Over the last two months, I have received guidance from two beautiful friends (who each happen to be amazing intuitives): Karen Hager and Donna Hartt.
At different times, they each shared the same message with me: it was time to listen. To the universe. To my guides. To you.
It was time to slow down and re-center myself. It was time to reconnect with my soul and receive the next steps for my journey.
As many of you know, I have been editing my book, Coming Back to Life, for several months. And it feels like it’s just not quite finished. I’m realizing that it’s not finished because the final piece can’t come from me. It’s meant to come from outside of me. It’s meant to come from you.
I’m writing this book for all of us. To help us navigate our way through this life – balancing the spiritual world and also our human world.
Part of my own spiritual journey has been opening up and allowing others in. To know that I don’t have to do it alone. And letting others in has been such a beautiful experience for me. My entire life expanded and brightened.
So why have I been trying to write this book entirely on my own? I now see that it will be such a powerful reflection of this beautiful way of living openly if I let you in.
And what I love about life is that we can always choose differently and walk down a different path. Which is why I’m opening my book up to you. I’m opening my heart up to you. I’m letting you into my world – lovingly, completely, and wholeheartedly.
I’m listening.
What do you need?
What are you searching for?
What do you feel is missing?
What do you yearn for?
What are you seeking?
What are you grateful for?
What are you loving?
What are you afraid of?
What are you unsure of?
I’m listening.
And I’ll take what you share into my heart and feel the energy behind what you write. I’ll connect with your heart and take your words into my soul. I’ll look for patterns and I’ll wait for a sign from my guides that this is what was missing – that this is the final piece of the message that needed to be shared.
I have complete faith that you are holding this piece. I do. And I have complete faith that you will offer it lovingly in the comments below.
What would you like me to know? to take into my heart? to have rest deep within my soul?
What would you like to share? What keeps you up at night or wakes you early in the morning? What sits heavy on your heart or taps away at your brain?
If you could wave a magic wand over your life, how would things change?
Do you need help with forgiveness, releasing negative beliefs, changing your story, loving yourself, loving others, trusting in the Universe/God, believing in this magical world, letting others in, leaping into your dream life?
I’m listening.
I’m here. I really am.
I want to hear you. To know you. To stop my own busyness and get off of my own treadmill to really be here with you. To share this moment together. You sharing and me listening. Connecting as two souls on this beautiful journey – side by side.
I’m listening.
And I am asking you to open your heart and share. For you, for me, and for everyone else who was thinking it but maybe wasn’t feeling strong enough or brave enough to put it out there. For everyone who will read this book when it comes out – who needs to hear these words seep into their soul.
You are holding them. You are carrying the missing piece.
And I can’t wait for you to share it with me.
I’m listening.
Big hug and so much gratitude,
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Dear Jodi,
What a wonderful way to approach a book! What a wonderful way to begin the process of truly finishing it, truly having it ready to put out into the world!
I will try and help you. I will try and share that which keeps me up, which makes me nervous and that which I yearn for. I often feel anxiety and didn’t know that few things can be as grounding as physical work that is done best with the mind off and the body on.
I often get insecure and scared about my future. Self help work, including gorgeous books, can help get straight what it is what you actually want. But what comes after? I find myself on a ledge so vastly different at time than that which I feel is expected of me. I am finding to myself but what now? What do I do with this new information? What do I do with this new vision of myself, this new perspective? How do I re-define myself in a world that sees me differently, sees me how I used to be, makes assumptions of the new me? How do you deal with finally being at the ledge, the place where you can jump into the next part of life but are still afraid to jump? I find that many times I have been taken to that very ledge but it has always been assumed that once you get to that point you are automatically brave enough to jump or even that you automatically know how to jump.
I yearn for knowing what it is that I want to do in my life. I yearn to know what it is I can do to make my living and make all those dreams I have true. I yearn to know how I can best deal with the goals and dreams I have to make them happen. And I yearn to know inside that they will happen so I can practice patience and become more satisfied with the now at all times. And I yearn to stop looking at others and to stop comparing myself to others. I want to know that what I have to offer also has its place in this world.
Much love to you, Jodi. You always give me the most amazing advice! You shall hear from me very soon in another place 🙂
Best of luck with the book, I cannot wait to see how it will turn out!
Pipaluk
Hi Pipaluk,
Thank you so much for sharing from your heart – I truly appreciate it.
I definitely have taken all that you said into my heart and sat with it – listened. And let it soak in.
