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Teri Leigh πŸ’œ's avatar

This "I’m a seeker. . . With kicks and starts that feel more like stops and falls.

I’ll never give up. I remember too much" . . . is great writing.

and I love that you put your smiling face on the front of your profile page. coming out from behind the pen name is powerful!

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Connie Baglia πŸ’šβœ¨'s avatar

Thank you Teri Leigh πŸ’š You know you are instrumental in my unfolding these days.

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James Bailey's avatar

So beautiful Connie. This especially - such wisdom - β€œI’ll surrender, but not in a giving-up kind of way. Rather in an opening-up kind of way.”

I once read that professional poker players surrender 80% of their hands. Not in resignation, but in trust. Maybe β€œopening up” to play future hands!

There’s trust in surrender.

Keep on keeping on out here!!

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Connie Baglia πŸ’šβœ¨'s avatar

Love that James! Thank you!

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Shruthi Vidhya Sundaram's avatar

Connie!!! Oh my gosh...I'm so damn glad I found you because of Teri today! Otherwise, I'd have missed this beautiful gem! Damn woman! You made me tear up!

I love that you called God 'she'. I loved that you spoke so expressively about your kids and mother. So many women get buried with guilt about expressing about our relationships, but while reading your words written with so much openness, something opened up inside me too!

I'm being called to share 2 things with you:

- You don't need to tough it out, my friend. There's an immense power in softening, too. The divine feminine is expecting us to express every single emotion on full blast in this phase - anger, wrath, power, gifts, unconditional love, compassion, empathy...every single emotion.

- You're already worthy of abundance. Are you ready to receive though? And with ease?

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Connie Baglia πŸ’šβœ¨'s avatar

Shruthi, I never saw this comment of yours. Somehow I have missed seeing some of the comments in my articles. Tech challenged πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ Anyway, thank you for reading. And THANK YOU! for your insight and feedback. Yes to all of that!

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Rick Lewis's avatar

An elegant and rousing post Connie. Especially this line. "I’m a wanderer with a compass that points inward." You deserve to be visible to more people. My experience is that the more thoughtful the writing the more incrementally and organically that visibility occurs. Stay the course. You're on the right track.

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Connie Baglia πŸ’šβœ¨'s avatar

Thanks Rick! Somehow I missed your comment. I was just sitting here playing this head ping-pong game telling myself (I'm a nurse by trade) that virus is actually bad. So I seem to be antivirus in the Substack walls. And that must be good. lol!

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