Devoted To Your Own Soul
On self-devotion, self-loyalty and why there is no hard part.
You have been devoted before. To a person, a role, a version of yourself someone else approved of. In this morning conversation, Joel sits with what happens when that same devotion turns toward your own soul. Why breaking a codependent pattern starts with loyalty to yourself rather than distance from someone else. The difference between dirty pain that spirals and clean pain that transforms. And the full R.I.S.E. practice, the journaling framework he has been doing daily for over twenty years.
For anyone who has been loyal to everyone but themselves, and for anyone who has been telling themselves the inner work is too hard to start.
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In this episode:
- Why it is okay to feel lonely, and what changes when you stop treating loneliness as a problem to fix
- Self-devotion as the practice underneath breaking codependent patterns
- How dirty pain becomes clean pain
- The R.I.S.E. framework walked through in full: Release, Inquire, Self-Awareness and Empower
- Why there is no hard part, only the familiar and the unfamiliar
- Holding three stories around any experience: one that breaks, one that repairs, one that empowers
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🌿 Free live workshop: The Seat of Personal Power with Dené Logan, author of Sovereign Love. Moving from codependency to self-loyalty. Thursday, September 3rd, 6 p.m. Central / 4 p.m. Pacific. Register at https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/231757
✨ Free gift: A 30-minute guided journaling session, day one of the R.I.S.E. Journal Challenge. Find it at asoulcalledjoel.com under "Free Guided Journaling."
🤍 Beautiful Souls Community: the Fall season, The Practice of Self-Devotion, opens for registration September 4th at asoulcalledjoel.com
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Also mentioned: Resmaa Menakem on dirty pain and clean pain, plus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story."
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Connect: @asoulcalledjoel on Instagram and TikTok Beautiful Souls Community: asoulcalledjoel.com Read along on Substack: https://asoulcalledjoel.substack.com/
