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The Receiving Studio

You don’t get what you want. You get what you believe you’re allowed to have.

Find which of the five patterns is quietly running your life.

Honest, grounded writing on self-concept: the quiet beliefs that decide what you let yourself have, and the real work of changing them. No magic. No fairytales. Just the woman you’re becoming.

Latest writing

  • A Guided Meditation for Letting Yourself Receive
    In this meditation, you walk down through the snow from a mountain village to an old stone bathhouse you have come to many times before. Every time until now you have stopped at the first plain pool and gone no further. Tonight you finally go through the beautiful door you have always refused, into warm and lovely waters that were kept ready for you the whole time. It is a meditation for letting yourself receive, and it ends in sleep.
  • You Already Have What You Need (You’ve Just Been Looking Over the Fence)
    You are scrolling again, late, and the feeling creeps in. Everyone else got a life you somehow didn’t. Her relationship. Her house. Her ease. The way…
  • Your Attitude Is Running Your Life (More Than Your Circumstances Are)
    Before your feet even hit the floor, the day already has a verdict. You wake up and, somewhere in the first few seconds, a decision has…

Find your pattern

Which one is running you?

You already know the shape of it. You’ve just never had a name for it. Five patterns. One of them is yours, and it’s rarely the one you’d guess.

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