When The Student Is Ready The Teacher Will Appear

This is one of the 4 Spiritual Cliches that changed my life, I talked about it in my recent podcast. You can listen to it on Spotify here.

When I say teacher I don’t necessarily mean a person.

Teachers come in many forms…a chance meeting that changes the course of your life, the amazing podcast that gives you what you need to move forwards, a revelatory conversation with a friend or a line in a book that hits you square in the heart.

It’s the moment EVERYTHING changes.

Or a Tower moment for those of you that know your Tarot!

The more I reflect on it, talk to others and begin the work of integrating my own cataclysmic shift and awakening the more I realise readiness is the key that unlocks everything.

Last Summer I was ready for CHANGE, for a deeper spiritual experience of life.

I found a brilliant therapist, implemented a daily meditation and devotional practice after many failed attempts (this in itself is truly life-changing) and began the inner work of healing from death, divorce and childhood trauma.

This Summer, on the holy day of the Solstice I was ready to FLY!

I was ready to let go of everything and everyone standing between me and the life I needed, wanted and deserved.

I had complete clarity, for what feels like the first time in my life.

Doors that were previously closed opened with ease and I shut those taking me in the wrong direction.

I saw myself and my worth without the filters of mine or other peoples’ pain and fear.

I was no longer afraid of being seen exactly as I am.

It was a defining moment.

But it wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies. Far from it.

It was chaotic, destabilising and traumatic, pushing me way out of my comfort zone, forcing me to confront some uncomfortable truths.

But to coin another spiritual cliche, I faced my fears and did it anyway, leaping like the Fool of the Tarot into what a wonderfully wise friend describes as ‘The Golden Void’. It was an act of radical self-love.

I didn’t know I was ready that day but Spirit, my higher self and the Universe knew otherwise and gifted me with a wild and beautiful transformation 🦋

When we’re ready anything is possible, the field of potential becomes INFINITE. Things start to flow, struggle and striving falls away as we effortlessly drop into a state of pure integrity.

A couple of years ago I felt the call to a more spiritual path and tried to make some big changes to my life.

Back then I was unhealed from the aforementioned death, divorce and childhood trauma and unhealthily attached to certain people, scenarios and patterns of behaviour.

Even the way I tried to instigate the change came from a place of reactivity and frustration and was part of a larger emotional breakdown. The blissful path I envisaged didn’t appear effortlessly at my feet and I became deeply unhappy.

I wasn’t ready, no matter how much I wanted to be.

But when we remember that life happens for us, not to us (another one of my 4 spiritual cliches!) a silver lining appeared…the knowing that it was time to take better mental, emotional and spiritual care of myself and begin to make some changes to how I was living that led me to where I am today.

It’s been a slow and steady climb from being in the depths of despair to having the courage to set myself free from the life I knew and was comfortable in but wasn’t in alignment with who I truly am.

And like I always say, if I can do it, so can you.

So make a commitment to yourself.

Start a meditation or mindfullness practice - if I could give you one piece of advice above all others THIS IS IT!

Create a vision OF and FOR yourself that gives you what you need, want and deserve, without compromise.

Do the inner work, get professional help if you need (and can afford) it.

Find daily rituals and devotional practices that set a fire in your heart that can’t be dimmed.

Seek out like-minded people to support your growth and evolution and walk beside you when the road gets bumpy, which it will, but this is where you meet the growth edges necessary for true and lasting change.

Know that there WILL be losses along the way. Not everyone and everything currently in your life will, can or should make the cut, but trust that when the time comes you’ll have the courage to let go of what’s holding you back.

Let go of timelines, expectations and outcomes - this is important. Growth, healing and transformation isn't linear and doesn't happen on demand. Spirit, your higher self, the Universe...whatever it is you believe in that's higher and greater than us will let you know when the time has come.

And before you know it you’ll be ready to fly too.