858. Social Media as Shadow Work—What Your Triggers are Revealing

25:26If you were a witch burned at the stake, if you were someone that had, you know, people turned on you, people betrayed on you, it won't just be in this lifetime that you were being activated. You know, there's been times in my process where I've had things come up online where I'm like, ooh, this is this lifetime, but there's something else here that's funky about a past lifetime, whether it was someone that said something, someone that did something, something that I did, there can be actual ancestral and past lifetime healing that can also happen online because things can happen that are brought to the surface that can reflect some of the energetics of that process.

26:01So the reason why we do shadow work is to become more whole, to become more magnetic, and to become more of ourselves. Shadow work is such a process to your deepest self-love, deepest self-acceptance, deepest like joy in life, and really becoming who you came here to be. Because if you think about it, if I'm meeting you and I'm saying, hello, this is Krista, and there's 20 parts of me that are right behind me in my shadow that I've completely disowned, maybe like my power, my humor, my fear, my abandonment, and I'm meeting you and I'm not showing you any of that, you're only going to get to access a very small part of me.

26:43You're only going to get to connect to one aspect of me. And that might be the good girl. That might be the charismatic one. Whatever that front is that I want you to perceive me as might be the only point that you could access if I've done no shadow work. And for a lot of women, it's the good girl. For a lot of men, it's, I don't know, bless them. Bless and release. I don't even know what they're, the strong one. I'm like, it's not even the strong one anymore. I think they're having an issue. They don't even know what their mask is right now at this point. But if I have all these aspects of me in my shadow and we're meeting, you're not going to get to know so much of me.

27:22But if I bring in and incorporate and get to know all of these shadow aspects, which is the truth of who I am, which is the multidimensionality, which is the wholeness of who I am, because I am both dark and light. We are all both dark and light. Then you get to know all of me. So we get to talk and I'm like, oh my God, yeah. And then I can be powerful. I can be like, hey, powerful part, let's rock. Hey, you know, really funny part, like let's hang out. and then you get to know aspects of me, the depth of me, the richness of me, these multiple parts of me. And so shadow work creates intimacy in your relationships, in your life and creates a magnetism because imagine you keep pulling these parts out of the shadow and then the shadow kind of gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller.

28:01Probably won't ever go away but it's gonna get smaller and smaller and then your light just gets bigger and bigger and bigger because you've integrated these aspects into the wholeness of who you are and you become more of who you came here to be. So again, it's the practice of turning towards the disowned aspects of us instead of rejecting them. It's about integration of these parts. It's about not fixing them. It's about not shaming them. And it's about integration. So in the process of me as the example with the AI girlinas, and I'm like, oh my God, these bitties are like, their looks are triggering me because they are fake.

28:39and I am afraid of not being beautiful and not being attractive. Instead of being mad at AI girlinas, which I can be because they're AI girlinas, I can turn to myself and go, what is that part of me that's so attached to looks? What is that part of me that's so afraid to not be seen as beautiful? What is that part of me that learned at a young age that beauty had to be in the room if she was going to be in the room? And how can I love that part and say, baby girl, I love you so much, even if you're not beautiful, even if you're not conventionally attractive, even if you're not young, even if you're not thin, that is the actual work.

29:19So using social media as the mirror, going with the trigger, and then going and doing your own work to integrate, to love, and to fix. Maybe you are someone that is deeply triggered by people that have, you know, a lot of opinions online. Maybe you feel like you're mad because you can't control what they say and you don't like what they say and it bothers you. Maybe that's your opportunity to look a little bit closer at what is the aspect of me that feels like I'm not safe unless everyone thinks the same way I do. What is that aspect of me that feels like it's not safe to be around people that have different opinions as me?

30:00What is that aspect of me that feels like I need to have control over what everyone says and what everyone does. How can I remember that actually in this lifetime, I'm never going to be able to control what anyone says or what anyone does. And that people will absolutely have different opinions as me. That's a part of this process of being a human on earth is people having a lot of different opinions. The important part of shadow work is not about fixing. It's not about shaming. It's not about integration. So for my little girl that says, you know, I have to be beautiful to be in the room. I'm not like, oh, come on.

