One thing I was taught early on was "a Shaman in practice can adjust to any environment, finding balance and equilibrium with ones surroundings." Speaking from experience I can tell you it's almost impossible to harmonize with an environment if you're demonizing it at the same time. It's not always easy to find the "good" in the world, but beauty, is everywhere. - Love Zo

Fear asks the question, love is the answer. 🥰

The world has no shortage of - @$$holes. Even if it’s only 1% of the population, when you have 8 billion people on the planet, that’s 80 million @$$holes. Chances are you’re going to run into one. I’m lucky enough to deal with maybe 0.1% @$$holes. Maybe that’s the life I’ve carved out for myself, maybe it’s what I attract, or maybe it’s because I simply don’t put up with @$$holes. Here’s the advantage of the biggest @$$hole in your life: Maybe they’re your villain, your attacker, your nemesis — your personal Darth Vader. If you can learn to be patient with that person… if you can lovingly place boundaries and hold them… if you can learn who you don’t want to be because of them… and you arrive at a place where they can no longer steal your peace… then you can deal with almost anything life throws at you. Maybe that’s why they came to Earth — to fulfill the spiritual contract of being the biggest @$$hole in your life. I could be right, I could be wrong, but it’s far more functional than complaining about them and continuing the same cycles and loops you’ve been stuck in before. Maybe this relationship isn’t here to break you. Maybe it’s an opportunity to rise to a new level of consciousness you’ve never reached. If you were a kind and loving person before this relationship and you aren’t now, then don’t let them win. Don’t let them change you. Just evolve. Just a thought. - Love Shaman Zo #toxicrelationships #emotionalalchemy #spiritualgrowth #healingjourney #selfmastery

Master these steps. 1. What is the story I’m telling myself? 2. How do I feel about my story? 3. Do I want to live here forever or change? 4. Can I remember the power inside of me? 5. With THAT power (of love) I now create a new space for a new story. ------- We start where all healing starts — the story. The story is where the problem begins (because if it didn’t bother you, there would be nothing to process, it would be a blessing). The story is the mind. The past. The narrative. Then comes the emotion — the purge. This is where the storm happens inside your body. The part nobody likes. The part everyone avoids. But this is the medicine. And then comes the turning point — the transmutation. The moment where you draw the line, plant your staff into the ground, and say: “I’m done feeling this way.” Once you cross that threshold, you hit the real magic:t he creation of space. Space is where Spirit steps in. Space is where clarity enters. Space is where your soul rises back to the surface. And when you put all four pieces together, the ancient alchemy symbol appears — the reminder that every emotion, every story, and every spiral downward was never a collapse… it was a descent with purpose. Because the descent is voluntary when you’re awake. It's your mini underworld journey. Your pitchfork moment — the place where you rage, cry, write, run, breathe, sweat, scream, paint, or meditate until the poison leaves your bloodstream. That’s the purge. That’s the shrapnel coming out. That’s the wound being cleaned so time can actually do its job. Then we rise. Because the positive emotions you seek — joy, trust, courage, ease, clarity — they’re not learned. They’re remembered. Babies are living proof. The soul comes in knowing how to love, trust, laugh, and shine. Life just distracts us into forgetting. So the work isn’t becoming something new. It’s returning.