The #greatbreakup. It’s happening.

Women leaders everywhere are leaving the corporate sector at unprecented rates. I could throw the stats at you, but I won’t bore you with what you already know.

It comes down to this: we’re done.

An intrapreneur often has many of the same characteristics – they are innovative, driven, solutions focused and passionate. The key difference is they are using their skills to create change within the system.

Not everyone is an entrepreneur and not everyone needs to be or wants to be - and we need to start celebrating that.

Sundays have become vitally important to me. I’d go so far as to even say my Sunday ritual is sacred. Now that I’ve stepped into a higher leadership position in my corporate role, balancing my time and energy has become more important than ever.

A lot of how we cope with and experience stress is due to our ‘stress threshold’. We develop our stress threshold in-utero. Our genetic makeup contains individual personality traits as well as our tolerance to stress, which can be impacted by our mother’s stress levels during pregnancy.

Our nervous system is the communication system that regulates our body. It consists of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, as well as every nerve that connects these organs with the rest of the body.

Even if you’re broke, have just been dumped and lost your job, (all of which I was going through at the time) you can practice gratitude and watch how the things around you start to shift. Start by focusing on something small. Like feeling grateful that you can flick a switch and have the lights turn on. Or that you can simply turn of the tap and have clean drinking water.

With the theme of this International Women’s Day being around breaking the bias, it’s important as women that we look at the role we are unconsciously playing in perpetuating the cycle of unconscious bias keeping us out of positions of influence.

We’ve been tricked into believing that our ‘purpose’ is aligned to something that we have to do. So we have continued to perpetuate the toxic cycle of the hustle culture. We’ve abandoned one addiction (hustling to get ahead in the corporate world), for another (hustling to get ahead on our spiritual journey).

An American study found that women are still likely to be doing 4 hours of unpaid work at home, compared to men who are contributing on average 2.5 hours.

Yet, we, as women still expect ourselves to be hitting the home runs in the office and juggle our roles as dutiful mothers, daughters, wives. And for what, exactly?

The trick with starting and maintaining a spiritual practice is to start small. If you’re like me, and you’re not a morning person, don’t set yourself a lofty goal to wake up at 5am. It won’t happen, you’ll feel like you’re letting yourself down when you hit snooze for the fifth time, and you’ll undo the work that you intended. Trust me. I’ve been there.

In our journey from childhood into adulthood we’re often taught to silence our intuition with logic, to use our rational mind to make decisions and ignore that inner voice or calling gently leading us down one way or another to fulfil our soul path.

Forgive. Not because the way they treated you was okay but because you deserve to be free from the pain. Be gentle with yourself and know that forgiveness happens in layers.

When you ask, it is always given. So when things started to fall apart, when the anxiety and pain was so much that I could barely function, I turned to the Universe for help. I found a therapist to work on my attachment traumas, and I found healers and teachers that helped me turn my pain into something that was beautiful.

But that’s the thing about Faith isn’t it? It’s believing, even in the absence of evidence, that things are working out for your highest good. It’s trusting your intuition. It’s letting go of your ego and listening to the heart. It’s letting go of the life you had planned, and allowing life to live through you. It’s letting go of control, and trusting that you are being led to the essence of what you truly desire, even if you can’t see how that could possibly be true.