SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

The Leak Report

Nine Places Your Abundance Hemorrhages While You Journal About Receiving

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Dea Devidas
Jun 27, 2026
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You’ve done everything right. Vision board? Laminated. Gratitude journal? Twelve volumes, leather-bound, indexed by emotional category. You’ve affirmed yourself in the mirror so many times your reflection started mouthing the words back before you even got there. You’ve lit the candle. You’ve bought the crystals. You’ve sat in the frequency. You’ve even taken the course from the woman named Meadow who promised that if you just VIBRATE HIGH ENOUGH, your bank account would match.

Your bank account has not matched. Your bank account is sitting in the corner eating dry cereal and reading your affirmation journal out loud in a sarcastic voice.

And your body has been trying to tell you why for years. Through the exhaustion that lands every time you say yes to something that costs you more energy than it pays. Through the jaw that locks when you’re about to name your price. Through the hip that cracks every time you absorb someone else’s emotional weather and call it “being intuitive.” Your tissue has been keeping the ledger your conscious mind refuses to open.

Because you CAN receive. Beautifully, actually.

Your cells know how to magnetize. Your electromagnetic field is built for abundance. Your whole architecture is designed to pull reality toward you like gravity pulls water downhill.

You just have nine holes in the bucket. And you’ve been standing at the ocean begging for more water while it pours out the bottom, soaks your shoes, and leaves a trail that even your therapist could follow if they had hiking boots and three free hours.

Your abundance is fully online. Calibrated. Ready. And it’s pouring out of nine holes that look so much like virtues that nobody... including you... has ever thought to check the plumbing. No amount of high-frequency visualization will fix a pipe that’s been leaking since your seven-year-old self signed a contract she never read the fine print on.

So. Shall we find the leaks? Grab something. A drink. A pillow. Your dignity. Whatever you have left after your last attempt to manifest from a bucket with no bottom.


LEAK ONE: Emotional Availability

You feel everyone. EVERYONE. The barista’s mood. Your mother’s unspoken resentment. Your colleague’s weekend anxiety that they haven’t even registered yet but YOUR body picked up at 9:07am on Monday like a satellite dish that was never given an off switch.

You walk into a room and your nervous system immediately starts cataloguing who needs what, who’s about to crack, who requires tone adjustment, and which human is three minutes from an emotional event that you’ll somehow end up managing while pretending you just happened to be nearby with exactly the right words.

(Your internal radar, clocking in for its 14th unpaid overtime shift this week: “Okay so person at 2 o’clock has unresolved father wound, person at 10 o’clock is about to cry but doesn’t know it yet, person directly ahead is performing ‘fine’ but their jaw is doing that thing. DEPLOYING SOFT VOICE. ADJUSTING ATMOSPHERE. INITIATING PREEMPTIVE COMFORT PROTOCOL. No, nobody asked for this. Yes, we’re doing it anyway. We’re basically the emotional TSA and we check EVERY bag.”)

Your blood runs warm with this. Your skin registers shifts in the field the way some people register changes in weather. It’s magnificent, truly... the sensitivity of your system is staggering.

But you’ve been running it without a meter. Without a boundary. Without a single moment of asking “is this mine to hold?” And the abundance that was supposed to flow toward YOU has been rerouted through 46 other people’s emotional plumbing systems while yours sits there, bone dry, wondering what happened.


LEAK TWO: The Verbal Essay

You feel something go sideways in a relationship, a conversation, a work dynamic... and your brain immediately starts composing a 1,200-word essay on why you feel what you feel, what you meant, what they probably meant, what the larger context is, and how, if everyone would just UNDERSTAND THE FULL PICTURE, everything would realign.

(Your prefrontal cortex, drafting the message at 2am: “Okay so we need paragraph one to establish emotional context, paragraph two to preemptively address their potential misreading, paragraph three to prove we’re not being unreasonable with three supporting examples, and paragraph four to close with something warm enough that they don’t feel attacked but firm enough that they know we’re serious. Also a postscript, because we thought of something else in the shower. Also an addendum, because we realized paragraph two might sound passive-aggressive without the additional nuance. Also maybe we should just call... NO. The ESSAY. The essay will fix everything. The essay ALWAYS fixes everything. Has the essay EVER fixed everything? Statistically no. Emotionally WE DON’T CARE, we’re pressing send.”)

