Manage My Energy?!?!?

Dear Friends,

I snapped at my life coach the other day.

Well, in my head I snapped at her. I've been working with her so many years now and I know her enough to know that anything that she says to me is fairly precious...no matter how little I want to hear it.

Let me first just say -- in general, we want the easy answers, right? I'd rather hear that my marketing plan sucks than hear her point out some deep, unresolved issues with (fill in the blank) that are blocking me like an entire FOREST of downed trees across my path.

My marketing plan I can fix -- without getting dirty in the muck of my mind, the sad corners of my heart, the cobwebbed and clutter depths of my long-neglected inner wisdom.

But the inner work? Sigh.

So what she said to me, after I confessed that I felt like the roof was falling in on me, was that she sensed that the deeper issue here was about how I was managing my energy (and that's when I snapped at her in my head).

"My energy?!?!" I wanted to yell. "My ENERGY?? How is my energy supposed to be when it feels like the building is crashing down on my head??"

And we worked a little more (and of course I didn't snap at her at all) and then we got off the phone, and I've been working on this, chewing on this, since that call 4 days ago.

And I realized that I've been working so hard to manage the clean, outer parts of this work -- the marketing, the newsletter content, hiring staff, writing clever promos, reaching out to potential business partners...that I was avoiding the work that required thigh-high rubber boots, a box of tissues, the dark, sad parts of myself, the turning inwards and really finding the leaky, drafty spots that needed attention and caulk.

So I rolled up my sleeves. I set the intention to open up to whatever my inner wisdom, whatever my inner child, whatever my inner mama wanted to say to me.

And it's not pretty. But it's me. And opening up to the unsaid, the unexamined, the sometimes-shunned has caused such a perspective shift for me that I'm inviting you to try the same.

Here are some questions to sit with -- and remember, a next-best-step might look like simply OPENING to these questions -- just allowing space for the various voices and parts of you to begin to speak.

1. What is it that I'm really wanting in my life right now?
2. WHY am I wanting this?
3. What's standing in my way of moving forward into this?
4. What inner pieces are calling to be seen, to be heard right now?

This is just the tiniest first step. But isn't that how the greatest journeys begin?

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much love and light,
Britt
britt@inarmscoaching.com