Remembering and Surrendering
The power of honouring all versions of self and the ultimate Self 🌟
On Tuesday I opened a new year long graduate program called Sacred Leadership at The Q Station, Manly with 17 awesome peeps.
It was a significant moment as The Q Station represented two versions of me who had facilitated there before - once where my coaching career began in 2004 from a place of total authenticity, self-belief and intuition and another nine years later in 2013 when I showed up as the exact opposite of that.
The first facilitation in 2004 created life changing transformation for participants, and I don’t say that lightly. It also lead to many wonderful relationships that would continue for years to come, some of whom I still coach today and were in that room on Tuesday.
The second facilitation in 2013 created life changing transformation for me. I had a panic attack on morning tea break - not something that was really preferable as I continued to facilitate that day! That panic attack however was exactly what my soul was calling for.
It was a calling me to stop.
To stop the delusion that this way of working, advised by the experts in the context of ‘sales’ was going to finally work one day.
I could no longer turn myself inside out.
I could no longer continue to buy into their perception that who I am as I am would never be ‘accepted’ in the ‘sales’ process.
I could no longer put myself in front of prospective clients with an A3 card designed by the experts that I would speak to about what their people would receive by working with me, using their curated languaging.
And the irony is that whilst I put myself in front of prospective businesses time and time again, feeling avalanches of anxiety each time in the lead up to and during the meetings, their people never ended up working with me because the businesses never bought.
Of course they never bought.
Here I was speaking to the prospect of authentic leadership, and yet I was the one wearing the mask!
Thank God I had that panic attack.
Thank God.
And so as I opened a graduate program entitled ‘Sacred Leadership’ on Tuesday, I held in my heart all the versions of me -
The version of me who began wide eyed and bushy tailed in 2004 who left her HR career because of a piece of writing received in meditation.
The version of me who had zero self-value, self-trust and power in 2013 and who was limp as a fish.
And the version of me here today who knows that our intuitive nature who sees, feels and knows from a space that is invisible to our earthly eyes is the most powerful first source point that I have trusted for 24 years (with a glitch of a few years in 2012/2013 designed to help me to never forget).
For those who have not experienced the profundity of results and experiences that occur by surrendering into the universal mind versus the human mind, there is no A3 card that I can employ through these words to get your buy in.
The 17 graduates committed to a year long program entitled ‘Sacred Leadership’ not because of anything I necessarily said, but because they too have learnt that when they surrender here, and listen and take advice, that not only will they experience extraordinary results, but these results will be dripping in rich, loving and powerful meaningfulness, not only for them but for many. These are the experiences that change the course of lives, sometimes in really pronounced ways, and others in more nuanced ways and pivots.
I am so grateful to that 35 year old girl who began sharing the joys of living intuitively and authentically in 2004.
I will be forever grateful to that 44 year old girl who wore the mask she didn’t want to wear but thought she had to in 2013. She chose to turn her back on herself to forget the power from which she made that life changing choice to leave HR so that she could never, ever forget, ever again.
And I am beyond grateful for all 18 who were in that room on Tuesday and Wednesday, including me, for coming and surrendering together. As someone I love said to me ‘God shows up way more powerfully when two or more people are together’. And that we for sure experienced.
If you find yourself as I found myself in 2013 and are caught in that never ending loop of disappointment, disillusionment and chasing, so too were the other 17 people who were in that room on Tuesday when they first started out years ago.
Equally if you have turned your own back on what you truly know about the power of surrendering into the universal mind and would like to have your own never, ever again moment, I am extending my hand to you and saying that we can make good change around that in a few months of coaching
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It would be an honour to walk alongside you as you remember where the power truly resides. This is my sweet spot after all. Email me and we can chat next week.
Oh Giselle, thank you for reminding me of the power of surrendering.... I’ve been stuck in fight / struggle mode when I actually need to let go, surrender and let grace do the heavy lifting.... looking forward to my next session with you 👍🤩❤️