When I was in elementary school, my family and I lived in Texas. We were about an hour north of Houston in a place called College Station, home of Texas A&M University (go Aggies)! I remember communing with nature every single day cuz we had a woodsy backyard and it was never that cold.

One day, at recess, I was standing and staring at the playground (the best school playground I ever had) dazing into one of my signature spaced out moments, when suddenly I felt something like a pencil tip poke into me...

Because I thought it was someone with an actual pencil, perhaps newly sharpened, I turned around to tell them to stop, but there was no one there, and, to my shock and surprise, I saw a bee instead.

I logically assumed it had just stung me, and only then did I start to cry. Crazy right? How our minds control our experience and perception of pain?

Had it been a pencil I wouldn't have freaked out at all, so it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the fact that the pain came from a bee, which we're taught to be afraid of (rightfully so if you're allergic).

Since 2019 though, bees have become a guiding force in my life and business. My fear of them has completely dissipated because I think that fear was mostly an illusion.

What fears have you learned that don’t serve you anymore? Which ones might just be an illusion and not as bad as we think?

Let’s free ourselves of those fears now and get back to doing what we do best.

All my love,

Kimberly

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