What if fear is still running your life — but it sounds like "being responsible"?

In this powerful episode, Melissa shares how perfectionism, performance, and a deep fear of abandonment shaped her life for decades — and how she began to unhook from that pattern with just a little willingness.

You'll hear raw, relatable stories, ACIM insights, and the small-but-mighty mindset shifts that open the door to real healing.

🌱 Themes we explore:

• Why "being responsible" might be fear in disguise
• How A Course in Miracles invites us to interrupt old patterns
• Melissa's healing journey around perfectionism and fear of abandonment
• How to recognize and soften fear-based operating systems
• The miracle of choosing to see it differently

Mentioned in this episode:

A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

Jennifer Hadley, Power of Love Ministries

Lesson 28: "Above all else I want to see things differently"

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

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Thank you for being here with us. Keep listening, keep laughing, and keep leaning into the light. And remember, your transformation is our greatest joy.

📘 ACIM References

Lesson 28: "Above all else I want to see things differently"

ACIM principle: "A little willingness is all that's required."

🌿 Work with the Lemonettes: Want to go deeper? Each of the Lemonettes offers coaching, healing work, or spiritual mentoring.

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What if your transformation didn't require doing more—but doing less, with more intention?

In this heartfelt Season 4 opener, the Lemonettes return to the mic to reflect on what they're choosing to practice in 2026—not as resolutions to achieve, but as intentions to live into. This episode is rich with honest stories, sacred humor, and spiritual insight as Amanda, Drusilla, Penny, Morgan, and Melissa share what's real for them as the year begins.

You'll hear reflections on:

• Radical self-acceptance as a daily spiritual practice

• Choosing surrender (again and again) instead of control

• Nervous system regulation as the foundation of peace

• Leading with love in business, friendship, and life

• Practical resets when the ego pulls us off course

• Why doing less might actually be the most courageous thing we do this year

✨ Episode Practice:

Ask yourself:

1. What do I want to practice, not perfect, in 2026?

2. What usually knocks me off course—and what's my reset?

3. What would courage have me do this year?

We invite you to take this on as a gentle Lemon Lab experiment: Pick one intention, one reset, and one courageous act to begin the year with clarity and grace.

• You Are Enough by Panache Desai

• A Course in Miracles, Lesson 364: "This holy instant would I give to You…"

• Practices: meditation, journaling, sacred pauses, affirmations ("I am enough", "I need do nothing")

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In this soulful and intuitive episode, Amanda, Penny, Drusilla and Melissa are joined by their dear friend and gifted intuitive guide, Lorri Gifford, for a collective tarot reading and spiritual forecast for 2026.

Blending Tarot, A Course in Miracles, and deep spiritual insight, Lorri shares powerful messages about the year ahead — helping us ground into truth, release what no longer serves, and respond to emotional triggers with love instead of fear. 🌱

We explore:

• The energy of The Fool & The Magician in 2026

• The key themes of the year: mutual support, inner grounding, and radical honesty

• How to use tarot as a tool for healing, not fear

• A beautiful "Gateway Spread" you can use to step into the new year

• A spontaneous live reading that wowed the Lemonettes

This episode is an invitation to rewrite your story through love and walk into 2026 with clarity, intention, and trust in your own inner wisdom.

✨ The cards don't hold the answers — you do.

Let this conversation guide you back to your heart.

• 🌐 Lorri's Website: https://readingswithlorri.com

• 📩 Email info@readingswithlorri.com to request Free Gateway Spread PDF

• 💛 Monthly Tarot Workshops with Lorri: $19, small group, soulful guidance

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💛 As always: Your transformation is our greatest joy.