How has it really been going since leaving corporate?
Hello all! It’s been a while since I’ve posted a personal update; tonight this just seemed to come up for me when I was meditating.
How have things really been since leaving my 8-4 position?
It’s funny to think that back when I was 25 years old and I got this job, I was really wanting a good paying career that I could stay at long term, and that also fit my education. I ended up getting into a lab tech spot at a food processing company (which if you know me, you know this already). Now, at 31 years old I have really grown past this mindset for a few reasons:
1) I realized my children come first, and how influential those first years are that you have with them. It is not something you can get back, ever.
2) I have found true faith in God, not just going to church and thinking yes of course I believe in God. Instead, actually understanding what a true relationship with God is. Then, following the signs he gives you, and even if they are scary, jumping towards your path with full faith and trust that He will support you. This also changed the way I looked at money as well.
3) I no longer wanted to participate in one of the many toxic systems that is currently making us sick. Sick not just from the foods created by the system, but also from the lifestyle corporate life provides. God wasn’t telling me you need to do this for money or else no money will ever come to you, I had finally moved past that block.
So back to current time - I have now been out of my job for almost 6 months, and honestly the only word to describe it had to be AMAZING. The fact that I can be with my children at least 90% of waking hours instead of like 20% in itself has been SO worth it. I can finally focus more on their nutrition and balancing them as humans before they go to school. I am able to focus on cooking more nutritious meals for the family, and feel I have more time to spend on the home as well. I am able to be there for all of my different family members and pour energy into whom ever may be in a time of need. Even at the new business I opened, every conversation I have on my Facebook, website, email, text, or in person at my store is always about healing and really helping people through the most challenging times of their lives. Some people just want to learn more about how to support their families through natural medicine, and many are truly struggling out there. Either way, it has been such a blessing being able to just be there for people, and know that because God called me to this path, I will be supported.
Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t always easy. There have been times I wondered how I would be supported and if I was being crazy thinking I could make a living doing something I love and living a life that inspires me. However, God kept showing up and showing me that I could trust support would keep coming in for me. Here are some examples:
1) I have had clients at my business every week, and every time I think things could be slowing down someone books another session on my Calendly link and I get to meet another lovely soul <3
2) My husband is able to continue to work as he was before I quit. This in itself is great support. He helps me be able to continue going to school and makes sure the main bills are all paid.
3) I was hired part time at a family business on his side, where my boss is very flexible with me and truly wants to support me in my business. Many weeks I only work a few hours, but I am always able to work it around my family and my business.
4) I am able to do an Amazon flex route if needed.
5) People have called me and offered to pay me to do off the wall things like watch their kids, or dogs.
6) People who I have used to practice on for school, many of them will tip me to express gratitude.
7) Many people who pay for my services or supplements will also tip, which was unexpected.
8) Family members will offer to buy me lunch or dinner.
9) I end up recieving money through a completely unexpected way, many times I feel it is because of the helpful energy I am giving out to others in need.
Through these avenues as well as others, God has shown me “See, I told you I would provide for you if you just followed my lead.” It has done wonders continuing to build my faith in God in general, but also to show me that where God guides, he provides. It is no longer just a saying for me, it is something I am currently experiencing in my life. I now know that I am doing what I am supposed to be doing in this season, and things will just continue to unfold and blossom for me.
I thank God for leading me down this path and to all the other wonderful souls who are used as a catalyst to support me on this journey and have been so kind as to be there in one way or another. And I don’t just mean monetarily either. Some people are there to support in an emotional way or a mental way and I cannot express enough gratitude for all of those people. There have been family, friends, and new friends I have met at school that have all been wonderful and I truly feel the love. I have also heard that there have been those who are very non-supportive too, but to me those people are only showing their own insecurities and hopefully eventually they will begin their own healing as well <3
So what does my life look like anymore? It looks like being with my children, cleaning the house, cooking meals, playing outside, driving to appointments, working a few jobs including running a business, going to school full time, being pregnant, sometimes getting frustrated, overcoming that and being grateful, traveling often to help others, and finding the joys in and around all that life has thrown at me. When talking to my husband, I had to laugh saying “Honestly, I am working just as hard as I was when working full time, but at least now I know my efforts and energy are directed at the right things.” This alone had raised my energy levels, and made the work not so miserable anymore, since everything I do in life now is for a good reason and purpose. I am no longer trying to please the wrong man, as in the man who is unhealed himself and trying to climb the corporate ladder, willing to step on anyone in his/her way on the way up what is thought to be the American dream. Instead, I am pleasing the man upstairs.
So, how has it really been going since leaving corporate?
I can’t really use any other word to describe it besides truly AMAZING.
Xo Amber
