Quote: “Service is sacred only when it does not require you to disappear.” (Wisdom Evolution)
When you only take the scraps for yourself and make a feast for everyone else, at first, it can feel like love, like generosity. You may even feel like you’re the one who holds it all together. You give your time, your wisdom, your care to serving beauty to others while quietly sweeping up your own longings from the floor.
Self-sacrifice, when it becomes a pattern, turns sacred service into silent starvation.
You weren’t meant to survive on crumbs any more than you were meant to create banquets of support, encouragement, and care for others while starving your own soul of rest, of pleasure, of your true voice and your sacred space..
When you consistently offer the feast and eat the scraps, you train the world, and yourself, to believe that your nourishment can wait, that your needs are negotiable. You are telling the world that your worth is in what you do for others, not in who you are to yourself.
But here’s the sacred reframe you belong at the table.
You are not the scraps; you are the feast.
Consider what might happen if you made a plate for yourself first, not out of selfishness, but for the sake of your own sacred balance. What if nourishing you first became the source of all your gifts, not the cost?
Affirmation: “I am not here to live on scraps. I honor my needs, my voice, and my worth. I deserve the same nourishment, care, and joy I so freely give to others.”
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
Vicki is also an Artist of the Spirit Certified Spiritual and Energetic Life Coach, a Graduate Mentor in the AoS program and a founding member of HeatherAsh Amara’s Warrior Goddess Leadership Team and Facilitator of the Warrior Heart Practice.
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