Are you following someone else’s idea of who you think you should be? (Even if that someone is you). Chasing the wrong dream can feel devastating.

It really shook me up. One of the residents in the drug treatment program I worked at walked across the room during a group therapy session to sit on the sofa. No big deal. But he looked like an unreal, two-dimensional cardboard cut-out of a person to me.

That moment of realizing this client wasn’t even alive shocked me. I’d worked so hard for so long to earn my master’s degree in social work. It really was what I thought I wanted to be when I grew up. But I saw my life 20 years down the road sitting in some administrator’s chair shuffling papers. Is that what I wanted my life to become?

How about you?

Did you have a big dream for your career or your business only to realize a few years later that it wasn’t what you wanted after all?

Or even more devastating, the dream you were chasing wasn’t even yours?

Maybe you feel trapped in your job or life right now, but you’re not allowing yourself to change directions… or trust in your right to your own dreams.

We women often have a difficult time expressing our true desires and, more to the point, even knowing what they are in the first place.

On the surface, we’re great at keeping it all together, “I’m cool.  Nope. I’ve got this.” Meanwhile, we’re dying inside.

I had the good sense to leave that profession and follow my heart which called me in a whole other direction. Over a thirty-year period I was a self-taught batik textile artist until I fell face down on the sidewalk and couldn’t work for six months.

That fall eventually circled me back to my first dream of helping people be their truest and best selves. To open up to an inner compassion of accepting all the parts of who they are.

I love working one-on-one with women who’re stuck at a crossroads—feeling powerless to change their situation. One client finally found the courage to leave her corporate job and follow her inner calling to be a full-time coach. Another co-created her dream job inside the corporation.

In my Power with Purpose program I’ll introduce you to a totally counter-intuitive way to make friends with your own personal power, so you can open up to your own heart’s path in your career and life.

Click here for more information. 

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