30:33Kids, come on. This old thing. Beauty, beauty, looks, looks. We've done this whole rigmarole. No. I say, hey, I get it. I love you. I have compassion. And I just want to know you. I want you to know that I'm here. I want you to know that I'm here. I hear you and I see you. I'm not shaming her. I'm not blaming her. I'm not mad at her for what she learned at a very young age.

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34:40So thinking about foreshadow work and working with social media, there's not fixing, there's not shaming, and there's integration of your parts. So if we think about, you know, a more, a deeper spiritual level of this process, especially in the context of social media, there's the idea of projection. And I love how Carl Jung thinks about projection. Jung said, until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. on social media projection is constant the whole app is almost based on production so if you're enraged by someone who's very confident someone that's very expressed there is a part of you that wants to be more expressed there is a part of you that wants to be seen and I think the greater your rage or your trigger on social media especially about people being expressed being seen being heard that means you have this part of you that knows you deserve to be seen.

35:32You deserve to be heard. You deserve to be on stages. I've seen this so often. And I remember so much of this in 2020, when so many people were like, going after influencers and people with platforms to talk about stuff to share about stuff to promote stuff, etc. And it still happens all the time. And I get it. And it gives away so much of your own power, it gives away so much of your own power and your own voice and your own magic. And it basically says to the universe, I don't believe I have what it takes. I don't believe that people will listen. I don't believe that people care what I have to say.

36:04I have to tell this other person to say everything that I want them to say. And there's such a power in a belief of your voice and a belief of what you have to say and a belief in your magic. And so remembering that oftentimes we project what we desire. And so if you're triggered by someone's wealth, maybe someone's talking about their six figure day. Maybe they're talking about their eight figure, you know, breakfast, whatever they're figuring. It might be your suppressed desire for abundance. Maybe you want money too. I think for me, there's always been a trigger about people making money easily.

36:40There's like a part of me from Midwest, Ohio roots. That's like making money has to be hard. And I've worked with quite a bit. But when I see people that are like, Oh, yeah, I made, you know, 50k in an hour by like posting this course. I'm like, what? I had to give my soul over during this client session and channel their dead ancestors and then, you know, talk about how we could put that into a business plan. And I'm like, how could that be easy? And so I'm triggered by the fact I think that some people have it easy. And going and understanding this trigger is that I really want to know and have my life be easy.

37:15And how can I make it easier for myself? So going with what you are triggered by, If someone's confident, if someone's wealthy, if someone's, you know, successful, if someone's expressed, whatever that is, looking at it in yourself, how is that an unconscious desire that you have? If you fear you are being judged, it is usually because you are harshly judging yourself. So often people, I work with people on putting themselves out there on expression and they're like, I'm afraid I'm going to be judged. I'm afraid someone's going to judge me. I'm like, baby girl, you have 45 followers right now.

37:48I don't think anyone's going to judge you right now. Maybe they are, maybe they're not. I don't know. Even if you have a million, you will judge yourself more than anyone else will online. And if they do judge you, it's usually a reflection of how you're judging yourself. An example, we went on this podcast a bit ago, a year ago or so, and we talked about dating and relationships. And, you know, I said something, I don't even know. I was like, what did I say? I was like, men are something. And men, if you say men, if you say men, as a woman on the internet, you will have men pitchforking at your door.

38:25So I said men, and they heard me and they were mad. And so they started commenting and they're like going off and they're like, oh my God, you da da da da. You know, they could have been like, you are a dumb biatch. And I would have been like, okay, because I literally think I'm a genius. But if they're like, you're an old woman. And I'm like, oh my God. I'm like, they caught me. Like, I feel like I'm caught. I'm like, wait, what? How do you know my age? I'm like, how do you know I'm a woman? You know, I just like go in. And so knowing and understanding that I am judging myself for my age, and then I will be judged externally for that too.

