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But Is It Actually True?

by Shannon Danielle
Sep 09, 2026
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September 9, 2026 | Vol. 7

Have you ever noticed how easily a repeating thought can begin to sound like a fact?  I’m not good at that. I can’t do that. I’ve always been this way. That kind of thing doesn’t happen for someone like me.

When we’ve thought something often enough, we don’t always recognize it as a belief anymore. It simply becomes part of the way we understand ourselves and what we believe is possible.

But a thought being familiar doesn’t automatically make it true.

Inside the Pure Possibilities Collective, our focus this month is beliefs: noticing the ones subtly (or not so subtly🤣 ) influencing our choices, questioning where they came from, and becoming curious about whether they still belong in the lives we want to create.

You don’t have to immediately replace every limiting thought with a shiny new one you don’t believe. Sometimes the first step is simply noticing the thought and asking, Is this actually true?

What repeating thought have you been treating like an absolute fact?

This Week On The Podcast

What If Money Is a Relationship Too?

Everything is a relationship, and you are the foundation of all of them.  This week I decided it was time to dive into a juicy one... MONEY! Most of us have a relationship with money, and we probably didn’t consciously choose our money story.

In this week’s episode, I’m exploring how our experiences, stories, and inherited beliefs can shape the way we earn, spend, save, receive, and feel about money. When we begin to notice that relationship with curiosity instead of judgment, we create space to choose something different.

Listen to the Pure Possibilities Podcast Here

New episodes drop every Tuesday at 12:00 a.m. Pacific.

What If Weekly...

What if I am more capable than I realize?

How often do we stop ourselves because we think, I can’t do that or I don’t know how? We can dismiss trying something new or exploring a path we feel incredibly pulled toward simply because we don’t already know how to do it.

Have you considered that you’ve spent your entire life learning how to do things you once didn’t know how to do? At one point, you didn’t even know how to walk. 😂 You learned, practiced, fell down, adjusted, and tried again.

Being capable doesn’t mean already knowing every step. It includes your ability to learn, adapt, ask for help, practice, and figure things out as you go.

What if the desire in your heart isn’t there to taunt you with something you can’t have? What if it’s there because you are far more capable of moving toward it than you currently realize?

What is one thing you’ve been telling yourself you can’t do?

Hit reply and share with me. I’d truly love to hear. 💜

Until next week, pause, notice, reconnect... and remember that “I don’t know how yet” is very different from “I can’t.”

Much love,

Shannon💜

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