In the summer I went through a catastrophic break-up. It was catastrophic because at the age of 37 this was my second break-up. Let’s just say I had a lot of learning to do and four months later, I finally feel like I have the language for the deeply initiatory experience it has been.
Like so many soulful experiences in life, it takes time and space to reflect on what the lessons where.
I am grateful to have been able to deeply honour the pain of that experience as well as receive incredible healing because I was able to go into a healing cocoon and repair the deeper layers of my psyche and soul.
I am sharing this episode to reflect on some of the biggest lessons from this experience as it relates to my own soul journey, specifically around healing my inner adolescence and how certain patterns had carried forward into my adult life.
I also explore how this developmental journey has also offered me insights into the soul journey of the collective.
In this episode I draw from Bill Plotkin’s work to make these connections. On the journey of soul initiation, we learn through eco-centric experiences that we are not separate from the world. My development is not separate from the cycles and qualities of the natural world.
So while soul initiations can also feel brutal in the way our life as we know it seems to fall apart—there is more often then not a maturation underway. I see this in my own experience and also within the collective.
TIMESTAMPS:
1:05: Coming out of break-up survival mode
2:25 When trauma and loss becomes a portal into soul initiation
4:38 New realities begin to emerge from a place of wholeness
6:52 Learning to hold inner tension in the alchemical process of transformation
8:23 Victim identity gives way to a deeper truth beyond the pattern of needing to be rescued by a man
10:47 Uncovering the generational inheretence dimension in soul initiation
14:06 Adolescent development phase and descent into the healing cocoon
16:03 The Wander creates movement towards a self-initiated soul experience
21:31 Departing from home and co-dependency as cultural artifact
25:18 Welcoming in miracles
27:34 Experiencing our desires to be in service from a place of Wholeness
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