Who are you living for? Self Love, Confidence & Learning to Trust Yourself

To decide what kind of life you want to live and to step into who you want to be - start backwards. Who are you living for? Where was this born? What is your ego? Why is acknowledging and accepting it a necessary part of growth? Why do you want the things you want? What's holding you back from loving yourself? In this episode, there are a lot of moving parts, a foundational escrow of understanding the influences that made you, your ego, and what the ego even is in its various enigmatic definitions. How do you begin transmuting the pain and letting your ego move you into consciousness? How do you use your ego as a tool?Life, in many ways, is a mirror. And so are people. Why you can recognize love, is because you know love. You are love. Why you can recognize the opposite - is because that too, is also within you. Love is the most infinite presence in the world - and if you look for it, you will find it. But that is also true for the opposite. There is a dynamic polarity to everything. And with that, a radical acceptance in realizing that you live what you are. You become who you want to become, by embodying it - with full breadth.In this episode, I talk a bit about my journey in discovering that I was living my life out of alignment with what I truly wanted and some of the learnings I've gathered from literature on the Ego, Mimetic Desire, & Generational Trauma. I talk about how you can break out of the conditioning and understand what is holding you back to be empowered in strength to overcome it. Book Recommendations Mentioned in this Episode: 1. Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle2. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Every Day Life - Luke Burgis2. Untethered Soul - Michael J Singer3. It Didn't Start with You - Mark Wolynn SOCIALS: Tell me what you want to hear next & follow for updates!Spiritual & Self-Help Advice -> TikTok: butterflyfountainPodcast Instagram: @figuringshiiitoutPersonal Instagram: @222vgfYoutube:  @figuringshitout (Vanessa Fontana / Butterfly Fountain)Contact: [email protected] the show Our Sponsors: * Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code VANESSAFONTANA for a great deal: happymammoth.com * Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code VANESSAFONTANA for a great deal: happymammoth.com * Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: www.rosettastone.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sh-t-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy