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… except maybe ones like “You don’t even KNOW!”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Today, May 20, the Sun enters Gemini, my birth sign. Time for me to do a little happy dance and celebrate my birth month! \ud83d\ude00
It’s the perfect time for you to get to know me a bit better. I realized that, holy moly, most of you don’t even KNOW my past. You don’t even KNOW who I used to be, or what my life was like. You don’t even KNOW…. how often I used to say that phrase to well-meaning people who were trying to save me from learning things the hard way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t listen. I did things the hard way. Because I was >>different<< or HE was different, or, you don’t even KNOW what’s going on, how could you possibly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I didn’t see. Like a child who can’t imagine that a grandparent was also once a child, I couldn’t see how these calm, stable, supportive humans in my life had possibly gone through anything remotely similar to my very intense personal drama. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, just so that YOU know and can see that I have transformed my inner and outer worlds over the years, I’ll begin a daily transformation series for the duration of the Sun in Gemini. Why, Hippie Britt, why? You know the planets have moved and realigned over the years blah blah and astrology is blah blah blah, don’t you? (This is what Logical Science-Minded Britt thinks you’re all thinking). Anyway, why? Why not. Celebrating another rotation around the Sun is fun, spring is my favourite season (so full of hope and renewal!), and solar and lunar calendars make more sense than man-made 365 day yearly calendars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sayings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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This well-loved reminder lived on a cupboard door in my grandparents’ kitchen, before my Grandma passed it on to me<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On to the sayings! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back when I was not listening to anybody, and not terribly discerning in who I let into my life (in other words, I saw the surface of a person, and was proud of “seeing their good” despite… well… their actions, past or present), back when boundaries were this floaty-out-there idea that I hadn’t learned about ever, back then… the few things I did hold on to were sayings that felt like truth to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back now, I guess they’re a kind of affirmation<\/a>. Repeating something over and over helps to rewire our neural pathways, create new beliefs, and change the way we interact with the world around us. When my brain was all fried and confused, and I was barely in the beginning stages of healing my body, soul, etc, the kind of deep inner work I do day-to-day now would have been super overwhelming. Even just lifting the curtain and peeking at my fears was enough to send me running off and crying in a corner for the rest of the day, so to speak. But repeating little sayings, little truths, little bite-sized affirmations, this, I could get behind. This, I could manage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few:<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n