You were born to be the light
In 2006, not long after I moved to Charleston, I went through what I can only describe as an existential crisis.
I had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue. There were days when walking up the stairs felt overwhelming. I would shampoo my hair and have to rest afterward. I couldn't work the way I was used to working. I couldn't take care of my children the way I wanted to.
And I felt useless.
We live in a culture that measures our value by what we accomplish, what we produce, and the roles we play for other people. Take those things away, and you're left with a much bigger question:
Who am I if I can't do all the things that used to make me feel valuable?
I went into a very dark depression.
There wasn't much I could do physically, so I began meditating. Every day, I practiced a combination of meditation, self-hypnosis, and imagery.
And one day, I was shown something I have never forgotten.
I saw myself standing in the muck, putting down ladders for people.
Not clients. People in my personal life. Family. Friends. People I loved.
Again and again, I was putting down ladders, trying to rescue them, trying to be the peacemaker, trying to create harmony, trying to pull them out of whatever they were struggling with.
And I could see how exhausting it was.
Then the imagery changed.
Instead of putting a ladder down into the muck, I saw a ladder extending upward, toward the clouds and the light.
The message was unmistakable:
Stop climbing down into the darkness to rescue people. Climb toward the light and show them the way.
That image changed something fundamental in me.
I began to understand that helping people doesn't always mean carrying them. It doesn't mean fixing them, saving them, convincing them, or climbing into their pain with them.
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is become the light.
Live it.
Embody it.
Show people what is possible.
And allow them to decide whether they're ready to climb. I think there are people who have always felt this calling, even if they've never had language for it.
You may have spent much of your life being the person others come to. You may be highly intuitive or sensitive. You may sense things you can't always explain. You may have been through experiences that caused you to question who you are and why you're here.
And somewhere underneath all of that, you may have a persistent feeling:
I'm here for something more.
Maybe you don't know exactly what that "something more" is yet.
You don't need to.
Sometimes purpose doesn't arrive as a job title or a perfectly formed plan. Sometimes it begins as a quiet knowing that you're meant to grow, to awaken, to understand yourself more deeply—and eventually to use what you've learned in service to something larger than yourself.
That's why I created my 12-week Lightworker Training.
It's for people who feel the call but may not yet know exactly what form it will take.
Over three months, we'll explore your intuition, your inner knowing, your own healing and self-awareness, and the gifts you may be here to develop and share. It's a small, highly experiential group where you'll have the opportunity to practice, explore, receive feedback, and discover what unfolds when you begin trusting the part of you that already knows.
You don't have to know where the ladder leads before you take the first step.
You were born to be the light.
Maybe it's time to find out what that means for you.
