Episode 5: What's a Heart-Forward Bad Bitch?
Jenna Slaughter
Embodiment Coach, Speaker, Heart-Forward Business Coach
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Heart forward bad bitchery, defined:
Heart forward
Human first
Empathetic for others and the collective
Awareness of intersectionality and trauma
Radically self-expressive
Trusting in the co-creation
Bad bitch
A heart forward bad bitch stands in their power, speaks their truth, lives their deeper purpose, embraces their humanness, and is committed to unlearning all the ways they’ve been told to stay small.
Human-first
Being kinder to yourself in your limitations, kinder in your self-talk
As humans we are inevitably imperfect beings, we are going to fuck up, its not a matter of if…. Its a matter of when. Use the failures as data, or opportunities for self-compassion and watch a radical shift occur!
Radical self acceptance of your capacity OR NOT before the business or project.
Needs are ever shifting
Staying radically present with sensations. Both physical and emotional-your body is intelligent and always communicating with you… but are you listening?
Shadow work, inner child work, generational trauma work.
In business- they’re literally extensions of ourself, to be in business for yourself is to be deeply deeply human. It includes our trauma, mental illnesses, lived experience, our privilege and our marginalizations.
Empathetic for others and the collective
Is it helping people expand their consciousness, heal, or learn something new? Then its empathetic to share!
Service focused, for others and ourselves
A disconnection from perfectionism and the outcome
Heart-forward business will have you over-delivering value because you KNOW that you will be compensated in the long-run.
Awareness of intersectionality and trauma
This kind of loops back with Empathic for others and the collective because if something is with the collective in mind, its intersectional.
In true, heart-forward embodiment, we are recognizing that our point of view is highly shaped by our social conditioning and our position at which we see the world. Our society is steeped in colonial institutions and systems of oppression at the detriment of the planet at large.
Privilege isn’t an on or off switch, and they don’t just cancel each other out, they INFORM the place that we view and operate the world from.
Privilege doesn’t equal having a charmed life, it means at a very simplified level, getting to learn about oppression from other sources instead of having to experience it in real time.
Being Queer, Non-binary, from a lower socioeconomic status, and white, able-bodied, and straight sized
Those don’t just “off set” my white privilege
Example: “Passing” as cis by perception is a privilege for my safety at times. I’m openly non-binary, and because of that, that comes with more exposure and vulnerability to transphobia than if I wasn’t open about who I am.
Trauma awareness- recognizing when you are in a trauma response,
Radically self-expressive
Authenticity
Your business is an extension of your inner workings, people love you for your humanness, not your superhumanness
Give yourself permission to be the multifaceted human being you are.
Here’s the thing, if someone doesn’t want to accept you in your full humanness, they’re not someone you really should want in your life anyway… (there’s some nuance here of course, but you get what I mean)
What you hide is hiding you
business: “one of the most positive transitions you can make is from viewing your work as a job to viewing it as a calling” -law of divine compensation, Marianne Williamson
Trusting in the co-creation
Putting love first means knowing that the universe is supporting you in creating the good thing thats on your heart and coming from those soul whispers. It means TRUSTING that the deeper purpose on your heart is there for a reason.
Even THIS is a deviation from what we were taught growing up. Especially if you grew up in a strict, religious household, in fact the message is usually not to trust your inner compass. You trust the book and the rules in there.
Bad bitch
A heart forward bad bitch stands in their power, speaks their truth, lives their deeper purpose, embraces their humanness, and is committed to unlearning all the ways they’ve been told to stay small or keep others small.
Doesn’t go by the societal constructs meant to put them in a box
Sometimes gonna be louder, too self-honoring, and therefore baadddd or bitchy.
WE ARE RECLAIMING TAHT
The sheer act of honoring yourself as the multifaceted human you are is a radical fuck you to the current structures of power. Structures might I add that are rooted in exploitation of both people and resources.
We are unlearning these structures and how our brains are wired to work within them.
Unlearns the conscious and subconscious biases, relentlessly so they can help create a world that is more equitable for LGTBQIA+, neurodivergent, Black, fat, NBIPOC, and disabled people.
Leads to:
Less perfectionism,
more fun
more inspired actions
more play
more juiciness
more taking up space
more imperfect posts with grammar errors because you were so inspired you couldnt type fast enough
Heart-Forward content creation will have you sitting chuckling to yourself while content planning about your future posts because they’re so on-point, funny, and kinda calling your past self out.
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It’ll will have you setting boundaries, saying no, and re-allocating your time toward what fills up your cup.
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Heart- forward living will have you being kinder to yourself in your humanness, make you more resilient to “failure”.
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Heart-Forward living will have you aligning your day to day with the bigger picture you want vs what you’ve settled for in the past.
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If you have something on your heart, its your solemn duty to tell people about it
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We need to quit making it so complicated.
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If this is lighting you up and your soul self is starting to nudge you to to explore this work…
We’ll take a curiosity-based approach to inner child work and together using somatic healing, breathwork, thought-work NLP and more, shed the layers and start operating from your core!
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