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Hello, hello, beautiful souls, and welcome to the Claim Your Power podcast, the ultimate show for all things new age spirituality, entrepreneurship, and embodied leadership. I'm your host, Kim Peretz. I'm an author, entrepreneur, and yoga enthusiast. If you're ready to step up, tap into your gifts, and unleash your potential, you are at the right place. It's time to claim your power. Hello, my beautiful friends, and welcome back to the podcast.
I cannot tell you how excited I am to film today's episode. This has been a topic that I've wanted to talk about for a very long time, but I finally feel like I have all the components to talk about it. And so I'm sitting here filming right now. I'm very excited. I'm very enthusiastic. So drumroll, please. Today's topic, we're going to be talking about how you can't fuck with fate.
And what's meant for you will always be yours. I'm sure you've heard the quote, everything happens for a reason. And I'm not trying to sound cliche, but oh, it does, okay? Because what's meant for you will always...
without a doubt, be yours. It will always be. And I know sometimes it doesn't make sense. I know things unfold in ways that we don't expect them to. And what a lot of us tend to do is we built up a scenario, a narrative, a vision in our head of how our life is supposed to be and how every single part of our life is meant to unfold. But what happens is there's this higher version of us who knows better, who knows what's
actually meant for us who knows what's actually what our soul actually wants what will serve us best in this life and so what happens is a lot of us get frustrated or anxious or angry when things don't unfold the way that we expected them to i'm a big believer in fate meets free will i think we have so much free will in this world i think our choices our decisions our actions have so much power over our lives our thoughts the way we respond to our emotions
But at the same time, I also believe that there is a higher power that is guiding every step of the way, that our higher self in the universe is assisting us and supporting us throughout our path. And so it comes to this interesting topic that's like we can manifest as much as we want. We can call things as much as we want. But if something is truly not in alignment for you, if there is something better out there for you,
Like you will not be able to fuck with fate. The universe will not let you settle. The universe will not let you call something into your life that is not in true alignment for you because it wants the best for you. And if you started believing that the universe has your back, that your spirit guides have your back, that your higher self is always guiding the way, you will become so powerful because you will realize that
that every rejection is redirecting you to where you're meant to be. Every obstacle acts as your stepping stone. And I really want to touch base on the topic of love for a quick second because I think this is a big...
connector to this concept because I think what a lot of us tend to do is we think that we have to hold on so tightly to our desires we have to force them in a way like unconsciously we have to hold on to them so tight because if we let go if we surrender they're gonna you know disappear and
But the truth is, your desires seek you as much as you seek them. So if something is truly meant for you, you will not need to hold onto it so tightly and force it or resist it for it to stay in your life. You know that quote, if you love something, if you love someone, let them go. And if they're truly meant for you, they will come back. And this is the way that you have to look at everything in your life, not just love.
Every time that you are holding onto something so tightly, you're holding onto an idea, a person, a friend, a relationship, a job, anything that you have to hold on so tightly that you're so afraid of letting go, that is your biggest telltale sign that you should let it go because your desires are free flowing. They want you as much as you want them. That job that you desperately want, that you crave, that your soul really, really wants, if it's an alignment for you, if it's meant to serve you, it wants you back.
But if you have to hold onto a desire so tightly because you are so afraid that if you let it go, it will evaporate from your life, let it go. And I know that's a hard thing to hear, but when you let go, you surrender and you allow the universe to take the steering wheel and take you towards the path that is in highest alignment for you. This mindset really calls you to tap into your feminine energy. And when I say feminine, I don't mean it in a gender way. It's the feminine and masculine forces, energetics.
But this mindset calls you to be more in your feminine and your receiving mode and your trusting and your surrendering and your free flowing. And what happens is so many of us are in our masculine. Manifestation calls us to be in our masculine because it calls us to take inspired action and call things in and set intentions. And that is so important. But a big thing about our lives is also surrendering to the divine flow and trusting that there is a higher power guiding the way because you do not need to carry all of your burdens.
You don't. You can surrender your burdens to the universe. It has your back. It can handle it. I promise you. But what happens is so many of us try to hold on to so many things so tightly. We try to hold on to that person so tightly because we think that if we let them go, if we don't try hard enough, if we don't text them, if we don't call them, if we don't make the effort, then nothing will happen.
