What if success meant something different?
Every now and then, I sit and ponder what led me down the path I’m on—how I became so invested in my own experience of living in my body, and in helping other women do the same. Looking back over the years, I can see that my definition of success has dramatically shifted. What once was focused solely on externally validated measures—grades, promotions, what something looks like to other people—has transformed into more internal measures: Do I feel enlivened by this? Does this expand me in a way that feels good? Am I in integrity? Does my life feel richer for this?
Don't get me wrong, I still expend energy going after some of those externally validated measures of success, but they're no longer the only thing I desire. Somewhere along the way, those external validations started to feel less important, and even a little empty. And that's when I began searching for something more.
Maybe you've felt like this too?
Perhaps you're spent your early career striving for promotion after promotion in a field that suddenly seems slightly out of alignment for you? Perhaps you're left feeling drained, out of balance, misunderstood, or hungry for more in your relationships with others? Maybe this is showing up in feelings of trying to detach from reality and avoid feeling the big feelings? Maybe's you're just tired? Not just in a physical sense that can be eased with a few good nights' sleep, but a soul tired. A deep stirring that there is something more to the way you've been existing until now.
We live in a world where from as early as young girls, we are taught to lessen, dampen, to shrink, to be nice, and to not be difficult or cause trouble. We lose connection with the wisdom of our bodies, the playfulness of our senses, the magic of our true nature.
But the wisdom is still there. The playfulness remains. The magic is real. We just need to become sensitive to it again. We need to learn to speak its language, to rebuild the trust that was once there. Our bodies hold within us all that we need to live the life we are seeking. Beauty, sensuality, vulnerability, strength, wisdom and courage lies in our depths.
To become sensitive to and innately trusting of this wisdom is to understand the interconnected relationship between our cycle and our energy levels, our passion, our fire, our desires and to understand how to live in honour of this cycle.
We become sensitive to when we are making decisions that are not in alignment with our truth and we feel how this shows up in our body.
We are no longer afraid of uncovering hidden parts of ourselves and instead relish in the beauty and chaos that unfolds when more of her comes to light.
We honour this light and this darkness.
We come to understand the role we play in creating our own universe and how we are in control of where we show up and how we channel our energy.
We no longer feel like a victim but a sovereign Woman that celebrates her wildness and beauty in all her forms.
