There’s no way around it. This thing called life that we are all doing together is teeming with risk. Today the stakes are even higher. Just leaving your home could be hazardous to your health.

With everything that’s happening, it’s enough to make any woman want to stay in her comfy bed, warm under the covers to devour a good book or binge a great show on Netflix.

The same could be said about personal growth, transformation and change. It’s legitimately not for the faint of heart.

There have been several moments on my journey of becoming who I am today when I’ve felt royally pissed off at the process. Because it’s not easy. It can be deeply humbling, confusing  and confronting. And messy, too! No one told me about the messiness…

There have been moments when I’ve been so filled with doubt and fear that I’ve wondered why I ever opened up Pandora’s box in pursuit of a different, more honest, more extraordinary life for myself.

Why, oh why couldn’t I have been satisfied with a “normal” life? Why did I have to want more? Why couldn’t I have put my life on autopilot and cruise control and just gone with that?

But even writing that last sentence tells me why. Because I am not meant for normal, status quo, autopilot or cruise control. Everything about those things makes me feel like I’m being confined and stifled, left gasping for air, ready to crawl out of my skin and scream.

My truth is that my life before all of the personal growth, transformation and change I’ve done (and continue to do) did not reflect who I really am.

It was not what I knew, somewhere deep down inside, my life was meant to be.

I was surrounded by toxic people and engaging in a lot of toxic behaviors. My relationships were not healthy or even good. My eating was seriously disordered, I had a host of addictions and crutches that were hurting me, and I was hiding from everyone – including myself.

I was deeply unhappy, I did not like myself much, and I couldn’t see why anyone else would, either. Because I couldn’t see the real me.

So, what changed? What motivated me to take steps in a new and different direction?

I heard an inner voice say, “You have to stop what you’re doing. If you’re going to become who you’re meant to be, you have to stop.”

In full transparency, when I heard that voice I didn’t stop. I kept going for another year or so, because I didn’t want things to change. I was having “a good time”. And I didn’t want to feel or take responsibility for my life. None of that sounded like fun.

When my life started to go off the rails – which was inevitable – it became crystal clear that the time to change had arrived. If my life was going to start looking and feeling different, I needed to be the one to make those changes.

As risky as my former life had become, I had to start taking real risks.

It was time for me to stop being the kind of woman who would contort herself into crazy positions to please others and have people like her. It was time for me to start acting like a woman who held herself, her relationships, her body and her life to much higher, much healthier standards.

I had to start being vulnerable, courageous and bold.
I had to start seeing and relating to myself differently.
I had to start eating, moving, coping, and working differently.
I had to start holding myself and my life differently.

It was time for me to start being a woman who was worthy of care, health, abundance, love, radiance, brilliance and goodness.

And I HAVE.

Time and time and time again, I have chosen better for myself. I have risen to each and every challenge, period of confusion, and opportunity. And guess what? I’ve become a woman of incredible depth and integrity, who honors herself, holds herself in very high esteem, and even takes pride in who she is and how she shows up in the world.

My life reflects the risks I’ve been willing to take and the changes I’ve been willing to make – and I am SO INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL it moves me to tears.

Is the risk worth it to you?

Is it worth it to you to risk the life you’re currently living for one that feels more like your own?
Is it worth the risk of disappointing others so you can feel happy and be true to yourself?
Is it worth the risk of leaving familiarity and comfort behind so you can really live?
Is it worth it to you to let your life get messy so that something beautiful and true can emerge?
Is it worth letting go of who you’ve been conditioned to be so that you can become who you really are?

Only you can answer these questions, because only you know what is true for you.

If some part of you knows that you are meant to create your life your way, and that you’re meant for something more, even if your life is fairly fabulous as it is, then let me say this:

It’s worth the risk.

1000% percent, it’s worth the risk.

You, your dreams, and your magnificent life are worth taking the risk – again and again and again.

Because LIFE is worth it. You are worth it. You becoming all you can be is worth it.

The only thing we truly regret is the parts of our lives we’ve left unlived, the courage we didn’t step into, the dreams we didn’t pursue.

Is it worth the risk to you?

PS: I currently have space for two more 1-on-1 coaching clients. If you are one of them, I can promise you we will walk into 2021 powerfully and beautifully, together. You can send me an email at: alicia@aliciamorrow.com and we’ll set up a time to speak.