I can feel your fear and your uncertainty. But I can also feel your strength. You inner strength – that part of you that KNOWS what you want to do and how you want to live and how amazing you are and how easy life can be. That part. And I’m feeling that the uncertain, sort of frantic part of you has gotten so used to being in the driver’s seat that it’s comfortable there. And even though you want to have your soul take the reins, it’s scary because it’s the unknown. I personally think that when you get to the ledge and you’re afraid, that’s a GOOD thing. Because it means that you’re actually there – you’re actually doing something that you FEEL – something that matters to you. And I wonder what would happen if you took that leap – even with the fearful feelings? Most likely, you would leap into something amazing. But… even if you didn’t, you most likely wouldn’t be any worse off than you were before you took the leap.
I am so excited for you to feel your strength the way I see it inside of you. To really step away from your mind for a little while and step into your soul. To breathe and slow down and love yourself fully and completely – for exactly where and who you are in that exact moment.
I am sending you a huge hug! I appreciate you so much for sharing so authentically from your heart. XO
<3 What an amazing journey you're on, Jodi. I'm so glad you've opened your heart and I'm grateful you're experiencing – and showing others – just how beautiful that can be.
Your book is going to reach the hearts and souls of so many, and I know it'll fall into place beautifully at the right time.
Hmmm… some things that weigh on my heart…
I think my biggest need is to feel like I'm having a positive impact on the world, that I'm helping people on a large scale. Maybe it's ego that makes this important to me – I don't know… but regardless, it's a driving force for me.
Another need is to focus my time on work that feeds my soul, that feels truly meaningful to me. And it's taken me years to find my way into that space. And from talking to others, that's a big thing for them too – to find and feel meaning in their day-to-day activities.
Also, I've sometimes had difficulty trusting and letting others in beyond the surface, choosing to hold my cards close to my chest… but thankfully that's changed quite a bit over the past several months.
Sending so much love to you. XO
Hi Christine!
I love that you shared from your heart here – thank you! It’s really helpful for me to see what weighs on you – what you’re feeling. I know how scary it can feel to allow ourselves to be vulnerable – to share so deeply with the world. And I know without a doubt that you have SO much love and wisdom to offer. And the more you share, the more you’ll want to continue. I know it. One of the things that I love about you is that you are consciously creating your life. You didn’t feel that it had enough meaning, and so you sought out creating a path where it would. You have joined groups where you can share freely and authentically. You are opening up and knowing that you are safe. I think wanting to help people on a large scale is a beautiful thing – our ego isn’t a bad thing. It helps us know that we’re worthy enough to share our message. And you definitely are! And you have such a powerful message that needs to be shared. And I’m grateful that I get to be a witness to it – I feel like I have a front-row seat, which I love. XO
Hi Jodi – I love your blog, and love reading your responses to the others who’ve written to you. You have such a healer’s heart. And I keep discovering new resources on your site.
Sometimes I think the biggest challenge for so many of us is to really trust the little piece of the puzzle we are holding – the little thread of the tapestry we are each carrying. There are times when I feel so connected to my guides and soul purpose that I just flow into and from that trust, completely. That often happens when I’m working one on one with clients (in my healing/hypnotherapy/shamanic practice) or when I’m teaching workshops. But at other times I look around at what other people are offering and think “Oh, so-and-so must know much more than I do – what am I doing writing/teaching/healing?” Of course, sometimes it’s true that someone else MAY know more than I do or be more skilled! And yet it’s about carrying my little crumb, the way an ant does – and the longer I carry it, the bigger it gets – but fortunately, the stronger I get, too!
I have known some very wise people and powerful healers, and not a single one of them didn’t doubt themselves sometimes. In fact, I think our self-doubt is valuable to us in many ways – it keeps us from megalomania! Someone once said, “Most of the evil in the world has been committed by people who were sure they were right.” I try to keep that in mind when I think, “Well, no, I’m not *sure* I’m right, but I’m doing my best here…”
I look forward to seeing your book enter the world! I published my first transformational book last summer – Soul on Earth: A Guide to Living & Loving Your Human Life – after 6 1/2 years of work and a lot of false starts. And now the adventure continues as I try to learn about marketing and how to get it out into the world! (but you’re wayyyy ahead of me on that front.)
Anyway, sending you blessings,
Ruth
Hi jodi,
I have started the Amazing Biz & Life Academy courses and your message was the first I came across when looking at the Forum posts today.
I don’t have any words to share, but I do have artwork. One image came to mind as I was reading your blog entry, and I only finished it yesterday. Anyway, if you wont to have a look at my FB artist page and see if there is anything that fits for your ending.
Cheers, Jade
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here’s the link https://www.facebook.com/JadeLeesPavey?ref=hl#!/JadeLeesPavey