For Those Of You Bringing Businesses Into The World
Have you ever felt an ache deep in your chest, just next to your heart, about your business?
Sometimes it's small, a twinge or flutter of sadness. Other times it's large and threatens to engulf you. Sometimes it feels sharp, other times dull, throbbing.
It's a hurt that most often comes from wanting to take something inside you and bring it outside. And that's what your business represents - your desire to make this all real, to create a channel through which to share your own light, your unique magic, in whatever way you've been graced to give it in this world.
Maybe you're someone who found herself after having been lost in the upside down world of a narcissistic relationship. And now you long to help other women find themselves too.
Perhaps you're someone who's highly intuitive and have after years of exploration and experimentation want help others develop their skills.
Maybe you found your way back from debilitating pain through yoga or another modality, and you hunger to help others who suffer too.
It could be that you can see people's essence and yearn to reflect it back to them, their own divine beauty, through the lens of a camera.
Or maybe you found your way home, healing from an addiction, so strong it threatened to pull you under. But you ached and searched, studied and learned and now want to offer your wisdom to other people struggling with the same pain.
The ache. It's there to guide you, not to deter you. It's the longing from your soul to express its calling through your hands. Through your gifts. Your talents. And your business - the vehicle you're building for this is part of the journey.
You're building something that feels good to you and that can help you connect. To help others see you, get to know you, trust you. Be able to say yes.
But it's not easy, this building.
It requires courage, from Latin word cor meaning heart, and demands you to look deep into your heart, searching for the Love. The love you have for those you've already helped. The love you have for those who will soon help. And for those who will help in the future.
Your heart, your cor, can help you see them clearly. What they need and what they think they need. And it can help you step out and be vulnerable, to extend your hand out to them before you know if they're ready to reach back to you. Before they may be ready to say yes.
Let the ache guide you, fuel you, give you heart. Let it never leave you. Let it never overwhelm you. Let it allow you to ask for help when you need it.
Let it sustain you, as you do the work of showing up - week by week, day by day, minute by minute - for the creation you've been called to bring to life.