"Feeling limitless" can sound like a big, sparkly, motivational idea, more abundance, more expansion, and none of it feels quite real for the woman actually living her life with bills, a calendar and real responsibilities.

In this episode of Food for the Soul, Ally Nitschke reframes what feeling limitless actually means. It has nothing to do with having no responsibilities or a perfectly regulated nervous system. It's about noticing where you've mistaken familiarity for truth.

She talks about the running dialogue that keeps so many high performing women small: I'm not the kind of woman who does that, I'm not ready for that room, people like me don't get to do that. Ally calls these inherited ceilings, old stories and old patterns, and if you're a high performer, you may have already outgrown several old versions of yourself while still carrying invisible limits from who you used to be.

You'll hear Ally's simple practice for spotting where this shows up for you: choosing one area (money, visibility, leadership, love, creativity, health, influence or freedom), naming the limit you've accepted, and asking what would become possible if this limit wasn't the whole truth.

You don't need to leap immediately. You just need to loosen the grip of the old story. There's more available to you than your old limits could possibly imagine.

Timestamps

00:00:08 Today's topic: feeling limitless

00:00:33 What feeling limitless doesn't mean

00:01:16 Letting go of old limits that make decisions harder

00:01:39 The stories we tell ourselves: "I'm not the kind of woman who does that"

00:02:03 Inherited ceilings, old stories, old patterns

00:02:34 Living as though the ceiling is real when it's just familiar

00:03:07 Questioning who made the rules

00:03:38 The limit usually isn't your capability. It's your permission

00:03:49 Exercise: choose one area you've been thinking small in

00:04:17 What would become possible if this limit wasn't the whole truth

00:04:42 Loosening the grip of the old story

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