Lovely friends,
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about consistency, which is probably not the most glamorous spiritual subject in the world, but apparently this is where I am right now. I’m buying planners, journaling, making lists and trying to create some structure that works with my ADHD brain instead of constantly expecting my brain to work differently. And the funny thing is, I’m actually excited about it. I’m not trying to fix something that’s wrong with my life. I’m trying to figure out how to stay focused on the things I genuinely want to create because, for the first time in a long time, I feel like I have enough room to really look forward.
For most of my adult life, so much of my identity and energy was connected to taking care of other people. I was raising kids, being a daughter, being a wife, working, organizing, remembering what needed to happen and usually being the one who made sure it actually did happen. Motherhood doesn’t disappear because your children grow up, of course, but my kids are adults now and they don’t need me in the same way. The caregiving season of being a daughter has ended too. I’m still John’s wife, we have our dogs and our home and our life together, but there is more space around me now. I’m realizing that after so many years of naturally directing so much of my energy toward the people I love, I get to consciously decide where I want some of that energy to go next.
That’s why this week’s message about Part Two feels so personal to me. Spirit isn’t asking me to erase the woman I’ve been because everything she learned is exactly what brought me here. I’m taking her with me. But I don’t have to keep organizing my life around responsibilities that aren’t mine anymore, and I don’t need to immediately fill every open space with another obligation. I can start asking what I actually want to build now. For me, that means my meditations, my Reiki work, writing, creating and continuing to grow this body of spiritual work I’ve spent so many years developing. I’m hopeful about where it’s going. I’m excited about where I’m going. I don’t have every detail figured out, but for once that feels more interesting than scary.
The part I’m working on now is taking all that excitement and giving it enough structure to become something. My ADHD brain can have seventeen wonderful ideas before breakfast, and by lunch we’re apparently opening an entirely different department. That’s where planners and journaling have become surprisingly spiritual for me. Writing things down helps me come back to what matters. Planning takes the bigger vision in my head and gives me something I can actually do today. Journaling gives me a place to talk with Spirit and my angels, listen to my intuition and notice which ideas keep returning instead of chasing every shiny thought that wanders through. I’m starting to understand that consistency doesn’t mean doing everything perfectly every day. For me, it means having something that gently brings me back to my path when my attention inevitably wanders off to investigate something interesting.
I’m also bringing my angels into this differently than I might have in another season of my life. I’m not asking them to hand me a five-year plan with every decision already made. I’m asking my guardian angels to help me notice the breadcrumbs and recognize what genuinely feels aligned. I’m working with Archangel Michael when I need help staying in my own energy instead of automatically picking up everybody else’s needs, worries and opinions. And I love Archangel Ariel for this chapter because her energy feels so connected to courage, manifestation and actually doing something with the ideas Spirit places in front of us. I can ask for spiritual guidance all day long, but at some point I still have to open the planner, make the meditation, record the Reiki session, write the article or take whatever little practical step is mine to take.
Maybe that’s what I’m most excited about in this chapter. I’m getting to know who I am when so much of my energy isn’t automatically assigned to taking care of everyone else, and I’m curious about what happens when I consciously direct more of that love, experience, intuition and energy toward creating something that matters to me. I’m following the breadcrumbs, making my plans, creating my meditations and Reiki, loving my husband and dogs, working with my angels and Spirit, and getting to know the woman I am now. I’m not trying to find my way back to who I was before all those years of motherhood and caregiving. I don’t want to go backward. I’m interested in meeting the woman I became because of all of it and seeing what she wants to do with Part Two.
A Little Something to Think About 💜
What are you planning, dreaming about or beginning to feel curious about right now? If you’re entering a new chapter of your own, where would you like to intentionally direct more of your energy? Maybe it’s your creativity, health, relationships, work, spirituality, travel, learning something new or finally giving real attention to an idea that’s been quietly hanging around in the background.
Here’s something simple to try. Take ten minutes with your journal and invite your guardian angel and loving spiritual team to sit with you. Write down three things you would love to put more energy into over the next six months. Don’t worry about how you’re going to accomplish them yet, and don’t immediately talk yourself out of them because they’re impractical, too expensive, too late, too big or you don’t know enough yet. Just let yourself be curious about what comes up.
Then circle the one that gives you that little spark of excitement and ask your angels, Help me recognize the next step toward this. You aren’t asking them to do it for you or tell you exactly how your future is supposed to unfold. You’re opening yourself to guidance while still participating in what you’re creating. Pay attention afterward to the ideas, conversations, information and opportunities that naturally catch your attention. Those little breadcrumbs can matter.
I think that’s one of the ways we work with manifesting energy that gets overlooked. We can ask Spirit, our angels and the Universe for guidance and stay open to possibilities we haven’t even considered yet, but we also have to give our own energy a direction. We participate. We take the little step that’s available now and allow our angels to help illuminate the next one when we get there.
You don’t need to see the whole path. Your angels don’t need you to have it all figured out either.
Give your energy somewhere beautiful to begin, invite Spirit to walk with you, and see where the breadcrumbs lead.
Much love,
Lisa 💜
