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Choosing You:  Even When the Blessing has a Sting

Choosing You: Even When the Blessing has a Sting

Update: 2025-11-27
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What if the moment that stings is the blessing you asked for? We dive into the messy middle where frustration, failure and tricky people become teachers, and we show how to meet them with clean honesty, strong boundaries and calm observation. Instead of chasing feel-good moments, we practise seeing every experience as information. That shift—from polarity to equilibrium—returns agency, raises our signal and opens space for solutions that force can’t create.

We talk about owning emotions without shame, because the avoidance of feeling drains more energy than the feeling itself. From there, we get practical: claim quiet space, disrupt overcommitment, and stop wearing “Yes” as a badge of honour. Real leadership removes tasks from the basket so excellence can breathe. We also challenge a common myth: you are responsible for your emotions and actions, not anyone else’s. Let go of managing other people’s moods and watch your clarity return.

To ground the mindset, we bring in the Gene Keys—moving from Shadow to Gift to Siddhi—using examples like control to trust, and corruption to equilibrium to harmony. Behaviour can look similar across these states, but intention transforms everything. The goal is the middle path where life is neither good nor bad; it just is. From that centre, intuition finally has room to speak, and answers often arrive in ways logic could never design.

If you’re ready to choose yourself, start by asking: where am I contributing to what isn’t working, and what is the gift wrapped in sandpaper here? Press play, share this with someone who needs a reframe, and tell us the gritty blessing you’re recognising today. Subscribe, leave a review, and join the conversation—your story may spark someone else’s breakthrough.

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Choosing You:  Even When the Blessing has a Sting

Choosing You: Even When the Blessing has a Sting

Kirsten Barfoot