11/15/2025
✨ When Ego Sits with Spirit in Harmony ✨
I used to think ego and spirit were opposites - one pulling me into fear, the other pulling me into freedom. But when they finally sat together, not as rivals but as companions, something inside me softened.
Ego didn’t show up to battle this time. It wasn’t loud or defensive. It came as the part of me that still wants to feel safe, seen, and understood. Spirit didn’t arrive to correct or overpower it. Spirit simply held space - steady, warm, unshaken - like a quiet sunrise waiting to be noticed.
And in that meeting, something beautiful dissolved.
✨ The urgency.
✨ The defensiveness.
✨ The old stories about being “too much” or “not enough.”
✨ The belief that I had to choose one part of myself and reject the other.
What stayed were the truths that had always been there, beneath the noise:
✨ Ego’s passion, drive, and desire to protect me.
✨ Spirit’s clarity, gentleness, and calm guidance.
✨ The way both parts want me to grow - just in different languages.
When ego sits with spirit in harmony, there’s no war - only integration.
No push or pull - only understanding.
No sides - only self.
It feels like inner warmth. Like exhale after holding your breath for years. Like meeting all versions of yourself and finally saying,“You can stay. All of you can stay.”
This is the wholeness I didn’t know I was allowed to feel. This is the peace that comes when nothing inside me has to fight anymore.
✍🏻 & 📸 : The Phoenix Foundation - Ashlee Sampson