What calling have you been sleeping on?
I really want you to sit with that question for a second.
What do you know in your heart you are meant to do, create, say, share, or become… but you keep letting fear, overthinking, distractions, excuses, or self-doubt stop you from fully stepping into it?
Because I feel like I have finally gotten to the place where I’m letting myself fully do what I know in my heart I’m here to do and I want that for you too.
The work I’m really here to do
For a long time, I’ve worked with women around forgiveness, relationships, visibility fears, healing what comes up in business and marketing, and all of that work matters to me. I love it.
But my deeper calling is…
Helping women love themselves and feel safe in their bodies again.
Helping women stop living almost entirely from the mind and start building a deeper relationship with themselves through the body.
And through learning how to actually be with themselves again.
The Stranger
When you come home to your body and to yourself, you can take action toward your purpose with so much more ease instead of fighting against yourself.
And I know “coming home to yourself” gets said a lot now, but honestly… that really is the work.
Because so many women are strangers to themselves.
A lot of women treat themselves the way they treat the neighbor three doors down.
You know they’re there, but you barely really connect with them.
You hope you don’t accidentally run into them while taking the garbage out because then you’ll have to stop and talk.
But you’d rather keep your distance.
And that is how so many women live with themselves…distant
Barely checking in, rarely listening, won’t sit with themselves long enough to really feel what’s there.
Always in their heads or staying busy.
And I’m here to change that!
I understand why women are strangers to themselves.
Because for a lot of women, the body does not feel safe to be in.
It’s holding heartbreak, shame, fear, and old pain.
So being fully present with yourself can feel like too much sometimes.
I get that because I was there too.
I didn’t like myself.
I’d purposely get up and walk into the bathroom, look in the mirror and say the meanest things to myself.
I also used to drink to avoid my feelings and the heaviness in my heart.
But drinking daily wasn’t just drowning out my feelings, it was drowning out my soul’s calling as well.
It’s hard to hear your intuition when you’re numbing, running away and avoiding yourself.
Learning how to stay
It took work but I learned how to stay with myself no matter what.
How to love myself even with dark circles, patchy skin, anger, moodiness, tenderness, peace, the full range of emotions that come to visit me.
I quit running to alcohol when things felt heavy or I made a mistake that I wanted to forget about.
I stopped making myself wrong for being fully human.
And that’s changed my life.
This journey, the good and the bad led me to my purpose.
That is my magic.
Helping women stop hiding and being strangers to themselves.
Helping women trust their bodies and intuition again.
And trust the feminine wisdom inside of them that has been trying to guide them to their purpose the whole time.
So I’ll ask you again
What calling have you been sleeping on?
What are you here to do & how’s the journey going?
Reply and share, I want to hear from you.
Much love,
Essence
