Your Inner Child Needs You.
Do you even care?
Hit play, this ain’t gonna be a light read…
Your personal brand doesn’t need a bunch of recycled high performing ideas. It doesn’t require you to build the most premium funnel, or even for you to mindlessly start throwing shit at the wall until something sticks.
It’s needs you to live your truth, the kind that can’t be faked.
(type shit)
You must operate from this space...
A space where your actions and the way you show up
each day genuinely reflects your values, where you are
going, and that which you have to offer / give to this world.
(your 5D expression / 4D gifts)
This process is challenging for MOST, I understand that.
But if you have Skills
And You Are choosing to
Carry Yourself as a Writer.Then You Are Already…
WAY MORE PREPARED…
(and ahead of the curve)
Than You Could Even Imagine.
I didn’t have a proper public offering for 8 years (I still don’t)
I’m re-writing and defining my narrative of as we speak.
But despite having 8X the experience of most of my “Theoretical Competition,” I’ve failed to articulate my own value over the years.
I’d attribute this SOLELY to one core limiting belief…
That I didn’t actually see myself as a writer…
That is the GIST of this letter, but please…
Do YOURSELF this favor…
Give me 11 minutes so I can save you 11 years...
(that’s how long this had been cutting me off from my potential)
Everything I poured my heart into was visually coherent.
I had no trouble drawing people in to my brand with aesthetics.
Yet, I would still find a way to fall flat on my face and not actually go anywhere because my brand inherently lacked substance.
(like a chic who’s gorgeous but has the personality of a sheet of paper)
I was leaning too heavily on the skills I’d learned as a brand designer. I started my professional trade my freshman year of HS back in 2011.
This ‘Substance’ I was lacking, simply put…
Was Just The Good Old-Fashioned Clarity / Coherence
That Comes Directly as a Result of Quality Writing.
(this wasn’t something I was capable of at that time)
I could’ve easily brought it to the table if I was patient / had more Belief.
But here’s where this share takes a darker turn...
Leave now if you don’t have eyes to see within. 👁️
I used to look down on my mother heavily...
I’d mentally labelled her as the “Least self-aware person I knew…”
This was because she was so opposed to doing any level of internal introspection.
I’d try persuading her to try start meditating,
and she would say “No, this is Anti-Christian.”I would try to get her to start regulating thru
journaling instead, and she’d reply “I don’t like
journalling, that’s not something I’d ever liked.”
Ofc as she tells me this I completely innerstand that she HAD to have come to this conclusion when she was still in her adolescence.
and this belief of hers just stuck, and lives on with her.
This is what you could call a Debilitating Shadow, (one that would remain unchecked) and that’s exactly why observing it was so triggering to me...
My debilitated shadow wasn’t actually that much different from hers.
In Matthew 7:3-5 Jesus asks “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
Despite constant introspection…
NON-stop living out of my journals.
(what I thought was me utilizing my brain well
I was STILL avoiding the level of critical thinking that was required to actually Change My Reality. (actualize my vision)
This critical thinking I speak of, is called writing.
(it’s like lifting weights but for your brain)
I was doing all of the OVER-thinking
And None of the Outer Work.
(the action-based inputs)
Everything that Leads to Success in Today’s World Requires Writing.
(and I was allergic to it)
Sales / Persuasion: Writing Deepens Your Ability to Communicate
Website / Landing Pages: Copy-Writing, it’s just Human Psychology
Writing is Critical Thinking
And Critical Thinking
Placed Into Real World Scenarios
Is What Builds Real Wisdom (lived experience)
Not to be confused with Knowledge…
(witnessed testimony & generalized data)
Now here’s where that plot thickens…
In Hindsight, Everything is Crystal Clear.
So this is where it all went wrong for me, Identity-wise.
When I was in my High School TV Prod. Program
I was a bit of a creative prodigy. Yet, I’d felt so much
friction towards the writing part of the making videos.
But post production skills were unrivaled.
I’d gotten 15 different awards, some of which recognized at the national level, 1st place in my state for my Motion Graphics Reel
I’d found my love for creativity, design, and design in motion
I’d literally gotten hired to work my dream job as a Video Editor/Motion Artist at a local studio the instant I’d graduated.
But since I’d felt so much resistance towards the writing process…
This is where my brain went.
I’d unknowingly planted the seed of
A deeply disempowering idea within myself...
The idea that I was never meant to be a writer...
…
I mean it seemed sensible to me at the time.
I didn’t like the writing process because I found it challenging.
(no shit)
I met so much resistance towards this process because the short films that we needed to produce generally felt so meaningless to me
(uninspired slop)
Not to mention the fact that you couldn’t force me to read a fictional book let alone trying to make me sit there to write my own fictional stories. (loved movies though)
What it would have taken me to actually catch a Whiff of Flow through writing at that time in my life could’ve only been a Project that required me to critically think to craft, a deeper message, something with meaning.
