Owning Your Greatness

And an opportunity to work with me tomorrow to learn how!

Apr 29, 2025

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As you know, I am a MASSIVE fan of shadow work, working with the unconscious parts we learned to push down inside of us because we were taught they make us bad, dirty, sinful, or maybe we were ridiculed for these parts. (Which, of course, those parts do not go away.) This has been a huge part of the work I have done for myself for years because I have desperately needed it, and it is something I love sharing with my clients and you!

What I also really love spending time on is Positive Projections. This is something I have gotten to study in my Institute for Coaching Mastery School.

“What positive projections are: They’re when we’re admiring someone. We’re positively projecting aspects of ourselves onto them and often not owning that it’s also within us. Anytime we admire something in someone else, it’s reflecting a part of ourselves that already exists. We may have not either seen it or owned it in us yet.” - ICM

So many of us have a resistance to positive projections because we have struggled with owning our own greatness. This is our inner critic and ego’s way of staying within the illusion of unworthiness, helplessness, and ultimately giving our power away.

As a hard-core enneagram 4, jealousy and comparison have played a huge role in my life. I do not think I even realized how much so until I started doing my own inner work. It has caused me deep pain to be honest. (By the way, if you relate to that, this in no way makes us bad, it just makes us human!!!!)

When I began to learn about positive projections, it truly shifted something inside of me. I was finally able to begin owning the great parts of myself that I was seeing in others. They were mirrors for me of the greatness that is within me, too!

This is not about pride and being egoic. This is about agency. Seeing how powerful we are! This is not to say that I do not still compare and get jealous. I absolutely do! But now I have tools to love that part of me and then to shift my thinking into seeing that person or persons as Way Showers. They became inspirations to me for what greatness wanted to come forth inside of me in its own unique way.

I would love to teach you some simple yet profound tools that I use to help make that shift! Tomorrow (April 30), I am teaching a class on Owning Your Greatness from 12:30-1:30 Central Time for all my paying subscribers. If you have a hard time taking compliments, seeing amazing aspects of yourself, finding yourself jealous of what others have, and then shaming yourself for being jealous, I really believe this class will be so supportive and loving for you!

I want to help you see how freaking powerful you are and help you shift some stories that you may have been telling yourself for most of your life! You can find the button to sign up at the bottom of this newsletter.

I hope to see you tomorrow! Sending all my love to you, beautiful, powerful friend, Ruthie

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I know you have heard me talk about how transformational Kate Northrup's work has been for me and Eric. Well, her Relaxed Money course has just opened, and it will be open until Thursday night. Eric and I took this course together, and we both were able to pay off all of our debt, get several months of savings put away, invest a pretty large sum of money for the first time, set aside more money for retirement and I was able to DOUBLE my income within the first year! It has changed our lives in more ways than I can put into words.

I am eternally grateful for the work she is doing to help heal our nervous systems to feel safe around money, change our money stories, and build amazing systems so that we no longer have to feel terrified to look at our bank account. Before I took that course, I had never had a budget, and now I have amazing systems in place that I look at at least 5 times a week, and it feels AMAZING and not scary!

Today I am getting a new air conditioning system put in that costs a HEAVY AMOUNT, and it feels amazing that we had money put away in savings for things such as this! What a gift!

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