Are You Lost?

Allow me to shed a little light on some road signs I’ve encountered along the way…..

It seems like just when things start going smoothly, you trip over a stone on the path – or drive into a ditch – or worse.  When you’ve been here on planet Earth long enough, you begin to notice the patterns – and the inconvenient stuff just keeps popping up.

I use the word ‘inconvenient’ with my tongue in cheek.  In reality, there have been long stretches of my life that have been far, far worse than that.  Times that challenged me to the breaking point.  So I know how it feels to be lost.

Being a single mother with four children brought some tough lessons.  Lessons like “How to Say ‘NO’ to a New Pair of Shoes” even when they were desperately needed, because there was no money to buy them.  I learned how to subsist on macaroni and margarine so I could give my children more substantial meals.  I learned the lasting value of reading books — for myself and to my children.

And most of all I learned the value of having and cultivating friendships.  Without a group of friends, large or small, the tough times can be hell.

Although I never had that dark day (or night) on the kitchen floor arguing with a bottle of pills, I had my days of black despair.

GPS for MY Soul – an Invaluable Tool During the Dark Days

I had good  friends, and one in particular taught me about intuitive tools.  She helped me when my skies were their blackest.  My life would pitch from inconvenient to catastrophic on a regular basis.  My friends and family helped me through the very, very bad times.

Ever since I was a child, I also wondered about the bigger questions of life…questions that loomed large during my worst days.  “Why was this happening to me,” I wanted to know.  “Is it Karma?” “Am I being punished for something?”   ” Is there some kind of lesson I’m supposed to learn,” because if there was, believe me, I was motivated to seek it out – anything to make the pain stop.  Instead of drowning my woes in alcohol, drugs or other anesthetics, I would bury myself in books on philosophy, religion, spirituality – looking, looking, looking for the WHY of it all.

Perseverance paid off, along with the generosity of my friends and family to see me through the dark corners of my personal wilderness.  The sun began to shine again as my friend had foreseen; in no small part because I stuck with it on a moment to moment basis. I kept searching, I kept putting one foot in front of the other, I took that deeper advice I was given  – and life got happy again.

I took those insights a step further and became a Certified Life Coach to help others with their own challenges.  I then became a Reiki Master and a Numerologist – all tools to help us find our way.

When it’s Our Turn to Learn the Lesson

Every one of us is called upon to walk that hidden path through our own internal wilderness during our lives.  When we fight it, we wander deeper into the confusion.  Yet there is no one who can walk that walk for us.

There are a tools for locating you in the internal wilderness, no matter how deep in the forest you may be,  and, like a compass that always points North, they point to the way home.  It’s your personal GPS – your private path, and you can navigate it.  When you emerge into the clearing and the sun shines on your face, enjoy the interval, drink in the peace and remember these tools are always available to you on your journey.