into. This is especially important because we're stepping into our divinity this year, and that demands clarity - isn't it true? With that, I wanted to bring you to this space. It's a sacred space of mine because seeing this far out represents having clear perspective.

Now it's the dead of winter, so the trees are bare, you can see clean through to the other side of the trees. You can see all the way from here in central New Jersey, clean out to New York, actually. It's really far. This is actually where George Washington was watching to see where the opposing army was marching; it was from this lookout, in particular.

So, here is something to note on Perspective. Sometimes in order for us to get the right vision that spirit has for us as we are stepping into our calling or stepping into our divinity, we must be able to elevate our perspective and really open up to see things from that 20-mile view. This week in particular, my guides are telling me to challenge you, "How can you step back? How can you clear things so that you are able to see from that further-out perspective?"
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I hear the oracle cards calling in the energy, and it's a little bit cold here, so I'm going to make this quick. The oracle cards that we'll be journeying this month with in particular, are the Isis Oracle Cards Deck by Alana Fairchild. I'm happy to explore this deck with you. The oracle card of the week is Temple Of Lapis Lazuli, Goddess of the Ancient Skies. What do we need to know right now, Temple of Lapis Lazuli, Goddess of the Ancient Skies?

What’s dropping in as a message from this card in particular, is to really open up to your higher knowing. When you think of lapis lazuli as a healing stone, this has to do with opening your throat chakra, but also connecting to our star origins, as a people. When we're tapping into that higher knowledge and claiming it, the process entails remembering the ancient wisdom that is embedded within us, by seeing how it comes from having a higher, more elevated perspective on life and business. Step back, first, so that you can access this level of awareness.

I'm curious what drops in for you, this week in particular. I just wanted to share the natural beauty of this lookout with you, this beautiful view. I think I'll come back and continue to do this series from Washington Rock. Remember to take in that 20-mile view of your life and business. Wherever you're watching this, whenever you're watching this in the year, it's time for you to take a step back, pretty far back, to get the right perspective so that you can step into your divinity with clarity.

All right, I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say. What speaks to you about this 20-mile view: seeing this far out is powerful, what's coming up for you? By the way, make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get these Love Letters first every week. And I'll see you in our next installment of the Love Letters.

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Just for today...

Imagine that you could see your life and business from high above, taking in the bigger picture.

Consider how things that appear Big and significant close up are really small in the grand scheme of things, and how things that appear Small and insignificant close up can have massive impact on your greater goal.

Notice how you feel in that moment - you're already healing!

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Hello there. I am Sensei Victoria Whitfield, your business reiki master. And it's my joy to get to support empathic entrepreneurs and business owners like you in getting and staying grounded and clear in mind, body and business.

Welcome back to another installment of your weekly love letter from the dojo at naturalintuition.com and victoriawhitfield.com, my blog. These are your sources for channeled holistic stress management techniques and guidance for developing your natural intuition. Whether you're looking to improve the quality of your personal and professional life, let this love letter be your reminder that you are not alone and that together we can make that happen.

Let's schedule a chat, and see how I can help you...