But guess what? Like that is where the divine fate comes in. If something is meant to happen, it will happen. And I'm not saying you need to sit on the couch and do absolutely nothing. You need to take inspired action in life and act on your desires. But I'm also saying if you feel there are so many blocks and resistance and that every time if you don't hold on or force something, it will evaporate from your life, then
that is your sign to let go because it's not aligned for you. If you have to hold on to something so tightly, you're forcing it. You're resisting it. You're in a desperate chasing energy and you don't want to be in that energy. You want to be in a receiving, I attract energy.
energy, you attract everything that is in alignment for you with ease. It just comes. And if you believe that you have to do all this effort and all this work and you have to chase, you are just deep in the conditioning that we have all been programmed to believe. We have all been programmed to believe that we have to work desperately hard and break ourselves and get to a burnout point to be successful. But the truth is success is about joy and doing something you love. It's not about making tons of money.
Obviously, abundance is such a big element that many of us want to call into our lives. But we have to look back at our old belief systems and our thoughts and the way we limit ourselves because so many of us have been deeply conditioned from such a young age to have a big worthiness wound. We believe that our worth is dependent on a status or a job.
or how many followers we have on social media or whether or not we're in a relationship. And this worthiness wound stands in the way of our true power because the truth is you are worthy as you come right in this moment. Nothing outside of you is going to make you worthy. Nobody else is going to tell you that you're valuable or worthy because they have no power over that. It's an inner knowing that you must...
have you must believe that you are worthy no matter what no matter how many followers you have no matter whether or not somebody else loves you no matter if you got your dream job no matter how much money you make you are worthy because you are on this planet right now your soul is having a human experience and that makes you
so worthy, inherently worthy. And I've said this once and I'll say it again, but your desires seek you as much as you seek them. So if something is meant for you, it will come into your life in divine timing. I can promise you with all my soul that the things that were truly meant for me in my life came into my life at
perfect timing and maybe at the time when i was stressing about it i was anxious and i was trying to control everything i would get frustrated and not understand it but in hindsight i look back at many situations in my life and i think wow this came in at the perfect timing so let me give you guys an example of this so you guys know that i'm a yoga teacher i did my 200 hour training in costa rica in asara and i've shared the story about that how i did it in june 2022.
But, but, but, but let me guys tell you guys something is I actually originally wanted to go to Costa Rica and get my yoga license in January of 2022. Right when 2022 started, that's when I was planning on doing my yoga certification training.
but it didn't work out there was so much resistance the program that i wanted didn't have any spots and so many more blocks were coming up at the time that i remember just feeling so frustrated and being like why does the universe not want me to go do the certification so then i put it on the back burner and i kind of forgot about it for a while it was still on my vision board it was still in my head that that was something that i wanted to do but i wasn't actively pursuing and trying to find a way to attend a training
And guess what? January of 2022 was one of the lowest days of my life. I was experiencing many, many shifts. It was a hard, hard couple of months for me. I was battling a lot of health issues. I was in a relationship that was no longer serving me. I was still in school at the time and I was just
not happy like that is the best way to put it I was not happy with myself I was codependent and I was putting out all my emotions I was angry at the world I was living my life from a complete place of comfort and limitations and I now realized that if I had gone to do the training at that time I wasn't ready like I
spiritually, physically, emotionally, I was not ready to do an intense training like that. I was lacking so much self-confidence, so much independence. And to be honest, I had no motivation to actually go and do it. Those trainings, they require something within your soul to want to do them. They are intense.
They are amazing. They require you to bring your triggers up to surface, to love yourself, to create something within. And they are intense energetically and spiritually and physically too. Like the yoga training is intense in the best way possible.
But looking back in January, like that was just physically impossible for me to do like a three week training like that. I was battling so many health issues. I would not have been able to do that. And also emotionally, I don't think I would have been able to get out of that comfort zone and to actually act on it. And I think subconsciously I was manifesting all those blocks and I was stopping myself from going to that training unconsciously because I wasn't ready.