39:00I have no fear of being dumb. So anyone calling me dumb is never going to happen really and wouldn't impact me. But because I have that trigger in me, that unconscious wound, that is going to happen consciously in my life. And before I made it conscious, it would be my fate where I'd be like, oh my God, I'm too old. I'm all this stuff. So spiritually, from a spiritual perspective, projection is usually the ego's defense against self-confrontation. Projection is the ego's defense against self-confrontation. You guys, self-confrontation is the greatest skill that you could probably ever meet. Okay.

39:39So if we go to the example of the you're enraged about the woman that is very confident online, your ego is like, oh my God, I'm not confident. Oh my God, I'm not confident online. I'm not putting myself out there. She's the problem. Yep. That's the problem. It's outside of me. It's not in here. Nope. Nobody's home. Don't look at me. So your ego is so desperate to not be at fault, to be the victim and to never be wrong. So it's looking outside of itself. So you are not having a self-confrontation moment of like, oh girl, I want to be seen. Social media is all about self-confrontation. You looking at yourself.

40:21What is my algorithm showing me? What are my friends showing me? What is this post showing me? How is this showing me about myself and my life and what I'm attracting and what I'm drawing in. There's also the law of attraction with social media. So in many spiritual traditions, especially with the law of attraction teaching, there's an idea that life mirrors your inner state. So my fear of being old was then brought into my reality with this viral clip of these men telling me I was old. Social media accelerated this opportunity for me of this mirror. So I had this inner state of I'm old. I had the outer state of the mirror reflected back to me.

41:07The algorithm actually literally feeds what you engage with. So it's feeding you what you are engaging with consciously, but energetically you're engaging most with what is unresolved within you. So you may keep seeing women who are speaking boldly and being confident because your voice is ready to be heard. You may be keep seeing cancellation drama of people being canceled online because you're terrified of being exiled. This is a huge one. Oftentimes when I work with women on visibility and voice and being seen online, they're so afraid to be canceled. That's past lifetime stuff. that's, you know, there's a lot there with spiritually speaking about past lives.

41:54But you're also just terrified of being exiled yourself. And so you will magnetize seeing other people be canceled. I had a moment with that where I was seeing tons of people be canceled, tons of cancellation content. And I would almost soothe my nervous system by seeing other people canceled because I was like, okay, maybe it's not me. Hopefully it's not me right now. But you might be terrified of being exiled because of that fact. And the way that you would work with that is to not exile yourself. Even if the world cancels me, I'm still going to love myself. I'm still going to be there for myself.

42:22I'm still going to honor myself. In a really powerful practice, if you have the fear of cancellation is disengaging with any cancellation content. Do not consume any content where anyone is being canceled online. Not Reddit threads, not YouTube posts, not social media. Even if it's like stuff where you think that's righteous cancellation, you think it should be in the news. Do not engage with cancellation content if you want to be seen and and you want to be heard online. It's never going to help you. You're going to, because if you're engaging with cancellation content, you're looking at what is okay to say, what is not okay to say, what are people getting canceled for?

42:56How can I not do that? How can I figure out how to adjust myself so that I'm not canceled? So not only does it affect your expression, it also affects your psyche. It also affects your nervous system. And it also just puts you in a state where you're never going to be fully expressed in who you are. You maybe even keep seeing women with perfect bodies with whatever body type you're like attracted to or drawn to. I mean, my like booty game, like I'm like, I want like, I love my booty, but I'm like, I want like a really juicy booty. So for some reason, whenever I get on freaking Instagram, I see these like dump trucks and I'm like, I am actually drawing in this energy of seeing these women because when I go out in the world, I do not see this.

43:37And I am like, girl, okay, this, your sign is here. Love them, bless them, bless me, bless their booties, bless my booty. How can I love and accept what I got going on? And how can I clear that so it's no longer showing to me mirrored by law of attraction by my Instagram? Your body story and how you relate to your body oftentimes can be such a place for healing with social media because there's so much opportunity for judgment about bodies and looks because we're looking at a screen.

