Trusting My Gut to Move... Again | Messages for the Empath Soul Podcast
Living intuitively means being able to trust your gut, or intuition, as you make big life decisions.
Knowing you are moving along your soul path and actually living in alignment with your soul path can be challenging. It can be hard to embrace trust on your path, especially when fear, doubt and worry build and logically things don't make sense. This episode takes you through my own experience of learning to trust my gut when making a big life decision to move. I have a long history with moving, and I share some of the life lessons and healing I had to work through in order to build my trust in the universe and in myself.
The three topics I cover in sharing my story include:
Logically it didn't make sense to move.
Knowing my desire allowed me to trust.
Asking my Spirit Guides to support me was the key to flowing.
Press play to hear more about my story and to learn some great tips that you can use while learning to listening to your intuition and trust your gut on your soul journey.
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Back to the blog - Trusting My Gut to Move… Again
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INTRO
Welcome back to a new episode of Messages for the Empath Soul. I am so beyond excited to be here and share this episode with you today. As you can see by the title of this episode, it’s all about trusting my gut… again. Now before we jump into this space I want to intro this space here whether you are brand new or you have been around for a little while. I want to say welcome, welcome, welcome.
This is your soul journey and I am here channeling messages from the Universe to help guide and support you.
This is Messages for the Empath Soul.
If you are new here, I’m Sydney, a ⅖ Generator with a deep intuitive connection. My mission is to empower as many spiritual empaths in this community, creating a ripple effect of compassion and peace that is felt around the world.
That’s why we are here, but more specifically today we are here to talk about my move, to talk about why I moved, how I moved, my journey with moving in general and more specifically how I trusted my gut to make this move. How I listened to my intuition and I allowed this move to be very peaceful and very divine.
What I hope you take away from today’s episode is, first of all, knowing a little more about me and my journey. Also, I want you to take away how your spiritual connection, your soul connection, and your connection with the Universe can be applied to your daily life. To the big things and the small things. I want you to start to see and understand and feel how your intuition, and your gut can guide you through life so you can experience more grace, more ease, more peace and more fulfillment.
I moved for the 18th time in 16 years. To give you an understanding, I am 34 years old. Since I was 18 years old that's 16 years that has passed, that is almost half of my life. Since I was 18 years old I have moved 18 times. That gives you a little glimpse into my journey.
Now I want to talk about how I trusted my gut through this move and how I let my intuition guide me. There are three key things that I want to focus on in today’s episode. First, logically it didn’t make sense to move, next knowing my desire allowed me to trust and finally asking my spirit guides to support me was the key to flowing.
Those are the three topics I want to prioritize in sharing my story about this move that I made and where I am at in my journey and how it affects me, how it affects you and how it affects this community I’ve been creating for the last 6 years.
LOGICALLY IT DIDN’T MAKE SENSE.
Let’s jump right into where it starts.
Logically it didn’t make sense.
I think one of the things we struggle with the most, especially as empaths, but definitely as people pleasers, is listening to everyone else's opinion, prioritizing everyone else's opinion and especially prioritizing someone else’s opinion of who you are. As a people pleaser one of things I’ve had to work on is how I think someone else is perceiving me. As a people pleaser one of my biggest fears in life is the fear of judgment and the fear of rejection. So I’ve spent a lot of time in my mind focused on how someone else looks at me and creating and conjuring all these stories that aren’t good about why someone might be judging me, or how they might be judging me. Even if I do something specific I’ll be thinking about how they perceive my actions, which leads me to filter myself and make myself a smaller version of who I am just in the hopes that someone will perceive me in a better light. I’ve spent a lot of time in my life doing this, which is really unhealthy because it’s how we end up becoming versions of ourselves that aren’t true. We aren’t being authentic.
So, what are you supposed to do when you know you are going against everyone else’s opinion? This question can easily stop you in your tracks. Your gut instinct and your intuition is not always the loudest thing, usually your fear is the loudest thing you experience. So if you have a fear of judgment or rejection, the loudest thing is what you think everyone else's opinion is or what you think they are going to say. So I went against this, I went against everyone else’s opinion.
