hey, bell pepper baby.

so… next month will make TEN YEARS since i left teaching (the first time)

i’m admittedly not great at tying events to numeric timelines, but i still don’t know how i missed this

a LOT has happened since 2015 (head here for all the gorgeous gory details)

i’ve been thinking a lot lately about the choices we make in pursuit of goals — how sometimes they seem to take us further from those goals before they clearly bring us closer to them

for example…

i left teaching so i could build + be in my business

when kiddos are involved, i’m just not wired to be able to “turn off” my teacher brain at the end of the day, so i felt like i needed to leave in order to make strides in my business

but giving up that consistent income meant i needed to pick up other work to pay the bills…

which ALSO took my attention from building the biz

on the surface, leaving teaching took me further from my goal. but it wasn’t the wrong choice. and what happened along the way was integral to my growth

it’s how i came to the world of affiliate + referral partnerships, where i learned so freaking much about launch strategy + implementation, and where i met some of my most fulfilling biz collaborators + clients

another example…

about a year + a half ago now, i stepped away from working on teams so i could stay more in my most magical creation space, on a schedule that was more conducive to my own joy + satisfaction

it had become wearying to be at the whim of other people’s urgency, and i felt torn in too many debilitating directions

but giving up that semi-consistent, sometimes super plentiful work meant i had to learn how to find right fit clients myself, as well as how to ride exaggeratedly inconsistent ebbs + flows of abundance + lack

i remember being in the parking lot of my nephew’s first high school soccer game ON TIME, but getting to the field late because i felt like i had to answer one last voxer before unplugging for the day

that moment was one of my greatest motivators in making the shift away from that work

and you know what? the conditions i’ve found myself in since then have had me missing entire games my nieces + nephews have played —

sometimes because i needed to spend more time rustling up clients, and others, frankly, because i couldn’t afford the gas to get there until a project was complete

again, that might seem like i ended up further from my goal rather than closer to it, and in some ways that’s kinda true

but you know what they say — sometimes you can't get there from here

process + journey, bloom. process + journey are the difference makers

your big leaps + moves for meaningful change don’t always or often pan out in an instant

when the big decisions are ones you can’t not make, the challenge comes more in STICKING to them than making them in the first place

and if you dare to make decisions that honor the quality of your experience, prioritize your joy, and celebrate your deep inner wisdom — you're gonna have a whole gaggle of voices jeering you back into your safe, acceptable, status quo place

this is where a community of like-spirited visionary magicmakers becomes crucial

and space that provides consistent, flexible structure for the practice of being in that intuition-driven trailblazer energy becomes the thing that keeps you whole + well-held

if you’ve been curious about what the UPRISING inner sanctum can do for you, i invite you to try a call on for size

just head here to register for one of two possible calls happening may 21 or 22: https://bit.ly/sanctumsamplesessions

and as always, give a shout with any Qs

xxoo, cc

ps: if you’ve been following along, i expect to finish the prettied up sales page for the inner sanctum some time this week. until then, you can take advantage of rolled back enrollment pricing here: thriveandbloom.com/innersanctum

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