Lessons From 2021: Coming Home to Your True Desires

<p>Where is the line between your story of success and the stories you see floating around on the internet? What does it look like for you to come home to your true desires and your experience in the creative process? What would it look like for you to clear your channels of the noise of voices gathering like a barrage at the door of your vision? Do you truly want it all? Or are your true desires more subtle? Finer? Specific?</p> <p>I recognized that being a Strategist wasn’t a purpose of mine, it was just my ego taking over and it became clear to me that I am here to be myself. My value proposition is to hold space for creatives to breathe in their process, to have an expanded capacity. &nbsp;I’m not going to run away from the unfolding that’s happening in my life; I surrender to the seed of desires in my heart.</p> <p><em><strong>“I am no longer defined by external standards of what success should look like or what I think I should be.”</strong></em> [16:43]</p> <p>In this episode of the Brave School Podcast, I dive deep into some of the lessons 2021 taught me and what I’m embracing in 2022. I am committed to being in integrity with what my soul is here to do this year. Now I know I’ve come here to share the seed of my desires, and I need to be in my authority and move past the ego of being shy and small and into being bold and big. I am not here to have it all, I’m here to have the life that is the most <strong>resonating and reflective</strong> of my soul’s deepest desires. The deep desires, unlike external desires, they’re the desires that drive you to create, which is what I’m surrendering to reach <strong>mysticism</strong>.</p> <p><em><strong>“I am committed to being in integrity with what my soul is here to do.”</strong></em> [18:39]</p> <p><strong>The archetype of the mountain</strong> is about the real jewel that’s inside the mountain – to go up you must go in. You have to stop looking outward or the way other people are doing it to fulfill you. Find joy, celebration, and neutrality when you see other