Your Life, Your Truth: Reclaim Your Personal Power And Trust What’s Calling You

You are listening to the Awakening Woman on

the Rise.

If you are a woman who is seeking

to live a more authentic life but are

feeling not enough to step out fully just

yet, you are in the right place.

If you are a woman who is looking

to live your personal truth and make the

impact you truly desire, you are in the

right place.

I'm your host, Wendy Yacboski.

Let's step out in this together.

So welcome to Episode 6 of Season 1.

Season 2 is going to contain multiple interviews

for my podcast and I'm really looking forward

to doing them.

And I thought that maybe for this last

episode, I would share a story that is

close to my heart that was when I

began life coaching.

And it was with a woman who came

to me because she really wanted to start

something that she was passionate about.

And that was about starting an organic garden,

not just for herself, but it was something

that she wanted to do to serve others,

to have an income.

It was really, really important to her.

But her problem was that she said her

husband wouldn't allow her to.

I've heard that a lot, that my husband,

my family, my employer, my whoever it is,

won't allow me to.

And you might recognize something for yourself that

there have been times when you, like I,

have thought somebody else was stopping me from

doing something that I really wanted to do.

So we had our session together and I

listened to her story, what was important to

her and how she thought this wasn't going

to work for her husband.

And I just asked her a simple question.

Have you talked with him about your passion?

Have you talked with him about this idea?

And she said, no, I haven't.

Because he wouldn't be up for it.

He wouldn't be interested in it.

And I said, I invite you, I encourage

you to have a discussion with him.

Tell him what's important to you, why it's

important to you, and see what he says

about it then.

And what happened was, when she came back

to me, was that he was totally for

her.

It was not about her husband saying no.

It was about her inner fear of doing

it herself.

And so, as I kept in touch with

her, this garden became very successful and even

more important than the success of her garden

was the success that she felt in authenticating

herself, her desire, her ability, the possibility to

exceed in something that was very important to

her.

And I know that we go through this.

Each of us goes through this.

A part of us gets so afraid.

Sometimes it's not even a conscious fear, right?

It's a fear that goes, oh no, oh

no, oh no, that's not going to work.

No, it can't do that.

And so, we look for someone to go,

it's not going to work because of him

or her or them.

And it's not until we actually take that

risk of moving toward and in that goal

that we come to realize our own true

agency.

We might not call it agency.

We might call it following what we really

want, but we start to recognize our agency

in being able to do that.

And not only that person who seemed to

be in our mind against us doing what

we wanted to do, they in fact become

an ally.

Now, I want to put in a caveat

here because not everyone that's a colleague, not

everyone that's a spouse or a partner or

a friend or a relative is necessarily going

to be our ally because let's face it,

sometimes when we're doing the thing that really

juices us and gives us fulfillment, others in

our life can go, I'm not doing that.

Oh my God, there must be something wrong

with me.

And it's kind of like almost what happens

is they can try to bring us to

where they are again.

And so what's really, really important is taking

the time to remind ourselves, not just intellectually,

but on a feeling level, the passion that

we have for it, the desire that we

have for it to first help ourself.

I really want to emphasize that it's us

whose life we're living.

So we want to validate ourselves and we

want to see in our mind's eye and

feel in our hearts how good it feels

to contribute to others as well as to

ourselves in this thing that we want to

do.

Maybe we just realized that we wanted to

do it.

Maybe we've wanted to do it forever.

It doesn't matter.

What matters is that we're doing it now.

And now as Louise Hay used to say

all the time, now is the point of

power.

I've said before about how little steps are

or baby steps are the way forward.

So every step we take builds the confidence

that it is that we're looking for.

And every step of confidence builds this beautiful

idea that we have in whatever way is

important to us and helps give us a

space to be inspired as to not only

how can this work, but in right timing,

how can this actually work better, even better?

And so we grow and we expand.

And maybe you'll be like me.

I shared that story with you about how

one time in my life at a much

younger age, but still old enough, where I

thought I had this lot in life, this

kind of square of about a foot around

me that I thought was my lot in

life.

It was so not true.

What I came to learn that once I

started taking the steps that presented themselves to

me, that felt right to me when I

listened in, are what helped me be able

to look back and go, I was wrong

about that.

And I'm so glad I was because now

my life has more meaning.

It has more depth.

It has more passion.

It has more juice.

That's what really matters, wouldn't you say?

This might sound like kind of an extreme

thing to say, but if we can actually

ever be conscious at that time in our

life when we make our transition from form

to the non-form, would you not want

to be remembering how good it felt to

be you?

How good it felt to give to others

from the truth of who you are, that

very sacred, and I do mean sacred, that

very special gift you have to give that

you gave it.

And I just really support you in knowing

with me that there's really nothing better to

remember, to know, to breathe into, to do

the step, and to be able to be

a conscious or not conscious example, a subconscious

example, maybe that might be a better word,

to others who are feeling the way I

felt, the way you felt before you started

going, yes, this is important to me, and

I value it.

So you are an example, whether you're conscious

of it or not conscious of it.

And I know that all of us make

a difference in this world, becoming a better

place when we can live from that part

of us that we came here with, that

is ours to live, and others need whatever

that is.

Please know there is no big and no

small, there's just what I call love and

service and being the truth of ourselves.

I'm so looking forward to seeing you in

the next season.

And I invite you to just take a

moment to pause, get still, and listen within

to what is yours.

In what you've heard today, or in any

episode, before you move on to your next

activity, to just land in yourself.

What is truly next for me?

What is that baby step?

Because I know that this activity or thing

or relationship is what is speaking to me

right here and right now, and I have

what I need to move forward.

I am with you, and you are with

you.

I know that.

So be with you, your precious, beautiful self,

moving forward here and now.

All the best.