April 2025 Museletter: What breaks your heart?
Supporting you to free your mind so you can live from your heart!
What breaks your heart?
- Tererai Trent
This is a simple and profound question spoken by Tererai, a guide and way-shower. She invites this inquiry to help people uncover a spark of inspiration in their lives, because in naming what breaks our hearts, we often find the path of service we’re meant to walk. We begin to see how we can become the change we wish to see in the world.
So, I’ll go first.
What breaks my heart is closely tied to a quote often attributed to Pablo Picasso: “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
It breaks my heart when people never discover their gift. And maybe even more so, it breaks my heart when they do find it…but feel they can only offer it with conditions. When they attach strings, try to control how it’s received, or withhold it completely because of fear or unworthiness and self doubt.
I’ve seen many people shrink back from sharing what they authentically have to give, because they don’t believe it’s enough. Because they don’t believe they are enough. From this place their gift becomes heavy and serious. A weight that is tied to survival and people pleasing. The gift starts to feel like life or death. An internal battle between the heart wanting to contribute and the mind demanding it look a certain way.
I’ve been there. I lived that story.
For a long time, I hid my own gifts. I either didn’t believe in them, or I was waiting for someone else to validate them before I dared to share. And then, when I would share, the validation had to look a certain way. And if it didn't, I would spiral into self doubt. I chased approval. I doubted my worth. And in that space, my gifts stayed small, tucked away, waiting for “someday.”
Our gifts were never meant to be hoarded. They aren’t something we have to prove before we can offer them. They’re not something to polish and perfect until we feel “ready.” Our gifts are meant to be given. Joyfully. Authentically. From an energetically-liberated and free place inside ourselves. This is the place I help people get to.
This is a shift I’ve made. And I'm still a work in progress. And it’s a shift I now help others make.
When we give our gifts without needing anything in return, we step into our innate power. We contribute in a way that’s clean, clear, and in deep service to the world. We become part of something larger than ourselves. You see, our limited mind would have us believe our gifts are all about ourselves. However, our gifts are here to benefit others. This doesn't mean we don't get to create prosperity with our gifts. It just means that we check our focus. Are we focused on ourselves and what we can gain? Or are we focused on others and what we can give? When we are giving, we move energy forward. We create change.
So now, I gently offer this question to you:
What breaks your heart? And what change are you being called to make in response?
What small, authentic action can you take to tend and mend your broken heart in a way that serves not only you, but the larger collective?
Take a moment. Get quiet. Listen in.
And if you feel called, I’d love to hear what you discover.
Step By Step,
Jessie
