Soul Salon with Ayandastood

A quick, loving reminder of the power of y(our) voice, art, perspective! Divine & magical being, I hope you enjoy this soul snack! Sign up for an exciting announcement soon, if you haven't already: 👉🏾 get a ⁠FREE Creative Activation ⁠—a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀

hello soul sibling! in today's Soul Session, i start off by sharing how nervous i felt recording it. we discuss how fear can be a portal from the ego to the soul, and why unconditional love can be a cozy home to return to when we feel stuck in perfectionism, fear, embarrassment, or self-doubt. 👉🏾 get a ⁠FREE Creative Activation ⁠—a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice.  CREATIVE RESOURCES:🧘🏾‍♀️ ⁠Get ⁠Creative Activations⁠⁠ to move from fear to flow: get a FREE Creative Activation when you sign up 🚀 ⁠⁠Work with me 1:1⁠⁠ on creativity and/OR visibility to unlock your next level 📖 Buy my ebook, ⁠⁠Creative CataList⁠⁠ for a JUICY supply of creative inspo I use daily ✨ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ADVICE COLUMN: ☎️ seeking advice and want to PHONE IN with a question? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠submit a voicemail here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 📩 OR WRITE IN an advice question anonymously at the ⁠⁠⁠⁠form⁠ here⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Feeling it's too late to chase your dreams? This podcast gently reminds you that the train misses you! Discover multiple versions of yourself and the power of creative kinship. Embrace your unique gifts while navigating ageist timelines that can hold you back. Learn to trust the unfolding of your journey and confront the discomfort that comes when pursuing your passions. Let go of fear and perfectionism to unleash your creativity! It's never too late to make your offering to the world.

My love, your dreams have sent you this message to remind you to surrender to the full experience of their pursuit. And since the collective is dreaming through you, we all ask this of you: to hold the polarity of your dreams. 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀  We do not get to experience the beauty of a dream without the challenges. Every gift has a challenge and every challenge has a gift — this is wat the universal law of polarity teaches us. In this Soul Session, we invite the law of polarity to expand our Creative Consciousness by teaching us to accept the FULLNESS of our dreams, NOT the illusion of them (ironically). I hope you enjoy today's Soul Session, made with love ❤️ CREATIVE RESOURCES: 🚀 ⁠⁠Work with me 1:1⁠⁠ on creativity and/OR visibility to unlock your next level 🧘🏾‍♀️ ⁠Get ⁠Creative Activations⁠⁠ to move from fear to flow: get a FREE Creative Activation when you sign up 📖 Buy my ebook, ⁠⁠Creative CataList⁠⁠ for a JUICY supply of creative inspo I use daily ✨ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ADVICE COLUMN: ☎️ seeking advice and want to PHONE IN with a question? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠submit a voicemail here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 📩 OR WRITE IN an advice question anonymously at the ⁠⁠⁠⁠form⁠ here⁠⁠⁠⁠.

babes, the IRONY of this soul session is my inner critic is telling me it is not good enough to share. that i should record it again (and the illusion is that I wouldn't find fault with that version, as well). 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀 so in SHARING this transmission i am also embodying it, which, I think, is rather delicious and beautiful. from the deepest part of my soul, i want to remind you that your worth does not come from your ability to meet a perfectionistic standard. do not define yourself by all you COULD HAVE said, it minimizes the generosity and power of all you did say. do not define yourself by all the edits you COULD have made to your creation, it erases the wholeness of all you did create. i am on this journey with you, towards overcoming perfectionism, towards GENUINELY embodying and believing that we are endlessly worthy of all kinds of creation, towards unlearning perfectionistic standards learned in childhood. i love you so much, SOUL SIBLING!!!!!!! KEY QUOTES: “I love myself so much that I refuse to betray what I know is true for me”  “Be confusing. Nothing accepted in its fullest magnificence is required to make sense”  “If it feels like everyone is against you, remember — you have not yet met your everyone”  CREATIVE RESOURCES: 🚀 Work with me 1:1 on creativity and/OR visibility to unlock your next level 🧘🏾‍♀️ Get Creative Activations to move from fear to flow: 📖 Buy my ebook, Creative CataList for a JUICY supply of creative inspo I use daily ✨ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood ⁠⁠⁠ | TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ADVICE COLUMN: ☎️ seeking advice and want to PHONE IN with a question? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠submit a voicemail here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 📩 OR WRITE IN an advice question anonymously at the ⁠⁠form⁠ here⁠⁠.

Dive into the journey of overcoming the fear of being seen and judged. Discover three powerful shifts that promote radical acceptance and personal growth. Hear a personal story about vulnerability and the challenges of sharing one's truth. Learn how to integrate judgment and unleash blocked expression for authentic self-expression. Plus, get inspired to create the world you wish to see through visibility and connection!