44:07Being triggered and being activated and having your life mirrored back to you through social media is not a punishment. It's not a bad thing. It is an invitation for you to go in, for you to do some shadow work, for you to clear what is unresolved, and for you to become more integrated and wholly you. A Course in Miracles teaches that what you see out there is actually a projection of inner belief systems. This is a very deeply held spiritual teaching. This is biblical too. But what we see in the world in our dream state is actually a projection of our inner reality in our mind. So if you believe it is not safe to be visible, if you believe love is conditional, if you believe if I'm fully expressed, I'll be abandoned, then social media will become the stage where there's beliefs get activated for you to look at them and for you to heal.

44:56The miracle is not about controlling the perception. It's not about changing who you are. It's not about contorting. It's not about finding the perfect filter. It's not about finding the perfect hook. It's not about finding the perfect lighting. It's about choosing love over fear in the moment of activation. It is about being with yourself when you find yourself activated. It is about honoring and accepting the activation that you come with, not fixing it, not shaming it, but just honoring that part of you. And a lot of times our suffering comes from attachment to things and then also aversion.

45:34We can be, you know, anxious attachment, avoid an attachment. And attachment looks like, you know, us craving validation on social media, us wanting people to like our posts, to care about our posts. And then aversion also looks like avoiding our expression. So we're either posting and we want everyone to validate and like us, or we're not posting at all because we're scared that they won't. And shadow work is about both noticing the clinging or the suppressing. I had a girl that re-shared one of my posts the other day and then made a post of her own because she was inspired by it. And she was like, I just posted my own post and no one's liked it yet or commented.

46:12And I was like, baby, you are either clinging to people liking it or you're suppressing yourself. It needs to be about you and what you want to say and what you came here to do and who you came here to be. It's about taking the hit of inspiration that you got from my page, alchemizing it into your own and creating something because you want to do it, not because of what everyone else is doing. You can post your phone and you can check your phone 17 times. That's an attachment wound. You can write something powerful and delete it. That's a version. Both are teachers for us in this process. For many of us, social media can feel like a space where they have the deepest desire.

46:56They have the deepest want. They have the deepest yearning. and the shadow shows up as what if they hate me? What if I'm wrong? What if I lose everything? And really the question we should be asking is who are you if you don't live your truth? Who are you if you don't live your truth? Who are you if you don't become the person you came here to be. And there's this really beautiful element of authenticity and vulnerability in expression work where so often I'll have people that I work with, they'll say, I want to be seen, I want to be heard, I want to be more visible. And I'll say, okay, great, why?

47:39And a lot of times people don't really know. And they don't really connect with the why they're kind of maybe unconsciously working from a little girl or a little boy in them that just wants to be seen in the world, or they're working on the part of them that only feels good if they're feeling validated. And so that can be the drive. But there also is a deeper desire that we have. The truth of who we are is to fully be seen in our truest expression. And to do that externally, we have to first do that internally. To be seen and visible in the world, to express who we truly are. We have to bring so many parts of us, so many aspects of us from the shadow to the light, to work with, to be with, to integrate, to love.

48:25And then once those parts are loved, once those parts are conscious, that's when we can co-create a life of purpose and of meaning, because we've brought in the mystical part. We've brought in the spiritual part. We've brought in the part that's afraid. And we're like, hey girl, I know you're afraid. We're going to post anyway. It's because I want to do it. We want to do it. We're all good. Everyone's safe here. There's no one or nothing that will make me love myself or abandon myself. Nothing, especially on social media. Maybe you're afraid of posting something vulnerable. Maybe you went through a breakup.

48:53Maybe you had this big learning. Maybe you were an addict. Maybe you had a change of opinion. The shadow belief of that would say, if people see the real me, they'll withdraw more. If they disagree with me, they won't like me. If they find out I'm not perfect, I will be rejected. And the spiritual reframe in this case would be visibility is an act of self-trust and it's not a request for approval. So I'm doing this because I trust myself and I trust my story and my path, not because I'm trying to be seen. And I actually don't need people to approve of me and actually don't need people to say I'm good or bad after doing this.

