Ice Cream, Inner Guidance, and the Joy of Being True to You, Ann Albers, 11 August 2025

​Hi All,

Today, the angels talk about how beautifully we can flow through life when we're i alignment with our spirit, and how to find our way back when we are not. I'll share a story of a loved one choosing to live, how I find my way back to center throughout the day, and easy ways that you can, too.

Have a blessed & beautiful week :)

♥ Ann

Message from the Angels
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My dear friends, we love you so very much,

If you could live life in perfect alignment with your spirit, you would wake up each morning eager for the day's new adventure. The smallest things would be as fascinating now as they were when you were children. You'd find ways to enjoy the things you must do, or use your mind to happily occupy yourself when the tasks or situations around you didn't easily please. You would feel your likes and dislikes without any judgment whatsoever and kindly—but firmly—follow your inner compass rather than acquiescing to the desires of those around you. You would live innocently, authentically, and joyfully.

And while we know many of you feel far from this reality, you're not as far away as you think. In a single instant, you can choose to accept yourself and your feelings, and thus glean the wisdom they offer. Instead of asking yourself, "Should I feel this way or that?" tell yourself the truth: "I do feel this way. What are these feelings trying to tell me?"

When you feel inspired, uplifted, interested, enthusiastic, or good about something, you're seeing it through the eyes of your soul. You are in agreement with your spirit—centered in your soul, at one with Love, and in harmony with your inner compass.

When you feel bad, upset, frustrated, or misunderstood, you may be reacting to the situation at hand, but if you remain upset after the initial reaction, you haven't quite re-centered in your soul space. Your spirit would acknowledge the frustration as simply a turning point in the road:

"This frustrates you. Do something else."

"Thinking about this bothers you. Let's focus on something more pleasant."

"This person does not resonate with you. They have a right to be, and so do you. Let's turn your attention toward those with whom you share a natural, organic harmony."

Dear ones, your soul is always seeking what feels like love. So when something bothers you, see it as a signpost: either the thing or the thought is not serving you. Either the situation needs to change, or your thoughts need to be pointed toward what is better. We are not asking you to like what you do not.

Suppose you go into an ice cream shop. There are endless flavor combinations. You know which ones call to you. You might sample a few. Your soul is calling you to the most loving ice cream experience in that moment.

However, maybe the clerk raves so much about their favorite flavor that you get caught up in their energy. You want to please them, or you feel you should try it. Perhaps you taste it and love it—wonderful! But suppose you take a bite and realize you don't particularly care for it. You know you would have been happier following your own inner compass.

In that instant, you have a choice. You can see the moment as your soul sees it: "I tried something to please someone else rather than my own spirit. I don't like it. Now I have a choice." You can return it and get something you like better. You can appreciate the clerk's joy, appreciate your own loving heart that wanted to make them feel good, and also learn that you are always better off listening to your own inner compass.

Of course, you could eat the ice cream you don't like and try to force yourself to enjoy it—but if you authentically don't, there's no point. Far better to be honest. Acknowledge your feelings, learn, adjust, and move forward.

Your soul would not find anything wrong with this. Your soul would say: "How wonderful! I have so many choices! How delightful that the clerk loves this flavor. I sense their desire to share their joy with me, and I also sense my desire for something else. I will acknowledge their love, honor my guidance, and lovingly order what I'm drawn to. I am filled with love right now. The clerk will be appreciated and acknowledged. My agreement is not necessary. Only my love."

Or suppose you went ahead and ordered what you didn't enjoy. Your soul would say: "How kind of you to try to please this clerk. It was only a little misunderstanding that you felt you had to please them rather than listen to your inner compass. Look how much love is here! Now, let's shift this so everyone is satisfied. Throw away the cone you don't like and try again. Thank the clerk and lovingly explain that you simply have different tastes. Put love back into the equation, and all will be well. You have learned more about yourself."

Can you imagine a reality in which you have an experience, feel your feelings, learn from them, and adjust kindly? A reality where you feel no need to please anyone else, agree with anyone else, or do anything that doesn't feel true to your soul? We know you have to go to work, but your soul would see even the most mundane job as an opportunity to seek and share love.