MULTI-PASSIONATES, ASSEMBLE! if you want to do a LOT of different things, but you fear confusing other people, this is your sign: BE CONFUSING! This is a continuation of a TikTok I posted. We are RECLAIMING the state of confusion from this colonially imagined, logic-obsessed world. are you coming?! 👉🏾 Get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀: ⁠⁠www.ayandastood.com 🚀 Work with me 1:1 on creativity and/OR visibility to unlock your next level 🧘🏾‍♀️ Buy my ⁠⁠Creative Activations⁠⁠ album and private podcast feed to move from fear to flow

Sending love beams, soul siblings! I am hosting a FREE MasterClass on Creative Kinship on Zoom this Sunday, June 30 @ 10am-11:30am EST / 2-3:30pm UTC. Register here. ✨ GO DEEPER WITH ME: 👉🏾 FREE MASTERCLASS ON CREATIVE KINSHIP THIS SUNDAY 6/30: https://ayandastood.substack.com 🚀 Book a 1:1 Creative Activation Coaching Session to unlock & unblock your creativity: www.ayandastood.com/coaching⁠ 📖 Buy my ebook of creative catalysts for a JUICY supply of creative inspo: : ⁠⁠Creative CataList⁠ 🧘🏾‍♀️ Buy my creative meditations album to move from fear to flow: ⁠⁠Creative Activations⁠⁠ Sources mentioned: Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner

“comparison is the thief of joy” they say, a quote originally from Former US President Theodore Roosevelt (random!). but what does the idea that we just "shouldn't" compare ourselves to each other ignore, and in turn, normalize? find out in this soul session and learn: How this idea can reproduce individualism How we are made to glorify our own alienation What another way of seeing comparison could be How thinkers like Bayo Akomolafe⁠⁠, Gabor Maté, and Byung-Chul Han can help us make sense of all this... Time stamps: (02:46): Shame & comparison(03:49): Individualism  (06:28): Crisis Response (Bayo Akomolafe) (09:08): The Myth of Normal (Gabor Mate)(14:25): Atomization & Authenticity (Byung Chul-Hun) (22:06): Collective path (25:11): Social structures  (26:42): Comparison as a cultural cold(33:36): Reimagine social systems (34:40): Essay: Comparison as Symptom (Me) (34:54): Thank you for being here  Sources Mentioned: Philosopher: ⁠Bayo Akomolafe⁠  Podcast: Jung and the World Podcast: One to One with Bayo Akomolafe Book: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté YouTube: Dr. Gabor Maté: The Myth of Normal & The Power of Connection | Wholehearted Book: The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han Podcast: Philosophize This: Episode #189 ... Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing. - Byung Chul Han pt. 2  Essay: Comparison as Symptom by me on my Substack ADVICE COLUMN: ☎️ seeking advice and want to PHONE IN with a question? ⁠⁠⁠⁠submit a voicemail here⁠⁠⁠⁠. 📩 OR WRITE IN an advice question anonymously at the ⁠form⁠ here⁠. JOIN THE COMMUNITY:  my muse-letter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ayandastood.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ please join me here! follow me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on TikTok and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ayandastood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on IG and ⁠⁠@ayandastood ⁠⁠on YouTube CREATIVE RESOURCES: ✨ Work with me 1:1: www.ayandastood.com/coaching ✨ Buy my ebook of creative catalysts: Creative CataList ✨ Buy my creative meditations album: Creative Activations

Hi my loves, this is the second and final part of my mini-series uplifting the work of abolitionist scientist Dr Ayesha Khan⁠  who writes the most beautiful, informative, revolutionary ⁠Cosmic Anarchy⁠ Substack. If you haven't already, be sure to catch Part 1 on Spotify here and on Apple here. Again, I am reaching imperfectly — for Palestine, for you, for this work. ESSAYS mentioned:  Subscribe to ⁠Cosmic Anarchy⁠ Substack. Learn more about ⁠Dr Ayesha Khan⁠ website & Follow on IG @thewokescientist⁠ ⁠Our boys & men deserve to live, not just our women & children⁠ (focus of today’s episode) ⁠Effective activism will never be 'peaceful' & we should stop using that word⁠ ⁠How do we keep hope alive in our movements?⁠ ⁠We keep us safe by fighting back & taking collective risks, not by being pacifists⁠ Poem: ⁠If I Must Die⁠ by Refaat Alareer Essay: Ethics, Risk & Apocalypse by Peter Gelderloos  Book: ⁠Imagination: A Manifesto⁠ by Dr. Ruha Benjamin Other resources: Decolonize Palestine reading list 14 Trusted Charities Helping Civilians in Palestine