Authenticity Challenges and Heals Us

Authenticity Challenges and Heals Us

Seems I’m at a point where the challenge of being my true self is here.  I had to learn that being authentic served me well even as it challenges and heals me.  I now look at myself to make changes to have a beautiful life.

Several years ago for approximately three years, I worked with a coach.  An intuitive spiritual coach and a wonderfully direct person.  I started keeping a journal while releasing old habits that did me no favors.  We’re not meant to go through our challenges alone.  It’s a lovely thing indeed to receive support through encouragement and suggestions.

Taking on way more beneficial and supportive habits, ideas, practices, thoughts, eventually I could look at my past.

There were confusing, scary, and sad experiences to look at but I stuck with it.  Eventually became clear about all that contributed to my beliefs about myself.  And I took ownership of the part where I kept believing those thoughts long after I became an adult.

Releasing whatever I can is an on-going process that shows up whenever I’m ready to look and let go of more.  Now I’m able to speak up for myself, put myself first, and cultivate joy by doing all the things I love to do.  While it may sound selfish, it isn’t.  It allows me to become a more healthy and balanced person, and therefore, to be of more service to others.

Authenticity challenges us and heals us as it works it’s magic.

In addition to sharing with others what it took for me, I started this blog to become more comfortable being authentic.  Around the same time, I started this blog, I started a conversation group in my local town.  The desire was to find a community of those also looking to create new versions of themselves.  To become more conscious, self-aware, while learning about our energy and so forth.

So what’s next?  There’s volunteer work and I’m very sure I don’t want to just fill up my free time.  I am never bored and never looking to fill my time.  I love my free time because I decide every day what I want to do with it.  Read.  Hike.  Paint.  Write.  You get the idea.  And in the past, my experience with all the volunteer work I did, was not unlike my experience with my career in the corporate world.  Some of it felt like busywork.  In other cases, all I was doing was supporting someone else’s mission and vision.  Great ideas but they weren’t my ideas or vision.

At this point in my life, creating my own ideas is so much more meaningful.

There’s always a growth challenge, right?

Being authentic in front of others is big for me because it requires vulnerability.  If I cushion and mainstream my story there will be nothing of value that I’m sharing.  When I’m genuine I feel better.  Authenticity challenges and heals us.  I’m living proof.

The best part is that I get to be my goofy, dorky, sometimes hip, oftentimes my little awkward self!  I’Sara Enjoying a Snack During Receptionm great with that.  Finally, I’m experiencing the freedom of my spirit without fear.

My more purposeful work is to become more open and share some of my experiences, thoughts and what my passion is.  When I don’t share huge parts of me it makes for a very superficial life and relationships. Things are going really well for me and I could stop here.  I love my life just the way it is.

However, there’s so much more that will appear if I step up.  Becoming more me.  With friends, family, audience members, members of the conversation group, and here in this blog.

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