49:41maybe you're someone that judges influencers who self-promote. And maybe the shadow belief of that is taking up space is selfish. They're obsessed with themselves. They love taking up space. They just want to be seen. And the reframe here would be expansion is not ego. Suppression is not humility. Because in this case, what you're doing is you're either saying their expansion or their ability to be themselves or put themselves out there is bad and it's ego. And then you're also saying on the other end that suppressing myself means I'm humble. No, I'm humble. You know, I don't like to show off.

50:17That's not humility.

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53:31you could be someone that obsesses over engagement over people liking your stuff over people commenting over people you know validating what you do online you could have the belief that your worth is measured externally that you know it really matters how people perceive you or what they perceive about your worth and the reframe for this is that your worth is intrinsic. You are naturally worthy outside of social media. And that metrics are actually neutral. Metrics don't mean anything. You could also believe that you might be canceled. You know, you might say something or do something that's going to cause a controversy and they're going to come after you and you're going to be canceled.

54:13And maybe the belief here is that belonging is conditional, that people are going to eventually discard you. People are eventually going to get rid of you. People are going to eventually decide that there's something wrong with you and they want you to go. And the reframe would be that true belonging comes from self-allegiance first. So if you were ever part of a group or part of a friendship where you weren't in alignment with yourself, then you weren't really in alignment with that as a friend anyways. And, you know, I like to bring in parts work with this. So when we're continuing to peel back the layer of how social media is shadow work, from a parts perspective, the shadow is really not evil.

54:54It's just the protective aspects of us. It's the part that wants to hide to protect us from shame. It's the part that over curates our feed to protect us from rejection. It's the part that wants to go viral, is keeping us from insignificance. And I just want to slow down on that one. It's the part of us that wants to go viral because it's protecting us from insignificance. So many of us have this deep wound of feeling insignificant, of feeling like we're not special. And so many of us have the belief that we are so deeply special. There's something special about us. And while there is something very special about you and something very special about me, there's also not.

55:35And that is the craziest thing because it's very hard for me to process that spiritually. A Course in Miracles talks all about that. Shadow work is really being self-led. So how am I doing something from the true authenticity of what I feel, what I want to say, what is coming through to me? What is like the deepest truth of this moment right now? It's calm, it's curious, it's compassionate. it. And if we were to move from this fear of putting ourselves out there, this fear of expression, this fear of being judged, this fear of being canceled, and you know, instead of thinking, why am I like this?

56:11Why can't I put myself out there? Why can't I get over this? It's asking what part is afraid of what will happen if you become fully expressed? What part of you is afraid if you put yourself out there? What will happen? What part is afraid of getting canceled? And the question really changes everything because you can work with parts and these aspects of your shadow, these aspects of your parts that are in your shadow to support yourself in a deeper understanding of yourself and having more compassion for yourself. Because social media is not an enemy. It's really just this modern initiation portal to a deeper understanding of who we are and why we came here.

56:51And it really gives us this access point, this like supercharged way of loving ourselves more deeply because it confronts our ego. It confronts our attachment to our identity. It confronts our craving for approval. It also confronts our hunger to matter. If you use it unconsciously, it will amplify your insecurities. That's why social media has created so much mental health issues. That's why social media has been so hard on people's mental health for so long, especially teenagers and young people. Because they don't have access to their prefrontal cortex or a more advanced level of processing and understanding, they are just using it and becoming more and more insecure.

57:38But if you can use social media consciously, it can really accelerate your self-awareness and accelerate your growth. Because the shadow and the shadow parts of us are not something to eliminate. There's something to be with. There's something to love. There's something to honor. There's something to accept. And there's also something to integrate within you so that your light does not become fragile. And bringing in as a second part of this, talking about the nervous system, there is an important aspect of visibility that relates to the nervous system. And as someone that is visible online, there is very much a regulation piece, a safety piece, a part of you that has to be regulated in your nervous system to be more visible.

