David James Lees, Wirksworth (2026)

29/01/2026

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✨The Unwritten Name✨
You’ve spent years trying to earn what was never missing. But what if your true worth was never meant to be proven, only remembered? This journey leads you back to the quiet place within where your value has always lived.

✨Quiet Authority✨
You may have trusted your emotions to lead, believing they were protecting you. But what if they were never meant to command your life, only to inform it? This is an invitation to rediscover the quiet authority that has always lived within you.

✨Emotional Illusions✨
When your emotions scream with an urgency that feels like survival, you might mistake that loud noise for your inner truth. By following the "Golden Thread Process" back to your quiet Shen, you can stop reacting to the illusions of fear and begin to flow with the effortless clarity of Wu Wei.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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24/01/2026

NEW EPISODE: Powerful Guided Meditation for Connecting to Your Wise Inner Guide

In our new guided meditation, we gently reconnect with your wise inner guide (Shen) — the quiet, steady voice of inner truth beneath self-doubt, comparison, and inherited conditioning.

Through breath, stillness, and compassionate awareness, this practice helps you recognise the difference between the Inner Child’s fearful voice and your authentic inner knowing.

Rooted in Taoist wisdom and wu wei (effortless effort), it supports Inner Child healing, emotional clarity, and living with greater integrity and flow. This meditation is for anyone seeking calm, alignment, and trust in their own inner guidance. This is a remembering — not a fixing.

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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!

23/01/2026

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✨ The Unclenched Hand ✨
What if the strength of your grip is what truly blocks the flow? A gentle Taoist wisdom suggests that abundance is not found in the clenched fist, but in the grace of an unclenched hand.

✨ Beyond the Reaction ✨
Have you ever watched yourself react with surprise, wondering why your emotions sometimes speak louder than your wisdom? There exists a sacred space between what triggers you and how you respond, a space where your Inner Child's fear can meet your Shen's knowing, and where true transformation begins not by suppressing, but by understanding the whispers beneath the storm.

✨ The Carousel Stops Here ✨
Sometimes you feel yourself spinning in circles, caught by the echo of an old wound. But what if the key to freedom isn't in the memory of the pain, but in the wisdom it left behind?

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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19/01/2026

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✨ Borrowed Happiness ✨
Like a river finding its natural course, you'll discover joy flowing from within rather than borrowed from distant shores. The wisdom of emptiness awaits your gentle return to what has always been present; happiness is yours to create.

✨ Taming the Monkey Mind ✨
Like a weary traveller finding rest, you'll discover that stillness isn't found by silencing the monkey, but by becoming the quiet branch it rests upon. In the gentle space between thoughts, your true wisdom whispers, inviting you home to the calm that has always been yours.

✨ Emotional Momentum ✨
Like a river finding its true course, you'll learn to trace each feeling back to its quiet source, not by fighting the current, but by understanding its beginning. In the space between belief and response, you discover the gentle power to choose a new direction, returning to the calm centre that has always been your home.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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17/01/2026

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Whose Voice Are You Living By? Connecting to Your Wise Inner Guide

💌 Do you know whose voice is guiding your decisions?

In our new Life Lesson, we explore how the Inner Child absorbs the beliefs, expectations, and emotional rules of authority figures — and how those inherited voices can quietly shape our adult lives.

Through Taoist wisdom, we learn how to distinguish conditioned thinking from our true inner knowing and wise inner guide, reconnect with our inherent worth, and gently return to authenticity, clarity, and alignment.

This is an invitation to stop living by inherited rules and begin trusting the quiet truth within.

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17/01/2026

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✨ Quiet Brilliance ✨
When your Inner Child whispers that you're not enough, do you believe it? Beneath those old stories lies a truth as steady as the Tao itself: your worth was never earned, only forgotten. This path of wu wei invites you to remember the quiet brilliance that has been yours from the beginning.

✨ Between the Poles ✨
When you're exhausted from trying to control life's unpredictable tides, do you hear the blame that follows? Between the noise of control and the silence of surrender lies a sacred still point, the Tao calls wu wei. Your journey is not to win this battle, but to remember the peace that already lives between the poles.

✨ Weightless Certainty ✨
When you cling to certainty as if it were a shield, do you feel its weight instead of its safety? The Tao offers a 'Weightless Certainty' not in controlling the future, but in learning to float within its beautiful uncertainty.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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10/01/2026

TAO DIALOGUES #16 - The Inner Child's Vow: ''Something Is Wrong With Me!''

