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Some people lose themselves in a relationship and cling to the other person. Others guard their freedom so hard that nobody gets close.
The Third Way here is to be close to someone without losing yourself.
The rules you learned as a child, the feelings you push away and the fears behind your choices quietly steer your life. I'm Julian Strong. I help you see them clearly so you can choose for yourself again.
I've spent years exploring the inner world from every angle I could find, through meditation, shadow work, hypnosis, manifestation, astrology, the occult and a lot of trial and error.
Not all of it helped. For a while, manifestation teachings made me afraid of every negative thought I had, so I obsessed over thinking positively. Looking back, I was holding on to the positive and running from everything negative.
The Third Way, which I explain below, grew out of almost daily conversations with Thomas, my friend and business partner. We work in opposite ways, and learning from each other changed how we both think.
Everything I share, I tested on myself first. I help you become your own authority. Then you trust what you see, not what you're told.
Day comes with night, light with dark, and every breath in with a breath out. Look closely at anything in life and you'll find its opposite right next to it.
You only know what light is because there's dark, and rest only means something because there's action. The two sides aren't enemies. They're two halves of one whole.
We make one side who we are and fight the other. You see it in politics, in spirituality, in relationships and in how we treat ourselves. Think of someone who only allows positive thoughts and feels guilty about every bad mood.
The side we push away doesn't disappear. It comes back in the people who trigger us, in fights that keep repeating and in sudden swings to the other extreme. The harder you force the positive, the harder the negative hits when it breaks through.
The way out isn't picking the right side, and it isn't settling in the middle. You look at what each side gives, not only what it costs. Then you can use both, and neither one controls you anymore.
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It gives you a third perspective, where you see the whole picture instead of one half of it. You can still take a side, even strongly. But now it's because you choose it, not because you're afraid of the other one.
Pick an area of life and look at its two sides.
Some people lose themselves in a relationship and cling to the other person. Others guard their freedom so hard that nobody gets close.
The Third Way here is to be close to someone without losing yourself.
Some people only push and force, and they burn out. Others only let go and wait for the universe, and nothing moves.
The Third Way here is to put your full intent into it and be free of the outcome.
Some people only allow love and light and push every dark feeling away. Others get lost in the darkness and turn cynical.
The Third Way here is to go into the darkness, find what it gives you and bring it back.
Some people never show weakness and carry everything alone. Others fall apart at every setback.
The Third Way here is to be strong enough to be soft.
Some people stick to the plan long after it stopped working. Others start something new every week and finish nothing.
The Third Way here is to make a plan and drop it the moment it stops serving you.
Most people pick a political team and see the other one as the enemy. While they fight each other, they miss the game they're both in.
The Third Way here is to see the whole game and see through the system that plays both sides.
At school you learned that the right answer gets rewarded and the wrong one gets punished. The news tells you what to fear, and politics hands you a team to fight for. While people fight each other, very few ask who benefits from the fight.
Digital IDs and central bank digital currencies are being tested and rolled out in countries all over the world. When your identity and your money run through one digital system, whoever controls it could see what you buy, where you go and who you pay, and decide what you're allowed to do. It's the same reward and punishment you grew up with, built into money and identity.
I'm not telling you this to scare you. Fear is what keeps people small and obedient. I help you see how it all works, so you can make your own informed choices about your money, your data and your life.
Fighting the old system only keeps you in the same game, just on the other side. What works is building communities that can stand on their own.
It starts small, with people who think for themselves and choose to build together.
“I feel calmer, less anxious, and more connected to myself. Thomas and Julian were always there when I had questions about what to do. I'd highly recommend this if you want to remove subconscious blockages and create a better life.”
“Thank you Thomas and Julian for the new breakthroughs. I learned a lot of ways to calm my mind and good techniques for overcoming emotional issues. I am impressed by the depth of knowledge and how they approach inner healing.”
“I feel Chiron in my childhood too, but it really came to a head and I finally started breaking the cycle. You're so right: over the last couple of years the healing has begun on deeper levels, and a lot is clicking into place.”
From people Thomas and I have worked with.
Learn The Third Way and how to apply it in your own life. Each email explains one step and ends with one exercise. By day 5 you know the quality you built yourself around, the part you pushed away, and how to start being both.
Get the free courseYour shadow is made of the parts of you that you pushed away. This report finds them in your birth chart and shows how they play out in your life right now, written from your exact date, time and place of birth.
See the Shadow ReportWe find what's driving your patterns and change it where it starts. You feel more at peace inside, your relationships get better, and your life starts to follow your heart.
See how coaching worksI post on Instagram and Threads, and I write longer pieces on Substack. Thomas and I talk about all of this on The Third Way podcast.