A woman I have known for years and have considered a dear friend wrote a post saying that someone copied her work. This is a woman who five years ago I told almost all the time her posts did not land and felt fake an performative. But today she has done the work to embody what she writes and it’s gorgeous.

After inquiring about who and what it was it was clear to me this idea she was copied was not only ridiculous it was not seeing the Truth in the other woman.

Funny enough I see my teachings in this woman’s writing all the time. I’m sure others do too. But it isn’t copying because the writing is embodied. It’s beautiful and lived and just True.

I take the topic of copying quite seriously.

There are different levels of copying which I think are worthy of discussion. So let’s unpack it.

📓 There are people on the internet who literally plagiarize people’s work. Like we are talking cut and paste or copying a program or something illegal level copying. This is wrong and is always wrong.

Another example of this is someone joining a program and then teaching the material on their instagram without any kind of mention that they are in a program, they just pretend like the content is theirs.

📓 Then there is what I like to refer to as “mimicry”. I find this annoying and I do point to this when I see it blatantly but mostly I ignore it because it is a stage of development. This is when someone is young in the work or practice and doesn’t embody the knowledge and just parrots what they are learning from the position of an expert. They are doing this to build a following and their business. It’s almost always from scarcity and from a place of fearing to be seen where they actually are in their practice.

📓 Truth and language of a shared lineage. Personally I’ve worked incredibly hard to create my own unique language from my teacher and where there is overlap I’ve always acknowledged her and the lineage I come from. My modality sxbmb™️ is based on the philosophy of Orgasmic Meditation™️. When I created this, I got my teacher’s blessing, I always acknowledge the roots, and I have reverence for the shared philosophy and lineage even though I’ve created something new. When students live their lives, embody a lineage and share it in the world, you will of course see shared language. That is not copying. The words may be similar but the transmission is different. If it feels off it’s probably that they are in the stage of mimicry.

But this is reserved for embodying and sharing Truth not teaching other people’s work. I have never taught anything I didn’t have full permission or blessing to teach from those who taught me. To me, this is important.

So let’s come back to this.

When a woman tells me she thinks another woman is copying her, who I can observe as fully in her Truth and clearly internally resourced, it shows me a place of scarcity in the woman who thinks she was copied.

And an arrogance that what she thinks was copied somehow belongs to her in the first place when the two women are sharing a lineage that taught them both.

Ultimately the way you make your mark is the depth of the embodiment of what you teach. The degree to which your language translates what other people feel and the power of the energy behind it creates change on a cellular level.

A woman I have known for years and have considered a dear friend wrote a post saying that someone copied her work. This is a woman who five years ago I told almost all the time her posts did not land and felt fake an performative. But today she has done the work to embody what she writes and it’s gorgeous.

After inquiring about who and what it was it was clear to me this idea she was copied was not only ridiculous it was not seeing the Truth in the other woman.

Funny enough I see my teachings in this woman’s writing all the time. I’m sure others do too. But it isn’t copying because the writing is embodied. It’s beautiful and lived and just True.

I take the topic of copying quite seriously.

There are different levels of copying which I think are worthy of discussion. So let’s unpack it.

📓 There are people on the internet who literally plagiarize people’s work. Like we are talking cut and paste or copying a program or something illegal level copying. This is wrong and is always wrong.

Another example of this is someone joining a program and then teaching the material on their instagram without any kind of mention that they are in a program, they just pretend like the content is theirs.

📓 Then there is what I like to refer to as “mimicry”. I find this annoying and I do point to this when I see it blatantly but mostly I ignore it because it is a stage of development. This is when someone is young in the work or practice and doesn’t embody the knowledge and just parrots what they are learning from the position of an expert. They are doing this to build a following and their business. It’s almost always from scarcity and from a place of fearing to be seen where they actually are in their practice.

📓 Truth and language of a shared lineage. Personally I’ve worked incredibly hard to create my own unique language from my teacher and where there is overlap I’ve always acknowledged her and the lineage I come from. My modality sxbmb™️ is based on the philosophy of Orgasmic Meditation™️. When I created this, I got my teacher’s blessing, I always acknowledge the roots, and I have reverence for the shared philosophy and lineage even though I’ve created something new. When students live their lives, embody a lineage and share it in the world, you will of course see shared language. That is not copying. The words may be similar but the transmission is different. If it feels off it’s probably that they are in the stage of mimicry.

But this is reserved for embodying and sharing Truth not teaching other people’s work. I have never taught anything I didn’t have full permission or blessing to teach from those who taught me. To me, this is important.

So let’s come back to this.

When a woman tells me she thinks another woman is copying her, who I can observe as fully in her Truth and clearly internally resourced, it shows me a place of scarcity in the woman who thinks she was copied.

And an arrogance that what she thinks was copied somehow belongs to her in the first place when the two women are sharing a lineage that taught them both.

Ultimately the way you make your mark is the depth of the embodiment of what you teach. The degree to which your language translates what other people feel and the power of the energy behind it creates change on a cellular level.