Answering the call of your soul
Photo by Lindley Battle Photography
When was the last time you took time to think deeply about who you are?
Do you know what your soul’s work is?
Are you living a life of meaning and purpose?
It took me a long time to come to who I am, what my soul's work for this lifetime is, but here I am, a leadership, creativity, transitions and resiliency coach for women.
I’m on a mission to empower women to envision living and speaking their truth unapologetically to step into their purpose.
I know what it’s like to have a burning desire to live more authentically and to do work that makes a positive impact in the world, AND to know that you are not doing what you were meant to do and HAVE NO IDEA how to figure it out.
I started my career at an over one-hundred-year-old insurance company where I began to ignore my own intuition from the very first interview. In my decade long tenure there I tried to fit in as best I could among the grey cubicle walls, and other women with excessive makeup on, in suits, and pumps. My goal was to put my head down, work as much as possible, as hard as I could, not stand out and try to ignore the growing dread building inside of me. I figured if I worked hard, didn’t make waves, or stand out no one could spot that I didn’t actually belong. This worked well for the company as I was often top in sales, but it left me miserable, doubting myself, and very lost.
Maybe this is you too..
I was raised in a loving family, but one that taught me unconsciously that my worth was tied to how hard I worked, to being that “good girl”. I felt like I earned my parents love and gained worth by working hard in school, and never getting in trouble or making waves.
Like so many women I confused my worth with hard work, not making waves, following rules. I was trying to “be responsible” in order to be worthy of love. In doing so I ignored my intuition and true self. I was bankrupting my soul to fit into everyone else’s box for me, ensuring that I would never do work that had meaning and purpose.
But there came a day when enough was enough and I decided to answer my intuition and answer my soul’s calling even though I couldn’t see where it would lead me.
That journey unfolded over many years, beginning with studying yoga at the Asheville Yoga Center, not just as a physical practice but as a spiritual path. I meditated, chanted, opened a yoga studio, taught others to teach yoga.
and eventually I realized that I couldn’t run a yoga studio and work a full-time job. I had flexed my intuition muscle enough to trust it when it asked me to sell my studio, quit my job and embark on “The Year of the Travel.”
The Year of the Travel was the year I went feral and set myself free from ways of thinking that were chaining me to misery and pain.
In that year I attended a writing retreat in Mexico with New York Times bestselling authors, witnessed Gregorian chants at midnight in a small candlelit church in Rome, learned to surf in Costa Rica, experienced the beauty and contradictions of India, kayaked through the Three Sisters Swamp in NC visiting the oldest cypress trees in the U.S., and had many long sweaty runs along the Seine in Paris.
In The Year of the Travel I learned that when you follow your intuition magic happens, synchronicity’s follow. I learned that I had inner wisdom and my worth actually came from honoring my intuition and inner wisdom not how hard I could work. I felt more alive, and more powerful than I ever knew was possible.
This is possible for you too.
It doesn’t happen over night.
The path isn’t easy, but it can be made easier with the help of a guide who’s been down that road before.
If you’re ready then isn’t a better time than now. It doesn’t get easier the longer you wait, it just gets harder.