But at the time, I remember feeling very frustrated. I was not understanding this at the time. I was feeling like maybe I'm just not meant to be a yoga teacher. Maybe this is just not meant for me. And I would just like get into those, you know, thought patterns where I'm self-sabotaging and I'm getting into a victim mindset because that was the mindset that I was in for a very long time in my life. So cue to January. January through April were some of the hardest months in my whole life.
I was healing myself, healing my entire body. So I was going through that whole health journey. I ended up getting heartbroken going through a breakup with a serious relationship. I had finished school early and I was feeling very unfulfilled and very lost. I didn't know where I was and where I stood. I hadn't even started doing TikTok. I was doing the podcast like very minimally. And I was like, if you guys look through my old videos,
old episodes, it's even with the old intro that I was just like a baby in those. And they're so fun to look at because I've grown so much and evolved so much as a person. But being in that period of in my life where I in a sense, I hit rock bottom and I had a dark night of the soul. Being in that period, catalyzed an inner strength within me that made me want to change my life that made me want to choose a higher path and heal. And honestly, it wasn't until my breakup
that I realized how much I lack a sense of independence and a sense of self-worth. Because when you are in a relationship for a long time, like what I've learned is that you need to be in a relationship from a place of love, not comfort. And a lot of us stay in relationships because it's our comfort zone because we've been with that person for so long. So we
think that they're part of us, that they complete us. But the truth is nobody outside of you ever, ever completes you. And if you are in a relationship from a place of comfort and not from a place of love and true embodiment, you are in a way decaying yourself and decaying your own personal growth.
So it wasn't until that I had a broken heart and I was trying to mend and heal and open up again and, you know, understand myself as a person and as an adult not being in a relationship that I realized like I'm ready to change my life and I'm ready to enter a healing journey because I was calling in many experiences that were not aligned for me anymore. I didn't want to be in a place of misery and in a cycle of resentment and victimhood anymore. So I decided...
there was one day that I remember, I decided that I'm going to heal. And I decided that I'm ready to heal and ready to move forward with my life and discover who I am as a person beyond. I didn't want to associate myself with the identity of sickness, with the identity of misery, with the identity of sadness, of lack of self-worth. I didn't want to do it anymore. And I didn't
know how to heal but I knew that I wanted to heal and I told the universe that and let me just mention that at this point in my life around April 2022 I completely forgot that I even wanted to do a yoga training like it was just erased from my mind it wasn't something that I was actively pursuing but in May I
I had a realization that I needed to do something for myself. And I felt ready. I felt ready to get out of my comfort zone. And you guys know that I flew to Costa Rica all by myself. I completely rediscovered myself and my independence. And it was the best month of my life. I have a whole episode just explaining that experience and how healing and nurturing that was for me and how it completely changed me as a person.
And when I decided that in May, I decided that I wanted to take a step and take a leap and trust in my life again.
It popped up again. Like the idea, I think I was in a conversation at a dinner with a family friend and somebody just mentioned their experience doing a yoga teacher training years ago in the Bahamas. And I remember him telling me about it. And I remember thinking like, oh my God, I completely forgot that I wanted to do that. And it was like a divine message from the universe and intuitive insight.
the universe basically telling me, Kim, this is your time. Like it's coming up again. And this is also around the same time that I started posting content. I had like eight followers and
I was growing very slowly on TikTok, but I started posting content because I realized that in order to heal, like by creating content, it was always something that I knew that I wanted to do. But in a way, like by creating content and sharing my own experiences and my own lessons and my own ways of learning wisdom, that healed me.
Genuinely being in front of the camera and sharing my own personal stories and my feelings and thoughts and emotions that was so therapeutic for me and it healed me in so many ways it opened me up and not only that it changed my life. Me before doing social media and the podcast and just pursuing my purpose
versus me after are completely different people. And it's so crazy to me. Like I'm so proud of that old version of myself that kept going. And I invite you to take a moment to be proud of yourself too, of how far you have come because that old version of you right now is looking at you where you are today and thinking, wow,
They have grown so much. They have evolved so much and I am just so, so proud of them. So anyways, back to the story. By the way, I'm the type of person that goes off topic whenever I tell a story all the time. So bear with me. But back to the story. So that idea came up again in a conversation about getting my yoga training license.
