Calibrating Your Compass

When you’re called to a higher expression, you have two choices: go or be dragged.

I’ll give you an example. 

A couple of years ago, when my previous partner chose to end our relationship, I was devastated. This was my person & deep down, I thought we’d be together forever. Sure, we had arguments & such but I thought this was just normal relationship stuff. As it became clear that the fissure between us was beyond repair, I started to get really scared. 

Where would I live? 

Who would take care of the kids?

And the one that tormented me most: what was so bad that he didn’t want to be together anymore?

Big stuff.

And it brought even deeper questions into awareness around my identity, life path & choices thus far. Had I done something wrong? Maybe picked the wrong person or moved too fast? 

I tried to backtrack & make sense of what had brought me here to this place I really didn’t wanna be at.

Maybe you know that feeling. 

As the days and weeks and months unfolded, I began to see…

I had choices.

I could stay mad. Mad at him, mad at myself, mad at the world for letting this happen. And I saw the track of that. A version of me ten years down the way still bitter, angry and closed to healing. I knew for sure I didn’t want a life like that.

Or…swallow my pride, actually hear the feedback I was getting, accept my part in the breaking down of our connection & go mining for wisdom.

The thing is, life will always give us things we feel unprepared for. 

This is how we grow, elevate & expand.

Without practices like breathwork or the years of deep study I’ve done on personal fulfillment, I honestly don’t know where I’d be. Probably an angry, crunchy version lamenting poor me.

In this story, the higher expression meant finding the opportunity. It meant being willing to trust him when he said: I’m still here, for you and the kids.

Some of you know, we got through it, without lawyers even. There’s no custody agreement or child support (my parents don’t like that). 

Just a coupla humans doing the best they can, raising their kids. 

I’m proud of that.

As we step into a new cycle, a year that will be filled with challenges, invitations, surprises, things we don’t want, things we do, opportunities for growth & development…

what will you choose?

Will you resist the calls to greatness, staying small & guarded? 

Will you let outside people and circumstances dictate how you participate? 

Will you flow your precious life force energy into people, projects and situations that don’t serve you?

Or…

Will you answer the beckoning of a higher intelligence? 

Will you persevere and find the medicine?

Will you declare, navigate & co-create until you're wow’ed by your own existence?

These are good questions.

If you felt a little flutter of possibility…

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to your continued unfolding

xo

Jem