I feel the work I do is sacred.
All week long people tell me their greatest desires, hopes, and dreams for their lives. Sometimes they have never told anyone else the thoughts that lie dormant in their hearts. They are often passively waiting for the right conditions and circumstances to present themselves so they may realize these dreams and create a life they truly love.
It takes courage, tenacity and fortitude to create a well-lived life. Most of us are just trying to get by and dodge the next mishap.
Yet, I find deep within the hearts of most people I speak with there is a field of hidden treasures and buried jewels just waiting to be uncovered and paid attention to.
Why is it that we tend to not discuss such things and, in many cases, never allow these dreams to see the light of day?
As a holistic psychotherapist and life coach, I work with clients all week long who are going through major transitions of one kind or another; relationship endings and beginnings, career changes, geographic changes, death or loss of a loved one, health challenges, etc.
In my recent blog entitled, Is Your Old Life Dying?, I wrote about the way in which life is speeding up these days and so many of us are seeing our old lives fall away while being called to birth something new. Many times we have no idea what this new life is supposed to be or how we are going to create it, but the old way of living simply feels outdated, suffocating, uninspired and boring. I especially see this in the clients I work with who are in their late 30’s to mid-fifties and beyond.
I listened to a call by one of my mentor coaches this week, Martha Beck, in which she talked about the rapidly accelerating pace of change that is taking place in the world, and in all of our lives, like never before. There is a quickening going on and we are finding situations in our lives collapsing in a way that we are being called to reinvent ourselves, over and over, often in profound and dramatic ways.