Emerging from the Darkness

This past year has been one of the most intense, painful initiations of my life's path.

Which is saying a lot, because I've been through some doozies!

I would equate it with walking through hell...

I was faced with demons, both my own and others. I was confronted by some of my deepest, darkest shadows, unable to look away.

At times, I was overwhelmed by fear, panic, terror, anguish, uncertainty and doubt. I faced persecution, judgement and betrayal and was burdened by lifetimes of shame and guilt.

Layers of my identity were stripped away, leaving me naked and shaken, no longer knowing who I was or where I fit into the world.

My business crumbled, my confidence shattered, and everything that was built on false beliefs, programming and pretense dissolved before my eyes.

There were many times throughout this journey when I found myself feeling so lost and alone, so hopeless, I wanted to give up. To just lay down and never get up.

And yet... something pulled me forward.

A gentle whisper from Spirit. A nudge from my Soul... reminding me that this was all part of the plan... part of the transformation... part of what I was here to remember.

As I emerge from the darkness, I feel reborn.

Much like the phoenix emerging from the flames, my scorched feathers singed and tattered, I rise into a new expression of the woman I once was.

I don't know this new version well, as we are slowly becoming acquainted... In many ways, it feels like meeting an old friend after a lifetime of being apart.

I look into her eyes, and I know the woman who stares back at me. The one I left behind long ago, buried beneath years of conditioning, roles and rules.

I am excited to see where she will lead me, as I sense that she knows the path my soul laid out long before we began this human journey...