When I say everyone else's opinion, I mean in this move the people that are closest to me and the people I respect the most and have the deepest connection with, I wasn’t going against their opinion. I had a lot of support there and a lot of love and a lot of understanding. But, from someone who doesn’t know me very well, their opinion might have been “don’t make the move”.
What I have learned in my journey, especially as a people pleaser and an empath, is to hold my biggest decisions close to my chest until they are already done. This is because from the outside a lot of people are going to say “why are you moving again? You’ve barely been in this new place, so why would you make this move again?” It’s easy to get lost in those opinions and judgements and perceptions of other people because what they are doing is they are basing their opinion on logic. They don’t know what my gut feeling is, they don’t know what my intuition is saying within me. Logically it didn’t make sense to move.
In 16 years I have moved 18 times. Those 18 times are not necessarily moving to different towns, but sometimes it was moving into a new house. Since I was 18 years old I have not lived in the same house for longer than 2 years. 2 years is the longest stint I have done in one house and maybe this is because my childhood was so stable and secure and I lived in the same house for the first 18 years of my life until I moved away for university.
It’s kind of funny to think, I’ve had such stability and security and routine in my daily life that of course my young adulthood life I am moving. I wonder in a way if I was searching for that stability and security because as a child my parents created that for me. All of sudden I am out on my own and I have this opportunity to explore and adventure and feel free. Of course I had some sort of adult responsibilities, but when you are so young in your adulthood in your early 20’s there really is this space to be free, this space to explore. I think society tries to tell us we need to get a good job and find a person you want to spend the rest of your life with and build your life from a young age in order to be at that place of stability much quicker so you can build off this.
Previously, in generations before me, the push to get married, the push to get a good job in a lasting career, to buy a house, to build that foundation for yourself. This push and importance we’ve placed on this, pressured generations before me to not have the space of exploration, self exploration, life exploration.
I was really lucky in the family I grew up in. My mom, along with my dad, placed a large importance on being happy and exploring what happiness means to you. I don’t think they said those words from the get go, but that was the home identity I grew up in. Knowing that safety and security is not a physical place, it’s a connection, it’s a relationship. So, having this sense of stability and security in the relationship I have with my parents allowed me to explore and explore freedom.
What are you supposed to do when you know you are going against everyone else's opinion? You know, if I involve my extended family, my aunts and uncles and cousins in this decision making process there may be some questions around why am I moving again. If I involved coworkers, acquaintances, they may have questioned it. In the beginning for me, I wasn’t willing to allow space for those questions to creep in because I’ve learned in my life experiences that if there is space for those questions to come in then it creates space for doubt to grow. I wasn’t willing to let everyone else's opinion flood in because I knew logically it didn’t make sense. I know that logically and on the surface this move does not make sense, but I have decided to not live life based on logic. Because logic can limit us in so many ways. I’m not saying that logic is bad, I think there is space to find balance and harmony between logic and intuition.
Ultimately I wasn’t willing to allow everyone to have an opinion on this decision because then I would’ve had to fight against it. In this concept of, logically it didn't make sense, I remember a few months ago on Canada Day long weekend. I drove out to Fernie to have a visit with my cousins. I love those kinds of adventures when I get to drive somewhere to spend time with people who mean a lot to me.
I remember sitting in my Aunt and Uncle's living room and I looked at my cousin. Now back story, I grew up on the other side of the country from my cousin. So her and I didn’t have a super close childhood, but we have gotten really close in our adulthood. I lived with her for almost 2 years, I lived in the same city as her for 3 years and the 5 years previous to that I lived in a town close by. So we’ve really been able to build a stronger connection with each other throughout our adulthood.
I mentioned to her that I might move or that I was thinking I might move. At this point I had no plans to move, I didn’t know a date, and it wasn’t a sure thing. It was more of an intuitive feeling that I was going to move back to Revelstoke, which is a town I lived in over 5 years ago. I couldn’t explain it, there was just this feeling. I almost said it to her to bounce that idea off of someone, so I was wanting her opinion. She said, “you love moving” and all of a sudden I looked inwards and I said “oh my god, I do love moving”. Which is funny because I already knew that, but the way she worded that statement and then the way she followed it up with “why? Why do you love moving so much? You just love the adventure and change of something new?”. It really made me start to question my path and question why I’ve moved so much in my lifetime.
