I believe soul purpose is accessible in every stage of our lives. Though we think we have to spend time finding it, it's always hanging out in the background, waiting for us to accept the terms of our respective soul agreements. Soul agreements are the agreements, the terms of your divine nature.
Read MoreHow open have you been to your journey? In what aspect have you rejected the start of your journey out of fear, out of contemplation? This, too, is a part of gradualism.
Read More“A lot of resistance lives in the emotion of fear. Fear of loss, fear of losing favor with others, fear of rejection, fear of not being included, fear of eternal singledom, but are these fears real, or simply what we believe to be true? Our thoughts and emotions guide our actions. But, when we realize we are stuck, we innately blame. It’s always someone else.”
Read MoreI think we need better conversations around loss-- not just conversations about how to cope but also how to live and show up for ourselves again fully. Especially in these mind blowing times where most everyone you know has been personally affected by death. Coping to me is existing in spite of the void. I want to find a way to feel full inside like I did before.
Today, we have bought into our otherness and are eager to erase it. We erase it in our egotistical pursuit and acceptance of all things Eurocentric. Even as Africanity rises and the diaspora is now present and accounted for in the leaders we aspire to be, we shrink our values and remain disconnected from our truth -- the truth.
Jessamyn is giving us all the permission slip that we have been desperate for---to take up space in the world, no matter what room you find yourself in. The journey to vulnerability is often hard, we lose connection with our voice because at every turn there is someone there trying to force their ego onto us.
Read MoreThis is ultimately why Stacey Abrams sits where she does today, and not as the first black woman president of the United States. Stacey Abrams is a dark-skinned, full-figured, gap-toothed, natural-haired black woman. There was no seat at any table at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave that would have her as a permanent resident.
Read MoreMany of the women that I meet and work with within my practice seek love. That's part of the draw to the spiritual journey, the dissatisfaction they feel in their lives. It is a clear sign of awakening. It was the very same thing I experienced right before really taking a serious look at myself and moving forward with spiritual guidance.
Read MoreOur youth is often filled with distraction, and we become so separate from our soul's essence that we lose our way. Our environments teach us that our experiences are typical and that spirituality and the universal can wait. It is a brief dabbling in the woo woo, or perhaps even something unnecessary.
The first stages of awakening represent a state of emptiness or unhappiness and then subtle shifts in perception before the soul begins to seek answers and deeper meaning. However, many souls get stuck, unable to move forward without the ability to trust or to stay in balance.
You know, it’s hard to believe in your dreams, imagine what you can become when it has never been a part of your reality. I knew that what I wanted was a long shot, and the world reinforced that it was just plain ol’ impossible. Until the day that I saw that image of Shirley Chisholm and heard her name. She was like a beacon out in the ocean -- a lighthouse calling me home.
Read MoreI was standing while watching him take his oath, almost as if I was taking it with him. I was so in awe of what he had accomplished. I cried and prayed as I stood there. I kept worrying about him being killed. I prayed they wouldn’t kill him. As happy I was for him, for me, for us, I was afraid to get attached to the idea that he was really the president because I feared it would be over too soon.
Read MoreHonestly, many organizations reject the idea of an empath coming into work in group clarity sessions with their creative teams. From an organizational perspective, spirituality is akin to religion, and they overly concern themselves with possible backlash. But, here’s what the average C-suite team is missing: intuitive coaching and spiritual guidance are the new normal, especially for millennials.
Clarity is a heavy topic. It’s not easy to navigate when you are first starting on your spiritual journey. It may not even be something you connect with or are aware that you need to be conscious of as it pertains to spirituality. But, indeed, emotional clarity is the top priority when it comes to activating higher consciousness, your soul purpose, and leaning into a deeper level of spiritual practice.
Being black has always been quite the conundrum. I mean, everyone knows you’re black… even the self-professed colorblind among us. But when you, the black person, actually say you’re black, it’s a problem! Why is that?
There’s an air of defensiveness that sometimes finds its way into the healing process that creates a place that becomes sterile at best and combative at worst. This resistance becomes counterintuitive to clarity and disrupts the sacred spiritual space, which I cultivate for healing.
We often rely heavily on our patterns of overthinking. We languish in anxiety and insecurity that does not allow room for finality in our circumstances. We must learn to accept finality in ourselves, our circumstances, and others.
Our how starts with being present. But, through our incarnation, we have learned to depend on external satisfaction and have over time disregarded all aspects of ourselves that cannot be validated externally. So, we are our problem.
Read MoreAcceptance is the key to releasing any negative emotion. We humans have an interesting relationship with acceptance. We are primarily under the delusion that acceptance means there is no room for change, versus the reality that acceptance is the pathway for change.
Active growth reassures the soul of advancement, of the possibility to take on a higher form and be among the natural soul family. Any incarnation is limited; growth must be sought after and balanced with the circumstances to come into wisdom and to succeed in this state of being.
