Tending to soul at work and in life
There is another life calling you. And it is already here.
You may know the feeling. That what you really care about has no place at work. That you are relentlessly performing — even when exhausted. That you can never quite just be yourself.
You may resent your work. Hate it even. Wonder how you ended up here.
Or perhaps you have come to perceive yourself as the problem. If only you tried harder. Were more resilient. Wanted it enough.
And underneath all of that — a quieter question. Not what should I do next. But who am I actually. And what is this life about.
Work is rarely the subject. It is the entry point — the place where soul makes itself known. Which is why it is also here where the deeper questions begin.
This is the territory I work in. I know it from the inside.
The constraints, failures and confusions of a life are not obstacles to this work. They are its very material.
This work does not lead away from your life. It leads into it. What you find may surprise you.
Cutting away everything that is not you.
Reclaiming the capacity to say yes to life and feel it fully.
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You may recognise yourself here
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You may feel the pull of something genuinely other than the life you have constructed.
Or perhaps it arrives as sudden clarity — the premise of your entire life has been built on the wrong foundation.
Or your life has imploded. Everything you were is gone. You don't yet know what comes next.
The contours of your life have become less certain. You are no longer sure what is real, what is yours, where you end and everything else begins.
Or you are simply stuck. And have been for longer than you'd like to admit. Or just exhausted. Too tired to keep going the way you have been going.
Or it may be quieter than any of this. A nagging feeling, imprecise, that can no longer be ignored.
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This is not you.