And I started thinking, guys, it's 11.11 right now. I just looked at the clock. One, one, one, one. This is a sign that this episode is really a line for me to film because I really waited a long time to film this. But anyways, so the Costa Rica story, something came up and I started thinking like maybe I need to start looking into doing a yoga training again. And I started researching and instead of doing one in Tulum, I was actually looking again in Costa Rica to see if anything changed.
And I found one in May, the middle of May, I found a training that felt aligned for me. It was through Nexus Yoga Institute. And this is where I actually completed my training in Osaraco, Surica.
And I found the training and I saw like the way the schedule was built. I saw who the instructors were. I saw the location, the home that we would stay at. And I was like thinking to myself, this is where I need to be. This is where I need to be. Like I just knew it deep in my soul that I meant to go to Nosara in June at that time. I don't know how to explain it.
but it felt like fate. This is what I mean. Like what's meant for you will always be yours. Your desires see you as much as you seek them. And I really desired to go to that training. I was ready, but needless to say, I was terrified.
But I knew deep in my soul that this is something that I meant to do. I was very scared to get out of my comfort zone, to go to a country all by myself, to do an intense training like that. Like that requires a lot of spiritual growth, a lot of physical intensity. And I was very intimidated and I was scared. But deep in my soul, I knew that this was something that I needed to do. I needed to choose myself, to honor myself, to finally do something for Kim, to find out who Kim is.
And the only way to do that is to get out of your comfort zone and to do something that scares you. Because just because something scares you doesn't mean you don't go for it. And I knew that it was meant for me. And so I started researching and I started getting in contact with the instructors and asking if there's any spots left. And I'm telling you that everything just started falling into place. Like there was so much ease. There was no resistance. Like there was a spot. Everything was just flowing. I don't know how to explain it.
But back in January, how there was so much resistance to me going to the training versus in June 2022, everything just flowed. Like I was ready to do the training and I did it. And it was the best experience of my life. And I won't go into it in this episode because you guys know that I have a whole episode on it. You guys can check it out. It's called My Costa Rica Story. But it was the best experience of my life. I mean, I healed there. I met my bestest friends. I had the most profound career downloads. I changed completely as a person and I opened my heart again. And that...
It was just amazing and it was so meant for me. But where I'm going with this and the reason that I shared the story is because that is a mere example of how you can't fuck with fate.
Sometimes we think we know when it's the right time for us to call something in, to switch jobs, to enter a relationship. Sometimes we think we know, but there's a higher version of us that knows better, that knows what's actually meant to serve us. Because I'm so glad that I did my training six months later in a delayed time than what I thought I wanted. Because if I hadn't, I would have done the training from a place of victimhood.
And I did the training from a place of I'm ready to heal. And so all the resources and all the people that I met and all the experiences that I've had, I really was able to alchemize and take with me because I was ready to experience those things. And so if you have an experience in your life that you're calling in, you want to attract a relationship,
you want to attract a new job, to start school, to move countries, and you are experiencing a lot of resistance, just know that if it's meant for you, if it's truly an alignment for you, it will happen and it will unfold at the right time. No matter what you do, even if you do nothing, the universe is still guiding the way. Even if you're just in a surrender state and you don't try to manifest or set an intention for anything, you're just like, universe, bring it on, bring me what's actually meant for me. It will.
It will because you are in a receiving mode and what's meant for you will never pass you by ever in your life, okay? And I want you to keep reminding that to yourself every time that you get stressed and anxious or frustrated that something goes out of your control or something didn't unfold the way you expected it to. It is because there's something better but you have to believe that because your thoughts,
The way you think and the way that you believe things, that is how the things will unfold in your life. We've talked about this, the confirmation bias. What you believe is what you attract. What you focus your energy on is what expands. So if you believe that fate has your back, if you believe that everything is always unfolding in your highest good, that is the reality that the universe will show you.
Beautiful souls, thank you so much for joining me in today's episode. As always, feel free to DM me on Instagram if you have any topic suggestions for future episodes or if you would like to apply to be a guest on the show. I hope you feel inspired to claim your power today. Bye.