Let’s reframe how we think about our ‘purpose’
When I first started my spiritual awakening journey, I jumped into it with every intention of leaving the corporate world behind.
I was working in an organisation that liked to say it was all about it’s members and sustainability, but in actual fact was green-washing a lot of the work we were trying to do. It was a toxic culture of cattiness, back-stabbing and ass-kissing that made my stomach turn.
Integrity is a core value for me and working in a place that is aligned to my values is important. Some would say this is the proverbial unicorn in the corporate world. At the time, it certainly felt like it, and I was desperate to leave it behind and ‘live my true purpose’.
This was around the same time as I discovered that I am a healer. Every time I had a reading or energy session, whether it was from a medium, or a reiki healer, the same message would come through. You’re a healer. Your purpose in this life is to heal and to teach.
It resonated deeply. I had always been drawn to the metaphysical, to meditation, to spirituality, to herbalism and crystals and natural healing modalities and now it all made sense. I’m a healer.
So I jumped in with the same enthusiasm, drive and determination I had used to get me through law school whilst working three jobs. I studied reiki, did my crystal and metaphysical healing course, and chalked up a number of certifications in the metaphysical healing and coaching worlds.
I was striving and hustling, just like I had my whole life. I was hustling to manifest my purpose. I was grinding to make sure that my purpose would manifest the way I wanted it to.
And I was burning out. Even knowing what I know about being a feminine core energy, I was still trying to manipulate the Universe to give me life on my terms - and all I was getting was stress, anxiety and a dash of depression.
I finally had to stop. Allow the pause to unfold. I went quiet from November last year, even if it would impact my business growth, even if it meant losing followers, disrupting the algorithms of social media. And in that stillness, in that silence, the new realisation found space to bubble up.
What if being a healer is less about what I do, and more about how I show up in the world? What if my purpose, is less about my profession and more about my energy?
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).
What if the world doesn’t need more women leaving the corporate world to teach yoga, but instead needs more women bringing soul and purpose into the corporate sector, reawakening the soul within a structure that is failing, and crumbling from it’s own misaligned gluttony?
As we focus on our selves, on doing the healing work we need to heal the trauma responses that has us hustling and striving to achieve a culturally acceptable form of success, we shift our energy.
Our purpose, whatever it may be, is more about our presence and being-ness than it is about our job title. If our purpose is to teach, we can teach others by fully embodying our values with our friends, family and colleague. If our purpose is to heal, we can heal others by our ability to hold space and witness other people where they are. Some of the most deeply healing sessions I have witnessed is when I have merely witnessed clients in their moments of joy or sadness or grief.
What if we could embody this energy in boardrooms? What if we could embody this energy as Directors, as CEOs, as politicians? What if we could embody the energy of the sacred feminine in our lives, in how we live our purpose, instead of making our purpose another ‘thing’ we need to achieve and accomplish?
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Allow me to hold space for you as you rediscover and reconnect with your sacred self. Get in touch, I would love to work with you and share this journey with you.
