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“I source my own belonging. I source my own power and strength. I source my own joy. I source my own excitement, my own love, my own safety. No one – no one – can take any of it away from me. And thus, I no longer have to fight for it. Any of it. And let me tell you, that is incredibly freeing.”
I sort of checked out of the world for the past two years.
For 14 years, from 2008-2022, I ran my own management consulting firm. I was constantly telling people (my clients, my online and book audiences) how to run their lives so they could succeed.
But in October of 2022 I realized I couldn’t do it anymore…
Whenever I meet someone new, and they find out I am currently not working, their first question is always:
“What do you do with yourself all day?”
And the second question is:
“How do you afford not to work?”
Here are my answers...
When I closed my business at the end of 2022 I embarked on a journey of letting go. Letting go of most of the identities I had picked up along the (almost) five decades of my life.
The first to go, obviously, was Business Owner. But along with that title went others that were directly related …
Recently, I was inspired to re-read my journals from the past 9 years.
And in the Universe’s infinite wisdom, it turned out to be an incredible gift.
It was the gift of witnessing my own becoming…
The last couple of weeks have offered a big shift for me.
After three years without a job – just spending my days following my own joy – I suddenly realized I want to be working with people again.
But in a completely new way…
I decided over a year ago that instead of pushing, punishing, or forcing my body, I would simply listen to it.
Some days my body just wants a short walk around the neighborhood, some days it craves light stretching on the floor of my office, other days it desires to lie on the couch with a book. And still other days it seeks a 6-mile hike through the woods. And EVERY day it wants chocolate…
For the vast majority of my life I operated at the will of my brain — scanning the environment, analyzing what to do next, following an endless list of “shoulds” and “have-tos”.
But I realized recently that in following my intuition for the past several years, I have shifted to a whole new way of being in the world.
I now serve the beck and call of my spirit.
And it is glorious…