Teresa Ford • August 26, 2024

Blog Post #50

Making Space for the

Newest Version of You

Putting Your Personal Power into Purposeful Practice  - Open yourself to a transformational journey of healing and wellness.

When you ask for a better life, you’re also asking to become a new version of yourself, and that means something in you must shift to make room for her.
You can’t stay exactly the same and expect to step into a completely different reality. When your spirit calls you forward, expansion becomes the only honest response.


Your Spirit Is Infinite, But Your Life Might Feel Cramped

Your spirit is vast, powerful, and limitless, but your lived experience is shaped by constraints: time, responsibilities, old beliefs, and emotional history. When you operate from outdated energy trauma, shutdown, and chronic stress, your spirit feels squeezed into a space too small for who you’re becoming. That stuck feeling isn’t failure. It’s an indication that you’ve outgrown the frequency you’ve been living in.


Your Past Programming Isn’t Your Fault, But Your Future Is Your Responsibility

Until age eighteen, you were essentially a sponge. You absorbed emotional data with a developing brain, forming beliefs about love, safety, and belonging based on the environment around you. If you learned to stay small, seek approval, or anticipate danger, of course, you doubt yourself now. But adulthood gives you a new power: choice. You can decide, I’m ready to expand, even before you know what expansion looks like.


Your Brain Stores Yesterday, Your Spirit Calls You Toward Tomorrow

Your brain is wired for safety. It remembers every embarrassment, disappointment, and rejection you’ve ever felt. Anything resembling old pain becomes a threat: criticism, judgment, abandonment. So your mind tries to keep you in the familiar. But your spirit is future-driven. It’s always pulling you toward more joy, more expression, more purpose. That pull feels scary only because your mind has never lived where your spirit is guiding you.


Creating Space Is Like Preparing Soil; Desire Alone Isn’t Enough

You can want growth, healing, or abundance, but without making room, nothing takes root. Creating space looks like rearranging your life to support the woman you’re becoming. When I realized I wanted my outside to match who I felt like inside, I restructured everything so I could move my body at 5 a.m. It wasn’t about perfection. It was about consistency, intention, and making daily room for my expansion.


Growth Will Always Feel Uncomfortable to “Little You”

Your inner child wants safety, rules, and predictability. She wasn’t given the tools or support she needed when she was young, so change feels threatening.


When you dream bigger, she panics: What if we fail? What if they judge us? What if we’re not enough?


Ignore her, and she’ll drag you back into old patterns. But when you reassure her, 
you’re safe. I’ve got you now—she relaxes and begins to trust your leadership.


Raising Your Frequency Is Choosing Hope Instead of Fear

Fear lives in a low-frequency state. Shame, doubt, and overwhelm pull you backward. But grounding, prayer, breathing, and emotional regulation lift your frequency. Each time you reset your nervous system, you step into the version of you who is guided by peace rather than panic. With repetition, the “new you” energy becomes familiar, and the old patterns lose their authority.


You Were Designed for Expansion, Not Survival Mode

You are a divine child of God. You weren’t created to grind endlessly or prove your worth. You were designed to grow, evolve, contribute, and experience abundance in love, expression, purpose, and joy. Challenges will still come, but each one carries the exact lesson needed to stretch you into the next version of yourself.


Making Space for the Newest You Is an Act of Faith

You won’t always feel ready. You won’t always know how. But every time you choose alignment over autopilot, peace over panic, and self-respect over self-abandonment, you’re clearing room for her. The newest you isn’t far away. She’s already within you, waiting for you to believe you’re capable of becoming her.

If you want support making space for her, I’m here for you.


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