The Sacred Process of Becoming: From Who You Are to Who You Want to Be!

Step into your next version of yourself with me in this powerful, heartfelt episode.  Over the past five years, I’ve journeyed through cycles of growth and transformation—and in this episode, I open up and get deeply vulnerable, sharing personal stories and real-life moments from my own process of becoming.

Discover why becoming isn’t just about adding more, but having the courage to release old patterns, energy and make space for an aligned, abundant future. If you’re craving a new version of yourself, this conversation is for you. I’ll share practical tools and my own becoming affirmations that have supported my own transformation, and invite you to join me in making intentional, heart-powered choices.

If you’re ready to let go, realign, and rise into your next level, tune in—I can’t wait to walk this sacred journey with you.

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Theresa Cesare: 0:06

Welcome to Heart to Talk the podcast. I am the host and creator Theresa Cesare My intention for this podcast is to deliver to you wisdom, inspiration, and consciousness. Through solo episodes and conversations amongst insightful people. It is my greatest honor to bring to you talks that come from the.

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Amazing listeners, welcome to another episode with me. I'm so grateful to have you here sharing this sacred space with me. Today's episode is all about the energy and process of becoming what it means to evolve, release old versions of ourselves and step into the highest most aligned vision for our lives. Over the past five years, my journey has been a cycle of growth, recalibration, and alignment. As I've transformed, I have learned that becoming isn't only about adding more, but it's actually about letting go. Releasing and making space to welcome your next version. If you feel called and ready to step into your next level, your next version of yourself, or your're ready to change the energy in a particular area of your life, whether it's finances, your health. Your career path. This conversation I think, will land for you. So friends, I'm so excited. Let's get started and dive in. okay, so I am recording this episode Sunday, July 27th. Sundays are really special for me. I call them Sacred Sundays and. The theme of this episode is the Sacred Process of Becoming, and when you define sacred, we all might have our own definitions or description for it. For me, it's just means just deeply valued, respected, special, and it's really powerful to know what you hold sacred. And to find places and spaces that are sacred because it's in that space where we evolve, where we get clarity, and where all the magic happens. Think about it. The things that are important to you, whether it's like a date night with your partner or celebrating your birthday or going to church. Or visiting a loved one at a grave, that's a sacred time, right? Or you might hold certain values sacred, what is sacred to you. So again, I love Sundays. They're sacred for me because I closing out one week, but about to enter the next. And it's a real powerful place. I like to use this day as a day of deep reflection, but also dive into gratitude and like high five myself for all the wins for showing up when maybe it wasn't so easy and for all the goals I've accomplished. And then I also recalibrate and give myself space and time to set my intentions for the week my goals and look at the calendar. It's really important to. Give yourself this time sacred space, one day of the week and a Sunday or Monday, whatever feels aligned for you to really set forth and set the tone and plan out and think, because otherwise, if you don't give yourself space and time and write out what you need to do. What are your goals? What are you grateful for? Or, you know, whatever that is for you that you feel like you need to write out. Life is running you, you are not running your life. And that's when we start to get stress, anxiety. We drop balls and all of that. So sacred Sundays, again, I reflect, I plan my week, but I actually invite silence. I light my candle and I just sit there. And it took a long time for me to become okay, so becoming right, become a person that is comfortable and stillness and silence. And I work on it all the time. Like my rest is a sacred practice, but it's a practice because I. I literally feel like I can't stop moving. I always have to be cooking something, cleaning something, creating something.'cause I feel like if I'm not that I'm slacking and I'm lazy. And I'm behind, so I have really given myself permission to like make Sundays that day to do nothing, sit still and in that space. Clarity comes creativity. That's when I create a lot of my content for the week, like all my affirmations that I post. And I love actually recording podcasts as well. I feel like Sundays are typically when I record because I have just aligned my energy and activated myself. And if you've been on this journey listening to the podcast, I don't hit record because I have to. I hit record because I feel called and I want to, and I'm excited, and it feels just like I have to do this. This is when I'm creating and delivering and speaking with the ideas, the content, or even with guests. That's when I feel closest. To my soul's purpose and my creator. It's so magical and that's why I'll always be, you know, interviewing, questioning people, being curious, and sharing what I have learned and mastered with the world, whether it's with my kids, a best friend, or on this scale, the podcast, and I here we are again. I'm recording this podcast July 27th. This is five Years of Heart to Talk podcast, and I created this. At that time,'cause it was COVID and I was like, there's no excuse now. Like I actually have time. What is something I've always wanted to do and that I love. