I remember my energy lady therapist telling me about her previous life living in the corporate world. As she described it I imagined her sitting on a small chair with glass walls holding her in. She could see a life outside of the one she was living, but she didn’t know how to get to it.
She said now she can see that all she had to do was step around the wall, but it took her a long time to figure that out.
That’s the trick isn’t it? Figuring out how to step out of the walls we build for ourselves.
As she explained the story to me, I had a hard time imagining how I would step around my walls. Until you’ve experienced something for yourself, you can’t quite grasp what another has gone through.
Then I started my year of being brave, showing up for life and coming out of my shell.
It turns out my shell was made of glass walls.
In order to find new life, new experience is the greatest teacher of all.
When it’s your turn to show up (and it’s always your turn to show up), you will have to sort through nuances, feelings, expectations, and rules you didn’t realize existed. These are important. They are the breadcrumbs that lead you around the wall.
Allow yourself to be led.
One day you look back and realize you’re on the other side of your glass wall.
Life is awesome that way, it takes you where you need to go as long as you keep showing up and keep moving forward.