The kind of life that I want is one that feels like home…It is safe and feels like joy inside my whole body.
It is a life that is aligned with my values, needs and desires. It honors whatever season I’m at in my life, and exposes the authenticity of who I am. It’s not a fairytale kind of life, but one that is rooted in truth and accountability. This life is evolving and it’s turning into something I could have never imagined.
Compassion, awareness and messiness are the foundations of imperfect living. To live in purpose is to live with integrity. If you’re not secure in your own identity,you’re going to start looking outside of yourself for direction and approval. This doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t have a good life, it just means that your life won’t feel like that place of safety that you desire it to be.
But on the flipside, if you don’t know what home feels like, you won’t be able to create that place within your heart for yourself. Befriending yourself is where the magic lies
The more you connect to your spirit, the more you will be able to craft a life that works with, instead of against your wiring. It begins to more honestly and fully reflect the truth of our core values and of who and how we choose to be in the world or the person that you want to become.
This level of awareness and compassion strengthens us so we can consistently practice that messy action that will help us build the life we want.
Awareness and Compassion together illuminate the path ahead in a way we don’t experience when we’re focused on pleasing other people, trying to keep up or measure up, growing weary trying to walk in someone else’s shoes, or comparing ourselves and believing our toxic self-sabotaging thoughts.
Creating a life is a journey, a process, not another exercise we tick off a list. It requires breathing room and permission for practicing, consistency, and listening deeply. It’s not always a pretty or comfortable process but we have the privilege of saying yes to the adventure anyway.
There’s much in life that we cannot control, so we must learn to build a vision and loosen our grip in order to remain flexible enough through the twists and turns, and different seasons and experiences, of a meaningful and beautiful life.
There’s always so much sadness in my heart whenever I come to the end of an amazing book. There’s this yearning for it to go on forever because I know I will miss the characters I must say goodbye to. But then I pick up another glorious book and become captivated anew. The two stories are not at war or in competition with each other – they simply have different gifts to offer because of their uniqueness. Loving the new story does not mean that I have to start loving the new story any less.
Living purposefully, is something pretty easy, something that is accessible to all of us. It is something that is achieved by keeping our feet planted firmly within our values. We can do, in every season we are in, regardless of circumstance. This is something we can control.
So, purpose matters but how we think about it might matter even more.
Our mindset is responsible for much of the way we experience life in front of us and our emotional reality (there’s a bidirectional relationship between mind and body). We need to dissect the stories we believe and uncover if they resonate with who we truly are.
We won’t always be able to control everything that happens to us, but what we can do is to continue to water the roots that keep us anchored to our purpose in the most turbulent of storms. We have that infinite ability to build up the emotional capacity and trust that is needed every day to show up each day with intention and purpose.
Building a life that is wholly yours, a life that feels aligned, safe, and joyful requires a lot of work, but you know what takes even more work, living adrift from that place where you’re meant to be.