The last five days have been a time of deep initiation for me.
As, is often the case, the initiation came by surprise.
I had many plans--classes to teach, travel preparations to finalize, clients to coach. But then my voice left me. My body was weak. My breathing challenged.
It isn't any definable disease.
It's just a set of challenging symptoms that have all caused me to STOP.
I've had respiratory illnesses in the past.
Specifically, there was a three year cycle starting in 2012-- when I was starting to write my first book, Answering Your Inner Calling--when I was hit with pneumonia, asthma and bronchitis all wrapped into one lovely, recurring illness.
Before then I had considered myself pretty healthy, but then all of a sudden, my lungs had issues.
It was incredibly
frustrating and overwhelming.
I was also an amazingly transformative time.
That recurring illness was what fully initiated me into what became one of my core teachings, Slowing down to speed up.
When you can't breathe well, you HAVE to literally slow down.
I had to move slow. Walk slow. Talk slowly.
Up to that point I was a multitasking machine.
I pushed and hustled and worked very hard.
It's what I needed to do throughout much of my youth to
overcome my circumstances.
And I still believed this was the only way to accomplish big things.
