It Happens.

It happens.

When you least expect it.

The wall.  The wake-up call. Life’s slap in the face.

The WTF moment that stuns you into stillness for the first time in your life.

Everyone has at least one.  Not everyone notices.

And God help you if you don’t.   Because the next one will be bigger and more brutal.  Just to get your attention.

It’s that moment of epiphany when you ask yourself with complete incredulity:  What the hell just happened?  Who AM I?  What am I DOING?  Is this all there IS?

It’s especially galling if up to this very moment, you have done everything you thought you were supposed to do, followed the script you were given, gladly, down to the letter.  How is this happening?

It is one of the biggest disruptions and transformations of our lives.  Some call it a mid-life crisis, no matter at what age it happens.  I think it is a rebirth.  It is the calling of our own inner selves to come forth.  The calling of our own unique passions and gifts to manifest themselves.  The calling to be who we were meant to be and do what we were meant to do in this lifetime.

Oh, and it feels like crap.  At least to begin with. 

Everything I thought I knew and did just didn’t seem to work anymore.  Nothing fit together.  My skin was too tight.  My head, too full.  My thoughts, too loud.  And my heart.  Well, it just felt empty.

Until I learned a new way of seeing and knowing.  A new way of feeling, thinking, and doing.  A new way of being that was in tune with my newly found inner self.

For me it was the moment I realized I needed to find (or to create) my own path, my own way of doing things in order to get what I needed, in order to feed and be me in the best way possible.  Because none of the advice and tips my family, supervisors, co-workers, experts in workshops, conferences, and newsletters or on social media were getting me anywhere.  None of it was working.  All I felt was lost.

In that moment, I decided to choose me.  To listen my own inner wisdom about what I needed and how to get it for my own healing and personal growth.  I chose to build the most important relationship of my life: my relationship with me.   It would become the foundation on which I built the rest of my life.

Have you chosen you?