58:19from a general activation perspective, if you have the fear of being canceled, of being exiled, of being abandoned because of something that's happening online, your nervous system will still register that as I'm being kicked out of the tribe, I'm being left behind, I'm going to die. And so the same type of response that would happen in the caveman days is still happening to our nervous system in the same experience. Our body usually reacts before our brain does. And posting online for some reason can often feel like we're stepping on stage in front of thousands of people. And for a lot of us, it could be thousands of people.

58:58For a lot of us, it could be four people. But that feeling of our nervous system having that same response and fear can be activated in both situations and scenarios. And so we can have the fear of expression. We can have the fear of being misunderstood, of being too much. of not being enough, of being canceled. And this is the tribal fear of our nervous system, which is wired for belonging. We are wired to connect. We are wired to belong. And being canceled unconsciously feels like we're going to be exiled. Being rejected, you know, someone commenting on something makes us feel like we're going to be kicked out of the tribe.

59:36If no one likes it, it makes us feel like we're going to disappear. And so when you don't post, or when you shrink or when you soften your truth, you have to ask, what are you protecting yourself from? Rejection, loss of approval, maybe identity. And I think a really beautiful process is to be posting as much as you can from a regulated nervous system state. And if you find yourself triggered or activated, going from the nervous system level first of regulating your body, of relaxing into the softness of who you are, of coming back home to yourself, back home to this reality before you do anything else.

1:00:15For many of us, we spend six to 12 hours on our phones every day, you know, so much time now. And so our nervous system is really regulating with the phone. It's either regulating in a parasympathetic way or an activated way. And so when we kind of break that space and we can create a regulation within ourselves, with nature, with our pets, with our partners. We can co-regulate with people. We can approach social media from such a safer place and we won't have the part of us be super activated. And from a psycho spiritual level, when we're posting online, we can feel the psychic eyes on us. We can feel, you know, in Kabbalah, they would call it evil eye.

1:01:01You can feel sometimes the evil eye psychically, especially if you're someone that's deeply sensitive, deeply intuitive, a deep feeler, you might feel the projections and perceptions of other people. And so some of this work, if we were to, you know, you and I were to work one-on-one from like a 301 level, we would do a lot of work on spiritual protection and spiritual boundaries and spiritual hygiene around being visible on the internet. Because the internet is a portal. It is a place for projection. It is a place for fantasy. It is a place for illusion. and that illusions could come into our reality, can really affect us and impact us.

1:01:36And so also having really good spiritual hygiene can be as important as having your nervous system hygiene. I could go on forever about that one, but we'll keep that there. Social media is also, as the third part to this, a shadow portal. So for all of us, instead of avoiding these social media triggers, we can use them, using these triggers for our growth, for our expansion. So maybe you're afraid to post your opinion and your shadow is saying, I equate disagreement with abandonment, what you could do would be to say a opinion. What you could do to support yourself in this process of healing to become more visible and become more authentic is to microdose these things that are supporting your shadow and being more visible.

1:02:24So the microdose would be if I'm afraid of sharing my opinion online would be to come on a story, maybe practice just recording myself sharing a bold opinion. And maybe I don't share it yet, but maybe I just get comfortable in my body and comfortable in my voice with saying something that feels charged to a phone. And maybe the second part of that microdose is to do it again the next day where you just kind of activate my nervous system and regulate myself, remind myself that I'm safe to speak my truth. Maybe the next day you send it to a friend and say, hey, I did this thing, would love your support.

1:03:00Maybe then you get the comfort and confidence to share something a little bit more bold, but maybe not a 10 out of 10 online. So in the process of becoming more visible and expressed, there's the option and the takeaway you have as another part of your homework is to do micro doses. Okay. We're going to do micro doses of visibility, microdoses of nervous system activation, microdoses of expression, so that you can really feel into the activation in your nervous system and the overcome of that so you can be more expressed. Because with the nervous system and with the microdosing, you cannot shame yourself into visibility.

