
Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

This whole Saturn Return experience is a journey into uncertainty, though, so the more comfortable you can make yourself with the unknown, the easier this process will be. The
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if we intentionally and deliberately let go of things that our questioning has turned up as no longer viable, the process becomes much easier. This takes a great deal of courage and determination to do, but it ends up supporting our transformation in every possible way. Remember, though, that letting go does not have to be big or literal – often th
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Remember your self-compassion skills and figure out what you need this week, today, or even just for the next five minutes. Worry about the five minutes after that, once they have waited their turn. Take care of yourself in every possible way, and let the unknown fill itself in, when the time is right and you know it’s reflective of the new, true y
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What you yearn for: Authentic Nonconformity, Healthy Detachment, Self-Directed Idealism.
Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return
disappeared into a group or groups, totally giving up your personal desires or preferences in order to adhere fully to the group’s identity.
Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return
What we don’t always realize is that many of “our” thoughts don’t really come from us, or at least not from our true selves. We all absorb a great deal of input from a variety of other people as we grow up, and their thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and demands take up residence inside us without us even being consciously aware of it. Since the ent
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when you can find the expression of your guiding principles and a receptive set of shared visionaries to work with you, it will bring you a level of satisfaction nothing else ever would.
Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return
I knew that he felt like he was dying on the inside, and it’s partly because he was, but he was sure that all of him was dying – and I knew that only his old self was decomposing and rotting away to make room for the newer, truer version.
Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return
His life looked perfect from the outside, but he was falling apart, and this is when we need that context the most.