I understand it's customary to introduce yourself here. I guess how you would expect me to introduce myself would be something like this: I'm a 46 year old woman, 24 years married, my loving husband is @Sean-King here on Steemit, we have 3 kids aged 12-19, I live in Knoxville, TN, I'm a sorta retired CPA, a definite yogini, and along with my husband and our business partner/yoga teacher we currently in the process of opening Renegade Yoga Center. But that's just the proper surface stuff...that doesn't really tell you diddly squat as to what I am really about.
So let's go another way...who am I really?
My deepest driving desire is to see more people live at higher vibrational levels. I want to see folks living with increased self awareness, self acceptance and self love...to manifest their potential. I want folks to allow more of their intrinsic vitality uniquely exude from their beings!
In other words I want to support people in becoming aware of their quirks and to accept them. To be non-resistant, non-repressive and quietly allow their freak flags fly. For more people to "know thyself." To learn to listen to their hearts, and to trust their own experiences. So that in time, rather than seeking answers to life questions from external authority, they come to trust their own experiences and their own inner authority.
So, in short my life purpose is to serve and support awareness and authenticity. 🙏🏽❤️
Now, to serve and support looks different based on the individual situation. Sometimes I support with love and encouragement. Validation and cheerleadering to a friend who doubts their abilities or who is afraid to show others who they really are inside.
Sometimes I serve with simple sustenance, food and shelter, a friend or loved one who just needs help with the basics. Only with stability and centering do we feel safe enough to even begin to crack the cellar door of our hearts and minds and to be willing to look at what's really in there. You can't learn how to be more comfortable in being yourself if you don't feel safe enough to reveal who that is, even to yourself, in the first place.
Support can also be financial. Maybe a friend has a dream but just not the funds to get it rolling. Going into business together, giving a loan, or sometimes just a monetary gift is enough to start the momentum of their dream...allowing the blossoming of who they fully are.
Support can be just providing a space for folks who are ready to do the work of understanding themselves. Not solving anyone's problems, but holding space with unconditional acceptance for "fellow travelers who are all working on themselves." (Wise words borrowed from Osho)
For the last 19 years most of my innate desire to support the growth and expansiveness in others has been mainly channeled into mothering my children. House and home and family has been my primary focus, responsibility, my purpose and my devotion. My hope, as some of my fledglings begin to take flight from the nest soon, is that my kids know themselves, they know they are loved unconditionally, they do not live in avoidance of their fears but pursue their hearts' callings, and that they are kind and accepting of others who are doing the same.
with @Sean-King and our kids in Puerto Rico, 2014
I just want to do anything I can to encourage people to find the courage to look inside, to acknowledge who they truly are (flaws, struggles, gloriousness and all) and to live more fully and openly as themselves. We all have quirks and dreams and fears, but to me that's the juicy stuff that makes a person interesting! Yet most often those juicy bits are the very parts of ourselves that we are most feverently committed to hiding. Let your freak flag fly, Steemers!!
So that's the essence of who I really am and what I'm about. Now I'm not saying I have myself all figured out. This is just what I know today...I'm ever a student of life.
Oh my gosh...I just had a huge realization from writing this all out. My desire to help people has been life long. That's all I've ever wanted to do, but only as I write this all out does it occur to me -- everything I want to offer as growth support to others mirrors the support experience that I have had with @Sean-King for all these years. All of the ways of support I listed above of helping people -- I have experienced with This Man. To call Him a husband feels uncomfortably inadequate. He has taught me what unconditional love feels like. He's taught me about abundance, openness, acceptance, facing fears, non-resistance and going with flow. With His encouragement I've found the space and the courage to look inside and acknowledge who I really am, to love and accept myself, and no longer deny who I am to myself or others.
with @Sean-King, Hawaii 2015
He has provided support and stability to me for 30 years in every one of the ways that I want to provide to others. He is my guru, my guide, my mentor, my love, and writing all of this out makes me want to kiss His feet.