Doing Our Soul Work

Are you feeling a nagging sense of having forgotten something important? A sense of being off track or out of alignment? You’re not alone. Many empathic, creative souls with high-level healing and intuitive gifts are finding it difficult to step fully into their soul work—the work they were born to do and the reason they’re here.

Life is full of distractions, temptations, conditioning and social pressures to stay within the prescribed cultural norms and expectations that surround us. It takes great courage to follow the beat of your heart’s longing. It feels risky to explore beyond the outer reaches of the known, the comfortable, the familiar.'

And yet, there’s that inner nagging that won’t leave us alone. The panic that wakes us up in the middle of the night to remind us that we’re avoiding something important, that’s we’ve let something essential to our being slide.

Self betrayal feels awful. It can make us depressed and ill. It keeps us circling and spinning trapped in survival mode.

In my experience, the pain of that self betrayal has to be worse than our fear of the unknown before we’re willing to take a leap of faith to move into alignment with our true calling.

Even if we take the leap, backsliding is common. Sabotage is rampant. Discouragement is often right around the corner.

So why bother? Why should we deal with all of that discomfort?

Because on the other side of that discomfort are feelings that we may not have ever experienced before: feelings of rightness, being comfortable in our own skin, belonging, purpose and fulfillment. It’s like finally coming home to ourselves and our place in the world.

That’s what being authentic and sharing our gifts—our soul work—with the world feels like. Who would want to do anything else?

It’s you being you. It’s me being me. Nothing more, nothing less. So simple but not always easy to do.

Support helps. It helps A LOT. By that I mean the consistent, ongoing accountability type of support. Because being true to ourselves and our dreams can make us a bit wobbly and insecure, at least in the beginning but it also often appears when we stretch again into the unknown or expand what we’re sharing or innovate something new.

Imposter syndrome is the name that’s been given to our insecurities which often show up as our inner critic, the part of us that asks, “Who are we do that?” and fills us with the belief that we don’t have what it takes to share ourselves as we are. That dream was often crushed long ago.

But dreams can be revived, and that exactly what beautiful souls are doing now. The desire to fly is getting stronger. The willingness to hold back is disappearing. New healers, coaches, creatives, intuitive guides, spiritual teachers and mentors are popping up everywhere. They’re recognizing that their gifts are needed, and they no longer want to say no to that.

Hallelujah!