After 90 days, Drusilla and Melissa share how their year-long intentions to "love" and "surrender" are being tested—and why difficulty is exactly what spiritual commitment looks like. A raw conversation on internal conflict, nervous system work, and learning through purpose instead of pain.

When you declare "love" as your intention, you don't get protection from challenge—you get invited into it. And when you commit to "surrender," you discover that letting go doesn't feel like relief. It feels like standing in the fire.

In this check-in episode, Drusilla and Melissa return to share the three months since setting their year-long intentions. They talk about how those commitments are showing up in marriage, career, friendships, and their own nervous systems. Drusilla walks us through the forgiveness letters, the internal conflict work, and the moment she realized that all conflict is internal. Melissa shares her surrender experiment—losing her home and car, but finding the most comfortable beds she's ever slept in, the best food she's ever eaten, and a stability she never had when she thought she had everything.

They discuss why your mindset matters more than your circumstances. Why the body is the hardest place to surrender. How nervous system regulation unlocks the spiritual work. And why getting to the other side of difficulty is where you actually develop faith.

This is a conversation for anyone who's declared an intention and then wondered why it immediately started pushing back. It's for anyone learning that love and surrender are not gentle concepts—they're invitations to show up differently in the face of everything that scares you.

Resources:

A Course in Miracles Lesson 78

The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer

Jennifer Hadley's teachings on learning through purpose

The Having

Amanda, Morgan, and Penny revisit their intentions for the year and reflect on what surrender, acceptance, and willingness really look like in everyday life.

What happens when the beautiful intentions of January meet the reality of life by spring?

In this deeply honest and uplifting conversation, Amanda, Morgan, and Penny check in on their words for the year—surrender and acceptance—and reflect on how life has challenged, reshaped, and deepened those intentions.

From grief and uncertainty to inner child healing and learning to trust divine unfolding, this episode offers a compassionate reminder that growth is not about perfection.

It's about willingness.

• First-quarter life check-in

• Revisiting your intention for the year

• Surrendering control

• Accepting difficult emotions

• Releasing future-fixing

• Learning to trust the unfolding

• Spiritual support and mentorship

• Inner healing and self-compassion

What did January-you believe?

What does April-you know now?

A note on what you're about to hear: We know the apparent contradiction. A Course in Miracles teaches us that love holds no grievances, that anger is never justified. And yet here we are—five spiritual women, grounded in ACIM, sitting with our rage. This episode doesn't resolve that tension. It lives in it. Because some truths require us to hold paradox: we can be devoted to forgiveness AND outraged by systemic harm. We can believe in the illusory nature of the world AND show up as witnesses to suffering. We can stay rooted in love AND refuse to spiritually bypass what's happening to women right now.

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In this episode, we move from thought to action—and sit with the tension between spiritual faith and the "real-world" exposure of violence against women. When the Epstein files drop, when Gisèle Pélicot's trial reshapes how we think about consent, when young men grow up in a culture that celebrates dominance—how do we, as spiritual women, show up?

We're talking about the difference between spiritual bypassing and genuine presence. Between feeling powerless and realizing you have choices in your own sphere. Between rage that's justified and rage that consumes.

Key Takeaways:

🍋 You have power in your choices—your money, your attention, your voice, your vote.

🍋 Standing up doesn't require changing the whole system. It requires changing what you participate in.

🍋 Collective healing starts with "let it begin with me."

🍋 Rage and love can coexist. Anger and grace are not opposites.

🍋 What you focus on multiplies. Choose wisely.

Resources Mentioned: Gisèle Pélicot's trial, The Manosphere documentary, The Hundredth Monkey phenomenon, R. Kelly case, A Course in Miracles, 12-Step recovery

Work with the Lemonettes: Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): lovelightmorgan.com / morgan@lovelightmorgan.com Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com