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Hi Everyone
I’m a little late in introducing myself. I’m a PPVE alum from 2 years ago, I’m a Firethriver and INFP. I wanted to go through this course again because it was (along with a couple of conversations with Rachel and also the podcast) a lifeline and life changer for me at a particularly difficult time in my life. Not to go into all the details here but to say that going through the course began to change things for me, began to shift a dark time into a hopeful one and continues to do so. I’m of an older generation than most folks here, and I can really say that age has nothing to do with how this coaching stuff works because what I see now is that it’s about that amorphous golden blob! Your life force, your essence and your vitality that oftentimes gets so covered over in this world of ours due to incorrect information and just generally poor input, or no input from our environments (education, work, people around you, etc). For me, this feeling of being too old was definitely a gremlin! The feeling of being too old, too far behind, too anything will no doubt come upon me again, and yet I feel that it has less of a grip on me because I know that I can move forward with small shifts and feeling supported by ConF and others that are going through some tough times while wanting to change things too. This course helped me to find some clarity and it’s an ongoing process, checking in with what really aligns with what I need from moment to moment, day to day. It’s worth it to find out who you really are and who you want to be and what’s possible for each of us.
Not always easy but worth the exploration.Hi Rachel and Kristen,
Thanks to everyone who has been posting lately and sharing their experiences. This forum is really such a unique place to be able to speak to these challenges that we are facing in our lives and in our work. I, too, am a Firestarter who is introverted, and HSP. One of the things I recall Elaine Aaron saying in her book is that HSPs are affected more by a situation that is not right for them than others would be, and on the other hand HSPs really shine and are brilliant when they find the situations that are right for them.
What occurs to me and what I wanted to share with Caela is that I think it is so wonderful that you had such a great experience traveling and speaking French and feeling so alive, with an emphasis on the FEELING ALIVE part. Maybe it would be good to take some time to recall those feelings and become even more specific about them. When did you feel that in Europe, what were you doing, where were you, who were you with, and then keep those feelings close to you by putting photos in your room, journaling about them or speaking them into your phone, whatever works for you. Those may all contain clues about what you want to do next. I guess I feel that inevitably when the days go by you might start to forget, you get busy or someone talks you out of the feelings because of their gremlins. This has certainly happened to me where I was told those passionate feelings were ok for then, but then “Get real” or that isn’t real life or whatever when that can’t be further from the truth. The alive feeling IS the real thing. Hope this helps. You’re already so much more aware than most!????
