The Training Room Isn’t Glamorous

Tender

Apr 2

This share is for the moments when it’s not glamorous and that can feel deeply uncomfortable.

But whatever that ‘it’ is for you right now, I’m here to remind you that it truly only shows up when you’re ready (whether we fully realize it or not).

When I was preparing to launch Tender, I’d heard from a lot of women, how tender their hearts happened to feel at that time. How in some shape or form, they’d never felt so uncertain about what they were here to do, how to show up, to be. Maybe this is by default of the age myself and the majority of women in my circles find ourselves at (late 30s to late 40s). Maybe it’s the incredible amount of uncertainty in the world (also likely).

Regardless of the why, at one time, what may have felt so crystal clear, for one reason or many right now, it is not.

That feels tender. And so human of us to feel.

These seasons look different for everyone, in every chapter of our personal book of life.

But here is what is also true. At every now moment, we have a choice point, something I was deeply reminded of over and over again while recording daily audio drops for Tender.

Every time I sat to record, was a choice point. If I’m being totally honest with myself, and with you, there are few times in my life, where I had felt so tender. Day in, and day out, while producing this 21-day offering, I was called to step up and receive my own medicine, to apply my own “tools”, to choose the perspective through which I was going to experience, process and digest life unfolding before me.

Months prior to launching and recording these clips, I made a list of 21 seemingly random words—some inspired by Human Design, some inspired by the Gene Keys, some words that I simply felt in resonance with on the day I made the list. The intent, to offer new perspectives, practices, new lenses through which to reflect upon how we can experience [insert word] in relation to even our most tender seasons or chapters.

And what was so incredible, and the best reminder, is that no matter the discomfort, producing these audios was absolutely where I was meant to be. Call it will we will—serendipitous, coincidental, ironic—but every day, each word was beautifully something I was presently experiencing.

This is the thread that is woven throughout Tender, throughout our lives. Nothing is by accident. Nothing is really that coincidental at all. Everything is in perfect alignment, no matter how uncomfortable it sometimes might seem.

So many times over the course of this creation, doubt crept in. And yet, I still showed up every single day, despite the doubt.

Because when we are called to embody what we offer, share, teach, the embodiment lessons appear on our doorstep until we choose to experience them.

I reminded myself this:
God doesn’t doubt the vision.
Only I do that.

And THAT is a choice.

God gives us the process so that we may exercise our faith in that which we cannot yet see.

And that doesn’t always look glamorous.

The training room isn’t glamorous.

But it is honest.
It is real.
It is overflowing with blessings, if and when we choose to see them.

This is why I created Tender. To remember, that even when we're feeling tender, even when we think we’re up past our eyeballs on the training grounds, we can still create from the purity of our hearts. We can still notice beauty, and we can still and experience joy. We can still be oh-so-deeply reminded that the path is perfectly laid out.

God doesn’t doubt the vision.

This is your reminder to exercise your faith in the unseen.

So ask yourself this:
What if I shifted my perspective on what I am currently experiencing?
What if I released the pressure valve?
What if I allowed the refined process to be witnessed by others in real-time?
What if I trusted this moment as much as I trusted the desired outcome?

Tend to your tender seasons, and shift your perspective on how experiences arise. Even when it’s not glamorous.

Consider 21 days of these shares in audio format, accompanied by journal prompts and practical application for your day to day, an experience in exactly these kinds of reflections. We only ever have the now moment.

If this style of contemplation speaks to you, Soothe School’s free Telegram channel begins regular audio drops on Easter weekend. Tune in here.