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm obsessed with like people and interviewing them and just, I'm so curious and inspired by people's stories and I just love people. So I created a platform where I could do that. You know, there's that saying like, if there's something you desire or want or need, be the one to create it. And I needed this for myself so that I could. Literally go back and remind myself of certain amazing people that I know or meet or have met along the way that have done it, showed up for life, overcame something, created something to stay inspired. I live for it, and that is literally what gets me to show up on the days where I am not feeling it, because it is easy to show up for work, the relationship for yourself when you're feeling great. I do feel like nine times outta 10, we actually wake up, you know, a little tired, maybe not feeling good, stressed, all those things. And the work that I have created with affirmations helps me to set the tone, reprogram the vibe for the day. Like, today's gonna be amazing. I'm gonna change that energy. I can decide the vibe I wanna attract. And so I had learned that. That freaking works like reprogramming my subconscious mind. You know the subconscious part of your mind is the automatic parts of you, right? That just you go, you do how you are, your personality. And so when I realized that I can literally create a new belief, a new thought, life changing. Who I was when I started this podcast, when I created Affirmation, babe, I was a different person. Yes, there are still parts of me where people know me and have known me forever. Like, girl, you still the same? Because I'm like goofy and all the things. People recognize my voice and they walk into the room and they hear me talking. But I have actually literally changed so much and I intentionally wanted to change some things. I just changed subconsciously because I created new habit. New beliefs, new stories, perspectives, but I also said on purpose, I want to become this and I made it happen. I want to be like that because here's the thing, it's an excuse to just say, I'm just that way, or My family's like this, or This is passed down to me. You literally have a conscious choice to become any version you want and. I had done that. I've become a host, a multimedia host. Not only of this show, I host segments with local news station. I have had many more opportunities in that space because I became that version of myself. I stepped into it. I first had the idea, and then I took action and I made it happen, and I every day showed up as her, right. I became her. And in the becoming five years goes by, Who I was when I created podcast and affirmation babe. I was a different version. Because when I first started it was I needed it. I and I was healing myself. As I created it gave me just purpose.. I also had something to prove. Prove to myself I had a different energy. Sometimes we operate out of old energy. Into who we are now and it doesn't match. So that's what was happening. I was doing kind of the same routine, the same beliefs, the same, and that has been powerful. My habits, routines literally have been on autopilot, and I don't even have to be motivated, but because I'm so programmed and disciplined, it just happens. Right? And that's a powerful place to be, but it's also knowing when. You're like on the treadmill and not really going up, but just staying plateauing. So I I invited myself to just really feel, who am I becoming now? I became the woman of my dreams, the person five years ago that I set out to be. I changed literally so many things about myself in such a powerful way, become courageous, unstoppable, a powerful manifester, overcame, the divorce, the challenges of just all of that. And here I am now, and it's like, what's my why now? How do I wanna lead? You think of who you wanna be, your next level, whether it's your business or in your relationships or in your body, and you picture that. So just say for example, I'm becoming a powerful. Entrepreneur, a self-made millionaire. Let's just say that's my becoming statement. I'm becoming a woman who holds onto abundance and multiplies it. I am becoming the version of me that can travel anywhere she wants. And for me this next season of my becoming. It's really gonna be focused on that financial empowerment. And so for you, is it manifesting love? Is it manifesting a healthy body or health or a career, whatever that is. So you think of who do you have to become to be that version of yourself? What do you have to let go of who can't come with you? So Theresa. Now that's gonna become a, self-made millionaire, whether it's my business, the job I have, the combination, or I leave room for the universe to freaking surprise and delight me.'cause God's dream is literally bigger than my dream. And I, that's the one powerful thing as we move and creating and, and manifesting and. Being goal oriented and having that vision, it's also leaving a lot of space for the