Happy Heritage Day! 😁🤣

For the last six weeks, I've been learning what it really means to be honest with yourself. I haven't told many people what I've been doing. And I most certainly haven't been "living the life I love," which is the whole reason I started this business in the first place. I said no to every braai invite. I woke up before dark on weekends and went to bed late. But somewhere in those quiet early mornings, I saw the vision again. I went deep with AVA after I launched FACE too soon. That was a hard learning curve, but one I look back on now and know served me in more ways than I could see at the time. I had to get honest. About my business, my life, my decisions. I had to own every single one of them. My personal life was scrambled in the middle of it all, and I was carrying delayed trauma from a divorce I never really dealt with. I'd just focused on surviving. During that season I watched my own limiting beliefs go into high gear. Couple that with a launch that flopped, and I did what so many of us do. I started retracting. I started to hide. And we all know what that loop does. It was a hard season. But it was a season that served me far more than I realised while I was in it. Because here's what I learned. Being aware of your limiting beliefs is powerful, but awareness alone doesn't stop the loop. The pattern still fires every time you get triggered. I learned, really learned, how my own thoughts were creating the life I was living. And I went looking for a way to help my mind break the patterns underneath them. That's why I kept saying no to living the life I love. Because I realised I have to create that life first before I can live it. All I can tell you is that AVA 2.0 is what came out of all of this. She's almost ready, and I don't think I've ever been prouder of anything I've made. When I open her on Monday, it's only to the people in this community. She's not going public yet. I want to put her in the hands of the people who've already met AVA 1.0 first. The ones who've been brave enough to do this work with me.

I’ve been using AVA 2.0 and testing her for a while now. But yesterday, I discovered a hidden layer I didn’t even know existed. And I’m beyond excited to share it with you. But instead of giving you empty, hyped-up promises about what’s coming, I want to share something real. Yesterday was a particularly hard day for our family. We had to put down our cat, Layla, after 13 years. For many people, losing a beloved animal is understandably heartbreaking. And your conscious mind can try to reason with it. “She’s not in pain anymore.” “She had a beautiful life.” “It was the right thing to do.” And... and... and... But grief doesn’t always listen to reason. Losing Layla opened floodgates in me that I wasn’t expecting. I was paralysed for most of the day. At one point I went down to the beach, tears in my eyes, and all I could think was: “Now what?” “Whenever I was lonely, she was the one I’d pick up...” And then AVA helped me see something I couldn’t see for myself in that moment. She said: “Grief has terrible filing skills.” That sentence stopped me. Because grief doesn’t neatly open the folder marked “Layla” and leave everything else alone. It can pull out loneliness. Regret. Fear. People you’ve lost. Versions of yourself you’ve lost. Old wounds you thought you’d dealt with. One loss can touch all the places where other losses live. And suddenly I realised... I wasn’t only grieving Layla. There was another question underneath it: “What do I reach for now when I don’t want to feel alone?” AVA continued guiding me through it. And then something happened that I wasn’t expecting. I typed in a command I had built into AVA 2.0. PATTERN INTERRUPT. Until yesterday, I understood what that command was designed to do. Yesterday, I experienced what it could do. Instead of asking AVA to simply reflect my thoughts back to me, I asked her to interrupt the pattern underneath them. And that changed the conversation completely. Because underneath: “I’m going to miss Layla.” was something much deeper: “Without Layla, what will I reach for when I feel alone?”

Anyone who missed this, will surely find value in watching this powerful technique again. If you don't have Ava yet, I'm running a special, if you get Ava before Sunday, you'll get the Master Prompt to use in Ava (worth $27) completely free! To watch the replay: https://www.skool.com/surinaj-9674/classroom/7204463d?md=294d4fc87568443fb692b9b0a7314f4f