Sharing my big dreams with some of my ex-lovers, ex-friends, and family:

I want an online business that allows me to travel the world. I want it to help people find their truth and come home to themselves. I want passive income that supports my lifestyle, and I want to work with people in person while I’m traveling. I want to have e-guides that teach people about what I know, and I want to have subscriptions for people to read what I write and watch what I record. I want to be rich and make millions so I can stop living in survival mode and have overflow to give back to and take care of the people around me ~ those I love who are closest to me and the communities I find myself in.

Their reactions:

• That only happens to a small percentage of people.

• It scares me that you think you can do that.

• You just need to go back to working in healthcare, that’s why you got a psych degree.

• Those people are scum, they just want money.

• I’m worried about you.

• You’re dissociated and I feel sorry for you.

• You need to come back down to earth and get a real job.

• It’s embarrassing that you share so vulnerably on the Internet.

• Have you even fact checked everything you say?

• You speak with such conviction like everything is fact and it’s so annoying.

• Subscription models are fucked and just take advantage of the people you’re charging. I thought you were better than those billionaires.

• The stuff you offer isn’t based in reality.

• What happens when it fails, then what? Will I have to help you?

• You just want attention. Why would you share so much on social media?

• Are you really gonna share on there? UGH! That’s so weird.

Y’ALL! I’m here to tell you that THESE PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO LOVE YOU. They love a version of you they have made up in their heads that allows you to fit into their carefully crafted perception of reality. One that keeps them in their comfortable box they’ve built.

The conditioning around freedom and free will is DEEP and people will project project project when they cannot see what you see.

Your boldness. Your conviction. Your passion. Your audacity. It will trigger them. It will bring to the surface the very ways they hide from or shrink themselves. The ways they have moved based off this conditioning, rather than what they truly desire.

Do not let that stop you. It may take a while to remove or recalibrate each relationship. To set boundaries around what you will and won’t tolerate. To make it clear that if they can’t learn how to show support and respect then they will not be welcome in the world you’re building.

Trust yourself. Trust the process. You are meant to help others awaken, and you are meant to take care of yourself while doing it. Once you recognize that someone is unable to support your big dreams it is up to you how they may remain in your life. Loving from a distance is often necessary as others learn to find themselves.

If you have set boundaries, broken cycles, or cut people off who are unable to support you ~ I see you. I’m proud of you. Keep going!

With love for anyone chasing their dreams,

Sarah ~ The Wandering Storyteller

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