When you're stuck in traffic, your soul isn't asking you to enjoy being stuck—you likely can't. Instead, it says: "Here we are. What can we find to appreciate? What can we focus on to bring joy? How can we accept the present and create the future?"

Your soul is not out to please others or to like what it does not. It is always seeking a better-feeling point of focus, a better thought, a better choice. Love is the river that flows around the boulders, finding a path of greater ease and joy.

So as you move through life this week, pay attention to your feelings. When you feel good, you are seeing through the eyes of your soul. When you don't, ask your spirit, "How would you see this? What do you recommend I focus on instead?"

If you're in a job you don't enjoy, your soul might say: "I see you care about paying your bills. I see you can bring your best to the situation. I see you can focus on your work while imagining and tuning into a kinder and better reality. I see you don't yet know how dearly the universe loves you, or how much better you can create. It's OK. You are loved. Just be kind to yourself today. Do your best."

Dear ones, you were not meant to remain stuck in what feels unpleasant. Like children who spit out food they don't like, you can "spit it out" and try something different. Make new choices. Shift your focus. Reach for what brings you joy and gently remove attention from what does not. Remember: pleasing others is never as important as pleasing the Divine within you—who is always calling you toward harmony, kindness, and love.

You can be as a child to enter the kingdom of heaven, even in a stirred-up world. You can be happy even when many are caught in arguments about right and wrong. While others forget that everyone can feel their own truth in any moment, you can trust the Divine within. Trust your inner compass. Order the ice cream that calls to you. And when life feels "off," simply learn, adjust, and move forward.

Joy calls you. Love calls you. Your dear ones in spirit beckon you toward their loving experience. Allow yourself to surrender to those whispers—from heaven, from the Divine within, from your own soul. This, dear ones, is the innocent, authentic way you originally intended to live.

God Bless You! We love you so very much.
-- The Angels

Message from Ann...

Hi Everyone,

Over the years, I've watched the angels guide so many people to give up the "disease to please," honor their inner compass, and pay attention to their feelings. Without fail, as they do, they become joyful, empowered—and, oddly enough, relationships that used to be a struggle either become more harmonious or simply fall away. As we come to know our own innocence and center ourselves in spirit, we naturally attract harmony and naturally drift from what is not.

It isn't always easy to surrender so deeply to ourselves. Pleasing others can feel like a way to control their reactions to us—but at what cost? Approving of yourself gives you a deep, steady satisfaction that no one can take away. Seeking the approval of others puts you at their mercy. The Divine already approves of you. Your angels already love you exactly as you are.

As I sit, breathe, and receive their love, I feel their unconditional acceptance—and it has taught me to accept myself, "warts and all," as the saying goes. That is freedom.

When I honor my heart with love, I no longer need to justify or defend my feelings. As God told Moses from the burning bush, "I am who I am." And you are who you are. We are, collectively, who we are. And that is good. God did not say, "I am who you want me to be. I am who you think I should be. I am who you judge me to be." There is power in understanding that truth. The Divine lives within you and me: "I am who I am."

I have a family member who used to be upset by everyone's demands. There was a clear victim-martyr energy. Last month, they were headed toward death—I'm not exaggerating. The physical signs were there. At one point, I called and asked, "What's going on?" Their reply was what I feared: "I have a very bad feeling about the upcoming week." I did too. We both sensed a heart attack waiting to happen.

I shared a heartfelt request, "Please don't die by martyrdom. Please take care of yourself. Please stop trying to please everyone else to the point that it carries you off the planet. I can help you with the challenges you're facing—may I?" It was a decision point. They chose to open up to help, to stop putting their needs last. At that fork in the road—where death was near—things shifted.

The next day, I got the call: "It's going to be OK." They knew it, and so did I. Their soul had been calling them into a new reality—either in heaven or on earth. This time, it was on Earth. But that isn't always the case. Sometimes the soul calls us to be so much more than we believe we can achieve here. The seed grows too big for its shell and bursts into a greater freedom, into greater light. The seed dies so the plant can be born. The caterpillar dies so the butterfly can emerge. And at some point in life, we must die to our notions of smallness so we can live in greater light.