universe, God, whatever, higher power your creator to literally blow your mind. And I this whole process, I call it a sacred process because there's moments and times where I'm like, oh my God, am I going backwards? Because I'm like, I don't have that same like. Need to prove energy and I've really, really, really, really now pinned it on passion where I'm like, I'm going to literally follow my bliss and my passion and have a lot of fun and joy because I feel like the first five years was. Using my pain and something to prove to people, to myself, and I can't use that same energy and who I'm becoming now and especially if I wanna be that version. So that, that Theresa, that was before almost like can't come with me. She, she died and her, that's kind of sounds really morbid, but so you think of that for you, like if you wanna be someone who has no drama in their life. Who has financial empowerment and is getting rid of DEBT, which is debt. Or has an incredible job. They love, like, who do you have to become? And I'm talking details like the, the minute you wake up, what is that person thinking? What is that person eating? Who is that person? Or what are you interacting? What are you consuming? What are you eating? All of those teeny details matter. All of that matters. So if I wanna become a self-made millionaire, I gotta heal my money mindset, because if I can't hold what I make annually right now, or I don't let my money know it's safe and I don't respect it, same thing in a relationship or love or yourself. So if you're someone who doesn't love and respect themselves, even though you think you are, but do you let people take advantage of you? So that right there is not the energy moving forward that's going to allow you to become that future version. So instead of being like, when I get there or when I become that millionaire, I'm like, no, I'm her now. Right? I'm a woman who. Has love. Now I'm a woman who has deep connections with her kids. I'm a woman who works her nine to five job, which I'm so grateful for and also has a business, and I am creating the identity based on my authentic vision. So that is another piece to this where don't jump onto someone else's dream or vision that they have for you or somebody else's that's theirs, but you can't have their dream. So that's why sometimes this whole process, like it requires you to just really sit still and be really, really quiet in your thoughts to be like, what is it that you really want? You might not want the big house or the fancy car, or making seven figures, and that's okay too. Maybe for you it's you want to travel or you want love or just health, you know? And so again, it's like. Who is Theresa gonna be? My becoming? What's the sacred process of becoming financially so empowered and that next level in my business? Sometimes resistance will come up, and you make excuses. It's really being honest. what Has to change? What parts of Theresa can't come? What people can't come? That's the other thing that to this as well. There's probably certain, not only a version of yourself that can no longer come with you, but it's people, relationships. It's what habits, it's all of that. It is literally like you try it for one day and you see your life shift, like you act like that version of yourself again, becoming is not what you add. It's a sacred process of releasing. What no longer serves you, honoring the versions of yourself that belong in the past and giving yourself space to realign your energy for what's next.'cause that's alignment. When you're like, ah, this feels good, and now I move, and then it's smooth. But if you have roadblocks, it feels icky. You're out of alignment. Intentionally let go of those old patterns, identities, and energies. Slowing down to speed up, sometimes downsizing your commitments and energy in order to expand in another direction. So from the outside, people are like, oh my God, like you haven't been launching podcasts or I don't see you online. But really what's behind the scene is more powerful. Right? And, and it's trusting like your own process in yourself. So embracing the process and knowing that it's blessed and that when you move in that it will be aligned and that it's sacred. This path, opens a portal, to divine possibilities, and really introduces quantum transformation. That is like that next level where you're like, an idea pops in, or, the answer or the clarity, or just that feeling of what you know. You will embody the energy. So again, it introduces quantum transformation mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Becoming is a living choice. Allow your future self to emerge by just trusting your sacred unfolding. Usually around this time, we have six months left, right, for a new year. And this is the time where I start feeling like, what's the energy I'm gonna move forward? So authenticity is a word that comes to mind and where I'm like, I am becoming so more myself than ever before I noticed that sometimes I will adapt or rearrange. Or present a version that I feel like will be validated, accepted, and approved by family, friends, my audience, instead of being like girl, just say what's the truth. And it might make somebody uncomfortable, but that's where the magic is because that's your truth. So I am practicing that authentic piece. Even in this podcast, even more so, like I have so many incredible episodes that I've written up. But I haven't recorded because, you know, I don't know