Badassery Magazine October 2017 Issue 17 | Page 30
yourself and your life forward! I
give no fucks whether it is trust
for yourself, a lover, a friend, a
coworker; what I do give all the
fucks about is that you EXER-
CISE THAT TRUST!!!! You see
where that trust lies and you ac-
knowledge it. You remind your-
self that life is far more beautiful
with trust and that your relation-
ships are all the richer for it.
If you’re reading this and you’re
thinking to yourself, “Self. This
chick...phew!” And you inserted
an eye roll, let me pose this to
you:
You give trust to other drivers on
the road that they stay on their
side and don’t hit you head on.
You trust the people that make
you your double decaf half frap
como si dice at the green mer-
maid shop every morning. You
trust your trash man to show up
and pick up all your stinky gar-
bage once a week.
So why can’t you trust your
damn self with your own deci-
sion making? Why is it that you
can’t trust in yourself that there
is a power inside that was NEV-
ER EXTINGUISHED when you
went through the trauma you
did?
You CAN trust in yourself. You
just don’t know how. Let me
show ya:
Take out a small piece of paper.
Fold that paper in half.
Fold it in half again. (You should
have 4 squares now.)
Take a pencil and with your eyes
shut, doodle in 1 square, make
sure your eyes stay shut.
Move to the next square and all
lazy-like, squiggle around.
Skip the third square.
In the fourth square write your
name.
You should have been able to do
all of those things without peak-
ing. Why? Because you trusted
yourself to lead you to the next
square and the next and the
next. You saw the personification
of trust in yourself within that
piece of paper!
I want to encourage the fuck
outta you to look for all the ways
YOU DO TRUST people in your
everyday life. And for the love of
everything hole-y in this world:
STOP SAYING YOU DON’T
TRUST PEOPLE! You’re a fuck-
en people too!
About the Author
Brittany is not only a light worker and shadow sherpa (helping
clients through their inner shadows) but she is the CEO and
Founder of Clearing the Rain, a company whose mission is to
change societal standards around the world, end domestic and
sexual violence against women, and empower the fuck out of
so many women that she eventually runs herself out of busi-
ness. She’s been featured in magazines and blog spots, she’s
interviewed with a handful of outlets, but she’s not done yet. Her
group, Under the Umbrella, is growing all the time with people
who want to change their lives and step into their own true power.
Be on the look out for her non-profit, Clearing the Rain Founda-
tion soon!
When she’s not doing CEO-type things with her business, she’s
playing with her two rambunctious boys, reading, or doing artsy
stuff. She also enjoys having family movie nights, digging in the
dirt, and does some really amateur photography work.
clearingtherain.com
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