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What Happens When We Focus Only on the Light and Forget the Shadow

In short, avoiding our shadows stunts our growth toward our highest potential.

The emotional messiness we experience is often the result of emotional avoidance. The more we push away, the more they pile on top of each other.

Staying Human in the Age of AI

Yet I’m aware of the consequences of becoming dependent on AI—just as we’ve become dependent on GPS, smartphones, and Google. We slowly disable our own abilities to memorize, investigate, and problem-solve.

How I Felt When I Journeyed Through a Death Meditation

When his words guided us to visualize our bodies laying still, dying, my mind was on high alert, my emotions triggered, and I felt my body resisting his words and the experience. My mind had anticipated this dreaded moment and I was angry at its arrival, out of sheer fear of what I was going to feel next.

Olivia Wu 6/18/23 Olivia Wu 6/18/23

A Broken Heart is an Opened Heart: Creating a New Capacity for Love

In order to allow love to enter, our heart will have to be open to it. The wider it is open to receive, the greater the love will enter. The chance of heartbreak and disappointment will always be there… Our mind cannot separate us from love, it can only create fear.

Olivia Wu 4/27/23 Olivia Wu 4/27/23

Why Hitting Rock Bottom Might Be Exactly What You Need to Transform

While everyone’s rock bottom may look differently, the feeling of being at rock bottom is probably very similar. It’s that feeling of utter incompetence and unworthiness, that you are as low and insignificant as a pile of rubble and you have no idea how to come back up.

Olivia Wu 4/26/22 Olivia Wu 4/26/22

Why We Need to Reconnect with Our Feminine Energy

For millennia, the feminine energy has been seen as weak and inferior. As a result, it’s been suppressed and dismissed in many cultures and societies.