if you know this, but I actually do all my own editing, producing all of that. And it takes so much work. And again, because I'm like, it has to be perfect. I have to edit it. I can't say, um, I have to make sure like, if I'm not making sense, I cut that piece out and I, I like to really wrap it in a pretty package and present it to you all. Beautiful. Because I have like, honestly, the most utmost respect. And I honor you, like I value your time. I'm, I'm not going to give you something that I feel is a waste of time for my ego. This is why it's called heart to Talk. Everything I put out comes from my heart, and that's why if I'm not pushing out something, it's'cause it's not coming from my heart. And that is authenticity. So I am becoming the most authentic version of myself. I am becoming that financially empowered version of myself, healing my money mindset. The universe will literally give you like the same lesson over and over until you heal it. And sometimes we actually are handed down, the dramas, the traumas, the things that actually are ancestors carried. So I'm born, I'm living my life. Yeah. I have my things I'm learning and my soul's journey. An evolution, like what I came here to, to heal and become and my purpose. And so I know that I am here to heal my family's financial abundance and negativity, toxic cycles of people and all of that, like learning how to like throw a boundary and to create peace. And so I've done that piece and they say that you actually heal like seven generations back. So when you are entering your becoming, remember to tell your ancestors. To reveal like what is it that,'cause a lot of times the subconscious patterns that are in our way of the next evolution aren't necessarily visible. So that's why like you've gotta be conscious, like, I see this, or I'm looking and I'm gonna fix this. And that's why I use affirmations because you literally like are programming yourself. So you can use that and invite your ancestors. Like I literally, it sounds so woo and out there, but I'll be like, grandma. I'm gonna cry talking about it, but at the end of her life, the, the drama and the traumas that she dealt with, with my grandpa and their marriage and then my uncles. But because she enabled it, because she was so l looped in that toxic cycle, I had to stay away from her. But my soul and her soul were always connected. I had to stay away from people I loved for peace. And she was one of them that I just was like, grandma, like you're like choosing this or you're thinking this way. And it was like so negative. But in a weird way, I feel bonded and I dedicate my healing to her.'cause I think of. I didn't think I would cry in this episode, but I think of when I'm becoming this version of myself, like it's not just for me, and I have my grandma's picture right in front of me as I'm recording this episode, and I, and I'm like, this is like bigger this life right here, it's like healing back the, the darkness, the heaviness of our lineage. And so when I see her and I just know like her struggles and her trauma and I'm just like, grandma, like this is literally for us. So as you're becoming and healing you pick your why, right? Your devotion, what is it for? And then it's for her, it's my grandma represents. Those women those seven generations and I know it. And so when I had to stand up to a marriage that was from the outside looked perfect, but the inside wasn't healthy and changed that, that healed the family. And when I had to learn how to. Go out into the world, be the first to graduate. Different things have changed our family forever and will impact in the most positive way. So thank you so much for just sharing this sacred space with me. Whether you've been on since the beginning, a couple years in, or just started listening, thank you again for being on this journey of becoming with me. And just remember that your becoming is blessed and sacred. It's about honoring what you've outgrown and courageously. Stepping into your highest vision every day from every detail of what you eat, what you think, who you're around, your everyday choices. And lastly, to guide you on this journey. I've created something for myself and that is my affirmation deck. And I love using it every morning. And sometimes if I need a boost, I'll do it at night. But again, if you're thinking like, I don't know what to think, what to say, and you feel overwhelmed'cause you're still learning how to really let the clarity come through of what your affirmations will be or your intentions, I have a powerful signature affirmation deck of 48 affirmations that I literally have created for myself in this last five years that has allowed me to really become, become this version of myself and. My affirmation deck, you can get'em on my website. The link is here in the show notes. And how I use it is I will just light my candle in the morning, pray over them, and I shuffle'em up, spread'em out, and I choose three. And those are my intentions for the day. And then when you step into that, it is so incredible how your energy shifts, what you attract. And the results of your day, you start making different choices and notice things that are connected to that affirmation. So explore my affirmation deck to guide your mornings and program your mind for powerful transformation in your becoming. Until next time. I honor you and your sacred path of becoming.

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