1:03:41If there's a part of you that is afraid, that part needs safety, not force. And shadow work is not forcing yourself to post more. Shadow work is not becoming louder overnight. Shadow work is listening to the scared part of you, listening to the ambitious part of you, and listening to the part of you that wants to be fully expressed, all with love and all with reverence. It's becoming the self leader, the you that's so powerful and holding all of these truths, and then becoming the woman that I can listen to all of these parts and then speak what is the deepest truth in her. Because what if social media isn't necessarily the problem here?

1:04:21What if it's a mirror for us asking, can you love yourself even if you're misunderstood? Can you love yourself even if you're not validated? Can you love yourself when someone projects on you? Can you love yourself when you take up space? because that is truly the real work here with social media is loving yourself even if. Social media will amplify whatever is unresolved in you, but it will also amplify your growth if you let it. If you use it consciously, it becomes your practice in self-trust, expression, embodiment, and unconditional self-acceptance. Because the goal isn't to win the algorithm or go viral all the time.

1:05:11It's to become the kind of person who can stay rooted in who you are while you're being seen. And using this tool as a portal for your deepest expression and transformation in most vibrant life. Because there's a few questions you guys can ask as your homework. I know I've dropped a few homework notes, so I hope you're taking notes here. What is my biggest fear about being visible? What voice do I hear in my head when I'm about to post? What do I judge most online? If I could be fully expressed online, what would that look like? And when we can sit with those, we can really understand ourselves so much more deeply.

1:05:53We can love ourselves more deeply and we can become that fully expressed version of who we are. A lot of this work with expression, a lot of this work with a voice, a lot of this work for personal brands, for people that want to be teachers, leaders, facilitators, people that want to be seen for the truth of who they are, is the work that I do with women. I'm going to be doing a two-day immersion actually in Chicago called Fully Expressed. And this is all voice visibility work. This is you being in your visibility and your voice. I work with women that are mostly on the edge of breakthrough, going through times of deep transformation, not quite sure what's on the other side, not quite sure where they're going.

1:06:30And women that are often very sensitive and that have let everyone else take the stage, let everyone else go first, let everyone else be big and shiny and been in the background and are ready to be seen. So if you feel like that is you, if you feel like you're ready to take all the shadow work that social media has been showing you, and you are ready to be in your fullest, most embodied expression that is so unique to you and become who you truly came here to be, fully expressed is the perfect opportunity. It's a one day immersion happening in Chicago, June 27th. And on the 28th, I have a VIP day for people that have brands and businesses.

1:07:03So this is someone that wants to be a public figure, that wants to be a podcast host, a influencer, a teacher, a leader, or an entrepreneur that is public and visible. So that's really deep dive work, very limited spots for that. All that information is at my website. It's Krista.com. So it's I-T-S-K-R-I-S-T-A.com. And I would love to have you at that. It's going to be incredible. The women leave crying, happy, excited, free, liberated in ways that they never even saw coming. I've been working with so many of those women ever since and I've seen their accounts go viral. I've seen them double their income.

1:07:38I've seen them attract men that fully see them. I've seen them just literally blossom and explode into the women that they came here to be because this can be so powerful. So I hope you liked this episode. Send it to a friend. I definitely highly suggest you guys kind of work on this together. You can even have a conversation about this. You can have a night where you work on this together. I love to be sent in the DMs. You know, hey, be visible. Show it off. I love you guys so much. You can find me on Instagram at itskrista. It's I-T-S-K-R-I-S-T-A. Almost 30 podcast is the podcast. Almost30.com.

1:08:10We're also on YouTube. You can watch the whole video on YouTube. I would love to see you. Almost 30 podcast on TikTok. We have tons of TikToks that don't make the Instagram, so I would definitely go there. And then Morning Microdose is our second show. It's like the greatest hits of almost 30. It's like five to 10 minutes of just the juice of the pot. So I will see you on the next one. I hope you enjoyed. I will talk to you later. Love you. Bye.