I‘m noticing a fascinating energy shift right now. My clients are saying things like, “I’m feeling checked out at work and I can’t get motivated,” and, “My relationships just aren’t working anymore,” and, “I’m feeling so antsy to get started with my new business.”
What’s going on?
My intuition tells me that behind these sentiments is a pressing need to live more authentically. I’ve heard and seen this before as a coach, but I sense that there’s a global urgency to it now, like our very lives depend on living with integrity. It’s as if our souls are calling us out — calling us to our Life Purpose and our Authentic Work in a way that says, “You simply can’t wait, not even a moment longer, to be who you really are.”
And it’s about time too, because this rapidly changing world desperately needs our sensitive souls.
It’s clearly time to usher in wiser ways of living and being on this planet. Sensitive souls are naturally adept at envisioning, sharing, and communicating such wisdom. We are the canaries in the coal mines, the princesses with the peas. We know what isn’t working, and how it can work better. We are the visionaries, psychics, sages, prophets, healers, guides, tribal elders, medicine women, and shamans of this era. It’s time to reclaim our rightful places as the “priestly advisors” we are deep down, even if we’ve been hiding from it.
We must learn not only to “get by” in this less-than-sensitive world, but to function masterfully, and get out there doing our Authentic Work. We can’t wait any longer — the world needs us Right Now. This means no more holding back, no more playing it safe, no more hiding your light and wisdom.
Are you ready to claim your birthright?
It is my passionate mission to see no sensitive left behind. As the world keeps changing, it’s imperative that we are well-positioned, well-supported, and ready to get to work. I want for each of us to know, without any doubt, who we are, what we are meant to do, and how to do it. I want each of us to feel so lit up inside that we are inspired to step forward and shine.
We have felt like the ugly ducklings for so long. But it’s time to become the beautiful swans we truly are.
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Where’s Jenna this month?
~~> Friday, March 6th, 12 noon Pacific, Jenna will be attending Elaine La Joie’s “Empathy TeleCall.” Elaine is one of Jenna’s colleagues, a masterful teacher and shaman, and a true expert on all things empathic. Find out more, here.
~~> Thursday, March 12th, 4 p.m. Pacific (LIVE call + mp3 recording)
The Mastery Circle TeleConference
Topic: “Reclaiming Your Power and Developing Your Intuitive Gifts.” Do you find it difficult not to hand over your power to authority figures? Join Jenna to learn how to use your intuition to catch yourself doing this, set healthy boundaries even with those in charge, and take back your power. You’ll also have some practice time tapping into your intuitive guidance. This TeleConference is f-r-e-e for Mastery Circle Members. Click here to find out more.
~~> Thursday, March 18th, 4 p.m. Pacific
Mentor Coaching TeleConference
Jenna is co-facilitating a private Mentor Coaching TeleConference with fellow coach Joseph Ciavarella, CLC on practice building for January Coach For Life graduates.
~~>Monday, April 20th, 5:30 p.m. Pacific
Catch Jenna joining Linda Roggli at the ADDiva.net monthly TeleGathering as a special guest presenter.
~~> Embrace Your Essential Self, schedule coming soon! Watch this space for announcements about when the next sessions of Phase I and Phase II will be launched.
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On my nightstand: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
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Jenna,
“I sense that there’s a global urgency to it now, like our very lives depend on living with integrity.”
Oh my. This may be my first experience of resonating with something so strongly that it actually hurts. My experience of this Urgency is getting deeper, wider, louder. All of my cells respond with a blazing, “YES!” to the call. “YES!” to the shift.
I really love your voice and message, Jenna. What would I like to see more of? Well, at the risk of asking a very “unspiritual” question, I’d be grateful to hear your ideas about the how? So often, we’re clear about the what, but not the how. And I think it’s a bit of a cop-out when gurus glibly say, “Don’t worry about how…”
Warmly,
Erika – http://www.joyful-work-for-sensitive-people.com/
Thanks for posting.
I have been feeling the need to be authentic, too. Ever since starting to read Jenna’s articles, I have, slowly, begun to value my sensitivity more. I have really started to feel what I feel, and I’m trying to use it as guidance.
Where I am struggling is with my career. I’m a medical doctor, a few years out of medical school, and I can’t seem to make myself apply for another post. Somehow the work feels more like treating than healing, and the pressured, busy, unpredictable nature of the work coupled with my conscientiousness means I’m worrying a lot of the time. At the same time, I enjoy advising relatives with medical problems, and I value immensely the knowledge I have. My family and friends think I’m lazy not applying for another job, but to me it just feels like I’m afraid to experience that kind of overwhelm again.
