David James Lees, Wirksworth (2025)

09/12/2025

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✨ Only 'I' Can Feel the Fire ✨
Have you ever wondered why emotions can seem like wildfires, burning fast, burning deep, and yet entirely ours? What if no one else could light that match but you? This is the quiet power of emotional sovereignty, the Taoist truth that your fire belongs only to you. Let’s walk together into the calm clarity beyond blame.

✨ This is Reality ✨
You see the pain, the cruelty, the injustice, and something in you recoils. How can you accept a world so out of harmony with your truth? This journal post explores how Taoist wisdom can offer you a path to clarity, not by retreating, but by awakening to the deeper reality beneath the noise.

✨ Silent Bloom ✨
You long for peace, yet silence feels unfamiliar, even unsafe, as if stillness might expose more than it soothes. But what if the quiet isn’t empty? What if it's where your most authentic voice has always been waiting, patient and clear, beneath the noise?

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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06/12/2025

NEW EPISODE: You Are Perfectly Imperfect | How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Be Your True Self

Do you feel pressure to be perfect just to feel worthy, loved, or safe?

In our new Life Lesson episode, we explore how perfectionism begins in childhood as emotional protection and how it silently disconnects us from our authenticity, and inner truth. We unpack how to let go of perfection, dissolve people-pleasing, and embrace your perfectly imperfect self.

If you’re ready to release perfectionism and remember who you truly are beneath the mask, this conversation will guide you back to freedom and flow.

** LINK TO EPISODE IN COMMENTS BELOW **

05/12/2025

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✨ Innocent Wisdom, Are We Naïve? ✨
You’ve been told to toughen up, to stop hoping, to grow out of your softness, but what if your innocence isn’t a flaw, but a hidden strength? In the quiet teachings of the Tao, we discover that wisdom is not always loud; sometimes, it arrives gently, asking only that we trust in our Shen. This journey invites you to explore the brave wisdom behind staying open in a world that urges you to close.

✨ Lantern of Truth ✨
You’ve been told courage means pushing through fear, but what if it really means no longer feeding it? What if true bravery isn’t a feeling you wait for, but a choice you make when you align with your truth? In this journal post, we’ll explore how to stop dimming your light and start trusting your Shen.

✨Inner Radiance ✨
You sense a quiet glow inside you, yet doubt keeps urging you to dim it for safety's sake and for approval. This is your invitation to lean into wu wei, the gentle power of effortless effort, and listen past the noise of old fears. Here, you begin remembering the Inner Radiance that was never lost, only waiting for your permission to rise.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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02/12/2025

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✨ Burning Bridges ✨
You’ve carried the weight of what they did for so long it echoes as your truth. But what if your strength was never in retaliation, but in the quiet courage to release? This journey will guide you back to alignment, where your peace no longer depends on their apology.

✨ Deep Trust ✨
You don’t need to see the whole path to take the next step. What if the unknown wasn’t a threat, but a sacred invitation to trust yourself and the Tao more deeply?

✨ Hidden Currents ✨
You were taught what to believe before you knew how to choose. But what if those old truths are no longer yours to carry? In the quiet tug between obedience and authenticity, the Tao invites you to listen again, and choose from the calm voice within.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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30/11/2025

✨ TAO DIALOGUES #14 - Hope, Healing & New Beginnings | Embracing Your Next Life Chapter

In our new Tao Dialogues episode, we explore hope, healing, letting go, and new beginnings through the wisdom of Taoism, wu wei, and Inner Child work. Discover why painful endings trigger fear, how red-light emotions guide your growth, and how to move into your next life chapter with clarity and courage.

You’ll learn:
✅ How to let go with compassion instead of forcing
✅ How red-light emotions reveal limiting beliefs
✅ The Golden Thread Process for emotional healing
✅ Taoist insights from the Tao Te Ching and I Ching
✅ How to create inner safety for your next beginning
✅ Simple practices to release the past and welcome renewal.

This is a grounded, gentle guide for anyone navigating life transitions, heartbreak, identity shifts, grief, or emotional healing.
**LINK TO EPISODE + the original blog post are in the comments below**

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28/11/2025

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✨ Claim Your Power ✨
You’ve carried the weight of “Why me?” far too long, as if your peace belonged in someone else’s hands. But what if those heavy thoughts were only echoes of old misunderstandings, not the truth? In this journal, we’ll gently turn on the light, tracing the Golden Thread back to clarity, choice, and the quiet strength of your Shen.

✨ Innocent Wisdom ✨
Have you ever been told that your kindness makes you naive, or that your hopefulness is just a sign of weakness? Have you learned to second-guess your trust in others, silencing the most innocent parts of yourself, to seem wise? In this journal post, we’ll uncover the strength hidden in innocence and how, through the flow of wu wei, trust becomes discernment, and hope transforms into quiet courage.

✨ Echoes of Now ✨
You long to be present, yet your mind clings to what was and fears what might be. Could it be that peace isn’t hidden in doing more, but in listening more deeply to the stillness already within?

