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$HMEDIUM Mag houses diverse articles, media, strategies, readings, etc. for those looking to incorporate mindset, esoteric or spiritual alignment into their work. Alongside proven marketing and business strategies, this individual and community tool supports those of us who work for ourselves as part of our soul’s path. Even though we get profesh, scientific, and spooky over here, we still have a lot of fun, bc why not?
A few updates:
Yesterday I reached 111 subscribers to $HMEDIUM! Thank you everyone who’s here and reading <3 I can’t wait to see where we go!
Yesterday I posted a piece about my thoughts on tech like AI, apps, gaming, software, and social media in spirituality + wellness spaces. I didn’t plan on posting again so soon, but I love how Substack lets me do that.
With all that said and done, let’s get into why we should define ourselves by who we are, not what we do or how much we do it.
-Kieu
If I’m being completely honest, I don’t really go out of my way to do a lot of magickal work, or brainstorm professional ideas.
I know one might assume because I’m a content creating + teaching witch, that I would be on top of stuff like sabbats/holy/ritual days; important astrological transitions; constant offerings; doing divination all the time.
It might seem like I’m a fraud. Like I’m shirking the responsibilities of doing what I claim to do, being what I claim to be.
I’m not though. Practically the opposite. I haven’t gone out of my way to create opportunities for a lot of that in years. I usually just wait for supplies, opportunities, messages to come to me.
Should I be a little ashamed at that?
No. LOL. I know it can go against both spiritual and professional instincts to be this way-let alone admit it in public. Let’s be honest though, those instincts aren’t ones that came out of nowhere. Somewhere along the way, scarcity mindset began to influence the way we look at our own identities, skills, passions. Capitalism and consumerism shifted to people being defined by their occupations (or lack of). There is no scarcity of opportunities to be yourself. There is enough of YOU to go around, to be many things.
When I coach my clients, my fave is seeing them realize the bs of thinking we’ve always got to be actively participating in something to say its part of us; and, that we can only show those parts of ourselves one at a time-usually in the same ways as everyone else (the “socially acceptable” ones). As a human being that’s literally a personal impossibility-to think of myself as one thing a time? How? Why? Literally cannot compute. It’s also impossible to do things any other way but my own. My therapist says that’s because I’m Autistic….not because I’m a Capricorn. oKaY sTeVeN.
If I said “I’m not really a writer because I’m not writing a book at this very moment,” you’d probably be like “Kieu, shut up.”
SAME! In the most loving way, I tell myself (the mean version of myself that overworked because of those literal thoughts) to shut up; stop taking the excuse to not be myself or good to myself. Personally, I think it’s a great practice to tell our nasty (and pretty illogical) thoughts to fuck off; while at the same time showing grace to that part of us who didn’t know better.
I’m still a psychic when my dentist is all in my mouth.
And a mentor when I’m binging 90 Day Fiancé.
I’m still Vietnamese when I’m not in Vietnam wearing Ao Dai.
I’m still bi and I can tell my boyfriend I love him.
Still a good cook, even eating at a restaurant; a pagan as my dead grandpa sends Bible verses; a cat mom who hates people that call themselves CAT MOMS (seriously, I have a mug).
We all deserve to be able to be ourselves 100% by our own standards.
It’s not like I’ve never doubted this.
I know plenty of people who “work harder” than me in a physical body sense; and, see very structured and ritualized magick all around me. Where some people spend the physical energy, I spend the mental and spiritual. I may not be doing a ritual myself; however, helping someone figure out the perfect one for them is using my gifts-being a medium. I might not always be talking about work/responding to a super full inbox-but I don’t want to. MY body and brain can’t do that-they’ve already tried, lol.
Maybe it’s not what others would define as being a “real” spiritualist or ceo. Humans have literally made up everything, so why care? We could’ve ended up calling coffee “salad,” and never known the difference. Everything is subjective-even our views of how much of “US” we are. Sometimes those subjective views are outdated, or upon further investigation…don’t make sense. We can’t just be one thing, in one place. We don’t clock in and out of being ourselves, or how our brains and bodies work.
We literally are everything everywhere all at once.
So, with that corny end note, this very psychic, very profesh chief executive oracle is going to go live vicariously thru a Sims version of themselves that has only SMEG appliances.
Happy Kieusday!
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