Right now I can’t seem to think of any other branch/avenue that might suit me, but I’m hoping I’ll find a creative solution. Any suggestions welcome….
Domine — What looks like “laziness” to others is your spirit saying “no more, not for me, no thanks.” Keep listening, your heart will guide you to the right place. I’m working on cooking up more support for finding and creating your Authentic Work, so stay tuned, okay? I think you already have some powerful and wonderful clues about where to go next! (Hint: Advising others with the valuable knowledge you already have.)
Grace — Thanks!! I love that you are with me all the way. You match me so well, soul sister.
Jenna
Jenna – This article is fantastic. You are a woman after my own heart for sure. As I read this article I pictured you leading a parade of happy, out-of-the-closet, proud, healthy sensitive souls as we dance and jiggle our way down the streets of the world. I’m with you, all the way!
Domine – I think you are very brave to hold your ground even though you don’t know where to step next. There’s great power, I believe, in asking questions. Maybe you are in the very process of inventing a type of work that is wholly new (both whole and new, even). I wish you strength and hope you will keep us posted as you go.
Dear Jenna,
Do you think that sensitive souls are ones who develop multiple chemical sensitivity? Is there often a history of some form of abuse? Are the majority of sensitives women?
All the best,
Gabri’El
Jenna, I can really relate to feelings of having to search out my souls purpose in order to live a truely worthwhile life. I have spent the past 20+ years in a variety of jobs, none that suited me because they were mundane, dead-end and simply without meaning, other that a paycheck. I’m on the doorstep of 44 years of age and I’m doing 2nd year engineering and, while the challenge is enormous, I still feel that there is something else I need to do to be truely content. I pay close attention to the wisdom of the sages and other historical figures who have given us so much profound wisdom and guidance with which to live our lives and I research it to no end. Also, I read and write poetry as a creative outlet. This is another method I find that helps ground me. I agree with you when you say that our very souls are crying out to us to live our lives with purpose and meaning…and not a moment to soon. But, of course my deep intutition is telling me this constantly. I just find it hard to steer myself in the right direction.Your words of advice ring so true to all, but especially those who are still discovering their sensitivity and ultimately, their place in this world. Take care. Boyd
Jenna,
I love your name so much, my firstborn was given it 21yrs ago…fyi
I have just recently come across your website and cause. I cannot tell you how much I am finding hope in the thought that ‘this may be the place and people I have been looking for over 40yrs’. I am certain most all that are aware of your website can relate to my feeling throughout my life ‘I am truely a stranger in a strange land’. My mind cannot comprehend people not being authentic, my cells only know authenticity…which often leads to me being an ‘outsider’. Close romantic relationships have ended with ‘your intensity and ‘hypersensitivity’ are a burden to those close to you’. People find me overwhelming at times with my deep sensitive filter of life, but it is who I am and what I know and I believe the world needs my contribution to offset those that hide, guard and don’t care. I am part of the balance, and I long to strive to better to embrace the truth in this, and not feel like and outsider or that they don’t ‘get me’. A resounding thank you to you Jenna and all else who contribute to our vast universe but more so within this tiny (and hopefully growning) community on your website and in your efforts!
Sheri
Hooray!
Something is going on, isn’t it?
And hooray for us that we have you, Jenna.
We had a snow storm here in North Carolina on Sunday March 1, and I wondered what it was all about as they tell me they have not had any measure of snow here like this in many years. It was FUN though to look out and see the beautiful picturesque scene with everything covered with snow.
I then had a dream that very night when I went to bed which was really the next day the 2nd since it was early wee hours, in this dream I dreamed that I had twins and they were one(1) day old. I knew what it meant for me and I was elated as i have wanted to get going for some time yet never seem to have the energy to get going. So March 1, is New Energy coming in and the birth of much is raring to get going.
I started noticing a rabbit outside my window last year and would watch it when it appeared then one day there was a friend with it so I said it’s mate, and the last time I saw them was about September and there was three this time, they danced around hoping from spot to spot playing and then they disappeared. I would watch out my window for them yet they never showed again. I really missed seeing them but I just thought they had just gone away to another place, and Voila! on Monday I see my first rabbit since, then hoping past in the white snow. Yes! Spring and fertility! birth! My how I AM looking forward to the birth of my New Venture that I have been creating in my mind and on paper.!
TO DOMINE
I just watched on Discover Health Channel a program called Strictly Sex With Dr Drew. Sex: Fact or Fiction. I don’t know whether you have ever seen this show, I know it was the first time I have seen it on cable here. He says he does radio show answers questions that people call in to ask. Tonight’s show i listened to some of the questions that people asked and there surely is a thirst out there for answers to people’s questions. INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW! so you enjoy advising relatives so perhaps you can set up a practice/office (home based too) of teaching people how to heal themselves. Perhaps you are to be a teacher- healer. I hope that helps!
