Stop Watering Plastic Plants

Your life force energy is precious.

It’s what animates your body. It fuels your immunity, your health and vitality, your focus, and the actions you take each day. It can also be depleted.

In this episode, I’m inviting you to make conscious choices about what you work on, because some situations will not shift to fit your yearnings, no matter how much hard work you put in.

You can water a plastic plant for years and it will never grow fruit. And if self-blame is your go-to when things don’t work, you can spend those years blaming yourself for what was never going to transform.

We explore why it can be so hard to recognise “plastic plant” situations, especially when change involves other people. I share the three main reasons people stay committed to an incongruent path:

• Loss aversion - and how our nervous system can treat potential loss as danger
• Lost time and not wanting to be wrong - including the pull of right/wrong thinking
• Focusing on short-term pain rather than longer-term alignment - including the grief that can come with aligned change

I also share a real example from my work with a client who came to “make the best of” a relationship she felt stuck in, and how everything changed when she moved from survival fear into the knowing that she had options. From there, she was able to do the deep work, have different conversations, and the relationship dramatically improved.

If you want to explore how this applies in your own life, whether it’s a relationship, a workplace, an environment, or a long-standing pattern, you’re welcome to book a Discovery Call with me and we’ll talk it through.

Visit my website, explore 1-1 Wholistic Life Coaching, and book your Discovery Call here: https://ieshadelune.com.au/offerings/wholistic-coaching/