My Most Radical Act of Self Love Yet - Are You IN?

This is the most HONEST blog I’ve written to date.  I’m putting my truth out on the table in an act of radical self love.  Here you go...

Happy Valentines Day!  To all of you who are in love and those of you who crave love, I wish you a happy day of honoring how love can show up even more in your life.  In recent years I’ve begun to consider Valentine’s Day the day of practicing more Self Love.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be having a special evening with my honey tonight and I’m very grateful for that.  But I’m also clear that I wouldn’t have gotten to this point of dinner and music with my husband if it wasn’t for self love.  

As the Universe would have it, I'm being given yet another opportunity to practice profound self love these days.  After getting married and going through what felt like a major spiritual portal of self growth and evolution a few months ago, I became ready to birth my life’s work.  Truly.  I’ve had a few ideas and dreams brewing in me for close to a decade now and I am finally ready to share them with the world.  (Ironically, I needed to go through some major dark times and undergo a process of intense physical healing and restructuring of my life to become ready).  The birthing of my dream is coming in the form of ALIGNED, a revolutionary 7-week transformational program that begins on April 3rd.  You’ll be hearing all about it in the coming weeks :-).   This is the culmination of everything I’ve been through, all that I’ve learned and integrated, as well as how I coach my clients towards living their ultimate lives.  I really believe in this work and stand fully behind this process.  It's how I live.

WHAT'S SELF LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
I became ready to offer these teachings because I love myself enough to commit to being the person I wanted to become.  That person is living the dream that has been brewing in my belly.  That person is humbly and courageously offering her own teachings based on her experience of walking the path of truth and reaping it's rewards.  That person knows that all she can really do is walk her own path fully and by doing so can model the option to others of doing the same for themselves.  I OWE it to myself to birth this dream of ALIGNED and the other offerings I'll be sharing this year.  I can’t not do it anymore and in doing so I have to practice Self Love more radically than I ever have before.  The old me who used to cut corners and step over her intuition and body occasionally is not the woman leading these courses.  The old me who was an amazing film and photo producer because she handled every detail, burned the midnight oil and put others first is not the woman who models embodied truth by honoring the pace of her spirit and surrendering to what she cannot control.  The old me who over scheduled herself and remained in her head instead of living and loving from her body is not the woman who will balance career, partnership and family rooted in simple pleasures and generous love.  The continued fruition of my dream depends on me loving myself enough to gently put down another layer of my old skin yet again and become again and again who I'm meant to be.  

WHO IS THE NEW YOU THAT YOU'RE BECOMING?
When I work with my clients on who they are becoming, we often give a name to the new them.  This allows them to really identify and personify the charicteristics of their future self.  Luckily for me, I’ll naturally be changing my name this year since I recently became married.  My new name is Rony Reingold, which so wonderfully means “Pure Gold”.  I’ve seized this as my opportunity to really slide into the skin of the me I am becoming.  I am Rony Reingold and it's been very fun to define exactly what that means for me.  It creates a new land to live in and an opportunity to step fully into my highest self.

So who are you becoming?  And if you’re not sure of that yet, who do want to be?  Who is that person within you that you owe it to yourself to become?  How do they live their life?  How do they dress?  What car do they drive?  What music do they listen to or do they choose instead to sit in silence?  What is their body like when they sit at the computer?  What is their relationship with food like?  What is their relationship with themselves , their children and their soul mate like?  How do they respond to situations that trigger them or situations that fulfill them?  What brings them ALIVE?

THE RAW TRUTH: A DANCE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW
When my husband catches me in my old mode of being driven and over-extended, he calls me "The Producer".  It's kind of a joke, but more of a gentle reminder to check myself and remember my new definition of what it means to produce and create from within.  There’s no room for my old ways if I’m going to truly fulfill this dream and embody Rony Reingold and all she means to me.  The new me produces and creates, in fact it brings me alive, but I do so from the center of the goddess within me; of the humble teacher and the person who fully and joyously dances down my own path of empowered self actualization for the sake of personal evolution and inspiring others.