It is so interesting that you say that sensitive people everywhere seem to be feeling the need to live their calling more urgently. 3 months ago I left my job at a law firm because my sensitive soul simply wouldn’t allow me to do it anymore. There was such an urgency and force about my need to get out of there that I literally felt propelled out, and it also gave me the momentum I needed to start something new, something real, something that mattered to me. I am now in the process of beginning to work with people and horses, to help them understand and heal each other, and to show people how living authentically allows them to connect more meaningfully to animals and to nature. I know that this is where my natural talent lies, in sensing what both people and animals need and helping them to find it in each other, and I’m so excited.
Thanks everyone for the kind replies. You’ve helped me see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Grace – Thank you very much for the supportive words. I agree that questions are so powerful. I will keep asking and listening for answers.
Jenna – Thank you for your encouragement and reassurance. The Authentic Work sounds great. Just thinking that word, ‘authentic’, feels so good.
Bonnie – You have definitely given me food for thought. I will try to find that show on the Discover Health Channel. You are right, there are people out there who want to know! I resonate with the ideas of being both a teacher and a healer. It would be good to incorporate both into my work, somehow. Thank you so much for your ideas.
wonderful article thank you, i feel reassured that what i’m feeling isn’t just me. i am experiencing a real sense of urgency re. aligning with my purpose and right livelihood at the moment – the energy began to arrive in December when I resigned from my job in an organic cafe and has been instensifying ever since. I have been in therapy since Jan, journaling as much as I can, meditating, practising self-care (though still struggling with nurturing my body – i have always been very cerebral/ spirit orientated) and i am reading lots and feel so privileged to have the time to read and expand. I have been visioning my dream life and i feel i am nearer but there are still set-backs, periods of high-energy, great productivity and then depressions and lulls: but energised, expansive days have been more predominant
Of late I have been experiencing a fighting energy which is centred in my heart, it is nothing violent, it is determination, a heart impelled determination. I’m not entirely sure where this determination will lead me yet but it is good to feel it again, it is so resilient . I’m also aware of lots of friends, friends of friends shifting too, it can get scary at times but I know it is a positive shift. Thanks for your wisdom and support Jenna.
‘laziness’ yes, I am anything but lazy at the moment and yet it is difficult to find the words to express what I am doing when people ask. I have so much to do (heartwork, healing, reading, connecting, visioning, listening) but it is so challenging to be in social situations here in the South of England where one of the first things I am asked is what are you doing?’so what have you been doing with yourself lately?’ by which they mean ‘work’ ‘gainful employment.’ (this was hardly ever a conversation opener where i lived in scotland). It’s so hard to respond, it’s a rare occasion when i would feel comfortable sharing the kind of thoughts i have shared here without feeling that i’m going to be judged as a ‘flake’, somehow insubstantial. i think it’s a lot to do with the predominance of a status, ego driven society i live in here and dance away from as much as possible
but that’s taking some skill! Any suggestions Jenna? maybe i could just let them think i’m being lazy? Domine – i was a teacher, high school and left teaching 10 years ago now, i have felt a lot of pressure since then to take another ‘respectable’ job, to be traditionally ‘career’ minded but simply haven’t had the energy to move in this direction. Instead i’ve been exploring therapies and creativity, the psyche, and feel immense gratitude to have re-discovered what i am innately passionate about – i hope in time to be making a living with these talents. 5 years of downtime on a scottish island helped enlighten me, i became aware that there were other ways of being in this world and i discovered that they suited me better than the fast track.
Hi Nikki,
I love how you have re-discovered yourself and your passions – not an easy thing to do, and it must feel great! I relate well to your not knowing what to say to others – changes taking place on a deep personal level sometimes can’t easily be described! I try to go easy on myself….I’m learning as I go. Thanks for sharing your story.
JENNA, I AM ON SERIOUS OVERLOAD! BUT I HAVE NO FINANCIAL WAY OF GAINING MORE KNOWLEGE, OR MAKING CONTACT WITH YOU! I AM NOT SURE WHAT TO DO! BUT I HAVE BEEN READY TO FIND OUT MY PURPOSE IN LIFE, AND GET ON WITH IT! IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN HELP ME WITH!
Hi Cory, Take a look at my website and you’ll find a contact form and also some low-cost support solutions (like my self-study programs) that will help get you started, okay? Warmly, Jenna
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