Because I opened myself up to her and her opinion in that moment I really did question what was the reason. Now at that point I didn’t have a plan to move, I just had a feeling that maybe in a year's time I would move back to Revelstoke, or maybe two years time. I just had this calling within me that Revelstoke was where I was supposed to head to and I was just putting my feelers out there but I had no idea what exactly it looked like.
She shared her thoughts and like I said, it made me question my path. I put it on the back burner and left it to the side, but then I also got curious. I really think that self reflection allows you to better understand who you are and how you are currently living in this world. Then you can start to question yourself , not in a bad way, but in a good way. Do I want to live this way? Do I need to make changes to my actions, my behaviours, my perspectives, my belief systems and my thoughts? I really started to dive into this concept of moving and why I felt such a desire to move all the time.
Interestingly enough I only moved to the town I was currently living in only a year prior. In May of 2023 I moved to the Okanagan in British Columbia. July of 2024 was when I mentioned to my cousin, hey I might want to move.
When the move actually came to be, I’m going to get into that in a little bit, but one of the reasons that allowed me to go forward on this decision and start taking action on this decision was because of how it felt and the desire within me.
Before I was able to trust the desire I had the phase of questioning. Why am I doing this? Why am I thinking about this? Why am I moving so much? Is this a pattern? Is this a fear based pattern that becomes triggered within me when I start to feel myself settling into a routine?
Ultimately, living in the Okanagan I was finally living so many of my dreams. There was often this feeling within me of “how could this get better?”. I was living close to my best friend, she lived in the town next to me. My parents lived in the same town as me. I had financial stability in the part time job I had started. The part time job I had started was a beautiful work environment and I really felt connected to my coworkers. I had made friends in the town who were interested in the same outdoor activities as me and loved deep conversations about spirituality and connection. There was so much that I had been desiring for my life when I lived in Calgary and I was moving through my healing journey, that I had desired and now had come true living in the Okanagan in the last year and a bit. Logically moving did not make sense.
My cousin brought that up, why? Why are you moving so much? So I began to question it within me. So much had brought me joy in this new town I had been living in, so how could it get better? Logically it didn’t make sense.
KNOWING MY DESIRE ALLOWED ME TO TRUST.
This is what brings me to knowing my desire allowed me to trust.
I think the biggest thing that made me trust in this move was knowing that I didn’t feel fulfilled in all capacities in my life. I had this specific moment that happened in my life that triggered making this move sooner.
Remember, back on Canada Day long weekend I told my cousin and for myself I was thinking a year from now or two years from now. The earliest I was thinking was next spring, so that would be almost a year later from when I brought it up to my cousin.
Fast forward to a month and a half, 6 weeks after I had this conversation with my cousin. Something happened in my life that rocked me. It wasn’t a big thing, it was just a conversation I had with my roommate, she told me a shift was going to happen in our housing situation. It triggered something within me and I had so much anger come up within me. I remember getting in my best friend's car and as she was driving away from my house I said, “I just need to let this out, so guard yourself quickly because here it comes.” I was yelling and there was so much anger that was moving through me. This is not something that happens to me on a regular basis, I’m not typically someone who gets angry and I’m not typically someone who yells in frustration. Sometimes it’s necessary and you have to let that emotion out.
Through this my best friend and I went to a forest, which is very healing for me, I always need to be in a forest to do any sort of cleansing. In this I said to her, coming back to my human design, I’m a sacral authority, I need to ask myself yes or no questions and feel off of the answer, not go into logic. So, I asked her to ask me yes or no questions, just start throwing things at me so I can feel what feels right in my body. As she was asking me all these questions about would I move to the town she lives in, would I get a different job to make a little more money, I had a moment of realizing that if I lived another year the same as this past year I won’t feel fulfilled.