You’re trying to make reality comply through the perfect arrangement of words. As if somewhere out there exists a sentence so precisely calibrated that once you send it, the other person’s eyes will widen, their heart will open, the money will arrive, and the universe will issue you a confirmation receipt in PDF format.

Your throat carries the intelligence of someone who can name things most people will never see. That precision in your voice... it’s real. It’s a gift. But every word you spend explaining yourself to someone who isn’t listening is a withdrawal from an account that should be invested in the thing you’re actually building.

Your new abundance math: fewer words, fuller signal.


LEAK THREE: Waiting for Perfect Conditions

The house needs to be cleaner. The bank account needs to be slightly more padded. The body needs to feel a little more settled. The emotional landscape needs to be just a TOUCH more stable. The stars need to align. The coffee needs to be better. The playlist needs to match. THEN you’ll make the move.

You’ve been preparing to launch since 2019. Your preparation has a preparation. Your plan has a plan that has a backup plan that has a contingency plan that has its own LinkedIn profile and a 46-page strategic document titled “Reasons I’m Almost Ready (Draft 7).”

Somewhere underneath all that beautiful organizing, your body has confused safety with stillness. Your bones carry the memory of a time when moving before the ground was solid meant falling, and now your cells run that same program every time the Field offers you something that requires stepping into open air before the bridge appears.

But abundance doesn’t wait for you to feel ready. Abundance responds to movement. Messy, imperfect, slightly terrifying movement where your stomach clenches and your throat tightens and you do it anyway because your feet know something your fear hasn’t caught up to yet.

That linen-draped waiting room you’ve built? It’s gorgeous. But it’s still a waiting room. And the appointment you’re waiting for was never going to call your name. You have to walk through the door with your hair still wet and your plan only half-finished.


LEAK FOUR: Relationship Intensity

You don’t just love people. You monitor them. You read their silences like sacred texts. You measure their initiative like a scientist tracking a particle that might or might not be orbiting you. You check their tone. You decode their response time. You catalogue their eye contact patterns and cross-reference with historical data.

And when they don’t match the signal you need... when the text takes too long, when the voice sounds flat, when the attention drifts... your body puts on full royal armor, stands perfectly straight, and performs “I’m completely fine and I don’t need anyone” while internally writing a three-volume complaint to the Department of Emotional Justice.

(Your dignity, suiting up: “Alright. We are FINE. We are UNTOUCHABLE. We are an ISLAND of SELF-SUFFICIENCY. Is that a wobble in our chin? ABSOLUTELY NOT. That’s... allergies. Very stoic allergies. In no way related to the fact that they didn’t text back for nine hours. Nine hours is NOTHING. We once went three years without acknowledging our own needs. This is AMATEUR hour.”)

Your heart broadcasts on frequencies most people will never learn to hear. The love your body is capable of... the depth of it, the devotion, the ferocity... it’s the kind of love that builds empires and dismantles pretense in the same breath.

But every calorie you spend performing invulnerability is a calorie that should’ve been invested in becoming visible, magnetic, and fully available for what the Field is actually trying to deliver. You can’t receive with fists clenched, love. Even diamond fists.


LEAK FIVE: Unpaid Spiritual Forklift

Someone mentions they’re going through something, and before they’ve finished the sentence, your body has already descended into their basement, turned on the lights, rearranged the furniture, identified three ancestral patterns, located the root wound, prepared a breathwork protocol, and is halfway through a transmission they never asked for and definitely aren’t paying for.

You give depth like it’s a personality trait instead of a service. You hand out transformational insights at brunch like breadsticks at Olive Garden... unlimited, warm, and completely destroying your profit margin.

And then you wonder why you’re exhausted. Why your body feels like it ran a marathon but your bank account looks like you took a nap. Why you’ve been giving people the equivalent of a €200 session in a casual voice note while eating yogurt on your couch at 10pm.

