Getting to Know and EMBODY Your Essence
Good news, New Beginnings and Knowing Your Vision
Dear Cherished Reader,
with all the ways media tries to capture our attention, I don’t take your time here lightly. I feel blessed that you allow me to land in your inbox and that you find something within my words that somehow resonates (even if you don’t know how).
The last eighteen months, as several of my loved ones have been going through some pretty gruelling treatment for cancer, I have come to know myself more deeply than ever.
True to my old personality and to honour their wish for privacy, admittedly for some months, I thought I could do it all on my own.
Until I sought out support and the help of a very intuitive and perceptive coach, I could deceive myself into thinking I was doing the best I could. That I could Cope.
This left me in survival mode once again. I found that, whilst I spouted wise words to others, I had yet to truly Embody that wisdom deep within myself. In fact, I didn’t know what it meant to Embody the wisdom I knew intellectually and I was still, at heart, living the life of a victim.
I don’t now say this with any sense of shame or guilt but a deep reverence for the me I’ve thought I had to be for myself.
The me that thought she had to be a particular way to survive.
My Dear Dear Ego.
Good News and Confusion
A few weeks ago we had some very good news. My closest poorly Loved One is in remission from stage 4 cancer. The treatment itself has left them with two chronic illnesses and severe fatigue and weakness but those things can be managed.
I was simultaneously relieved and confused.
To protect myself, I had quietly planned for his demise. I thought I needed a coping strategy but, in fact, it was a protection mechanism but not at all healthy. My Ego was still holding on to being right and that made her a victim.
Admitting this to myself has been a revelation and is freeing me to change that old unhealthy pattern.
Wiping the Slate Clean
This year then is all about change. My husband has decided to retire and we are to move from the countryside to a small market town.
Simplifying and making our lives more easeful has meant letting go of a lot of our identities as well as a lot of stuff!
We have already found a new home we love but have yet to sell the house we have called home for the last twenty-eight years. A place that looks out onto the Black Mountains and allows easy access to walks and woodlands. A home and garden we have raised six children in. A place we blended our families together and created our own. Where there have been fraught times, disagreements and sad times but more than anything Love, laughter, fun and support.
I am blessed to be surrounded by children and step children who care. Children who love and respect me, even if they don’t always agree with mum’s choices or views on life. Adult children I am filled with love and pride for.
I have also had the love, support and good humour of extended family and friends.
Now it’s time for a fresh start.
What it means to EMBODY Our True Selves, Our True Essence
My Ego has served me well. She has striven to protect me. She’s stubborn, determined and exhausted. And I’m asking her now, with you as witness, to channel that energy into Being Essence.
Into living through her Essence.
Exploring what Expressing her Essence in the world actually looks, sounds and feels like.
I am considering ways in which I might work as a Coach again.
I am Creating a new Future in the Now.
Less control. More Allowing.
Less fear. More Trust.
Less pushing. More Patience.
Less paralysis. More Movement.
Less judgement. More Acceptance.
Less seriousness. More Playfulness.
Sometimes it looks like resting. Sometimes it looks incredibly industrious. Sometimes it looks like chaos!
But mostly it is in Flow.
Freedom comes not by following the crowd but by really listening and feeling into our Essence. Our Spirit. Our reason for Being.
It takes Trust, Practice and Patience.
Honouring that Essence Energy and allowing it the space to be expressed through our human Bodies on planet earth.
Never mind what’s going on in the world.
Change happens from the Inside out.
Ceasing the battles within ourselves we become our True Selves. We become who we are meant to Be.
Yes, it’s confusing. Yes, it often doesn’t make sense. Yes, it may go against the grain. But it is the way to grow and evolve and feel happier, freer and in flow.
Cultivating more fun, curiosity and playfulness our Spirits sour.
Souring Spirits are free to Choose.
And to choose we must have a Vision.
My Vision is one of Health, Community, Collaborations, Vibrancy, Vitality, Nourishing Conversations, and plenty of Belly Laughs. Of travel, good food, creative lives. It’s Bountiful friendships and clients ready to fly.
I don’t know the ‘how’ of it.
That’s none of my business.
But continuing to connect to my Essence is freeing up space just like the
de-cluttering of my house.
I am knowing my Vision better and better.
What is yours?
When you tap into your Essence what is its Will?
What does it truly want?
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With Love
from my True Self to Yours
xx Karen xx
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