17/01/2024
LETTING GO OF LISA…
As those who are close to me know, I have been on a bit of a journey over the past 7 or 8 years. My journey has been an inward one and I have been making some pretty amazing discoveries along the way, much of which I won’t be able to fit into a Facebook post.
One of the biggest discoveries that I made was the amount of fear that I had inside and how much that fear was preventing me from living freely. I thought I was pretty free, But I wasn’t even close. It wasn’t until I started to move outside of my comfort zone that I could really see how much fear there was within me, and that I was not as free as what I thought I was. I also learnt that I could free myself from all fear with a bit of work and dedication. So, this is what I have been doing. I have had a taste of what true freedom feels like and how that is expressed through me, I can see the potential that lies beneath the fear of what other people might think. So, this has become my life’s work, to be free. I have read the works of many teachers that have gone before me that have completely freed themselves from all fear, even fear of death. And they say that this is possible for anyone. As I started to free myself, the pull towards freedom became stronger and stronger. A big part of becoming free is letting go of the past and all the ways in which I have been conditioned from birth until now. Letting go of attachment to ego and to identity is necessary and is what I have been doing, gradually over many years. Which brings me to the reason for this post! Last year it became clear to me that there is so much conditioning and identity wrapped up in my name. That letting go of my name is a necessary step for me. It has taken a year for me to really be ready to do that and so today is the day that I make it official. I am letting go of Lisa and will be going by my middle name: Joy.
It will take a bit of getting used to for everyone so I don’t mind if you still call me Lisa, but Joy will be how I will be introducing myself for now.
I won’t be changing it legally at this stage, I will see how I go with it over a little while, and maybe one day I will change it back, I’m not sure yet. But this is what I am doing for now. Maybe it won’t make any sense to anyone, but I thought that such a drastic change deserved a bit of a back story! So thanks for hanging in there if you made it to the end of this post!
Much love, Joy x ❤️
