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How much energy have you spent trying to get someone else to be different?

To understand you.

To agree with you.

To make a different choice.

To show up the way you think they should.

Or maybe you’ve spent years wanting someone you love to be the person you needed them to be...and wondering why they just couldn’t do it.

In this episode of The Manifesting Formula, we’re talking about what can happen when you finally stop trying to change, fix, convince, or control the people around you...

and simply let them be.

I’m sharing some very personal stories from my own life—including the relationship I have with my mother, the relationship my daughters wished they could have had with their grandmother, and what it took for me to stop wanting my mother to be someone she simply wasn’t.

And what I learned from that changed the way I look at acceptance, expectations, and the people we love.

Because letting someone be who they are doesn’t mean you have to agree with them.

It doesn’t mean their choices don’t affect you.

And it certainly doesn’t mean you have to keep putting your energy into a relationship or situation that isn’t working for you.

Sometimes the most freeing thing you can do is stop asking...

Why won’t they change?

And start asking...

What do I want to choose for myself now that I know who they are?

Let them make their choices.

Let them have their opinions.

Let them be exactly who they are.

And then...

you get to decide who YOU want to be.

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