Soul Dump Sunday: The Light Across Her Face - A Coaching Moment I’ll Never Forget

Wow. I had an experience this week, or shall I say I witnessed one, that I have to record and share. I always say working with my clients as a coach and support person lights me up. I leave each session feeling the same things they do: clarity, comfort, and a new confidence in how to move forward. It’s not just me telling them what to do next. It’s a lot of listening to what they’re already doing, noticing patterns, and tuning in to their lives and how they work, so we can get strategic about how to move forward.

The trick is not going too fast or overloading their nervous system with too many things at once. I’m working on this. I call it downloading, and it really feels like that. The clarity comes fast when I work in this way. Usually it’s about holding space so they can find the clarity themselves through a series of questions and conferencing. If they’re open, it works really well. They leave rejuvenated, motivated, and really passionate about the tasks ahead.

Anyway, I was meeting with a client Friday for our every-other-week touch base, but this time we met only a week apart instead of two. I have to say, I was so impressed. Everything she had put on her list had been accomplished, including a key awakening: she sat down with her partner and looked at the budget to discern when and how she could quit her 9–5 job of 27 years and go full-time solopreneur.

The math results were surprisingly enlightening. With a little tightening up on eating out and making sure she had insurance coverage, they would be okay on one salary while she established her business more. She not only could do this, but will be planning to do this next year.

Over the last few sessions we reframed the conversation from “if I go full time maker” to “when I go full time.” That shift alone is powerful. Over the last week she not only finished the budget, she started her website, picked a platform to send emails to her customers, friends, and family, all while preparing for two more shows this year and working her full time job. If there’s a will, there’s a way.

But the point of this whole story happened at the end of our session.

She lives in a colder part of the country and there hadn’t been sun in a few days. As we were discussing the importance of the charity work she always leaves time for in her life, I watched her completely light up talking about it. It became clear that this was going to be a big part of her business moving forward as she builds this into a full-time path.

We were talking about the work she has done in Haiti, and I told her my grandparents actually started an orphanage for girls in Haiti over 30 years ago. As we shared this common experience and planted the seed of coordinating her charity work with her jewelry-making career, a light brighter than I can explain in words cast across her face on screen during the Zoom. It was so bright that the rest of the room went dark and all you could see was her face. She could no longer see me or anything else. And then the tears started falling.

We were both in shock. The sun hadn’t been out all day, and at that exact moment, it came through and literally covered her face. What we didn’t know at the time, and what she shared with me after I wrote this, was that the sun hadn’t come out again for the rest of the day. Not once. And the way it came through her window? It won’t hit that same spot at that same time for another year.

I said to her, “Well, if that’s not a sign, I don’t know what is.” Almost not believing what I was witnessing, and wanting to joke about it in a weird way to lighten the reality of what was occurring.

I cannot wait to see what comes next in this journey. As we watch her step confidently into full-time and begin pairing the work she’s doing with acts of service for those in need, I truly believe she will be unstoppable and can do so much good. Finding a calling like this and being reinforced makes it all so much easier to tackle in my opinion.

It was a beautiful moment I will never forget, and a reminder to me that I am also on the right path. If I can be a part of clear awakenings like this, I can’t imagine anything better to do with my precious time on this earth. It adds to my tank in ways I can’t explain, and is proof that the hardship, difficulties, and doubts I have experienced are washed away every time I meet with someone who trusts me as their guiding light, gets it, and has a clear download moment like this.

Now, I’m not a super religious person, but it’s been proven to me through moments like this that of course there is a higher power, and it cannot be ignored. It speaks through that little voice inside, the intuitive one, the calm one, the one that seeks peace and makes the next best step clear and easy once you trust the voice. The challenge here is making space for it to come through with all the noise around you.

I’ve had too many experiences like this one not to believe that things are lining up exactly as they should. Even when the hard stuff comes, it’s part of the process and the path.

Trust. Let go. Believe.

It strengthens my will to keep going and growing, and to find ways to touch more people with this work. I thank the universe and spirit for making my path clear and holding me accountable to it every day. And for giving me a clear channel to help others find the same.

This is the kind of clarity I live for.

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