What Are You Here For?

The answer has been with you all along- and it is Her.

This morning, before the sun rose, I lay in bed turning over a question in my mind:

What if our souls choose their own journey through time?

What if we chose not only our joys, but also our lessons, our pain all as part of a much greater unfolding.

That perhaps we are souls wearing bodies for only a little while, carrying the deeper intentions of creation that don’t always align with the systems and structures of this world.

Tears of gratitude began to fall. Because suddenly, I could see my life glimmering through that lens.

What am I here for?
Perhaps I chose this life.
Perhaps I chose to be an artist, to create beauty.
Perhaps I chose, even more deeply, to learn to become a creator of beauty within myself by healing myself… and then to help other women do the same.

To be a creator of beauty within myself has meant turning toward my own being with reverence.
To feed myself with love until I overflow.
To soften into compassion, to care for myself as if I were the most beloved.
To open to pleasure as a form of prayer.
To let my feelings rise as sacred tides and to bless them, all of them, with my approval.

Because the answer to a woman’s “what am I here for?” question is found right there -in her body, the place where feminine creation begins.

In the pulse of what she loves.
In the feelings that move through her.
In the desires that light her up.
In her bone-deep truth and wisdom that she refuses to forsake.

This is where you discover what you are here for.

Because no job, no mission, no purpose is whole without her.

When action is disconnected from what it serves- from her- it becomes a soul-less activity of producing, competing, acquiring, expending, consuming. Motion without meaning. And that leaves harm in its wake.

We feel that harm in our bodies, in our souls, and we see it in our world when she is absent.

We over-function, over-work, over-compensate, over-accommodate, over-achieve.
And we under-nourish what fuels us, delights us, and makes our soul sing: her.

The last five and a half years, since I laid down my old career and stepped into the wild unknown, have been an apprenticeship under the guidance of my soul.

I have been healing myself, yes, but also, I believe, healing generations of women in my family who lived with scarcity, fear, and the ache of not being loved and cared for as they should have been.

What have I learned?

That my life belongs to me first.

That the most intimate, transformative relationship I will ever have is the one I create with myself- by attuning to myself first.

That my desires are holy breadcrumbs on the path of the life I am here to live.

To see myself the way the Great Creator sees me: through the eyes of pure love.

To listen to the wisdom of my body.

And to create my life, my art, and my relationships from the inside out.

It has not been neat.
It has not been easy.

But it has been holy, an inside-out journey of trusting what I could not yet see. A surrender to life itself.

Because she has known the answer all along. I just had to learn to listen to her.

Today, I feel more whole, more free, more at peace, more at home in my skin than I ever dreamed I could.

I will keep sharing what has healed and transformed me, again and again, because this is what I know to be true.

Because this is what I wish for you.

When you create beauty within yourself for yourself, the very fabric of your life, your relationships, your world shifts.
Your love, truth and radiance become a quiet, powerful revolution.
Your wholeness becomes a gift to life that no one else can bring.

And the world needs her- you- so very much.

With humility, gratitude, and joy,
Linda