Day 1 of 30: What if the thing that saved you could save someone else?
Beautiful souls,
When avoidance becomes the pattern you finally see
Today I witnessed something profound about myself: the intricate architecture I've built around protecting the very gift that saved my life.
I was accepted into the nas.io "Idea to Revenue Challenge" - a 30-day container where 100 creators transform their deepest work into something that serves the world. Being chosen from hundreds of applicants felt like being seen in a way that makes hiding impossible. Like the universe saying, "Enough. It's time."
But here's what I'm learning about myself through this process: I've spent 7+ years developing something that literally transformed my existence, published a book about it, moved countries because of it... and then retreated into the sophisticated safety of perfectionism rather than the raw vulnerability of actually serving others with it.
The community that sees through your protective strategies
What strikes me about this nas.io community is how it mirrors the very framework I've been protecting. We're all here because we recognize something profound: that our deepest wounds often contain our greatest gifts, and that those gifts are meant to be shared, not hoarded in the name of "not being ready."
The first assignment exposed everything with surgical precision: Define your ICP (Ideal Client Persona). When I was 18, ICP meant Insane Clown Posse. Now I'm 45, sitting with the profound discomfort of naming the souls who need what nearly destroyed me to develop.
This community doesn't allow for spiritual bypassing or intellectual hiding. It demands something far more terrifying: radical honesty about what you've actually learned and who needs to receive it. The accountability here isn't about productivity - it's about integrity. About finally honoring the responsibility that comes with receiving grace.
Sometimes healing demands more than feeling - it demands creation
Through this nas.io journey, I'm confronting the limitations of traditional healing modalities in my own life. My 12 Beats Divine Remembering Framework didn't emerge from therapy sessions or meditation retreats - though those had their place. It emerged from the desperate need to create something that could hold the complexity of my story without drowning in it.
I discovered something that changed everything: sometimes healing demands more than feeling our feelings or processing our trauma in safe spaces. Sometimes the very act of creation becomes the healing - not just understanding our wounds, but transforming them into something that serves life.
When I used my framework to release my story, it wasn't just about publishing a book. It was about energetically releasing decades of weight I'd been carrying in my body. The stories that shaped me, the wounds that defined me, the patterns that kept me imprisoned in my own narrative. Creation became the pathway home to myself, the bridge between who I was and who I was becoming.
This nas.io challenge is forcing me to confront the difference between healing for myself and healing in service of something larger. The community here understands that personal transformation without contribution can become another form of spiritual narcissism. They're asking: What will you create that serves? What will you build that heals not just you, but the world that needs what you've learned?
The most terrifying question I've been avoiding
For months, I've been sitting with a question that both illuminates and terrifies me: What if the thing that saved me could save someone else? What if I've been hiding behind "not ready" because I'm actually afraid of being helpful?
The nas.io framework demands something I've been avoiding: the willingness to be witnessed in my imperfection while still offering what I've learned. This community doesn't require perfection - it requires authenticity. It asks you to share your medicine while still acknowledging your wounds.
30 days to witness my own protective mechanisms dissolve. To step into the radical vulnerability of sharing what transformed me. To discover if what healed my wounds can offer medicine to yours. To create something that serves the souls who are where I was - successful on paper but spiritually starving, carrying stories that need to be released, needing frameworks that actually work in the mess of real life.
This isn't about building a business - it's about finally honoring the sacred contract that comes with surviving your own breaking. When something saves you, perhaps the only authentic response is to stop hoarding it and start sharing it. When healing demands creation, creation demands courage.
Day 1 of seeing myself clearly through the mirror of community accountability. Tomorrow I dive deeper into the souls who are waiting for what I've been protecting.
If you're following this journey into radical honesty and vulnerable service, thank you for witnessing. Your presence makes the path less lonely, and your own healing makes mine more meaningful.
Love, Oriya
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