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  • So - random story. Funny and about love and humility. I’m doing a juice fast thing, guys. It’s the end of many chapters, and I went to a pretty dark place a few months ago and got to purge the shit out of every aspect of my being - except physical. So I thought I may as well go the final push and clear my body as well. I was at day six yesterday and of course with Chrissy, it’s all celebrations and love. These humans have been an integral part of my life, love, growth, joy and adventure for six years. Literally glued to each other a lot of this time. I love them more than most things. We’ve all been to hell and back and held each other through it and had some of the most extraordinary adventures along the way. We’ve seen the darkest and lightest of one another - the love is fucking strong. The kind of telepathic weird ass friendships where you always know when someone’s in distress or about to call. It’s radical. So - juice fast and bars. I realised that there’s probably one thing more important than Harry Potter - and that’s the connection of family like this (it’s not the love and rainbows but) and here is why.... As I sipped my juice, some of the folks around shared they thought I was insane. “You’re so good. I was in the foetal position on day six and you’re around pizza and beer”. This went on for at least 10 minutes and I felt spectacular by then. Mainly because I’m high as a kite only having juice right now. Also for my ego to be pumped. I was googling inside - what goes up must come down. So I decided it was time to deflate myself. I shared that gluttony wasn’t my crutch of the seven deadly sins, but I had others. So with these new people I’d just met and my fam bam, we googled the seven deadly sins and I asked my humans which one was mine as I didn’t know the sins by heart. As we read the list off, going through them...I did okay with the next four, then got to covert (I like to call it influence).. then we got to pride, my friendly shadow 😂 everyone looked at me and we burst out laughing. Ahhhh, see. This is what’s vital. Your people must keep you honest and humble. I love it. How stagnant it would it be to be perfect. The moral - Kanye was correct!
  • Give yourself permission to be messy in your humanity. Rise with compassion, heal what needs to be healed, face the shadows, integrate what’s been subjected to judgement, rejected, criticised, deflected, suppressed, feared and betrayed. Shame corrodes your capacity to change. So, love yourself through it.
  • So often we retract and shut down when we feel the slightest twinge. I know I still do. But I’ve learned that when you can sit for a moment and breathe with what’s rising up, thar ache has plenty to show you. That you’re capable of trusting yourself. That you can do intense things effortlessly with breath. That you’re not going to explode if you ***feel***... and then of course. Once it’s made it’s way through and out of your body (because you stayed present without judgment and resistance, right 😂😂) wisdom will be revealed. Trust that bit - wisdom comes through AFTER your heart is clear. And it might not be “unworthiness” (although when we get down to it, it usually is what’s right at the bottom because it’s separation from wholeness that generates the whole human emotion thing), but if it’s uncomfortable, then it doesn’t matter what it is, it’s trying to move through you. Let it. Drop into your body and breathe and just let it go. Let it do it’s thing. Get out of the way, that’s the main point here. More or this in an article later this week x
  • Self-connection empowers our sovereignty. TICKETS TO DEC 8th workshop on the Gold Coast - link in my bio Disconnection fuels our sabotage. Symptoms of disconnection include: Spiritual bypassing… Spiritual ego identity.. Filling the gap and the hole we create due to disconnection… Inhaling more poo than necessary because we scroll…(yes I say this) Connection looks like: Acknowledging our humanity… Becoming present with our emotions and the beautiful mess… Owning responsibility that we have choice… Disowning darkness appears like: Rejection of what is uncomfortable … Suppression of growth… Cultivation of shame and depression… Hiding our shadows… Drains us of our energy and life force.. This is what happens when we don’t look at ourselves with a kind and curious attention… And we do that so that then we can integrate and connect to our wholeness… And actually feel what a sense of personal power and confidence is in the flesh, at the moment and how it can ripple through your life… But, it must begin within… This is sovereignty…. It’s simple, it’s clean, it’s powerful and it has many facets… It’s what we are working towards as a collective And it’s bloody beautiful… Join me December 8th on the Gold Coast https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-sovereign-space-immersion-tickets-83755836963
  • This podcast made me hurt from laughing and cracked me open with its truth. It’s with the brilliant, @traverboehm Traver is the founder of the Man Uncivilized Movement redefining the way around the globe experience their masculinity by uniquely blending both the Primal Masculine with the Divine. In this episode, we unpack the history of masculine trauma, the light, dark and gold of the shadows and the evolutionary consciousness and importance of our collective healing. We explore how he came to write his freshly published and genuinely soul-awakening book, The Uncivilised Man. A few of  the many points we cover: •How the masculine unconsciously or consciously outsource their emotional healing to the feminine •What’s in the shadows of the collective masculine •What a man can do to make a woman feel safe •The history of how men became civilised, suppressed and traumatised and the ripple effect that we are now facing. •The devil and saviour of social media and its connection to depression and healing •How the birth of the Civilised concept evolved from a conversation about Mc Donalds. •What a shadow is and how to find the gold in the shadows and or reclaim the power that’s maybe there •The red flags that there is trauma to be worked through and how it plays out in a relationship and life •How the masculine shadow triggers the feminine shadow and how the feminine can make the moves first to catalyse healing •What steps you can take to heal and move towards the truest most conscious version of yourself? •Compassion, compassion and more compassion. Listen - link in my stories and bio (resources)  plus iTunes, Spotify and Libsyn: The Amber Hawken  Podcast
  • Today I spoke to, felt and heard a group of incredible women at @surfingaus for their Shore Thing program and this is what it reminded me of. I don’t often have words for a few days after I get to teach people such as the women I worked with today. The energy that shifted in that room, within these women was profound. The best bit - they got to realise that potential was forever within them. All they had to do was pause and pay attention. Thank you @surfingaus Thank you Kendra and Sim, thank you to all the ladies who showed up, laughed at my terrible jokes and shark metaphors and lack of surf lingo during my role plays. I’ll unpack more of what we explored sometime in the future. For now - bed! Edit** I’ve been informed that this is a Native American piece, potentially from the Hopi propel. If anyone knows for sure - please credit. I found it in my notes, obviously hit me hard, but there was no author with it.