Your depth is your wealth. Literally. The transformational work you carry in your system... the ability to see, name, and shift what lives in other people’s tissue... that is a resource with actual value, actual cost, actual exchange requirements. And every time you give it away for free, you’re telling the Field that your medicine doesn’t have a price. The Field listens. It adjusts. And abundance drives past your house because your driveway is full of everything you gave away.


LEAK SIX: The Why Addiction

You can’t let go until you understand. You need the karmical architecture. The psychological blueprint. The ancestral map. The symbolic framework. The fractal pattern traced all the way back to a great-grandmother whose name you don’t even know but whose emotional signature you’re CERTAIN you can feel in your right shoulder when the weather changes.

You turn pain into a PhD. Every wound gets a thesis. Every heartbreak gets an analysis. Every ending gets a post-mortem so thorough that the actual ending never gets to... end. Because as long as you’re still STUDYING it, you’re still INSIDE it, and as long as you’re inside it, you don’t have to feel the raw, wordless animal grief of simply... losing something.

Your intelligence is extraordinary. The way your mind can map an invisible landscape that most people will never see, will never even know exists... that gift runs so deep it lives in your bones. But there’s a place where understanding becomes a lock instead of a key. Where the analysis keeps you tethered to the thing your body already knows is finished.

Love, if you need five layers of interpretation to prove something is good for you, it probably isn’t. That sentence alone could save you three years. But only if your body hears it before your brain starts composing a rebuttal.


LEAK SEVEN: The Bargain Bin

You lower your price. You add extras. You extend the session. You give the bonus content, the follow-up voice note, the “I just thought of something else that might help you” at midnight, the unprompted insight that takes 45 minutes of your energy to craft and arrives in someone’s inbox looking like a casual afterthought.

(Your internal pricing department, in crisis: “Okay so the work we just did... that was about four hours of actual energetic labor plus two decades of lived experience plus a channeled insight that came through at 3am and rearranged their entire relationship with money. So that’s worth... let’s see... carry the two... a nice email and some good energy. SOUNDS RIGHT. Wait, should we charge? We COULD charge. But what if they think we’re... what if they can’t... what if the exchange feels... YOU KNOW WHAT, let’s just add ‘suggested donation’ and hope the universe fills in the gap. The universe loves filling in gaps. That’s basically its job description. Right? RIGHT?”)

People don’t read your price tag from your aura. They read it from your invoice. And if the invoice keeps saying “discount” and “flexible” and “we can work something out,” the Field hears: THIS MEDICINE HAS NO CONTAINER. It adjusts. Abundance reroutes.

Your value has a shape. Your work has a weight. Your depth has a price that reflects the actual cost of carrying the transformation you carry. When your number matches the truth of what you hold, something in the Field locks into place like a key that’s been waiting for exactly this door.


LEAK EIGHT: Emergency Broadcast

A signal hits and you respond like every emotion is a fire alarm. The insight comes and you need to SEND. The impulse lands and you need to ACT. The clarity arrives and you need to DECIDE, RIGHT NOW, before the window closes, before the wave passes, before the truth dissolves and you’re left standing there with an unreliable memory and a body that whispers “I TOLD you so.”

(Your nervous system, hijacking the control panel: “SIGNAL DETECTED. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. We have approximately 90 seconds before this feeling changes or we chicken out. DEPLOYING ALL RESOURCES. Drafting the message. Hitting send. Making the call. Changing the plan. Quitting the job. Texting the ex. WAIT, which one of these were we doing? DOESN’T MATTER. EVERYTHING. NOW. WE CAN SORT THE WRECKAGE LATER. MOVE MOVE MOVE... okay, we moved. Why does the stomach feel like that? Why is the chest tight? Maybe we should’ve eaten something before the existential overhaul. Is there cheese? Can someone get cheese?”)

Speed feels like power. But every impulsive send, every reactive decision, every “I’ll figure it out AFTER I’ve already committed”... it costs. It costs in renegotiations, in apologies, in cleanup, in the energetic hangover of moving faster than your body could actually sustain.

