What being in an ‘Initiation’ really means
When major life changes and transformations happen, you may be in ‘initiation.’
This means you are in a process of being remade – you are in metamorphosis. You’re molting, you’re phoenixing, you’re not sure what direction is up or down (or even who you are anymore) and what you knew and relied on…vanishes or changes.
In the absence of the familiar, you transform into something fiercer, more capable and lovely, and more aligned with your power and sacred dreams (though the road can be bumpy). When you emerge, you’re more in touch with your essence and truth.
Initiations are deep places of inner change, where true growth happens.
Initiations can be exhilarating, or intensely uncomfortable. Along the path, you’ll have…questions!
Things feel unclear. The path forward is mysterious, and yet motion still needs to happen. Big emotions arise, old patterns resurface, and it can feel like there is no ground beneath the feet. In my work with the spirits, I often hear folks say things like:
‘I didn’t arrive with operating instructions.’ (you did)
‘Why is this happening?’ (you know)
‘I don’t know how to make it through this.’ (you do)
These questions, the things we struggle with in lives marked lightly or heavily with initiations – can be brought to the helping spirits for insight, guidance, healing, and grace. Your spirits will not tell you what to do. But they can help you discover your own truths that make the next steps more clear and filled with love.
In times of inner change, you may find yourself at a crossroads with decisions needing to be made. You might feel in a stuck place, grinding along and yearning to scamper into something new. What used to matter so much or fit so well…doesn’t anymore. Something wishes to die or end, so another unknowable and wondrous thing can be born.
Connecting with your spirits, who cherish you, is a universal human birthright. It is a graceful, wondrous, breathtaking gift, the art of direct connection with the divine.
You have this gift in you.
Working with the spirit realm in times of initiation
Your spirit helpers see the larger evolutionary arc of your soul, what you came here to learn and experience. Maybe you connect with them in guided journeys, in nature, in ceremony, or travel to them with drumming and sound – the vehicle doesn’t matter so much. Who cares if you take a plane or ride a goat? In an initiation, you just need to get where you need to be.
When you remember how to access the hidden worlds of spirit, the operating instructions, insights, and answers that seem so elusive in your ordinary human day…become crystal clear, accessible, and bright.
It is these insights from your spirits that get you through life’s initiations with grace.
And, who are they? ‘the spirits?’
They are the best friends in the unseen worlds you’ve spent your entire human life yearning for. They are wise and kind guides, who show up with cheeky humor or a good kick in the seat of the pants. They are friendly helpers who remind you what it is to frolic and let go of being a crunchy, burdened adult. Your spirits are holders of miracles, blessers of the ways.
Here’s the most magical thing about your spirits:
They see you. They know every single thing about you. And they love you without condition.
Your helping spirits, guides, and teachers adore you for everything you are – a gift beyond compare. Love like that is the jewel that gets you through life’s initiations.
You can show up to the work of healing and growing through change covered in warts and sacred hairs, or proudly bearing all the shiny things you get accolades for. You can show up feeling fearful or woebegone or unforgiven, or with dreams that clamor like little children inside you wanting to soar or sing or roar. Your spirits see all of this in you.
And they love you like the sun.
Working with your spirit teachers and guides reveals that you DO have operating instructions. (you can ask for and receive them, everyone can do this) You DO understand how to get through the weird tumult of our times. You DO remember your path and purpose.
You know how to forgive, let go, dream, rest, and play. And your spirits know the sweet, sacred nudge that is needed to get you in motion, so you can remember what love feels like. Real love, healthy motherlove, exquisite divinelove superpowers you to get through every single initiation life can bring.
This is the initiation work that leads to transformation
In my decades doing this work, I’ve witnessed again and again how much grace comes from asking for and receiving help from the spirits during times of major change. Some examples from my long term clients who do this transformative work: the immense healing journey of a mother who laid her two-month old babe in the earth, the woman who stopped settling for what dishonored her and left the marriage at age 50 and found real happiness, or the tender soul who set down decades of harsh conditioning and found her way into her own beautiful spiritual path.
Woman after woman in this work have learned how to stop talking about it and actually forgive, how to start saying ‘no!’ so that sacred ‘YES!’ can fill freshly emptied spaces. Woman after woman has remembered how to wake up the sacred dreams they incarnated with to help themselves and help our world – this is the work I invite you into.
What the spirits see in you, I see in you. A radiant, divine, glorious, sacred, blessed being who is perfect in every single way and was brave enough to come to this planet, say ‘yes!’ and fully accept the adventure, initiations and all.
All of us are in initiation now. All of us are changing.
None of us are meant to go through this alone.
Your spirits and the power of love wish to help you emerge from any crucible of change…
I see you strong, held, and loved. You’re on the right path, and help always arrives when you’re ready.
A direct experience: guided journey
To support you during moments of inner change, crossroads, or initiation, you can sign up here and receive ‘the sacred initiation,’ a half-hour guided journey to meet a spirit teacher, and receive a message and a healing.
I wish you a beautiful experience!