Coming ‘home’ to our SELF & living in alignment with our truest nature 💕 ....

Coming ‘home’ to our SELF & living in alignment with our truest nature 💕 ....

This is not an easy thing to do.

The rest of the world often has a different agenda to that which matches what our soul is here to do.

I’ve found this so often in my life. 

As a child, I never understood how we could eat animals.

How could a dog be our best friend; part of our family, yet it’s ok to eat a pig or a cow?

Surely they could be part of our family too? 

How could we disregard their life like that?

But then.. my pure heart became conditioned to the way of the world and to fit in, i did it anyway for a few years and turned my back on the truth of my heart....

What I knew to be right deep within every cell of my being..... 

Because most of the world didn’t seem to agree with me, somehow I must have been ‘wrong’ & ‘different’?

Now I choose to be ‘me’.

To live in integrity to my own souls truth. 

In school, I observed and I listened as we were told we had to ‘choose’ what we could be in the world based on a linear system that didn’t account for everyone’s learning styles and ways of thinking.

I was one of the lucky ones; I could adapt to this ‘one size fits all’ way of learning, but I watched with sadness as other kids struggled. 

If they were ‘too smart’ they weren’t ‘cool enough’. 

If they couldn’t keep up with the rest in the way we were taught, they got left behind and were ‘not smart enough’ 

What about the ‘essence’ of who they were?! 

Their unique strengths & what they were here to do in the world?! 

I saw young children’s purity and love for themselves get squashed in a system that, among many in the world today, did not value their uniqueness.

So I decided I wanted to change the world.

I went into social work and later, on to teaching and once again, in many instances throughout my career, I felt confined within a linear system once more that didn’t fully allow people to expand into their unique essence and truth. They didn’t have the chance to shine their light and feel valued for all they were and all they were growing to be. 

I look into the eyes of my son now and I see the beauty and purity of his essence. 

Something I never want to see ‘watered down’ or ‘squashed’. 

My heart breaks even thinking about it. 

The systems. The labels. The judgements. The conditioning. 

But I know I cannot protect him from the tunnel vision that the world so often has. 

I cannot protect him completely from experiencing the pain of having his authentic nature challenged and his values ridiculed and questioned. 

Of course, I can do my best, but he is bound to experience the pain of a world that just ‘doesn’t quite get it’ yet. 

I look around now at so many people living their busy lives. 

Spending their days in ways that they are conditioned to believe are ‘right’ for them.

I did this for so long. Too busy and distracted to fully allow myself to feel the emptiness of what I was doing to myself. Living a life that was never designed for me.

And so it presented itself in other ways.

My nervous system was so overstimulated that I made myself sick. Anxiety became a part of life & I worked myself into the ground; partying on weekends so I could just ‘forget’ that I didn’t actually know who the hell I was anymore. 

How often do we all just stop and tune in to our heart and the voice that gently whispers “yes, this is right for YOU” and “no, this is not”.

“This is your truth and this is not”

“This is what feels good and this is what does not” 

It’s not easy.

To stand tall amongst the crowd.

To stand in your truth, even when no one else seems to feel the same way.

It is lonely. Uncomfortable. Challenging. Painful.

But it is liberating. Freedom. Beautiful. Pure. 

It is your truth and no one can take that from you.

So today, if you feel called, take some time to tune in to what is right for YOU. 

What is meaningful to YOU.

Who do YOU want to be? 

Let’s have the courage to stand in our light. 

To face our own shadows.

To question the things we were taught and conditioned to be true and real. 

No one knows you like you. 

And there is no one on earth like you.

Open to expansion, a new way of be-ing in the world.

Allow the layers of false truths to fall away. 

Disassemble the old so you can rebuild the new; the parts that may have laid dormant within you for far too long. 

It is such a beautiful journey getting to know your ‘SELF’ once more. 

To come home.

To accept and love yourself and allow yourself to expand into the greatest version of your SELF. 

I wish you love, light & the courage to do things differently 💕