Soul Strength For The Times Ahead

Challenges will continue to arise to teach you how to become more free.

After 10 years of deep healing work I began to experience debilitating chronic pain. The experience made no sense to my mind. I thought I should be in the Fruits of My Labor era, reaping all the rewards from the heavy emotional processing I’d done.

Instead, I was stuck in bed, sometimes for days at a time. What was really happening was I was being initiated into another layer of spiritual fortitude. I had mastered the emotional body, and now I was learning about the relationship between the mind and body.

In 2016, when I went through a blindsiding breakup that catalyzed a Dark Night of The Soul, I thought it was the most difficult thing I had ever been through—until 2023 when the sound of birds chirping out my window sent pain through my body. I learned the same lessons about the emotional body in the physical and mental realms.

It was the next level in spiritual growth. I knew how to avoid suffering from emotional pain because I had mastered the art of embracing what I feel, loving it, and letting it go. The same lesson applies physically with mind body pain. I had to learn that I was creating suffering by resisting, and I have grown tremendously through it.

No matter how much you’ve grown or what kind of work you’ve put in, there are always going to be challenges. Some spiritual teachers say that the more we evolve, the greater the challenge becomes. The soul strength we develop allows us to meet the moment with more grace, love, and freedom.

We tend to want to avoid challenge, but it’s the way we grow. When we reach the other side, gratitude for the experience awaits.