Now, the past year had been great, there had been a lot of my dreams and desires that had come true. I had friendships, I had financial stability, there were a lot of things I was really enjoying about my life. I was closer to nature and no longer in a big city. Yet, the idea of “damn if I do the next 365 days and it’s the same as the last 365 days I’m going to feel further away from my path”. I could’ve sat there and written it all out as to why I was feeling that way and what I needed to work on, I think recognizing those things are important. Ultimately, just recognizing that I don’t feel fulfilled in all capacities and I need to shift, I need to shift how I’m showing up for myself, I need to shift the connections I’m calling in and I need to shift what I am creating. Again, my life had a lot of good, I’ve come a long way in my journey, but it was just this recognition that I’m not feeling fulfilled in all capacities.
The recognition of what is my desire. My best friend knew that I had already been thinking about Revelstoke, I had already visited it 6 times that summer. She was asking me yes or no style questions of would I live here or would I live there, none of it was to move far it was all to stay in the Okanagan. She then asked me, “would you want to move to Revelstoke?” and everything in my body screamed “hell yes”. There is no other way to explain the feeling that I felt when she asked that question other than this deep visceral knowing that that was what I was meant to do. I had to, there was so much excitement and desire and joy and peace that came from that question, do you want to move to Revelstoke, yes I do. That right there, knowing my desire, allowed me to trust.
I have been living for the last 6 years of my life by understanding my intuition more, understanding my gut, understanding my human design and how I’m meant to be naturally moving through this world. I’ve been digging into my fears and digging into my conditioned beliefs, I’ve been doing so much work on myself that the thing that I have learned is that I need to live life true to me. If I am living based on other people's opinions, based on what society is telling me how I should be living, based on fear, based on what logically makes sense, it’s not going to guide me to happiness or fulfillment.
Just simply knowing my desire, that I wanted to live in Revelstoke, allowed me to trust. It took that time, future oriented aspect away. Back in July I said maybe in a year or maybe in two years, so I wasn't able to experience that full body yes and the full body joy because I wasn’t thinking right now, my next step. Yet, when my best friend asked me the question, when my housing situation became, not chaotic, but a shift was necessary in my housing situation. She asked me that question and I knew, oh damn this has to happen.
Knowing that I wasn’t feeling fulfilled in all capacities and I didn’t want to live another year like the one I just lived, I needed to grow, I needed to expand, I needed to find a new environment that helped me to trust.
Another thing that helped me to build trust was something my mom said. I had told my parents, and really the only people that knew that I was making this move was my mom and dad, my best friend, and once I started the process I told my brother and his girlfriend and that’s it. Those are the only people, I didn’t even tell my other brother and his wife, I didn’t tell my other close friends, I didn’t tell my workplace. I let 3 people know right from the get go and then I included 2 other people once the ball had started rolling. I didn’t even tell my cousin, the one I had mentioned it to earlier this summer, I didn’t tell her until the move was already fully lined up.
I told my mom and my parents had a bit of time to process it. A bit of a back story of my relationship with my parents and where we lived, obviously I grew up with my parents and lived in the same house as them for 18 years, then I went away to university. In the summer for the 4 years I was in university I stayed with my parents, then after I graduated university I moved out west. I moved 3 provinces away, which is a 3 day drive or a 5 hour flight. For 10 years my parents and I basically lived on different sides of the country. Then my parents moved out west to the Okanagan a few years ago. After I left Calgary I moved to the Okanagan, so now starting May of 2023 all of a sudden I live in the same town as my parents again. We live 5 minutes apart. So after 10 years of having such distance between us, we were so close in proximity.
My mom and I went for a walk and we were talking about my move and she said “we always knew that you would end up in a small mountain town” That is my dream, this is truly my desire. Me moving is not just running away, it’s not just me living into this pattern to create change and excitement in my life. I’m moving to a small mountain town because that is my desire, this is my goal in life and it always has been. The Okanagan, the town I had lived in, West Kelowna, was not a small mountain town. It was a lot smaller than the city of Calgary that I lived in. I am saying cities and those of you listening are probably on the other side of the world and you have no idea what cities I’m talking about.
Hearing my mom say this gave me a feeling of peace in knowing I was making this decision because it was my desire. So it allowed me to build that trust even more.
The third thing that allowed me to build trust in knowing this was my desire was that I finally felt ready to grow roots. Most people would say to settle, but I don’t really like that word because “to settle” sounds like you are allowing yourself to receive less than what you deserve.
