I was away on a Brand Retreat in Tulum last week and had a moment where I found myself deep in doubt. I questioned my path and wanted to quit my company… My entire world felt like it was collapsing and breaking down. I felt stretched beyond anything I had ever experienced before. This was an edge that was unfamiliar and uncomfortable.
I noticed myself spiraling and looping in an old familiar pattern, and recognized that it was an upper limit. My mind wanted me to quit, to walk away. And a past version of me would have seen these challenges as reasons and signs to quit rather than opportunities to recommit. Instead, I faced the feelings and chose to rise – to lean into the resistance and alchemize it and rise above it.
That was the breakdown…
What followed was the breakthrough.
As soon as I recognized it, faced the fear and moved past the upper limit something shifted. A sense of alignment and magic unlocked and a new level of myself emerged. The synchronicities and opportunities are presenting as a result of rising through the breakdown.
I've come to find that there are moments in life where getting what we want doesn't feel good. Resetting our health and getting our bodies in peak shape is not comfortable and not always the easiest process. Going to the gym and building muscle requires patience, perseverance, and devotion. It often contains a lot of resistance, discomfort, and doubt - all of which are natural in the growth process.
I realized that the level of resistance, doubt, discomfort, and fear I was feeling is proportional to the level of joy, confidence, abundance, and magic available on the other side. We have to be willing to face everything and go through it.
The Breakdown
I was looking back on my own health journey and realized that my health
Everything that you've known is no longer. What once worked doesn't anymore. Breakdowns come in many forms – health, body, career, relationship, etc. Instead of seeing the breakthrough as ‘bad’ and something to fear, what if we celebrated it and saw it as something to embrace, knowing that it leads us to something so much greater.
The Breakdown is The Breakthrough
I had a conversation with a woman yesterday who told me “I feel like I am breaking down." I looked at her and said "I know it may feel like that, but you're not breaking down. You're breaking through." I could only tell her that because I have been walking myself through multiple ‘breakdown’ to breakthrough moments.
There are moments in our life where we feel like we are breaking down, and in away things are breaking down, but they are the things that were not aligned nor meant to last.
Whatever you are experiencing and feeling right now, remember:
Contraction precedes expansion.
Pain is the Portal.
Triggers are the Threshold.
And the breakdown is the breakthrough.
