Hello!

A few years ago, I was feeling quite flat.

I knew I had all these things to offer parents, and I wanted to be making more of a difference. I wanted to be contributing more.

I had a Ph.D. from Cambridge, had trained and worked as a psychotherapist for years, was trained in several more modalities, was an Aware Parenting Instructor, had studied Nonviolent Communication for years, etc. etc.

I wanted to share all of these things that I’d learnt with other parents more than I was doing.

I longed to be making more of a difference.
 

Have you ever heard of “repression of the sublime”? 

I learnt about it when I was doing my Psychosynthesis training in my twenties.

I learnt how, when we are not listening to our soul’s calling, when we’re not giving our gifts, the pain can be as great as the pain that can come from painful childhood experiences that are waiting to be heard.

And that is what I found. I was longing for more.
 

Fast forward a few years, to yesterday. I had several group calls for my Inner Loving Presence Process, a couple of individual sessions, a webcast for my Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, and as I do every day, I responded in all of the FB groups that I have for each of my courses.

And in each of these, there was such an outpouring of love and gratitude. 

Women expressed such joy at how I have created spaces for women to come together and give each other such unconditional love.

There were tears of love and joy.

There were people telling me that their work had changed their lives.

There was empathy and love and compassion being shared between the course members of such magnitude that I was in tears hearing and reading their words.

There were emails telling me that people wait for each new email in their inbox, and that they resonate so much with what I am saying.

I am SO grateful that I am making more of a difference, that I am sharing what I love and that it is contributing to others.

It’s one of the most joyful things we can experience – to get to contribute to others.

I made a meme to express it too, because in the sessions, increasingly, there’s less and less of a sense of a difference between giving and receiving.

Technically, they are giving me money and I am giving them support and empathy.

But really, there’s so much love being given and received by each of us.

And of course, there’s been a lot of work in between that longing then and where I am now.

I needed to keep on staying connected to that longing, and to have it as my North Star (or Southern Cross), to keep going, day after day.

And often, there is timing involved.

I wouldn’t have spent as much time on my “work” as I do now when my children were younger, for example.

And with time and experience has come deeper compassion and willingness to be vulnerable, which means I have more to give.

And until recently, there wasn’t the technology to do what I’m doing now.
 

So, my question to you for today is:

What are you longing for?

What will you do today to move one step closer to what you are longing for?