What moves you, inspires you, and calls out to your deeper purpose?
What are you ready to create in 2023?
As a Certified Integrative Health Coach, Birth Doula, and Holding Space Consultant, I would love to reflect on the transitions we encounter throughout life and how they can be a wonderful opportunity for growth and expansion. When we learn to let go and surrender to a divine presence greater than ourselves, life creates deeper meaning.
Our lives transform as a result.
My story is one of digging deep, learning to grow from each setback, and emerging into full courageous living. To become a woman fully anchored in my strength. Not from my old strategy of pushing, striving, and fierce determination. In other words, burning myself out. I am referring to a different kind of strength. It is from a space of becoming more at ease (versus "dis-ease"), releasing old beliefs, and aligning to my deeper value. Creating a new story that knows “Life has my back.” Being in flow and trusting that all of the challenges I have encountered align me more deeply with my full potential.
I believe it is through these life transitions that rich fertile soil is created. Making space for something new to emerge. Perhaps even better than we imagined.
It is not the circumstances of our lives that shape us in the end.
It’s our mindset.
How we approach these life transitions is what truly matters.
So, how do we show up and create deeper meaning out of difficulty engaging fully with our lives? This way of fully engaging becomes our compass forward. Our roadmap to shift from “surviving” to fully thriving!
Shifting our mindset into deeper gratitude sets us apart so we can accept and embrace ALL of our life experience.
The well-known author Brené Brown calls this concept “daring greatly.” To embrace vulnerability and imperfection, live whole-heartedly, and courageously show up in our lives. Daring greatly is about truth and trust, grace and strength, and being celebrated in all of our imperfection. It is about discovering purpose and meaning amidst difficult emotions like grief, fear, or disappointment. Coming full circle back to our humanity. This is the birthplace of love, belonging, JOY, and connection.
It is where birth happens!
So, what inside of you desires to emerge from the depths of your being? And how can you reframe the experiences in your life to happen through you and for you? Instead of life simply happening TO you, how about allowing its mysteries to happen FOR you?
What if a woman in transition about to give birth to a child speaks the same truth in our life transitions? Right when the pain becomes too great, we are on the verge of a major breakthrough. We create a new vision, unleash our passion and purpose, heal from a chronic health issue, or discover renewed joy. The more we can draw from the wisdom that “birth” is always working through our lives for growth and expansion, the more powerfully we step into our dreams with laser focus and purpose.
We become the full expression of our true self.
You see, our adversity can be our greatest gift.
It breaks us open, dismantles our armor, and asks us to see beyond our smaller self. To experience that part of us that is never broken, innately whole, and simply broken open to live a more expansive life. It is where we get to create from a new story and inspire others in the process.
I love supporting women to wake up to their own deeper value where pain becomes purpose, just as in childbirth. The “contractions” in their lives become a catalyst for healing and transformation. Rather than living in chronic “fight or flight” and fear-based thinking, we can begin to choose from intuitive action. Grounded in our bodies. Self-connected. And hearts full of gratitude and joy for all the lessons upon our path.
So, in reflection:
What would you like to create in this new year? How would you like to become the artist of your life through unleashing a deeper purpose in the world?
Where do you feel a “full body YES?!”
It is not about moving away from what you don’t want. It’s about creating a VISION that pulls you forward. This process begins by connecting the dots in your life and digging deep into your own growth and expansion.
So, here are some questions to reflect on:
1.) What do you need to let go of that no longer serves you?
2.) Who do you need to forgive?
3.) Are you pushing anything down that needs to be felt and expressed? Tune in to where you feel that in your body.
4.) Is there anything that desires to emerge to bring out more of the real you?
5.) How can you connect to your inner wisdom and power?
In reflecting on these questions, you may notice a deeper awareness bubble up from the depths of your being. Welcome it. Turn towards it with curiosity. It is where your wisdom resides.
In closing, I invite you to go forth in the world and express that which desires to emerge. Become the artist of your life. Become unstoppable!
Why, you may ask?
Because you are worth it. That is why. There is too much greatness in store for you.
Cheers to making 2023 your best year yet!
