@Becca Sweeting @Mena Hajek @Samantha Olague

Thank you beautiful souls. I appreciate the depth and the awareness you brought to this and what you've been bringing to these structured assignments. Authority isn't loud. It's consistent. It maintains itself even when the world feels out of control. It doesn't leak, chase, over explain, doubt, worry, or control. It reinforces it's boundaries through clear communication and clear structured approach. If the authority of accountability feels loud, feels like pressure, feels like "too much" then you've been acting from irresponsibility and you're uncomfortable with leaning into letting go.... so if this week you were leaking yourself through any of the above then just acknowledge where you are most commonly creating your reality from. If your answers were not present... if they were angry, distracted, resentful, furious, doubtful or lacking then just honor what version of yourself you choose to represent. Not because that version of you is bad. It's only an opportunity to really be with who you choose to act from... and why you choose to remain attached to those actions. What I noticed just a few ago was how my mom wakes up from being asleep and right away, in her first breath, starts asking questions. She jumps halfway up and sits "where's hoot? Where's your dad? Where is everyone at?" Without blinking then lays her head back down when I say "take a breath and look around...." because hoot was right at her feet. Her first response is reaction. Needing to know because she needs to control what's happening and where everyone is so she can feel safe in knowing. This is her attachment to my dad. This is her attachment to hoot. Need to know. Need to control. And in that moment I saw even more clearly what my life gets to look like if I don't continue on the road of development for myself and for the greater good of my purpose in this life. She is an image of how much I love and appreciate her. She is also an image of what gets to happen if I choose to move into irresponsibility instead of accountability.

@Samantha Olague I'm so grateful you gave yourself an opportunity to open up and be received 🙏 It's a gift that keeps on giving and, each time we allow it we begin to see how safe we really are! 🧸🎀💕🌹🩷💋✨️

Thank you lovelies @Becca Sweeting @Mena Hajek @Samantha Olague for getting the assignment completed and turned in on time! I'm so grateful to each of you for choosing to be a part of this and choosing to show up for yourselves in this way!

Now, here is my version of the assignment that I turned in a little over a week ago. Mine is a bit different than yours, only because I left out the parts directly associated with my own mentors and the lives that are referenced in the questions part..... Part 1: THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPLETION AND WILLINGNESS STEP 1: Reflect on Resonance (Willingness vs. Obligation) The foundation of this work begins with your posture. Jeremiah emphasized that doing this work from a place of obligation ("I should," "I need to," "I have to") will only recycle the past and damage you further. Instead, the requirement is simply your willingness. • What does it mean for you to replace your "shoulds" with a "willingness to stand in the possibility of seeing something you don't see today"? 》For me, "should" feels like pressure in my mind and constriction in my body. It's like a tiny tyrant living in my thoughts trying to force me into a future that I have zero information about (even though my thoughts are staged in a very "know it all" way). When I organize my life around the "should", I see less because my vision is so narrow. However, when I replace those "shoulds" with "wllingness", I shift into the opportunity that allows the answers to emerge. I think of it like walking through fog with a flashlight. “Should” points the beam at the same patch of ground over and over. "Willingness" lifts the light and sweeps the horizon. The landscape was always wider; the beam simply hadn’t moved. When I move into willingness I move into a wider perception because my certainty dissolves. To me, this doesn't feel chaotic (even though I used to believe it would). It feels curious, open and expansive. It feels like the difference between exploitation and exploration! • Write a reflection exploring the difference in your body and mind when you approach your parental trauma from "willingness" rather than "obligation." 》When I'm anchored in exploration, instead of exploitation, I relax and allow the stories, meanings and identity markers to simply exist without anything else being attached to them. In the moment of exploration I'm like an observer searching for new discoveries (it feels like inner anthropology). I review the inner landscape and make note of what arises. Because I'm not obligated to find anything, it releases the tension in my body that would collapse under the pressure of "neediness" that comes with the feeling of "I should" be doing something in a certain way. My breath deepens and my thoughts maintain a state of curiosity instead of confusion.