True signal stays true after regulation. It doesn’t dissolve. It doesn’t change shape. It doesn’t need urgency to survive. If something is real, it will still be real after you breathe, feel your feet, and eat something that isn’t adrenaline.


LEAK NINE: The Creative Buffet

You have ideas. SO many ideas. The book. The course. The post. The collaboration. The new format. The pivot. The series. The offer. The rebrand. The thing you saw at 4am that felt like the answer to everything and now lives in a note on your phone titled “THIS ONE, FINALLY” alongside 46 other notes with the exact same title.

Your creative field is a banquet table stretching into infinity. And you keep putting one bite on every plate, sampling everything, committing to nothing, and ending each week with the distinct sensation of being FULL of potential and STARVED of output.

One channel. One output. One deadline. That’s abundance’s favorite sentence.

Inspiration that doesn’t land in a container becomes atmospheric. Beautiful, but unmonetizable. Your energy wants to spiral, and that’s its nature, that’s its genius. But the spiral needs an axis. Without one, it disperses. With one... it becomes a force that can drill through stone.


YOUR ONE TASTE: The Urgency Override

Because you’ve been patient enough to read this far and your body is probably vibrating with recognition and the distinct impulse to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW...

...which is Leak Eight, trying to hijack the moment. See how she works?

So here’s one override. One. On the house. A sample from the full protocol, which lives behind the curtain because giving away all nine would be Leak Five (unpaid spiritual forklift) and we’re done doing that.

The Urgency Override:

When a signal hits and your body screams NOW...

Feet on the floor. Hard. Press them down like you’re telling the earth: I’m here, I’m not going anywhere, and I’m making this decision from my WHOLE body, not just my chest.

Breathe in for 4. Out for 8. On the exhale, feel your feet even harder. Three times, press them down and hold for five seconds each, like you’re anchoring yourself to something older and steadier than this impulse.

Then say, out loud or internally: “If this is true, it stays true after regulation.”

Wait 20 minutes. Not metaphorical minutes. Actual, boring, slightly uncomfortable minutes where your system screams “BUT THE WINDOW WILL CLOSE” and you let it scream because windows that close in 20 minutes were never your windows.

If the signal is still there after 20 minutes... steady, calm, unmoved... it’s real. Act from there.

If it dissolved, shifted shape, or suddenly feels less urgent... congratulations. You just avoided an expensive email, an unnecessary restructure, or a text that would’ve cost you three days of cleanup and one very awkward apology.


That’s one. Out of nine. And it’s the SHORTEST one.

The others go deeper. Into the body. Into the breath. Into the specific somatic rewiring that teaches your system a new definition of safety, a new relationship with stillness, a new way of holding your own depth without hemorrhaging it into every available human within a five-mile radius.

The full Override Protocol... all nine leaks, mapped and sealed with specific breathwork, neurobreath sequences, and the exact somatic practices that teach your body how to close each one... lives behind the paywall. Because this work has a container. And the container has a boundary. And the boundary is the first lesson.


But if you want to know where YOUR specific leaks live...

Where YOUR particular nervous system hemorrhages abundance based on the architecture you were BORN with, the fractals you inherited, and the specific plumbing your family line installed before you could even walk...

Prism Abundance maps your personal leak system from the inside.

ABUNDANCE PRISM

Dea Devidas
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July 10, 2025
ABUNDANCE PRISM

Your relationship with money was programmed before you could hold a spoon. Your grandmother’s scarcity is living in your solar plexus as “responsibility.” Your mother’s guilt is showing up as your inability to check your bank account without leaving your body. And you’ve been calling ancestral survival terror “being realistic about finances” while manifesting six figures in your journal and 46 euros in your account because your nervous system set a receiving limit sometime around 1994 and nobody told it the war ended.

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Your cells already know what they need. Your blood is already carrying the answer. This just gives your conscious mind the blueprint your body has been trying to hand you for years. You don’t attract reality. You entrain it. Time to stop leaking and start becoming the stronger signal. 🔥✨💎


THE FULL OVERRIDE PROTOCOL

Nine Leaks. Nine Seals. One Body That’s About to Get a Raise.

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