The Gift of Wandering - Exploring Our Purpose

<p>For me, a lot of my adventures and career shifts came while wandering, being open to what the universe showed me and the serendipitous events that arose.</p><p>Some of you know I was a climbing guide for a decade, and that would have <strong>never</strong> crossed my mind as an option I’d come up with thinking about careers in my <i>head</i>! I was on track to get my degree in psychology then go to grad school for my PhD.</p><p>But one day, a guy I was teaching a beginner’s rock climbing course with said, “Hey, you should apply to Outward Bound.”</p><p>I never thought I could do that, but I applied and got the job. The youngest woman ever hired by that branch at the time. And that led to more jobs. Then, voila! Climbing guide.</p><p>Or like when I did an ice climbing clinic in Ouray, Colorado and wandered into a group of women who signed up for a program with a life coach and I was like, what’s <i>that</i>? And I called the coach up and asked where she studied to be a coach and voila! Life coach!</p><p>So yeah. Wandering is the shit!</p><p>One of the things that I was introduced to during my yearlong apprenticeship with Bill Plotkin and Sage Magdalene is ETCs, or “experiential threshold crossings.” </p><p>ETCs are practices for embodying our mythopoetic identity before we’re ready to choose a delivery system for our unique Soul purpose. This could be a career, a practice for creativity, a free offering to your community…</p><p>These practices reshape our Ego to be a channel for that identity. They bridge the transcendental experience we had and this future delivery system to embody your Soul as a gift to others.</p><p>I’ve found that most of the time we need to get clear through action - get out of our heads and stop thinking that we can think our way to clarity and instead get out there and DO shit to get more clear.</p><p>Wander.</p><p>The gift of wandering really need to be embraced, because one of the most profound and enriching gifts we can give ourselves is the freedom to explore, question, and navigate