Your energy doesn’t move in a straight line. It moves in seasons.
We just wrapped up our time with the She Knows When to Speak energy. The energy of discernment. Of waiting until the timing is right and then saying the thing that lands in the best possible way. Today, we move into something that could not be more different.
Meet the “You Were Made for the Full Spectrum. Not Just the Pretty Parts” energy.
This one is personal for me. This energy is woven into the foundation of who I am, and doing the work to understand it has genuinely changed how I see myself.
Here’s what this energy is really about. Your energy doesn’t move in a straight line. It moves in seasons.
Some periods you are expansive, magnetic, high-output, and deeply connected to everything around you. Other periods, you need to pull back, go inward, and let things integrate before you can move again. Both are correct. Both are part of the same rhythm of the “You Were Made for the Full Spectrum. Not Just the Pretty Parts” energy.
The problem is that the world around you mostly only celebrates the expansive, connected seasons and gets judgey about the times when you’ve pulled back, because that’s harder to understand.
I call this energy “You Were Made for the Full Spectrum. Not Just the Pretty Parts.” This is the energy of radical authenticity. Of marching to your own beat, even when everyone else is following a completely different drummer. Of accepting the full range of human experience, in yourself and in the people around you, without needing any of it to be tidier or easier or more consistent than it is.
You don’t thrive in sameness. You thrive in variety, in contrast, in the beautiful tension between extremes.
If you have consistent access to this energy, like I do, your capacity to hold all of that duality without flinching is one of the most magnetic things about you. You might not even know it. You might even take it for granted. Like, isn’t everyone this way?
No. They aren’t.
I’ve had many experiences where people bailed when times got tough. They either didn’t know how to or didn’t want to be there holding a friend’s hand, helping them through a sudden loss, or being present through the hard seasons.
My students felt this energy in me before I truly understood what it was. In one of my student evaluations, a student wrote: “You just know that if you get into trouble and need someone to come pick you up at the police station, Linda will be there for you.”
That student felt the “You Were Made for the Full Spectrum” energy in me long before I understood that it is part of me.
Here is something worth considering before our next chat.
Have you ever looked at someone else’s morning routine, their color-coded planner, their perfectly consistent habits, and felt that familiar mix of admiration and flat-out dread? Like, you should want that. Like, you should be able to do that. Like, there is something wrong with you because you can’t seem to make it stick?
That feeling has a name. And in our next chat, we’re going to talk about it.
The Miss Cranky Pants energy of “You Were Made for the Full Spectrum, Not Just the Pretty Parts” is coming. And she has two versions, both exhausting in completely different ways.
I wouldn’t miss it. I hope you don’t!
Find your happy. Love what you do. Make a difference. Come back to me safely. See ya!
