Figuring It Out

 

Just trust yourself

then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don’t want to be your guru.

I am my guru.  I’m the only one who can know best what’s working for me.

What I do enjoy is walking next to someone while they search for their inner guru.  It is a beautiful thing to see someone realize how wise they are, and to start living their life according to their truth.

I believe everyone can be their own guru.  We have fallen away from self-trust.  Through constant media bombardment, social expectations and personal history, we’ve been lulled into believing someone out there has the answer of who we ought to be and what works best for us.

There are many great answers.  All or part of them may fit in with anyone’s truth.

Don’t be afraid to find your truth.  It is beautiful and it is only yours.  It is not silly, less than, or invalid.

I spent many years seeking gurus, listening to people I thought were my guru, keeping myself disconnected from my own wise center.  I am not disparaging myself those years of seeking.  The teachers I had during that time offered support and a safe place to walk through my darkness, my sorrow, my insecurity.  I still seek.  I now seek with the curiousity to learn, peering through the filter of knowing me, using what fits and pondering what differs from my experience.

I have an unstoppable thirst for learning and have taught myself to heal myself.  I have enjoyed the expertise of others by hiring services, reading countless books and constantly seeking common threads of truth for me. I have learned from many, but no one person has sold me on their truth.

It may be of interest to you that I have a degree in occupational therapy, another one in psychology.  That is part of who I am.  It is a part of what I bring to this practice, but not the sum total. 

All of this work has honed and clarified what has always been my passion to serve and support people who are trying to find the way to be their best. I see people around me who are stuck in fear, overwhelm or despair, believing things just can’t change for them and it literally hurts my heart. I can see the potential and deeply wish to help them see it, too. 

Finding your way back to yourself isn’t easy. Falling back into old patterns of overwhelm and self-doubt is. Do you find yourself in a spot where you are ready for change? Maybe ready isn’t even what you’re sure of, but you know there’s something you want different in your life and you’re tired of trying to make the change by yourself. What if the only change needed is to get closer to yourself, to trust yourself instead of grasping at the next guru? 

If your curious about how figuring things out along with a supportive non-guru might work feel free to drop me a line. 

If that’s not what you need right now, feel just as free to hang out and take what you need from what’s here.