I’ll be honest with you, there are days when I get consumed by the old anxious and controlling producer in me – she lures me into working late, getting disconnected from my body and stretching myself thin.  This is my deepest self sabotaging pattern and at times it feels that the new me and the old me are engaged in quite an arm wrestle, each trying to prevail!  However as I’ve experienced through evolving beyond other patterns in my transformational journey, when we practice radical Self Love, slowly but surely the new way prevails – in a peaceful and effortless, simple kind of a way.  It’s beautiful.  And I know that I’m already here.  The new me embodies such a deep love of self that when I catch myself in an old way I simply stop and take a breath.  I put my hand on my heart, I go for a walk outside, I sing or do a yoga posture to get back into my body.  I ask for a hug.  Within minutes or sometimes hours, I’m back to embodying Rony Reingold.  It feels incredible.  This is the path.  This is the work.  This is what it means to Embody our Truth.  

ARE YOU IN?
When we have a dream on the line, we can’t afford not to step up and love ourselves radically.  We just can’t.  So... what do you OWE to yourself?  What is the dream that it’s time to get back in touch with and who do you need to be to make that dream a reality?  

Ultimately, the question I'm asking you is:  Are You IN?  Are you willing to jump into the land of BEING the You You Are Becoming right now?  Are you willing to check yourself and bring awareness to yourself when you get stuck in your old ways?  Are you willing to take responsibility for those moments when you take things personally and act like a victim, when you react instead of respond, when you feel defeated but know you must continue?  Are you willing to gently and simply catch it and choose the new way instead?  What will open up for you if you begin to retrain yourself in this way?
I can tell you from my own experience and from the growth I see in my clients that a whole new world of peace, empowerment, connection, freedom, joy and purpose is available to you if you’re willing to start truly LOVING yourself.  When you put yourself first and fuel your tanks, speak honestly, take risks in honor of being fulfilled and allow yourself to be seen I guarantee you SO much will open up for you.  

You may be afraid to love yourself this radically out of fear that you’ll be deemed selfish, you’ll have to leave your job or you’ll end up alone.  If this is how you feel than I invite you to check the story you are telling yourself in your head – most likely there’s a nice, sneaky Saboteur here for you.  It’s natural for our saboteurs to show up when we start practicing self love because it threatens their way of being.  It threatens the life of the small, shrunken, fearful, accommodating, burnt-out old way.  Of course your saboteurs will put up a fit to get your attention when you're about to grow and love yourself majorly.  But you’re at choice.  You can get sucked into that propoganda in your head or you can simply practice having awareness in the moment and choosing yet again your new way.  You can be the you you are becoming.

GO FOR IT!
I cannot wait for April 3rd to come around!  It will be the deepest and most profound expression of my truth thus far and I am giddy with excitement to share it all with you.  I’ll be teaching you the exact step by step process that I put myself through to walk through the portal of physical, emotional and spiritual transformation.  I’ll be sharing with you how I found my truth and what I had to do to reorganize my life to align with it, leading me to my soul mate, my dream career, a healing body and lovely home.  It’s the same process I take my clients through and I’m blown away by the inner peace, clarity, deepening of heart, power and spirit that they are experiencing.  

As you go about this Valentine’s Day, I invite you to practice more Self LOVE today than you’ve ever practiced before.  Become the witness of your own experience and practice catching yourself in the old pattern and shifting into the You You Are Becoming instead.  Start to notice the difference in behavior, habits, patterns and response to life in general between the old or current you and the you you are becoming.   How does your future self show up in conversation?  Is he/she generative and constructive or reactive and small?  How would the new you handle this situation?  What does the new you want for lunch?

I’m here with you, standing for you, stretching myself as you stretch yourself beyond what you’ve known thus far and into unknown lands of gloriously rich and fulfilling new territory!  Your pool of Self Love awaits you.  Ready to jump IN?

Shine On!
Love,
Rony

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