While we are here, we can still reach beyond what feels confining. The soul never believes we are truly trapped. I've felt trapped before—in jobs I disliked, in relationships that felt impossible, in mindsets that kept my true self hidden even from me. And yet, the soul kept whispering: "Look forward. Listen to your heart. Think about what gives you joy. Acknowledge simple pleasures now, and more will come."

The 90-hour-a-week job I felt stuck in—because I thought my degree left me no other option—gave way to a career for which I had no formal preparation, and yet one I love.

Relationships that felt impossible to transform ended up transforming me—as I learned to acknowledge and love myself, and to let others be who they were.

The deep upsets I once felt when people were cruel gave way to my soul's stronger desire to feel good, to release unpleasant thoughts, and to focus on the good instead.

The soul never stops calling us to greater love. In ways both big and small, it calls all day, every day. The whispers are often simple:

"Mm. Listen to the silence. Feel the peace."

"Stop and enjoy the bird symphony in your backyard tree."

"Appreciate the cool water sliding down your throat."

"Sit with us. Breathe. Receive our love."

In so many ways, through the years and the days, we are called beyond what upsets or frustrates us—into greater love.

Here are a few ways you can recognize those simple whispers and surrender to more love:

1.  Plug into love daily

We all want to please others. We want approval. We want to feel love. But when we don't feel Divine love, we bend over backward trying to prove to others that we are worthy of theirs.

From your soul's perspective, you are already—and always—worthy of love. Sit with Spirit. Breathe. Receive, even if only for a few minutes a day. Just 30 seconds of truly feeling Divine peace and kindness wash over you can remind you of how you really want to feel. It will show you—through energy, not words—that you deserve to feel good. That you don't need to earn love, prove your goodness, or justify your choices.

Taking even a few minutes daily to plug into what feels truly wonderful reminds you of your worthiness. As you treat yourself as worthy of love, you naturally give up the "disease to please." You tire of justifying or defending your choices. You learn to live and let live—not by conquering old wounds of unworthiness, but by filling yourself with the goodness that makes you feel worthy here and now.

2. Stop justifying, defending, and over-explaining

I used to write a whole "book" explaining every choice I made, especially if it wasn't what someone else wanted from me. All of that energy was wasted, except for the fact that I grew from it. When I felt the need to justify my choices, I attracted others who demanded I justify them.

Now I'm fine with myself as I am, and the people in my life seem fine with me, too.

"I am who I am," said the Divine to Moses. And you are who you are. You feel what you feel. You like what you like. You want what you want. You can't force yourself to genuinely feel something you don't.

There's no need to defend, justify, or over-explain your feelings to anyone. You can simply be yourself and let others feel however they wish about it. Their reaction is theirs to manage. Your authenticity will either draw you together or gently create space. Either way, you are moving toward a more authentic life, surrounded by more authentic relationships.

3. Instead of trying to like what you don't, look for what you genuinely do

I don't care for many of the situations unfolding on Earth right now. I don't dwell on them. I pray for them. I resolve not to "make war" with myself or anyone in my own life. And I always look for what is good—because it is everywhere.

A dear friend, who always looks for the good, recently told me a story about losing her phone. Instead of focusing on fear or inconvenience, she talked about the beautiful strangers who came together to help her find it.

Another woman had picked it up by accident and returned it once she realized. In the meantime, a young "techie knight in shining armor" appeared and taught my friend all about phone-tracking apps. The entire staff of the place where she'd been pitched in to help. A little "family" formed for the cause. There were victory cheers when the phone was found, and everyone left uplifted.

She didn't like losing her phone, but her focus was on the feeling of it being found. And so, even as the "team" searched, she remained hopeful, faithful and focussed on the outcome.

In every situation, we can look for the love—or focus on what's missing. Our feelings tell us when we're seeing through the eyes of the soul, and when we need to adjust, make a different choice, or shift our focus. Paying attention to these little moments of illumination helps us avoid bigger, harder ones. And even when the big moments show up, love is still there, guiding us toward better.

I wish you a peaceful and beautiful week.

Love,

Ann

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