After all of this moving and changing and rearranging and shifting for the past 16 years, this move after move after move, I needed them. I needed every single one of the moves I’ve experienced because it allowed me to end one cycle and start a new cycle. It allowed me to let go of things that were no longer serving me and open the door to new opportunities and experiences. There is no regret on my journey and I’m at a stage where I really want to grow roots. I want to build a community that is in the same physical environment as me. I want to fall in love. I want to have kids one day, I want to have a family. I want to have friendships where I can go and adventure with and explore, and then come home and relax in my house and feel like “ahh this is where I need to be”.
Knowing that I finally feel ready to grow roots it really gave me the push to make the move to the small mountain town now. It really allowed me to recognize that this move is different. The reason why this move is different is because after I had that conversation with my cousin I started to reflect on my pattern of moving. I started to dig in deeper to what are the reasons, what are the triggers, looking at different moves and why I made them and whether or not I actually was trusting my gut or if I was running away from something instead.
This has really allowed me to trust the entire process of the move I made because I knew I wasn’t feeling fulfilled in all capacities and I didn’t want to repeat another year like I had just lived. Again there was a lot of good that came in that year, but I was ready for something more. My mom reminded me that this is something I said for 10 years, so it reaffirmed to myself that this is my desire. Again, finally feeling ready to grow roots. This move has given me the permission slip to see that okay this is where I am landing, this is where I am ending up. Everything about it felt so right.
When I moved to the Okanagan I was running away from Calgary because I didn’t want to live in Calgary anymore. But I never felt like the Okanagan was where I wanted to settle and grow roots, I just felt like the Okanagan was a stepping stone on my path. Whereas with this move I’m not running away from anything, I am running towards something. What am I running towards? Myself, my true authentic self.
Knowing my desire allowed me to trust.
ASKING MY SPIRIT GUIDES TO SUPPORT ME WAS THE KEY TO FLOWING.
On the path, asking my Spirit Guides to support me was the key to flowing. This was so important for my experience.
Remember I had that moment of anger coming up within me when all of a sudden my housing situation was shifting. I got in the car with my best friend and I started yelling and then we went to a forest and she asked me all those yes or no questions, leading to “do you want to live in Revelstoke?” I walked away from that experience calling my mom, who is one of my other best friends, and telling her everything that had happened. I told her everything because I was so caught up in the humanness of this problem, this issue that arised on my path and I want to come back to Spirit, I want to come back to trust.
In the humanness you start to question, “where do I go from here, what do I do”. I didn’t make this move and from the get go knowing how it was all going to happen. There was so much unknown, which is why I needed to ask my Spirit Guides to support me. So, in the conversation I had with my mom this time around, she said, “now that I know that a shift needs to take place, the only thing that I need to do in this moment in order to ensure that the shift I end up making is aligned with my soul path, is to ask the universe - show me the next step.” That is exactly what I did.
The beginning of this entire experience started with me saying to the Universe, “show me the next step”. I knew that I wanted to move to Revelstoke, but I didn’t know how it was going to happen, when it was going to happen. I didn’t know the details about it. I knew I wanted things to happen quickly because within a month and a half my housing situation was going to change, so I wanted to get out of there. By saying to the Universe, “show me the next step” it took my hands off the wheel. I let go of control. My humanness says that I have to figure it all out, I have to figure out all of the next 10 steps, but in my experience the ability to flow with the universe, allowing the universe to show you an idea, or show you an option and then feeling into your body, and if it feels right taking that step. Then allowing the universe to show you the next step. There is so much peace that comes from this experience if you are willing to trust, if you are willing to surrender, if you are willing to practice letting go of control. This is something I have practiced for the last 6 years, and I am by no means perfect, I still jump into my own fears and worries and stressors. I am actively practicing.
By me saying to the Universe, “show me the next step”, what happened you ask? Well, within 24 hours of having that visceral reaction of “oh my god I need to move to Revelstoke”, I was scrolling Facebook and a post popped up on my main feed from the vet clinic in Revelstoke with a job opening. It was the same position that I do as my part time job in the Okanagan. I work at a vet clinic and I saw that post and said “holy crap, this is my next step, this is how I begin the move. I will apply to this job and if I get this job then I just need to find a place to live. I know I’ll find a place to live because I’ve moved 18 times in 16 years.” I have no fear, no worry and no doubt about being able to find a place to live, because I’ve done it and I know I’ll just do it again.
