Among the astrological signs, Cancers, represented by the crab, are stereotyped as being emotional, sensitive, and even moody. The New Moon in Cancer is the perfect time to focus on personal goals that lean into those traits in a balanced way: honoring our most intimate feelings, noticing when we feel safe and at home, and receiving support from others - personal goals that express the positive energies of the sign of the Crab.
Read MoreWelcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 128: Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: Your Helpful Guides: Triggers and Glimmers
Read MoreAs we close out our chapter on removing shame and shedding limiting beliefs, we’ve gotta talk about triggers and glimmers.
We all know what triggers are. Trigger warning! Painful stuff is coming! Triggers are ways we respond– even in ways we can’t control– to things that bring up past pain. It’s a way our body remembers threats, to try to protect us.
Glimmers are similar, except instead of remembering pain, our bodies are remembering joy. They are welcoming back beauty and saying, I see you. I remember you.
The thing is, both triggers and glimmers are good things, because they act as arrows pointing to growth.
Read MoreWelcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 127: Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: How Core Wounds Can Unlock Healing
Read MoreHow am I still dealing with these same issues, I wondered. I thought I had looked through everything. I had peeled back layers. I had done some major healing. For a year.
And that’s when I woke up to the real cause– and purpose– of these wounded cycles we inflict upon ourselves.
Read MoreIn general, Virgo symbolizes the goddess in her perfection, and therefore Virgos tends to be in control. This is amplified during the full moon; the full Moon illuminates these tendencies, allowing us to see them clearly and encouraging us to relinquish the need to orchestrate everything.
Read MoreWelcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 126: Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: If Your Life Feels Small, It’s Time to Shed Your Limiting Beliefs
Read MoreOften, a limiting belief isn’t something we even realize we agree with until we… stop believing in it. That’s what makes them so hard to identify! But typically these are beliefs we have about what leads to success, what’s going to get us a “good” life or make us a “good” person.
It’s like some sort of script we believe we have to stick to if we want the fairytale ending. And usually, we’re so young when we get handed this script that we don’t even have the tools to question whether it’s true or real or leading to any kind of happy ending that we actually want!
Let me give you an example…
Read MoreWelcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 125: Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: Silencing the Voice of Shame That’s Running Your Life
Read MoreLike most women throughout history, but even specifically those growing up like I did, in the American south in the last half a century, showing any amount of skin was met with disapproving glares, gossipy whispers, and choruses of “bless her heart.”
Can you relate?
Read MoreWelcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 124: EXCHANGING EGO FOR SOUL: Your Body is Your Oldest Ally
Read MoreOur bodies aren’t evil. They’re not bad. There’s a reason we’re not disembodied souls floating around a spirit world made of fog and twilight. But we’re often so busy telling our bodies what to be, what to do, and what to look like, that we forget to listen to their inherent wisdom.
Your mind will often lie to you about your body. But your body never lies.
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