David James Lees, Wirksworth (2025)

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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10/11/2025

TAO DIALOGUES #13: How to Stop Self-Sabotage | Break the Cycle and Unlock Your True Potential

The root of self-sabotage lies in your Inner Child’s fear of failure and rejection — learn how to transform that fear into flow, confidence, and peace.

Are you tired of getting in your own way? This Tao Dialogue explores the deeper roots of self-sabotage — why it happens, where it begins, and how to transform it through awareness and compassion.

You’ll learn how to:

✅ Recognise hidden self-sabotaging patterns
✅ Heal your Inner Child and reconnect with self-trust
✅ Reprogram limiting beliefs that keep you stuck
✅ Take aligned action toward peace, purpose, and success
When you stop fighting yourself, life starts to flow. Freedom begins with understanding, not force.

**LINK TO EPISODE + the original blog post are in the comments below**

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03/11/2025

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✨ Shadow Seeking ✨
You often see the light in others, so clear, so radiant, yet quietly doubt your own. What if that reflection wasn’t admiration, but recognition? In this journal post, we’ll trace that sacred mirror back to its source, your Shen.

✨ Emotional Bartering ✨
You’ve learned to trade your truth for peace, your energy for acceptance, your silence for safety, but at what cost? In the quiet corners of your spirit, do you still wonder if you're enough without the performance? This teaching will help you step out of the emotional marketplace and back into the effortless grace of wu wei, where your worth was never up for sale.

✨ Inner Parenting ✨
You’ve made promises to be better, calmer, kinder, yet in the heat of the moment, it’s the same old voice that takes control. Why? Because it’s not just you speaking. It’s the child within, still waiting for someone to lead. This isn’t about fixing your past; it’s about stepping forward now, with the clarity and compassion the Tao teaches, becoming the parent you always needed.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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01/11/2025

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Inner Child Healing Meditation for Money & Abundance | Remove Money Blocks & Awaken Prosperity

💌 In David's new guided meditation, you'll experience a deep release of old beliefs keeping you stuck in scarcity.

Reprogramme your money story from the inside out! Your financial blocks aren’t about money—they’re rooted in childhood patterns of scarcity, safety, and self-worth. Through gentle guidance, you’ll release old fears, open your heart, and align with the natural energy of prosperity and ease. Let your Inner Child lead you back to peace, abundance, and financial freedom… 🤗

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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!

31/10/2025

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✨ Universal Integrity ✨
You speak with strength at work and wisdom with friends, but why does your truth tremble in the family home? Could it be that your Inner Child still waits for you to lead with love, not permission? This journal post explores how Taoist integrity begins not in performance, but in presence.

✨ Fate or Flow ✨
You don’t need to see the whole map to take the next step. But what if you’re waiting for a sign that never comes? Somewhere between surrendering to fate and forcing the future lies a quieter way. The Tao invites you to listen, align, and walk with effortless intention.

✨ Seeing Shen ✨
You may believe your emotions are too loud, too much, or too messy, but what if they’re not mistakes to be managed, but messages to be understood? Taoist wisdom teaches us that emotions are not the storm, but the compass—pointing gently toward the misaligned belief that’s ready for your love. This journal is your invitation to listen, not to fix, and return to the quiet clarity of your Shen.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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27/10/2025

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✨ Quiet Truth ✨
You’ve tried being calm, reflective, even spiritually disciplined, yet still, something keeps pulling you back. What if the struggle isn't failure, but an invitation to stop fixing and start listening? This is your quiet truth calling, not to be found, but to be remembered.

✨ Intrinsic Worth ✨
Have you ever wondered why giving more never seems to be enough? Why love, effort, or even silence still don’t buy the peace you long for? This journal post will invite you to pause the transaction and return to what the Tao has always known: your worth was never a bargain to be struck, only a truth to be lived.

✨ False Protection ✨
You retreat, hoping distance will shield your spirit, but the ache remains, quiet, familiar, unyielding. What if your emotional walls, built in the name of safety, are the very thing keeping peace away? Let us explore the Taoist path that dissolves defence into alignment and turns hiding into healing.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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24/10/2025

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Master Your Mind for Wealth | Unlock the Law of Attraction for Financial Freedom

💌 Have you ever wondered why money seems to slip through your fingers, no matter how hard you work or how carefully you plan? Our new Life Lesson goes to the root of your emotional and spiritual relationship with money.

You might be surprised to learn that your abundance struggles aren’t about money. They often stem from the Inner Child—the part of you shaped by early experiences, beliefs, and fears around safety, worth, and scarcity.

When you release the grip of scarcity, and when you trust the natural rhythm of life, abundance stops being something you chase— and becomes something you live…

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24/10/2025

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✨The Fiction of Fixing ✨
You keep trying to make it work, fix the feelings, fix the silence, fix yourself, but nothing seems to hold. What if the fixing is the very thing keeping you from the peace you seek? Let’s return to the Tao, where clarity flows not through control, but alignment.

✨ Unknown Compass ✨
You don’t need to know the whole map, just the next true step. What if the fear you’ve labelled as hesitation is actually your Inner Child’s way of asking for truth before proof? In this journal, we’ll learn how to walk beside uncertainty with calm, not control, and let our Shen spirit guide us into alignment with the unknown.

✨ Becoming the Guide ✨
You stand at the edge of something unseen, unsure, yet strangely stirred. What if the unknown wasn't emptiness to fear, but space for your spirit to speak? In the quiet, the Tao calls, not to control, but to create.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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HERE: https://davidjameslees.substack.com/

22/10/2025

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✨ Gentle Becoming ✨
You want to grow, but something within whispers, “It’s not safe.” What if that voice isn’t your weakness, but your Inner Child asking to be seen? This gentle journey invites you to lead with presence, not pressure—and to realign, softly, with the Tao.

✨ Ungraspable Path ✨
Have you ever felt lost in the effort to be enough, fixing, pleasing, performing, yet never truly belonging? The more you bend to fit, the further you drift from yourself. In this journey, we gently uncover the silent maze built by childhood survival and learn how to walk free, not by force, but by aligning with the quiet strength of our Shen and the graceful flow of wu wei.

✨ Rewriting Reality ✨
You don’t have to chase inspiration; it’s already whispering within you. When you stop forcing, comparing, or controlling, life begins to speak. What if your quietest moments held the greatest power to guide you back to your truth?

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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18/10/2025

✨ TAO DIALOGUES #12: Dancing With Change | How to Find Ease & Flow in a World of Upheaval

We've just published the twelfth episode from our Tao Dialogues series, David's powerful yet gentle teachings about authenticity, spirituality and finding emotional balance and flow in everyday life, which expand upon popular posts on David’s Substack blog.

Ever wonder why even positive change can feel unsettling?

In this Tao Dialogue episode, we explore:

- Why red-light emotions (fear, anxiety, frustration) are not enemies but messengers.
- The Golden Thread Process — tracing emotions back to their root beliefs.
- How to guide your Inner Child back to balance through Shen, your inner truth.
- The Taoist art of non-doing — how to act with presence, not pressure.

Learn to let go of control, trust life’s rhythm, and transform uncertainty into liberation. Because we are not here to control the wind — we are here to learn how to move with it.

**LINK TO EPISODE + the original blog post are in the comments below**

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