  • a few weeks ago I was poked by life. I imploded and then exploded and I found some pretty dark emotions in Pandora’s box I locked up for a quite some time. It was messy and glorious and painful. And it taught me so much. So a reminder, suffering is almost always where we’re resisting allowing another layer to unfold. I was humbled. And grateful. And appreciate the courage it takes to go that deep. It gave me a fresh reminder of what my work is all about. What life is all about (for me). This unexplored corner is likely the beginning of the next highest vibration of your life. If we are willing to face our abject fears about our unworthiness, we might just discover a sense of love and independence that serves as a force of flow and joy that we can both live and generate from moment to moment. Healing is cyclical, different for all and abstract in nature and therefore able to be worked with, in various ways. Do what you know allows you to drop into your body and move into surrender - let the energy flow.
  • We all have the same amount of potential within ourselves. The grip of shame is suffocating. The potential of our light in its highest expression requires an integration and ownership of all of ourselves. Knowing your shadow is the pathway to embodying your power and loving from a place of integrity and freedom.
  • Your thoughts directs your energy, feelings, emotions and life in micro choices. Choice is after all, our super power - if you realise you have it, of course. I forget, maybe you do to. I also forget it’s all made up and yet, your truth of what you feel is valid. Your power is in your attention direction and staying with what you find. And then redirecting your attending (once clear) to to direction you want your life to move towards. The mind will never stop, but you can learn to leverage its possibility.
  • NEW PODCAST with @debrasilverman_astrology Did you ever think to look at your missing element? What about finding joy in chaos or finding heaven on earth? Me neither, until I spoke to Debra. Debra Silverman is part Astrologer, part psychologist, part comedian and ALL REAL. She helps people turn on their own inner observer, to see the things they say and do in a totally objective way. Debra has been in private practice for over 40 years. She uses astrology and her own system called The 4 Elements (or 4E for short) as tools to help people step into their power.  She has written a book, magazine columns, hosted a radio show and has a YouTube channel with over 7 million views. Key takeaways we explore: the science and art of combining psychology, astronomy and astrology how to read astrology as the cheat sheet and fine print of our life lessons the basics of sun, rising and moon signs to understand yourself how to understand your elements and how its relative to balance the relationship of spirit working through our personal journey how to look within our signs and understand what keeps us stuck and how to  un-stick 🙂 being the most yourself you can be is the best way to avoid suffering how to figure out the connection between you missing element and how you can become unstuck using astrology to navigate and choose relationships where to look to to understand your life lesson to get right to the centre Link in stories or at amber hawken.com/resources ✌🏼❤️
  • Use the word responsibility wisely - my heart says. This is an invitation, a calling forward. Something I know we all feel in us all. Not a heaviness, but a self liberating possibility. One that allows us to reach out full potential. Because. When we don't heal, we have far less capacity to stand in our power. And we enable. When we don't listen to our truth, we learn the hard way. When we finally shift, release, re-program and upgrade paradigms within ourselves (and all) by doing the work, facing the shadows and lifting our vibration, we become strong in our conviction, without falling into to victim. Healing is cyclical, and another layer of an old pattern of “saving” dudes who are close to my heart, was poked and rose up in the last week and I found an anger that I'd placed to the side for the sake of "unconditional love". In other words, I was bypassing. It's one of the rather sticky individual and collective healings, because the opposite of martyr is sovereign. Sovereign is complete freedom and our small self is terrified of our own power. So there are many fears, collective and self, that play out in this deep journey we all must walk through. Someone who is sovereign, has the greatest capacity to allow other people to shift into a space of owning their own power, as opposed to saving. Unconditional love without boundaries is another martyr and wounded feminine behaviour. People. We are all being called higher, so that we can continue to call each other higher. If we don't: Lack boundaries, stay too long, say yes when it’s a no, over give and fall victim to. I am guilty of it all. I continue to face my demons, my shadows and work with my mentors & commit to disciplined practice each & everyday. Because this is the work we are here to do. It also allows space for great flow, ease, fun and abundance. It's not all heavy. It's liberating & beautiful. And we don't  need to "dig", life takes care of poking us. We just need to promise to face the discomfort when it's poked. I truly believe we can then tend to our purpose and live in flow the rest of the time. The paradox, eh?
  • Butchering Buddhist teachings and making ugly faces since 1989 Throw back from @genghis_tuan with music from the one and only @kateleopoldmusic #guysitstimeforasesh

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