Are You Honoring Your Soul Story?

Are you honoring your Soul Story? I’m asking not just because we are in Women’s History Month, I’m asking because I’m genuinely curious.

What do you think I mean by that question of honoring your Soul Story?

Well, I believe it is the story that matters most. Your Soul Story is right up there with great literature and cherished spiritual writings such as the Bible, or Tora and writings that carry great significance for you.

Your Soul Story is something you know it intimately at your core. And it may be something you have never really explored.

Your Soul Story is the core of who you are, and you may not even be aware of it. Oh, but I promise you it's there. It is operating just under the surface in your subconscious. Perhaps you have this longing, a knowing, or whispers you hear with your heart. Another way to explain a Soul Story is to describe it as the wisdom you have gained from a significant life experience. It's how you are doing things differently. It's how you live your life in a particular way compared to before the event happened.

Your Soul Story is the story that matters!

I recently had the privilege of hosting the Wise Woman Wisdom Retreat here on the California coast. One of our conversations focused on whether or not they had anything the world needed to hear from them. Oh, they believed other people had a story worth writing; they just didn't think there was anything that someone else would find interesting or exciting in their story. I'll be willing to bet there are lots of heads nodding at that line of thinking. Because an individual had never been written up in Who's Who, received awards from their business community, or achieved some athletic recognition, the assumption was that they didn't have a story worth sharing. Their lives were so ordinary. Why would anything they had to share make a difference to someone else?

Can you relate to that belief?

Consider this:? Your Soul Story is unique to you. There’s no way it is ordinary and exactly like anyone else’s. You are the only one who has experienced it and gained the wisdom that life lesson taught you.

Your Soul Story highlights how extraordinary you are!

True, our stories can have many common factors. Small town, big city, only child, oldest girl, shy, quiet, athletic, klutz, musician, tone deaf, you get the idea. It’s what happened when we were living those circumstances and negotiating life’s challenges, that contains the details of our Soul Story. And that’s what separates the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Here’s one piece of my Soul Story…

When I was in high school, we were assigned to write a research paper on three careers we were interested in pursuing. I wrote about going to college to study acting, becoming a famous actress who could do comedy and drama with ease, was a darling of the London and New York stage and had conquered the silver screen along with television. I wrote about becoming an accomplished dancer who traveled the world performing for sold-out crowds at every venue. I wrote about writing stories that touched the hearts of those who read my words and writing in exotic parts of the world.

Although neatly typed and turned in on time, I received a C+ for the project because my career choices were judged unrealistic. I was a shy, quiet 15-year-old girl in a small midwestern farming community. How could I possibly aspire to be an actress, a dancer, or a writer, for that matter? I had never taken a dance lesson or shown any particular talent for the stage. To that point, my “acting” consisted of being cast as the Virgin Mary five times out of eight Christmas pageants at our elementary school. My writing was confined to my journals and never shared with anyone.

I had been challenging myself to follow my dreams. Speech class just about gave me heart failure. I not only actively participated in class, but I also took part in the school district speech contest for extra credit. I even managed to be part of the cast of six in our class play, The Spiral Staircase?and didn’t die before, during, or after any of the five performances.?

I was advised to pursue a secretarial career. That was a more attainable goal as far as my advisor and mother were concerned. My grades were decent, mostly B’s and a few C’s. Certainly not scholarship material for a teaching degree. So, I settled for a One Year Secretarial Certificate from the local junior college.

I married a very nice boy and helped him earn a college degree in Computer Science. I?never gave up on my dreams of what I believed my future could hold.?

I quit my secretarial job and became a full-time college freshman a week before my 30th?birthday.?I wanted it all…family and career. We were on the adoption list waiting to start our family. My college degree would be a milestone just for me. I would have new career options fueled by my passion for writing. I would do what was necessary to achieve that goal. I was no longer was that shy, insecure country girl. I was a young woman eager for new challenges and ready to tackle what life had in store as long as it came in small doses.

The problem is we’ve been told that our stories don’t matter.

We’ve been told so often that we should be quiet, stay in the background and do what we do best – be invisible. That whatever we had to say wasn’t going to make a difference to anyone. We’ve been told that we shouldn’t bring our personal stories into business. I don’t believe that’s true. Our personal stories are the heart of our business because they are the soul of who we are. They are our Soul Stories!

Are you hiding your Soul Story from yourself?

What is the Soul Story you are not honoring? Could it be you have a story you are not honoring that someone else is waiting to hear…that they need to hear?

·????? Your Soul Story honors your transformation.

·????? Your Soul Story is the greatest story you have yet to share.

·????? Your Soul Story has valuable wisdom gleaned from your life lessons.

·????? Your Soul Story represents hope to those who are seeking a solution to a situation that has given you the tools you have today.

Your Soul Story represents hope to those who are seeking a solution to a situation you have already coped with. A situation that has made you who you are right now.

You matter! What you do matters! Your Soul Story matters because it's the core of who you are and more than likely why you do what you do.

Your Soul Story is the story that matters and makes a difference. I promise you someone is waiting for your story right now. Yes, I’m positive there are many someone’s who need the hope of your story.

You are the only person in this Universe who knows the lesson you learned from the life events you have experienced.

I believe knowing your Soul Story holds the key to understanding yourself. It could be a way for people to get to know, like, and trust you on a brand-new level and deeper level.

I'll say it again:? the?story?that I encourage you to honor is?your Soul Story! It’s a message the world needs to hear not just during Women’s History Month. It’s a message the world needs to hear every day all year long.

Share the story only you can share.

?Curious to discover your Soul Story? Let's have a conversation. Book time with me today.

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