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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22/11/2025

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Overcome Fear of the Unknown | Inner Child Guided Meditation for Emotional Safety ✨️

💌 When the fear of the unknown rises, the mind tightens and the body moves into protection. Our new soothing Inner Child guided meditation helps you release emotional tension, calm survival-driven thinking, and reconnect with a deep sense of inner safety. You’ll gently explore the root of uncertainty, soften old conditioning, and create space for trust, clarity and courage to emerge.

Through grounding breathwork, visualisation, and compassionate Inner Child work, this meditation guides you back to your natural state of ease and flow. You’ll learn to meet fear with presence, restore emotional balance, and align with the Taoist principle of allowing rather than resisting.

Use this practice whenever uncertainty feels overwhelming or when you want to strengthen your ability to move forward with confidence, peace, and self-trust. 🤗

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The episode is also available on the Wu Wei Wisdom Podcast on APPLE PODCASTS or SPOTIFY, or wherever you get your podcasts!

22/11/2025

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✨ From Withering to Flourishing ✨
Have you ever wondered why your life seems smaller than your spirit? Why are you circling the same place, waiting to begin? This journey post invites you to step off the carousel and into the quiet courage of flourishing with Shen.

✨Exploration of Tao Te Ching Verse 6 ✨
Do you ever sense an unseen river moving through your life, guiding, yet impossible to grasp? When the world pulls you to control, the Tao invites you to trust, to float, to become part of something deeper. In this stillness, your true rhythm begins.

✨Sacred Messiness ✨
Have you ever wondered if life would finally fall into place once everything was perfect, when every flaw is erased, every mistake corrected? What if your truest harmony arises not from perfection, but from embracing the sacred messiness that’s already within you? In this journal post, we’ll explore how letting go of fault-finding opens the path to your spirit’s most authentic rhythm.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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19/11/2025

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✨ Empty Courtroom ✨
Have you spent years defending your choices to an invisible judge in your mind? What if there was never a trial to begin with, only an old belief waiting to be questioned? This journal post invites you to step out of that courtroom and into the quiet clarity of your Shen.

✨ Can We Learn From the Mistakes of Others? ✨
You’ve watched others stumble and thought, “I’ll never do that”… only to find yourself caught in the same trap. Why does wisdom borrowed rarely take root until pain plants it personally? This journal invites you to step off that path and into the quiet power of observation, where your Shen sees clearly, and learning no longer has to hurt.

✨ Deserving by Design ✨
Have you ever believed you needed to suffer to prove your worth, or carry guilt to feel safe? That quiet ache of “not enough” doesn’t begin in truth; it starts in a story we were told, then unknowingly chose to repeat. This post gently unravels that story and helps us return to what the Tao has always known: you were never unworthy.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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15/11/2025

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Untangling Fear of the Unknown: Taoism, Flow & Inner Child Healing

💌 What if the real danger isn’t change, but staying stuck where you are?

We often mistake familiarity for safety, creating inner resistance and a fear of the unknown whenever we face something new. This new Life Lesson explores that subtle fear — the emotional “red light” that appears as change approaches, whether we’re starting something, letting go, or sitting with uncertainty.

We look at how fear softens when we stop forcing and instead align with life’s natural flow. You’ll learn why the unknown feels threatening to the mind and how presence helps us move through it with greater ease.

Bringing in Inner Child wisdom, we uncover early conditioning that taught us to avoid the unknown. By meeting those younger parts of ourselves with compassion, we can create an inner safety that empowers us to step forward with trust and confidence.

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14/11/2025

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✨ Stillness in Motion ✨
You may wonder why your emotions leap before you do, as if they have a life of their own. In this exploration, you will learn how Wu Wei Wisdom gently guides you to separate reflex from belief, so you can return to the quiet strength and clarity already living at your centre.

✨ I Ching - Hexagram 10 ✨
The first opportunity to read an exclusive version of this Hexagram taken from David's upcoming book and personal translation of the I Ching.

✨ Familiar Chaos ✨
You’ve learned to survive the storm by building your home in it, but what if safety isn’t in the noise, but in the quiet you've forgotten how to trust? You are not broken; you’re simply attached to beliefs that no longer serve you. Let us trace them gently back to truth, where your Shen has always been waiting.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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10/11/2025

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✨ Loving Boundaries ✨

You’ve tried being patient, understanding, even over-explaining, but still, the emotional noise persists. What if clarity doesn’t come from doing more, but from pausing, turning inward, and whispering the one phrase your Shen has always known: “Stop it”? This is not rejection, but a return to truth.

✨ Harmony Restored ✨

You’ve carried guilt like a shadow, haven’t you, even when no one asked you to? You shrink yourself to avoid blame, yet still feel judged. What if that judgment isn’t from others, or the Tao, but from a misunderstanding within? In this post, we’ll gently untangle the silent laws of self-punishment, guiding you back to a life where nothing needs to be earned, only remembered.

✨ Victim’s Sandcastle ✨

You brace yourself for the tide, yet keep rebuilding the same castle. Why? What belief are you guarding that your spirit has already outgrown? In this journey, we’ll invite the fortress of emotional overwhelm to soften grain by grain, guided by the quiet power of wu wei and your Shen.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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