Vanessa Ooms

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4 days ago |[YT] | 11

Vanessa Ooms

It took me nine months…

Nine months ago I ruptured my ACL while skiing and my life changed instantly. Suddenly my world became very small and my capacity for my much of anything went to zilch.

I assumed I would have to have surgery, but in my heart of hearts I wanted to avoid that, and was willing to do whatever it took to heal without. After a month in a splint waiting for an MRI for answers and a month of physio, my orthopaedic specialist said that he felt confident in my chances of healing without surgery. I just had to do the work.

So that’s what I did… I buckled down and did the work. It was agonizing and slow work, especially in the beginning. It often felt like I’d take one step forward and three steps back. It was scary work too, as I slowly relearned how to walk with less and less support. I had to borrow my PT’s confidence at every appointment where he encouraged me to try new things and push myself. I had to learn my limits and how to push past them without pushing too hard. It literally took everything I had for the first while.

But slowly I started getting stronger and getting my confidence back. I kept this view in my mind as motivation, knowing that I’d get back there one day. When my partner and I finally got up to this spot, I bawled my eyes out!! It was the most beautiful day, and I knew in my bones it was the day to do it. It took about an hour longer than usual to complete, but just the fact that I was able to see this view was phenomenal! 😭🙌✨

I’m still doing physio and I still have some tough days, but I’m getting faster, stronger and more confident all the time. I’m so grateful for the amazing people who have been with me through all of this!! 💜

Onward and upward.

#aclrecovery #injury #slowandsteady

1 week ago |[YT] | 24

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1 month ago |[YT] | 18

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Glitch in the matrix? ⚡️ Last night while flicking through the tiles on our Apple TV, the sound started reverberating like it was moving through a digital echo chamber. It was eerie… I had no idea what was causing it, or how to fix it. I just clicked on Netflix and navigated to a series we’ve been watching, and it seemed to right itself.

This morning we woke to find that 😱gasp - ChatGPT was down for tens of thousands of users across the globe 😂. Even Google Gemini glitched on my phone when I asked about a certain type of Gorilla Glue I was thinking about buying for a project. It all felt strange…

And yet, I found it comforting. I knew that even if all the electronics that we depend so heavily on went dark, we’d still find our way. We found our way before all of this technology entered our field of consciousness, and we’d find our way again. And maybe, just maybe, the less-technologed way would be more deep, more satisfying, and more true.

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1 month ago |[YT] | 16

Vanessa Ooms

When you’ve spent a long time anticipating other people’s reactions and trying to avoid them, being palatable can start to feel like protection.

If I explain myself correctly…
If I soften this enough…
If I don’t go too far…
If I make myself easier to understand…
If I don’t say what I really think…
Maybe no one will think I’m too much.
Maybe no one will think I’m weird.
Maybe I’ll still belong.

But there’s a hidden cost to living this way.

Every time you shave off a little piece of yourself to make yourself easier for someone else to digest, you’re the one who has to live with the smaller version.

Eventually, being accepted stops feeling all that good when you realize that acceptance required you to abandon parts of yourself to receive it.

And something begins to shift.

You’d rather be deeply known by fewer people than broadly liked for being agreeable.

You’d rather have someone encounter the real you and decide you’re too much, too sensitive, too intense, too spiritual, too weird — too whatever — than have them approve of a version of you that was carefully constructed to avoid their disapproval.

Eventually, the cost of being palatable becomes greater than the discomfort of being misunderstood.

And maybe that’s when we stop asking,

“How do I make myself easier for them to accept?”

and start asking,

“What would it feel like to stop abandoning myself?”

#SelfTrust #Authenticity #PeoplePleasing #SelfAbandonment #BeYourself #SelfAcceptance #HealingJourney #PersonalGrowth #Boundaries #StopPeoplePleasing #EmotionalHealing #InnerWork #Belonging #HighlySensitivePerson #EvolvingOnPurpose

1 month ago |[YT] | 17

Vanessa Ooms

✨ Introducing: Messages From the In-Between

There’s a side of my work that I don’t always share publicly.

The more intuitive, esoteric, slightly harder-to-explain things. The messages that arrive unexpectedly. The energetic nudges. The card pulls that feel like they’re meant for someone. The things I sometimes feel called to sit down, turn on the camera, and talk about.

So I’ve created a new members-only space for them. 💜

Messages From the In-Between will be a collection of channeled transmissions, intuitive card readings, energetic explorations, spontaneous messages, and whatever else feels like it wants to come through.

Sometimes we might wander into light codes, energy, consciousness, intuition, multidimensionality and the unseen. Other times, it might simply be something that’s been on my heart that I feel called to share.

There’s no set formula or schedule here. I want this to be a space we can follow intuitively.

To begin, I’ll be sharing three channeled transmissions over the next few weeks that I originally recorded several years ago but still deeply resonate with today.

The first is Your Aura Is a Vortex — an exploration of the transformational energy some of us carry and why simply being in your presence may catalyze something in the people around you.

When I listened to it again recently, I realized that I needed to hear it too.

And I have a feeling I might not be the only one. ✨

Members can find Messages From the In-Between in the members-only section of the channel. 💜

As always, take what resonates. Leave what doesn’t. And trust what awakens something within you.

1 month ago |[YT] | 1

Vanessa Ooms

This is one of the best videos I've seen in a LONG time! 🙌🏼💜✨

2 months ago |[YT] | 5

Vanessa Ooms

I used to believe I needed to understand the past before I could be free of it. But some experiences never offer a satisfying explanation. Sometimes peace begins when we stop asking the past to become something it wasn’t, and gently choose to return to ourselves. 💜

#lettinggo #emotionalhealing #mindfulmastery

2 months ago |[YT] | 28

Vanessa Ooms

Shortly after I posted today’s video, I got a notification from YouTube celebrating my 10 years of creating on this platform 🤯 it’s been an interesting 10 years… I’ve learned and grown so much in that time.

I’m so grateful to all of you who are on this journey with me! 🙏🏼💜✨

2 months ago |[YT] | 24

Vanessa Ooms

5:55 on 8/8. ✨

I looked at my phone and had to laugh, because sometimes the timing is just too good not to notice.

5:55 has always carried the energy of change, movement and transformation. And on 8/8, a day so often associated with intention, expansion and stepping into what’s next, it felt like a pretty beautiful little wink.

And after the video I posted today, I’m wondering if maybe the message isn’t that something magical is about to happen… but about the magic in realizing how much already has.

How much you’ve changed.
How much you’ve released.
How many versions of yourself you’ve already outgrown.
How differently you move through the world now.

Transformation doesn’t always arrive with fireworks…

Sometimes you just look up one day and realize:

Oh. I’m not who I used to be anymore. 🌀

And maybe that’s the portal.

#LionsGate #Synchronicity #Transformation

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