Do you feel torn between work that gives you security and work that would feed your Soul?
Is your ‘secure’ and ‘comfortable’ career crushing your Soul?
In my experience at times like this we want, most of all, to see a clear path forward and have the courage to follow it.
But, simply changing jobs, or starting a new project, isn’t going to cut it.
I offer guidance on a mature, grounded and joyful approach to following the pull of your Soul’s calling, so you don’t die with the regret of a life unlived.
I wonder if….
There is a business or non-profit you’ve always wanted to start….but you doubt yourself and eternally procrastinate?
When you were a kid you wanted to be a writer, but your parents and/or teachers laughed at you and so you buried it?
You’ve dreamed of taking a sabbatical….but maybe you feel it’s too risky or self indulgent?
Leaving your career for a more inspiring job, or project, can be life changing. It can bring relief, energy and possibility.
But sooner or later, you’ll sense it’s not the whole picture.
Having purpose is much more than changing what you do, it’s being who you are.
Your essence and presence doesn’t clock in and out. It shows up in your work, your friendships, your family and any room you walk into, at any time.
Unless you’re living in a way that deepens your relationship with yourself, no outer change will ever feel quite enough.
I know from personal experience how hard this moment can be. You fear the risk of humiliation, isolation and failure if you go down ‘that’ road.
But there comes a point when the price to belong (conform) gets too high and our health, career and relationships are all showing the symptoms we are so desperately trying to avoid by staying where we are!
Frightened of the unknown, we remain lost; averse to discomfort, we become comfortably numb; obsessed with security, we feel insecure.
Sometimes… it takes the death of a loved one, a breakup, a breakdown, a redundancy or a massive loss of trust to crack the illusion and wake us up.
Why wait?
There comes a time when the harbour no longer feels like home. When comfort turns to restlessness. When you feel the pull of the open sea.
The real journey begins, not just in charting a new course, but becoming seaworthy.
This is the work I guide.
I call it The Five Pathways.
I’m Hamish,
I am a leadership coach and purpose guide and I can help you to discover and live your Soul purpose.
My journey from serving with the British Armed Forces to the work I do today, has given me a deep understanding of what it’s like to feel torn between the career you feel you should want, and the life that’s calling you to be free, real and fully yourself.
Sometimes that life is hard to see. And the courage to choose it can feel just out of reach.
With an approach that has emerged from indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, contemporary psychological insight and embodiment practises, my work is about guiding people in how to be radically honest with themselves and follow their OWN Soul path, without losing everyone and everything along the way.
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So, you want to see a clear path forward and have the courage to follow it?
But what if a clear path forward isn’t actually a ‘thing’? A clear plan is useful, for sure, but we only ever see the path as we take it.
Rather than just being clear ‘about’ your path (which is always changing), what’s far more valuable is having a clear and honest connection with yourself.
That’s what makes you seaworthy.
It’s your inner compass and not a fixed map, that helps you navigate the waves and you cultivate, as you go, your courage, presence and intuition.
You are the vessel by which you experience life.
And when you live in alignment with your deeper truth, the adventure itself becomes your route back to yourself.
“In the end the only safety, in this increasingly uncertain world, comes from being willing to risk becoming ourselves more fully.”
A little more on what I think might be happening.
I believe collectively and individually we have allowed our attention to be hijacked by a sense of not having or being enough, which is never satiated by consumption and creates enormous suffering for all of Life.
Cast by a spell of separation our materialist conformist culture has become blind to the fact that to inflict pain on the natural world and others, is to inflict pain on ourselves, because we are all connected in the web of life.
In the absence of a meaningful connection to and guidance from the living world and soul inspired communities - we are left to, or even encouraged to, follow someone else’s path - a parent’s, a partner’s or maybe just society’s path, which becomes our ‘default purpose’, giving us a false sense of belonging and leading us to resentment.
In the absence of communities populated and led by heart centered and mature adults, we find it difficult to speak the truth of our pain and confusion to the people that matter (including ourselves), because we do not trust their (and our) capacity to hear it.
In the increasing isolation, stress and frustration of life we continue to look for answers from other people or derive our approach based on comparison with others, whose opinions matter to us.
We sedate and distract ourselves from our strong feelings, losing our sense of aliveness and leaving the inherent goodness and beauty of the world to pass us by.
Given our ultra competitive society, we fear failing and screwing it all up and stop experimenting and trying new things, because we think we always have to get it ‘right’.
But what if…?
What if … we are all born with a soul purpose unique to us, the discovery of which becomes the most extraordinary lifelong adventure and gives inherent meaning to, and takes inspiration from, the inevitable failures and difficulties of life?
What if … we think we fear failure, when actually we fear the feeling of failure - e.g. shame?
What if we can change our relationship to the feeling and no longer be at the mercy of uncontrollable life circumstances?
What if … the answers aren’t ‘out there’ and our emotions and sensations are actually our guides to a more intuitive, loving and embodied way of living?
What if … the best way to honour others is to honour ourselves?
What if …our life is constantly trying to tell us who we are and that We find our path by being our path? We cannot lose our path or create it; it is not so much what we do, but who we are.
What if … there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ path to take? That whatever we decide to do is both ‘right’ AND ‘wrong’?
What if … you aren’t, despite what our modern society tells us, meant to do this alone, but in community?
What if … you are already enough? And the more you try to ‘be someone’, the less you become?
To live an authentic and fulfilled life, in the long term, then, requires more than a change in the work that we do, it requires us to go deeper into ourselves and realise our wholeness.
This means following The Five Pathways, Belonging, Relating, Meaning, Awakening, Adulting.
Only when we go inwards do we find a place where nothing is missing. Solving the pressing problems of our outer world, requires us to take action AND take the inner adventure of discovery and expansion.
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