Allow yourself to shine

It took me years to feel proud of my voice, but I found myself

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I am slowly digesting the first weeks of 2024, a lot has happened energetically and physically, so sitting down to write is bringing me home.

I am so happy to come to this place where there is room for honesty and truth. It makes me happy and expands my heart to share it with you and create a space where we can cleanse our hearts.

I never take it for granted. Thanks for being here.

I feel like life is asking me to be a channel and a voice to express the messages I bring today.

I'm going to tell you directly, simply and firmly.

Life has given me the opportunity to be a music teacher, to teach what I know so far. The 15 years that I have been playing instruments and singing give me a firm foundation in experience and knowledge to be able to help people who want to start or who want to continue developing their musical side.

➳ It should be noted that in the same area I am still a student because there is always someone to learn from, there is always room to expand and go to levels that demand more from you.

I see in my students the fear of going out of tune, the fear of “singing too loudly”, the desperation with certain exercises and the self-demand of wanting to master the instrument as they already do. Vulnerability is dismantled there, and I feel lucky to be able to create a safe space where there is vulnerability and room for growth.

Let's let go and let fly the belief that we have to be good from the beginning, that we have to have order all the time, that the creative process is only progress, progress, progress. Let me tell you: IT IS NOT LINEAR. There is no order. It's a process, a dance, little steps back, little steps forward.

Hold your own hand and celebrate the advanced steps.

Poetry by Tess Gunnery

I love these words by

Tess Guinery

. The creative process of life is cleaning and messing up over and over again. Don't just maintain a rigid order.

Now, something important.

In any part of the process, YOU DESERVE TO SHINE.

You don't have to be “advanced”, have a certain number of followers, responses that will give you applause or a certain body type to be able to shine. YOU ARE LIGHT.

We have that switch in us where we turn ourselves off and on, where we idolize someone else's light without seeing our own light.

ALLOW YOURSELF TO SHINE.

You deserve to take space. You deserve to walk with your head held high and your body full of confidence using your clear and strong voice. Making yourself small or apologizing for taking up your space in a physical place DOES NOT make you more “humble”, showing your “SELF” in its entirety is the best service you can do in this world.

I'll repeat it:

I say this with complete confidence because it took me years to feel comfortable with losing control, it took me years to feel proud of my voice, but I found myself, and once I found myself, I live with the confidence that I will not let myself go. I deserve to be me.

I leave you with this quote.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. It is not in just some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

• Marianne Williamson*

See you soon.

Love,

Clau ♡