Ari Nicole - Midwest Medium

09/05/2025

Something that’s been weighing heavily on my heart. This feeling of being needed, and wanting to belong. Every time I’ve felt unwanted, I’ve tried to make myself indispensable.

I started thinking about how often I’ve responded to silence by offering more, or to distance by trying to be useful, needed, irreplaceable. Or trying to rescue others even when they never asked for help.

At work, I’ve taken on extra tasks just to prove I belonged. In friendships, I’ve overextended myself to feel valued. In love, I’ve tolerated confusion and mixed signals, hoping that if I gave enough, they’d choose me back. I thought that if I became essential, I wouldn’t be left behind.

Can you relate to that too?

The truth is, I fear being rejected or forgotten. It’s exhausting to feel like love, attention, or respect has to be earned over and over again.

Now, I’m learning to sit with the discomfort of feeling unwanted without rushing to fix it. I’m learning that my worth does not increase just because I do more. I do not need to perform to be loved. My presence is enough. I am enough—even when I am not being needed.

03/05/2025

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02/05/2025

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01/05/2025

Welcome, May!
This month’s energy brings fresh starts, inner courage, and long-awaited answers.
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30/04/2025

Energy check: What’s pulling at your spirit today?
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29/04/2025

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28/04/2025

New week, new energy!

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02/04/2025

A woman went to Home Depot to find love — and it actually worked! 😳😍

Katelyn Ansari decided to try a TikTok trend of women ditching the dating apps and 'showing up at Home Depot looking confused' instead.

Katelyn went up to Tryce Easter, who was also shopping in the store and asked him for help finding the necessary tools to hang a picture frame. She posted the interaction on TikTok, which went completely viral.

She then shared subsequent updates including details about their first date:

"Our first date was magical. One thing I really loved was that he was very intentional from the get. He wasn’t like, “Hey do you wanna hang out?” or “Hey are you free?” It was, “Can I take you out on a date on Monday?”

I knew his intetions. I knew what he wanted to do. I feel like the art of old fashioned dating has gone away, and one thing I said was, “Lord, if this is the man for me or this is what I should be doing, I want him to bring flowers to the door." It wasn’t necessarily that I love flowers, it was just a symbol of that he tried. It was just goona be a sign for me.

So he shows up, knocks on the door and he has flowers. I saw them and I went from being super anxious to just feeling like it was meant to be. So after he gives me the flowers, we go.

Obviously he drives and he opened the door for me, and his truck is detailed. I mean, the level of just sweetness that this man has and consideration. That’s one of his work trucks and so it’s goona be dirty, so his intention was to just make sure that it’s clean. Not saying that the truck is always going to be clean, but it’s clean for me and clean for our date.

We were texting a little bit before the date and he was like, “I have two places that I would want to take you, I kind of want to see what you want to do and we can go from there.” So when I opened the door and I had a dress on, he knew.. he was like “We’re not going to the other place I picked out. It’s too casual. We’re going to a nice steak dinner.”

So he took me to a really nice steak dinner and we had the BEST time. It was good conversation. He was such a gentleman. He opened every single door and is very masculine in the softest way possible.

We had so much in common. One thing that is so random that we have in common is that neither one of us grew up with a TV in our house because our parents were very religious and so we both grew up reading books. I just think it’s so funny how that even comes up in conversation.

And another thing I think is super crazy - he’s from Texas, I’m originally from California- I moved here about two years ago and I started country dancing about a year ago and he country dances too!

And then after we went and had dinner, we were goona go do mini golf, but unfortunately we missed it by like five minutes, so we ended up walking around the little plaza and just having conversation.

I love that I was really able to get to know him on a deeper level than just like, “What do you like to do for fun?” Instead, we talked about things like what he really wants in a relationship and what I really want. And those bigger things are actually compatible." (TT / katelynnansari)

UPDATE 3/21/2025:

4 months later, Katelyn and Tryce are still going strong! On Valentine's Day, they were invited on the Today Show to share their love story! ❤️❤️

06/02/2025

I love swimming. No matter what my size has been over the years, and how old I am, I love swimming.

I used to teach swimming lessons and be a lifeguard for a few years too. The most difficult thing for me to learn was diving.

I’m afraid of heights.

When you get your toes to the end of the scratchy board and look down, your perspective is off. Logically, you know the water is about 2-3 feet below your feet. But when you look down, it’s terrifying! Your eyes can see clearly to that bottom which is an additional 10 - 15 feet deep!

My brain fights against my body and back and forth. I have to psyche myself up for diving every single time! When I was learning to become a swim instructor, this was the hardest hurdle to overcome. Especially learning how to do those fancy dives where you have to hop up on one leg, bounce up into the air, land on the edge of the board, and then jump up again to complete your dive. That’s a lot of internal pressure and calculations praying you don’t miss your marks.

I was always frozen with fear. But I couldn’t pass my certification if I didn’t complete these dives.

It took a few false starts, but I managed. I even had some approaches where my body refused to let me do the next steps, truly a whole body challenge.

My fear wasn’t even over the intricate steps to take before jumping into the water. It was the jumping into the water that scared me the most. The height appeared deathly, even when I KNEW it was SAFE. I had someone get into the water to give my brain perspective so I could complete the dives.

I passed.

Guess what happens when you’re certified to teach? You have to do the scary things you were taught and demonstrated you could do to your students. Oh, and do it without fear and false starts… because you have to show your students this isn’t anything to fear.

Sound familiar???

Here’s the crazy part… when it comes to my business, and assuring my clients that their dreams are legitimate, and how they want to live them are safe… I get away with not demonstrating this to my clients. 😣😔

Truth is, I’m afraid of the things that are meant for me too! Just because I can lean into my intuition and know what I’m supposed to do doesn’t mean I do it.

Just because you know it’s meant for you doesn’t mean you’ll get over your fear and do it either. There’s no one waiting for you in the water below assuring you it’ll be fine. Unless you count the tugs in your body and soul as reassurance…

Overcoming your fears takes time. Unless you close your eyes, take a deep breath, and leap into the thing meant for you. Spirit has your back.

I talk about taking baby steps. Testing the waters. Sometimes that’s not always possible, because the thing meant for you requires going all in. Ask Spirit for those reminders of being supported once you make that choice to leap, and everything will work out.

27/12/2024

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24/12/2024

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06/11/2024