YOUR SOUL CODE

WHY THIS, WHY NOW? All of us have had moments of massive reevaluation or overhaul in our lives. Usually, it comes in the wake of a major life-change such as loss of a loved one, relationship, job, status, home, or health. I, too, have had several come in the devastating wake of loss, illness, injury, self-sabotage, near-death experiences, and violence. And in these moments of quiet shock, while sitting in the rubble-ridden mental, emotional, and physical aftermath of life’s quake, I have felt compelled to take a radical diagnostic of my current circumstance. I’ve paused to ask vital life questions such as, Am I happy, satisfied, successful? Do I feel fulfilled mentally, emotionally, financially, occupationally, romantically, socially? Am I where I want to be, am I who I want to be?? No matter what inspired you to pick up this book, however, it is always relevant to check in with yourself to gage whether or not you are experiencing joy and fulfillment in your life. Not so that you can ignore your family, your obligations, your responsibilities, but so you can be more of who you truly are and therefore have more available to give. My personal journal entries that comprise this book document conversations that I had with myself during a time of massive reevaluation. I had achieved things, but I wasn’t deeply happy, I wasn’t truly satisfied, I didn’t feel successful. It was time for me to make a change. I couldn’t let one more moment pass without honoring all I came here to be, do, have, and explore. Can you? ARE YOU READY? Perhaps you have followed a prescribed path or only considered a more conventional path, and it feels like you have been living for someone else, according to someone else, and been taking care of everyone else. Perhaps it feels like you have lost sight of who you are, what you really want or what lies ahead. Instead of being chained to an empty routine feeling exhausted, restless, unhappy, unsatisfied, and unfulfilled while wondering, “is this all there is?” It’s time for you to get more out of life—to feel more, experience more, enjoy more. Or perhaps you are simply starting to realize what you have been doing might not be what you want to do anymore, and you are taking a moment to look at your life before one more moment passes you by. Perhaps you have been doing what you think you are supposed to do rather than figuring out what you really want to do. Instead of continuing to live according to other people’s opinions, it’s time for you to discover how to be authentic, free, and fulfilled in who you are and what you do. If any of this resonates with you, then welcome. You are right where you need to be.  LET’S GLOW You are joyfully encouraged to be as playful as possible with this material. This book is a judgement-free zone. For those of you who may be hesitant or even afraid to let yourself get messy, this is your safe space and place to get messy. Within this book, you are supported. Within this sanctuary, you are sovereign and free. All ideas, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and desires are welcome on these pages. We cannot improve ourselves, our lives, if we are unaware of what limiting beliefs are sabotaging us. And we cannot expand our awareness without allowing the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious parts of ourselves to speak freely—here, if nowhere else. I am going to be candid about my life with you, and I invite you to be candid as well. There are things about my life—things that I have said or done—that I am totally embarrassed about, that I have royally screwed up, things for which I have absolutely kicked, berated, flagellated myself. For years. It is really hard to be human sometimes. We are in a perpetual state of learning, growing, expanding, which means we are in a perpetual state of revealing, feeling, healing. You are invited to really look inward in going through these explorations—to release anything that might obscure the true light of your love, intelligence, contribution, and compassion from shining through. Use this book as your permission slip to put the world on pause, steal a few moments in this private place, this sanctuary space, to pause your inner critics (don’t worry, we’ll get to them), silence your outer-doubters (we’ll get to them, too), and open yourself to the scavenger hunt for soulgasms that YOUR SOUL CODE has to offer. Let it be your companion, your confidant, your confessional, your conversation with the whole of who you are. Give it a chance to evaporate any fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, doubt, or instability from you with the alchemy of your honesty. It’s time you let yourself off the hook. It’s time to break free from any limitations that have kept you from living your ideal life according to YOUR SOUL CODE. You deserve to celebrate who you are. You deserve to love what you do. You deserve to have what you want. You deserve to feel fulfilled. In order to make our most profound contribution, we have to be able to be ourselves most profoundly. When we have the courage to consciously be our authentic self, do what lights us up, and share our gifts with the world, we live our SOUL CODE. If hurt people hurt people, and whole people help people, then, the most helpful thing we can do for ourselves and those around us is to do the work to heal ourselves whole. We are all role models to someone; we are all examples in who we are and what we say and do for those we touch. When we heal ourselves, we heal our world. Therefore, what you have chosen to do in diving into this book will make the most positive impact, for your own greatest good and the greatest good of all.