In our new episode of Tao Dialogues, we explore The Inner Child’s vow — an unconscious belief formed in childhood that can create self-doubt, anxiety, and self-sabotage, even when life is going well.

Through Taoist wisdom, wu wei (effortless effort), and Shen spirituality, we gently uncover how this survival vow shaped our behaviour, and how it can be dissolved without force, self-criticism, or confrontation.

This dialogue is for anyone ready to release old conditioning, trust life again, and return to alignment, flow, and authenticity.

Nothing within you is broken. This is a return — not a repair.

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09/01/2026

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✨Rooted Authenticity ✨
Do you catch yourself shrinking to fit in, dimming your light to belong? What if the worth you've been chasing was never lost, just buried beneath borrowed beliefs? This journal post invites you to uncover your true value and return to the effortless flow of Shen.

✨ The Choice to Remain ✨
Are you always waiting for the right time, but deep down, the silence weighs more heavily each day? Could it be that in choosing nothing, you've already chosen? This journal post invites you to meet that quiet moment with truth, and let wu wei show you a softer, stronger way to move.

✨ Soft Power ✨
Have you been told to toughen up, to stop taking things so personally, but what if your sensitivity is not a flaw, but your finest strength? This journal post invites you to stop apologising for your softness and start seeing it as the spiritual intelligence it truly is.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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05/01/2026

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✨ Echoes of Enoughness ✨
Have you ever questioned your worth because someone else didn’t see it? When silence seems louder than truth, and doubt begins to speak for your spirit, Taoist wisdom invites a softer path, a way to remember who you truly are without needing the world’s approval. Let us walk that path together, where effortless effort leads us back to enoughness.

✨ The Sacred Spiritual Contract Within ✨
Have you ever silenced your truth to keep the peace, only to lose your own? When the world’s noise drowns out your inner knowing, Taoist wisdom invites you back to the quiet strength of your Shen, where your sacred spiritual contract patiently waits to be honoured.

✨ Unborrowed Worth ✨
You’ve spent years trying to earn what was already yours. But what if your worth was never meant to be borrowed, compared, or defended? This post is your invitation to remember the truth the Tao has whispered all along: you are already enough.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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03/01/2026

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Mindful Parenting Meditation — Letting Go of Control and Parenting with Trust and Presence ✨️

💌 Our new mindful parenting meditation invites you to release control, soften fear, and return to presence-led parenting. Rooted in Taoist wisdom, this gentle practice helps parents and caregivers guide without gripping, protect without overprotecting, and respond with calm awareness rather than emotional reaction.

Through breath, visualisation, Inner Child compassion, and affirmations, you’ll reconnect with your authenticity, trust your child’s inner wisdom, and learn to parent from alignment instead of perfection. 🤗

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02/01/2026

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✨Truth Over Emotion✨
Have you ever silenced your truth to keep the peace, only to find the conflict brewing within? What if the struggle you're experiencing isn’t weakness but your Inner Child reaching for clarity, for you? Let us uncover how to move from emotional chaos to alignment, where the Tao’s quiet wisdom flows effortlessly through every choice you make.

✨ Returning Light ✨
You’ve followed your emotions like a map to confusion, only to end up lost in the same confusion about death and dying. What if your feelings aren’t the truth, but a trail back to it? This week, step into the calm of the Tao, where the cycle of truth guides and peace returns.

✨ The Hidden Gift ✨
You’ve been taught to wait for clarity, but what if uncertainty holds the wisdom you’ve been seeking? Beneath the fear of not knowing lies a truth only your Shen can reveal. This week, unwrap the hidden gift of trusting the unknown.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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30/12/2025

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✨ Middle Light ✨
You’ve been told to stand your ground or stay silent, but what if the real strength lies in neither? When conflict rises, will you cling to the rope of emotion or step back into the still centre where your Shen waits?
This journal reveals how Taoist wisdom transforms confrontation into calm and chaos into clarity.

✨ Joyful Footsteps ✨
Have you ever sensed a quiet unease, like something within you is reaching out, yet you keep turning away? What if the peace you seek isn’t found in fixing or improving, but in finally listening to that forgotten voice inside? This journal post invites you to stop running and gently return to the wisdom of your Shen, and the quiet, unspoken truth you’ve always known.

✨ Open Sky Freedom ✨
You may feel as if you’ve been walking in circles, trying to escape old patterns that keep pulling you back into confusion or doubt. Yet, there is a quieter truth beneath the noise: the maze you fear may never have been solid at all. In this space, the Tao invites you to loosen your grip on control and step toward a freedom that has always been waiting in your own open sky.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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