(content with a purpose)
But all those shallow, meaningless stories that I was trying to force myself to produce had gotten the better of me...
It shifted how I viewed myself and how I felt towards writing.
I’d chosen to convince myself that writing was not a part of the creative gifts that God had given to me.
The Act (action) of writing became something I no longer wanted to even consider being a participant in because...
“You’re Not a Writer…”
(this is the title of one of the shorter books I’ll be writing)
This was the innocent lie.
The Crippling Belief that would
Haunt me for the next 11 years of my life.
I’ve been chasing my tail.
This whole time…
because this one limiting belief (idea)
went un-noticed / un-checked
un-corrected / un-interrupted
It was outside of my awareness entirely.
You Must Break The Cycle Today, Or The Loop Will Repeat Tomorrow
I’ve attached video to the end of this letter.
It is my senior final from 2015
A project that had required of me
To Forge Something With Meaning....
It was to be my final video in that program.
That program that’d completely changed my life,
This video HAD to be a proper reflection of me at my core.
I chose to base the video around a quote from
Robin Williams Bless His Soul. 🕊️ (ik how original)
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry. Beauty. Romance. Love. These are what we stay alive for.
— Robin Williams
It bleeds the same energy you will see in my work still to this day.
Unfortunately... this video didn’t make me awaken to the fact that intentionality was the only holding me back from really falling in love with the writing process
That all I ever needed, was to focus on projects with meaning...
So here I am.
Only after 11 more years of wandering in the wilderness was I able to fully develop my voice and acquire the levels of depth in skills, and success in my relationships / businesses / life…
That first part, of that last statement is a lie.
It didn’t actually take me 11 years. I already had the skills.
(the shift happened instantly)
On the 21st of May 2026,
I’d found myself locked into a coherent writing flow and observing
myself while doing so. (partially thanks to a bréz microdose)
As I observed this beautiful story unfold effortlessly through me. I was struck with an Other-Worldy Internal Knowing that in that Instant everything had just changed.
I understood that I’d always been a Writer,
I was now fully aware that THAT Specific Belief
was the ONLY THING In-between me and my Destiny
(if you’ve been following you may have heard I’m writing a book called “Forging Destiny”㊥, So it is now my publication/podcast title as well.)
This realization was also the key to freeing my inner child…
In that moment I felt a huge surge of emotion come over me.
It was my inner child had hit their emotional limit and it came bursting out of their eyes.
”Why didn’t you let me play (create) all these years.”
The type of sorrow and pain that you could imagine an immortal child would feel if you’d put them in timeout for the better half of a decade and didn’t even bother looking in their direction.
THAT child was me in that moment.
And I’d found myself bent over on the floor bawling my eyes out.
And my whole reality had just collapsed in on iteslf into this present moment.
An energy vortex just been opened.
My Inner Child (inner divine feminine / past self) +
My Outer Vision (inner divine masculine / future self)
Were now working in unison in that present moment and I realized that version of myself that I see in my visions was now perfectly synchronized on this timeline in this present moment
And I could not be more sure about that.
In other other words.
It took me 11 years to mend that misled belief,
to fully give myself permission to see myself as a writer again...
Yes, the programming of society is something that every one needs to sit with so that they can un-condition / consciously reprogram themselves (this is especially important if you are newly graduated)
But what’s even more dangerous than an idea that was planted in your head by others... Is an Idea that was planted in your head by yourself.
It’s damn near impossible to catch these sometimes because it CAME “from YOU.”
but that was in fact not you...
One of the first things you will learn on Your Journey to Potential is that You are not Your Thoughts.
YOUR brains thoughts (ego), and YOUR essence (soul / awareness / presence) are two completely different entities that can learn to work together.
Adolescent you was none the wiser,
but knew to trusts their instincts
that internal voice of truth...
If you are to take away anything from this digital artifact, please let it be...
To Give Yourself Permission to Fully To See
Yourself As a Writer, Right Now Where You Sit.
If You Can Claim That Identity Part Alone,
True Belief Will Follow. I Can Assure You This.
Modern psychology let’s us know that the IDENTITY is the single greatest motivational force that drives human behavior.
I am giving you permission to become (the courage to believe in your a ability to become) a writer today; To Claim this Identity for yourself, so that Your Actions can Forge Your Beliefs, and Your Beliefs can Forge Your Destiny ㊥
This musing started off as an idea about “Frequency Funnels,” but that topic will need to wait for another day.
Please enjoy my senior final from 2015. Prompt: “What’s behind the door?”
(the same prompt we got in our first video was the same for our very last)
(This video is on one of my Legacy Channels
My Newer YouTube Channels Are:
Flow Creators Youtube Channel (@flowcreators)
Dan’s New YouTube Channel (@dantoruno)
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Peace & Wholeness
— Dan ㊥
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