Seeing this job posting was the Universe showing me the next step. From there, there were so many minute details that needed to fall into place to allow this move to happen. At this point in my life it was the middle or beginning of August. I applied to this job in Revelstoke, I am currently at this time planning a huge relaunch for my membership The Soul Care Space in my business. There was so much time and effort and purpose that went into this. On top of this, I was planning a week-long hiking trip to the Sunshine Coast with 7, so 6 other women, 7 of us. I was doing all of this planning.
My life was filled with so many details that I had to organize that I had no time to focus on the minute details of moving to a new town, getting a new job and setting up a place to live. I had no capacity in my mind to try and figure it out, so every single day I requested support from my Divine Team to figure out the details. Every single day in my meditation practice, in my journaling, whenever I would catch myself in a moment of “oh what comes next” I would put that back to the Universe and my Divine Team saying, “support me, show me the next step, line it all up”.
In this process it really allowed me to flow because I didn’t have the time or energy to focus on figuring out the next steps, I just asked my Spirit Guides to show me the next step that I needed to act on. It was all so aligned. I had a phone interview, then I had a working interview, then I got the job and I had to tell my current boss that I was leaving. I had to find a place to live, so my brother and his girlfriend reached out to a couple people. I had two places lined up and I had to talk to both of them on the phone. I connected to my gut throughout the entire process, checking back in with myself, “does this feel right?”. When I got on the phone interview, which was the first step after applying for the job, I asked my Divine Team “remove all obstacles if this is meant to happen, make it clear, make it obvious”.
There could’ve easily still been room for second guessing and questioning and worrying, but I didn’t want to devote my limited energy. I already had my energy going towards my business and planning this trip, I didn’t want the energy that I had left going to worry or second guessing or questioning. I just wanted to trust that if it was meant to be it would be. There was no part of me in the entire process that was saying, “oh I know it’s going to happen”. The entire process I literally kept saying, “well if it’s meant to be then it will and if it’s not then it won’t”.
Yes, I wanted to move to Revelstoke, yes I wanted to create that for myself, but I wasn’t 100% certain that this was the moment it was going to happen. I just trusted that whatever was meant to be would unfold and the next step would present itself to me.
I got it all lined up within a month. A month after I applied I was hired and a week after I was hired I had a place to live and I put in my deposit. It’s so funny because when we ask the Universe for a sign it’s because we want to know with full certainty that that’s the path we are meant to be moving down. But really, if you just tune into yourself you will know with full certainty, it’s just that we don’t trust the feelings and we are still strengthening how to connect with that feeling. So we ask for something outside of us, like a sign, to give us that feeling of full certainty. It’s just a funny thing and I love talking about signs and the universe.
The practice of asking my Spirit Guides to support me being the key to flowing, when I left on this trip I asked the universe for a sign. I said, “send me a whale if this move to Revelstoke is a key part of my soul path and my soul purpose. If this is what I am meant to be doing, send me a whale.” The beginning of the trip we took a water taxi to the beginning of the trail head. I was the last one to get off the water taxi, so I was the last one to grab my backpack and get myself organized. Everyone was starting to hike and I looked out at the ocean and had this thought of, something is about to happen. I watched this whale bring it’s mouth up to the surface of the water as it was eating a school of fish. Three times it brought it’s lips up to the surface of the water and I saw it, my mom saw it and I’m not sure if anyone else saw it. I thought “holy crap, that’s my sign”. It didn’t come as this big showy thing, I thought it was going to be a pod of orcas or a whale breaching jumping out of the water as if I would say “oh my god here it is”, but it wasn’t. It was such a divine sacred moment that was so miniscule in the sense that you could’ve easily missed it because it wasn’t this big showy moment. Some of the women did miss it, but because I felt this call to look at the ocean before I started the hike, I saw it’s lips come up and it was the sign saying “yes, everything is aligned, this move is part of your purpose”.
