As I tuned into the theme for this blog, two words came through loud and clear: TRUST and CHANGE.

It’s one thing to say you trust life and yourself, but it’s another to embody that trust—where your mind and body feel safe in trust, rather than caught in fear or worry.

Reflecting on my own journey over the past 18 months, I’ve faced sudden endings, uncomfortable truths, and leaps of faith I didn’t think I was mentally ready for.

Through it all, I uncovered deeply ingrained beliefs rooted in fear and lack—beliefs that were unconsciously holding me back. My body was running on outdated patterns that no longer served me.

A Simple Practice to Shift Fear-Based Patterns 👇🏼

A turning point came when I started questioning my anxious or fearful thoughts in the moment:

• What is my mind trying to protect me from feeling by staying stuck in this loop?
• Once I identified the emotion (often fear), I asked: What is this part of me trying to tell me from a place of love?
• Fear, for example, often points us toward exactly where we need to go.

Wisdom doesn’t rush. It emerges when we create space for it.

Rather than resisting emotions, we can lean into them with curiosity. Let your intuition guide you—through conversations, synchronicities, and those inner nudges that arise when you slow down and listen.

Yes, facing discomfort is hard. But knowing you’re on the path of self-growth and joy makes it worth it.

When you choose to meet your emotions with openness rather than resistance, that’s when real transformation happens.

– Olivia

I find anchoring myself back into my values helps me keep connected first and foremost. For example, feeling the energy of self-love, joy, simplicity, focus, and patience has been helpful for me to remain aligned with higher energies throughout the day.

Notice when you are tapping into the energy of ‘force’ and ‘pressure’, and DECIDE to lean more into the energy of  ‘trust’, ‘being’, and ‘presence’ is key here.

Keeping tapped into this energy can be easier said than done, I know. Yet, as I share the 3 D’s with clients, it takes ‘dedication, deliberate action, and discipline’ to make changes!

It is time to start putting what is important to you and lights you up first, knowing the rest will follow.

If you find this difficult to do, I recommend jotting down values that you align to and feeling into actions that align with living out these values. 

I am here if you need support!

“The more love and light you give to yourself, the more you can give to others”

– Olivia Maxwell 

It may be a sudden change in career direction, home location, friendships and relationships, health, or even internal shifts in thought and habits. 

More commonly than not, we humans tend to ‘hold on’ to ways of being, seeing, and living out of fear and wanting (not ‘needing‘) certainty. 

It takes time to build the muscle to ‘let go’ and allow change to happen naturally without trying to control outcomes in our lives. 

A few tips that help me stay in this energy during change include: 

• Creating space in my schedule to sit with myself, particularly outside on land to cultivate stillness and strength within. 
• Becoming attuned to where my mind tries to take me in each moment. Anchoring back into my breath and heart when I notice my mind is not present in the now. 
• Upping the amount of time I spend doing things that light me up. I have been playing more soothing music and dancing in my living room moreso lately!  

Remember, caring for yourself gives you strength and power, which is especially needed during times of uncertainty and change! 

The theme of trust is evident, specifically in the context of trusting yourself and your journey in this lifetime. With this word, belief also appears, as believing in yourself requires you to TRUST who you are and what you are doing. 

When you begin to turn the focus inwards and start to sit with what it feels like to trust and believe in yourself, you start to become aware of areas you don’t feel confident in your life and where there are mind ‘blocks’ keeping you stuck. 

Positive change begins to happen when you use your imagination and visualise what trusting and believing in yourself looks like. Then becoming that person who deeply trusts and believes in themselves!

I have provided 3 key questions below to help open your mind, body, and spirit to this way of being and believing. Contemplate on the following:

1. What does trusting and believing in myself look like? E.g. How does it look differently to how I use to show up in the world?
   Think behaviours, thoughts, outlook on life, relationship to yourself and others.
   
2. What wellness tools will help me believe and trust myself more?
   Think of strategies that you can implement to keep you focused on trust. (e.g. affirmations, warrior postures, reflective journalling, more time to rest and recover your energy).
   
3. What other missing pieces are there so I can start to trust and believe in myself more often than not?
   Do you need to maintain composure rather than using my voice if you know you’re not being listened to? (i.e. protecting your energy), Is it asking for more support from those around you? Looking for new work opportunities that align with how you want to be in the world? Is it learning a new skill that you need professional support with? 

Be honest with yourself here and make a promise to implement a ‘missing piece’ action today!

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Many blessings to you on this day,

Olivia Cuenca

Integrative Psychologist, Founder & Director of Awakened Mind Body Spirit Pty Ltd

Things don’t need to be HARD unless we want them to be. I have personally noticed over the month of October, my tendency to make things more difficult and complex than they need to be. I sat with this, through journalling and sharing with my close friends, and realised this came from needing to be IN CONTROL of every detail and exercising my WILL versus my TRUST in the process and the GOOD in life. 

A reminder to you today and for the next few weeks – allow yourself to feel cherished, because you really are.  

Spend time outside, with the trees, winds, oceans, sky, birds, and sun. Sit. Breath. Feel into your big beautiful heart. This is all you need to be. 

Tip to enhance this process: 

Remove the belief ‘things are always hard for me’ and replace it with the powerful affirmation of ‘I accept challenges with ease and grace, I love learning about myself!’  

Much love to you, 

Olivia