💌 WITH LOVE, DOMINIQUE

Bringing meditation, mindset, and spirituality down-to-earth to empower your authenticity & greatest potential.

 📚️ VOL 27/ 🕖️ READ TIME: 2 m 26 s

IN TODAY’S ISSUE:

• 💭 WE’RE DIVING INTO / THE QUIET POWER OF LOVING WHO YOU ARE — NOW

• ✏️ QUESTION FOR REFLECTION + GUIDING TIP/ TIPS FOR THE QUIET POWER OF LOVING WHO YOU ARE — NOW

•  📞🧘 WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER / CURRENT OPENINGS & OFFERINGS

DIVING INTO: THE QUIET POWER OF LOVING WHO YOU ARE — NOW

Hi love,

I recently re-stumbled upon a video diary reflection I recorded back in 2022 — right after I decided it was time to leave my full-time corporate job to follow this passion for meditation and mindset work — and felt the immediate reality of that decision set in.

In it, I said to myself: “I believe in you. You can do this — you know you can be your own worst critic.”

At the time, simply saying the words “I believe in you. You can do this.” felt like a radical act of self-love for my present self. They hit my heart as a commitment — that I wouldn’t let my inner critic author or limit my potential in such an important part of my life anymore.

One of the biggest reasons I love helping clients move past the fears and limitations of their own minds is because I’ve lived it. I’ve seen how understanding your mind — and learning to work with it instead of against it — can completely transform what’s possible.

From that moment, when it all felt impossible, I made a commitment to trust my truth, my excitement, and my purpose more than my fear. I thought it would take at least a year to make the leap — but life had other plans. Within six months, I had already jumped.

Now, in my sessions, I see that same inner critical dialogue show up in so many clients as they set the powerful intention to expand and embody their next level.

That voice that tells us we’re not doing enough, not moving fast enough, not “there” yet.

The mental (and emotional, nervous system) chatter that keeps us from what we deeply want, dulls the abundance available right now, and slows momentum that could be effortless.

If you relate, I’d like you to reflect on this:

How long has that inner critic disconnected you from the ease, joy, satisfaction, love, appreciation, trust, and fulfillment available in this present moment? 

If you’re like I was or like how some of my clients experience it — that inner critic has probably followed you through every milestone — every success, creative idea, and brave next step.

It might congratulate you for a moment, then quietly whispers, “Okay, but what’s next?”

And without realizing it, you start living in the tension between pride and pressure.

But that voice isn’t truth.

It’s an old pattern — a reflex your mind built to protect you from disappointment or judgment. It’s the part of you that learned safety through control, validation, or constant progress.

But that pattern doesn’t need to define you anymore.

You can honor it for trying to keep you safe — and still choose differently. You can remind yourself that peace doesn’t come from proving yourself — it comes from being yourself.

Because the real work isn’t in silencing the critic — it’s in learning to hear your truth beneath it.

The one that says, you’re already enough — even as you grow.

THE PATTERN BENEATH THE PRESSURE

Most of us don’t criticize ourselves because we’re ungrateful.

We do it because somewhere along the way, we learned to equate self-acceptance with complacency or ignorance.

And deep down, we may even fear that if we stopped perfecting and pushing, everything will fall apart.

So we strive. We analyze. We fix.

But the version of you that exists right now — in this exact moment — isn’t something to fix.

They’re the ones who got you here.

The one who held faith when things felt uncertain, who kept showing up even when the path wasn’t clear.

And when we tap into a deep sense of appreciation, acknowledgment, and love for this version of ourselves right now in this present moment, we reconnect to the power that’s always been there — the power that exists beyond the yapping of our inner critic.

The one that fuels our vision through abundance, not lack.

Loving your present self doesn’t mean giving up on growth.

It means realizing that you’re only able to stand at the doorway of your not-yet-manifested next level because the current version of you has built the abundance required to even see it.

It means recognizing that self-acceptance is the richer soil your next expansion can grow from.

Because you can’t shame yourself into expansion.
You can only love yourself into alignment.

✏️ QUESTION FOR REFLECTION + GUIDING TIP: WHEN YOU’RE OUTGROWING THE LIFE YOU BUILT

Question for Reflection:

Where does my inner critic still try to “motivate” me — and what might change if I chose self-acceptance instead?

Guiding Tip:
When the critic’s voice rises, pause and breathe.
Place a hand on your chest and say, “I feel like _________, but I love myself anyway.”
Notice how your body softens when love, not pressure, leads the conversation.

With love,
Dominique

🧘 📞 WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER: OPENINGS & OFFERINGS

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