In a soul-honouring life, we look back to witness and celebrate our progress and to mine for wisdom.

We look forward to cast a vision, set goals, and reimagine who we are becoming.

But then, we must pull our hearts and minds back so we can live fully willing and present in each moment and each day. Even the super messy, deeply challenging, or pretty wonderful yet not perfect days.

In this episode, I share a recent example from my life when I did not get everything checked off my to-do list and fear and urgency crept in. Nothing was truly wrong in the moment, but if I believed the story that fear was spinning, my future was doomed;)

Thankfully, my Wise Self spoke up and gently offered the anxious part of me a different thought.

“This too is what it means to trust yourself and your seasonal rhythms. The rhythms and practices you build into your life are there to serve YOU. You are not subservient to them. And when consistency turns into rigidity, it is no longer serving you."

Life is messy. It has always been messy. But each messy day is a gift - and each imperfect day IS our real life.

And the quality of my life is not determined by perfect accounting. Or perfection of any kind. Never has been.

Resources

If you want to create a soul-honouring life, one that is an expression of your True Self and helps you thrive forward in every season, you need to check out the Life Visioning Course: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/life-visioning-course/

Join the waitlist for the Brave and Beautiful Community for growth-minded midlife women: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/community/

Connect with Krista:

• Instagram: @a_life_in_progress
• Facebook: @alifeinprogressca and @rebrandingmiddleage
• YouTube: @ALifeinProgress
• Website: alifeinprogress.ca

Over the past few episodes I've been talking about elements of a soul-honouring life.

Today I'm focusing on the freedom you can experience when you recognize that your capacity shifts in new life seasons. And how honouring your wiring and capacity in different seasons of life is an important way that you can befriend yourself and also create a sustainable and soul-honouring life for yourself.

Key ideas you'll learn about in this episode:

1. What it means to honour your wiring and capacity.
2. Why this matters to you as a midlife woman. And why this likely feels challenging or counter-intuitive to you.
3. The reasons that learning to do this not only helps you rest and restore but also helps you EXPAND your capacity for the fullness of life.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

Learning to fully love and respect who you are and how you are wired supports your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

Constantly judging yourself as bad, wrong, or broken because you cannot keep up with a societal expectations or your conditioned expectations on yourself is harmful.

Giving yourself permission to be your True Self, unravelling all the old beliefs about how you "should" be or all the ways you learned to perform or prove yourself is freeing and hopeful.

This is one of the kindest and wisest things you can do for yourself. I know that bills still need to paid and this doesn't magically fix hard circumstances in this season of your life.

But if you can be on your own side, and lay down shame and judgment, life will feel a whole lot simpler and kinder.

Resources

Free Life Visioning Class: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/life-visioning-exercise/

If you want to create a soul-honouring life, one that is an expression of your True Self and helps you thrive forward in every season, you need to check out the Life Visioning Course: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/life-visioning-course/

Join the waitlist for the Brave and Beautiful Community for growth-minded midlife women: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/community/

Connect with Krista:

• Instagram: @a_life_in_progress
• Facebook: @alifeinprogressca and @rebrandingmiddleage
• YouTube: @ALifeinProgress
• Website: alifeinprogress.ca

In this episode I share one of my favourite empowering and life-giving practices. It offers a huge ROI in my life. And I've seen the change that happens for others when I teach them this practice.

A soul-honouring life is an expression of True Self in the world. Last episode I focused on how knowing your Core Values helps you be your True Self and make decisions aligned with what truly matters to you.

It takes a bit of time to not only identify your Core Values but also to learn how to use them in practical ways - or how to live them in concrete ways. And some people feel overwhelmed by figuring out their core values at first.

So today I'm sharing how you can receive most of the same benefits in an easier to access, and even less-threatening (or activating) way. Which brings us to my favourite practice of choosing 3-5 Mind-Body-Spirit Intentions each year.

Mind-Body-Spirit Intentions (or MBSIs) are words that reflect your current growth edge and how you want to feel in your body and life. They paint a vivid mental and emotional picture of who you want to be in your life.

MBSIs are not magic fairy dust or wishful thinking. When you name your Mind-Body-Spirit Intentions for the year, you are simply naming (or claiming) what you are committed to practicing.

In this episode you'll learn;

1. The 3 key filters for my life.
2. What distinguishes a core value from an MBSI.
3. The difference between an outward orientation and an inner orientation (and why it matters to you).
4. How our experience of life can shift even radically depending on how we show up to it.
5. And why the most important thing to remember is that every day you get to ask ourself "will I practice, or will I not?"

NEW Free Resource

Name what you want + Bridge the gap between current reality and what you desire: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/life-visioning-exercise/

If you want to create a soul-honouring life, one that is an expression of your True Self and helps you thrive forward in every season, you need to check out the Life Visioning Course: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/life-visioning-course/

Join the waitlist for the Brave and Beautiful Community for growth-minded midlife women: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/community/

Connect with Krista:

• Instagram: @a_life_in_progress
• Facebook: @alifeinprogressca and @rebrandingmiddleage
• YouTube: @ALifeinProgress
• Website: alifeinprogress.ca