Those are three key things that I needed in trusting my gut to move again. Because logically it didn’t make sense, so I had to understand it. How did I understand it? Well, I knew my desire, by connecting to my desire it allowed me to trust in my path. Then of course we can easily jump into the questioning, the worrying, the second guessing, the doubt and the insecurities. So I always come back to my Spirit Guides and my Divine Team. By asking them to support me and support my path was the key to flowing and letting it all unfold divinely as it was meant to. So, that is my experience.
I live in a new town.
Well, it’s not a new town to me, I lived here 5 years ago, but that’s a whole other story in itself. Maybe some of you listening have been around since I started my business in 2019, which is the first time I lived in Revelstoke, and now I am back. So, full circle.
SELF REFLECTION CREATES SOUL CONNECTION
I want to bring the wrap up of this episode to Self Reflection Creates Soul Connection, because it always comes back to you. Me sharing my story, the only reason I’m sitting here sharing my experience is in hope that it can either inspire you, it can give you a different perspective on moving through life. Let’s be real, I move through life differently than a lot of people, and I’m okay with it. I have found a way that works for me and that’s okay if it’s different.
But I want to come back to you and your journey and how you can better trust your gut instinct or intuition when it comes to making big life decisions, because that’s what this episode was all about. Trusting my gut to make a big life decision. So, how can you trust your gut or intuition when it comes to making a big life decision?
Self reflection is a powerful tool that helps you to better understand yourself and strengthen your connection with the Universe. Which is where you build trust and find a way to surrender more easily. That’s what we are here for right? We want to trust in our path, we want to surrender to our soul path and we want to enjoy the process.
I have 4 journal prompts to help guide you to build trust in your gut instinct. If you have time, write these down and reflect on them. Remember, self reflection creates soul connection, so if you want to understand yourself better, if you want to live authentically you, if you want to live empowered and confident you need to take time for self reflection. You have to understand yourself.
1 - What are all the reasons society or fear would stop me from moving forward?
You need to know the shadow. If you keep avoiding the shadow and avoiding looking at it, it will still have power over you. But by actually looking at it and answering this question you will take your power back because then you’ll get to decide where to place your attention.
2 - How does it feel in my body to make this move?
When I say make this move, maybe your big life decision is moving like mine was, maybe it’s moving careers or jobs, maybe it’s shifting your relationship or leaving a relationship or jumping into a new relationship. Whatever the big life decision is there is some sort of move you need to make. Let go of logic. Let go of what you think should or shouldn’t happen and tune into the frequency you feel in your body.
3 - What do I hope to feel in my life?
This question is very basic, it quite literally is saying “what do you want to experience?” What emotions do you want to experience? What feelings do you want to have? When you know what you want to feel, you want to feel peace, great, you have to know you want to feel it. When you know what you want to feel it becomes a lot easier to trust those gut decisions and gut instincts because you can feel it in your body, it’s calling you there.
4 - How can I ask my Spirit Guides to support me?
Let’s be real, we are not here to do life alone. We are here with a team of beings that not only want to support us, they want to guide us and offer clarity. So open it up. Where do you need that support? Because they will show up for you.
Make sure you take the time for self reflection because it will help you to create the soul connection you desire.
We are wrapping up episode 5, trusting my gut to move… again. I am here, I have already been in this town for a month, tomorrow from the day I am recording this. This is all I have today in this episode for you. Stay tuned for the next episode. I am going to try this every 2 weeks. I will put out a new episode. This is the beginning, I am trying to be more consistent in what I am creating and how I am showing up, for both myself and for you. So, hold me to it!
GOODBYE
As I say goodbye and wrap up this episode I want you to remember, your life is happening right now. There is not some future moment you need to rush forward to. Be here, take a deep breath, know that you are meant to be in this moment.
Life will always bring more lessons.
Your soul will always guide you to more healing.
Your mind will always require support to see from a bigger perspective.
You will always desire to be seen, heard and understood.
Be here now for yourself. In time you will feel the call to share more light and compassion with the world.
I’m Sydney, signing off and saying “thank you, thank you, thank you”.
Until next time, sending love & light on your spiritual journey,
Sydney Smith
Spiritual Mentor
Founder of Adventuring with Poseidon Wellness
