Introduction

If you’re feeling the need for some deep space for your inner work, you might feel drawn to set up your own personal retreat. This guide outlines step-by-step instructions for setting this up — from what to prepare in advance, to setting up the space as you’re starting, to developing a schedule for your retreat, to closing.

The yumminess of retreat-ing

I spent the first week of December in deep retreat space.

No phone notifications buzzing. No TV blaring. No phone calls. No text…

When you're going through a really difficult time, bringing attention to your inner work may feel totally unavailable. You may find that you're lacking the capacity and any energy whatsoever to engage.

In that situation, it's common to feel shame or guilt around your feelings about the situation or because you're not engaging with your inner work, but that just compounds the painful feeling that's already existing from the original hard situation. And it can make it even harder to come back to …

This is a basic guide to start hearing your inner voice for yourself in your own space. I suggest reading through all of it first, and then you can use the summary at the end to try it for yourself.

The most important aspect of coming to your inner voice is your intention to allow information into your human understanding from source/being/God/love.

This is not intended to channel other entities, nor is it to figure things out from your mind. What I hold space for with all my clients is for th…

Introduction

In this first post, you’ll first read an introduction that gives a summary of the key terms around intuition and inner voice. Then, below, that you can listen to a session where I’m asking questions from the human to the inner voice and then speaking the answers I hear back.

Below the session audio, you can read a paraphrased summary of the session as well as the full transcript.

Back in January 2022, when I decided to step away from my fledgling business and go even deeper int…

A couple months ago, I was on the phone with a friend, and he was talking about whether he wanted to be exclusive in his new relationship. As we were chatting, I was also driving towards the beach near my home. I glanced up, and there on the side of the road was a real estate sign, and the sign said "Exclusively by . . .".This kind of stuff happens all the time.

And when it happens to you, it's easy to assume that that sign is your direction. It means what you're "meant to" do. It's the directi…

After I wrote last week about the need to choose your space so you’re able to regularly come to your inner work, my mind brought up this big objection:

If you’re choosing your space, isn’t that just more mind control?

Since we know the mind attempts to control pretty much everything, but we’re learning to live beyond these methods of control, then when it comes time to hold an inner voice session, meditate, or tune in to what’s awakening inside you, it can be off-putting when the mind puts its…

If all your energy is drained away to what you didn’t choose, there’s nothing left.

Nothing for your passion.

Nothing for your purpose.

Nothing for your soul calling.

In recent emails, I’ve been exploring this phenomenon of life sending all kinds of distractions your way right when you’re trying to make steps towards what you’re really here for.

And last week, I dove into how the victim mindset plays a part here: believe that life is hard and you don’t get to choose, and you’ll end up e…

In last week's post,I wrote about the pain we often feel when there’s a sense that something big, something meaningful, something from source, is available and needed to come through you, yet there’s not enough space.

As I’ve been reflecting on that post and the 4 obstructions that I’ve observed (see below), it’s really hitting home that a big part of my work needs to be coaching to move beyond these obstacles, so that my teaching becomes a way out. A way out of what’s holding you back from com…

In my last post, I explored a reason why pain persists despite applying all kinds of inner healing work to that part of your life.

I shared about the epiphany I received around “the gap that brings pain”: When there’s a dichotomy between what you’ve experienced in your inner places and what you observe in the external world, that’s prone to cause you to feel pain — until you’ve allowed it so thoroughly that your being permeates that space and is only in love there, in the middle of the gap.

A …

The pain of isolation and loneliness has been my biggest life-long trigger of suffering. It’s popped up in incredibly numerous ways. Hidden away for a time when in a season of exponential growth or buried in the arms of a lover, or in those seasons when I felt really met in a caring community.

And then it re-emerges.

I thought by taking a long term path into inner healing with every form of energy work and spiritual practices, it would get healed.

But it hasn’t.

This week I received a surpri…