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What are the scripts in your head that you have accepted as truth without questioning?
Initially, this is a hard task because when we don't know
something is accepted unknowingly, how can we know we have accepted them?
As of late, I have been thinking about scripts that I have been letting myself accept, and it was with the help of others that I trust that I was able to identify certain statements about what I can and cannot do, what is and isn't possible, what is and is not true about the world we live in that upon identifying them, brought me even more peace and comfort for my everydays.
Perhaps you too have scripts that you have accepted that are not beneficial to living your best life. Maybe you have accepted a script because others are following it or preaching it, and to not follow it would be initially stressful, exhausting in fighting and perhaps ostracizing. One of the keys to detecting when we are following a script is when we don't understand our own strengths and uniqueness. In my new book being released in five weeks -
Living The Simply Luxurious Life - an entire chapter is dedicated to helping readers unearth the strengths that already exist within them. For each of us, our discoveries will be unique to us, but being conscious of what they are and then discovering how to strengthen what is already innately a gift we have been given can be life
changing for the better.
Erasing the scripts that have been placed upon us, that we have accepted without question and that confine us to live a life beneath our potential, is life changing. Perhaps today or this weekend find time to sit with yourself and write down the supposed life truths by which you live your life. Then examine, which ones set you free and which one's cause you pain, angst and worry. As Marie Forleo shares, fear is good when it is
the hope that it will lead to expansiveness, but it is something to relinquish when it comes from a place of retraction. The same can be said for the scripts we allow to be part of our lives - if a script is limiting, we need to question it fiercely for validity. And if a script enables us to stretch ourselves, perhaps we should at least get to the truth of where the script came from, so we can find a more stable foundation from which to spring.
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of that said, this week's newsletter is a quasi-mini French Week as I am excited to share with you a giveaway of Tish Jett's Living Forever Chic - her new book which was just released this week. Be sure to read this week's This & That to learn more and leave a comment on that post to enter the giveaway. As well, Wednesday's post spotlights a woman who has built an online French-inspired boutique - Olive & Branch. From French market
baskets to French pottery (TSLL will enjoy an exclusive discount), be sure to meet the owner and escape to Provence as her descriptions of what she loves to do when she visits will certainly make you smile (and pique your appetite). And there's more! A French recipe, a French decor book and this past week's episode of The Simply Luxurious Kitchen vodcast was inspired by my time at Patricia Well's Cooking Class this summer. Oh, and one more thing - be sure to tune in to tomorrow's
episode of the vodcast as I will share how to make a classic French Omelette paired with images captured in and around Paris never before shared on the blog. That's episode #5, and it will go live on TSLL blog and wherever you download your podcasts tomorrow (Saturday) morning and YouTube on Sunday morning.
Thank you for subscribing to TSLL's weekly newsletter. May your first weekend in October be exhilarating in its restoration, and if you are
celebrating Thanksgiving, as I know Canada's festive holiday is this coming Monday, may you have a wonderful feast and gathering with family and friends. Until next week, I'll see you on the blog!
