Gemma Spake

Your relationship and how you act towards uncertainty is what is going to determine what happens.

Not your imaginary, fill in the blank, catastrophic perceptions of it.

If you take, you know, nothing else from this episode, let it be this.

You're allowed to be scared of change.

It's really fucking scary.

You're allowed to grieve what you might lose.

You're allowed to not know exactly how it will play out.

But that being said...

you don't actually know and you're also allowed to decide that this discomfort the terror of never trying is way worse than taking a step just because something is scary doesn't mean it's not the right move in fact sometimes that fear is a sign that it is

Your fear-based imaginations are not predictions.

They are designed to be the most intense, scary thing that you can imagine so that you can be prepared for it.

They don't know any more than you do.

And if you say it's going to be all right, if you say I'm going to accept the change anyways, I'm going to be prepared, I'm going to face it head on.

If you say it's going to be magnificent, it will be.

The chances are so high that it will be the way that you anticipate it if you anticipate it in a positive light.

That it's going to be incredible because you have embraced something that so many people don't and they live miserable lives anyways.

At least you can say I gave it a go.

At least you can say I freaking tried.

rather than dealing with the what-ifs.

So thank you for listening if you have made it this far.