The Lie of Not Enough
moving beyond into the power of your presence
You weren’t born believing you were not enough.
Somewhere along the way, that lie took root.
You weren’t born believing you were not enough.
That lie arrived later—subtly, pervasively—woven into voices, systems, and experiences that told you something essential was missing.
It may have come through judgment, perfectionism, shame, or even silence.
However it arrived, it took root not because you were broken, but because you were sensitive—receptive to the world around you, and eager to belong.
The lie of “not enough” is rarely a loud accusation.
It’s often a hum beneath the surface: you should be more, do better, shrink here, fix that.
Over time, the lie becomes a lens.
You stop seeing yourself directly and start seeing a distorted image—curated, evaluated, compared.
Even your presence begins to feel conditional.
But here’s the truth: you never actually lost your enoughness, your wholeness, your completeness.
You only lost your connection to you.
The soul does not subscribe to the lie.
Your depth reflects back to you the wholeness that has always been true, even when it’s been buried beneath trauma, expectation, or self-protection.
To begin this journey into presence, name the distortion—not as an accusation, but as a release.
This is not about blaming your past.
It’s about becoming intimate with the moments when you forgot who you really were.
Not enough is not your truth. It never was.
And your presence?
Presence is not what you earn after release.
Presence is the place where your restoration begins.
Questions for Your Akashic Records:
What moments or messages first taught me I wasn’t enough?
How has the lie of “not enough” shaped the way I see myself today?
When do I feel most disconnected from the truth of my wholeness?
What part of me already knows this lie of not being enough is not mine to carry?
Letting the Lie Loosen
You’ve named the distortion. You’ve sat with the beginnings. And maybe, for a moment, something inside you softened.
This is how presence begins—not with a sudden revelation, but with quiet noticing. The lie of not enough may not disappear overnight. But your relationship to it can shift, breath by breath, truth by truth. You are not here to fight the lie. You are here to stop feeding it.
Let your wholeness speak now. Not as certainty, but as a whisper. Not as performance, but as presence. Let it be true for just this moment. And then the next. This how you return to presence.
This Akashic Records practice comes from Cheryl’s workbook:
Buried Wholeness:
10 Akashic Records Practices to Unearth the Presence Fear Tried to Silence
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I love these questions to ask myself in this way. What a great reframe. Thank you for this amazing piece. I’ve been doing past life meditations once a week and I am going to experiment using these. 🤩💗✨🩵
You do great works.
I wanted to ask do I take my Akashic Readings as true or as interpretations only?
Last year I had one done that placed me in many places of fantastical origins. But always a healer like priest. Even my past lives I’ve meditated on seemed very much removed from the life I’m in this time around. I’ve also done shadow work healing which saw some unreal past life clearings too.
And yet the theme is constantly of high level interference. That I’m hiding my golden light and works etherically. So I wanted to figure out if I could somehow transmit them via automatic writing yet hasn’t come to pass.
And when I wished to learn more during past life regression years ago now my spirt guides stoped me from accessing anything. So I’ve got more questions than answers in truth. Wishing to discover soul purpose.