Ivy SeaZine - Big Transformation and Renewing Your Life

November 11 , 2009 - Vol. 8, No. 27
Big Transformation & Renewing Your Life

How do we let go of the life we planned, to make room for the authentic life that's waiting for us?

It all started for me in late 2000, when I experienced a medical emergency while traveling in Turkey.

Though I didn't know it then, in a matter of moments, everything had changed for me. It would take me several years, and radical life changes, to even begin to know what that meant.

When I returned to the United States after that fateful experience, I had a brick-and-mortar consultancy to run, a staff to manage, a busy docket of organizational change and communication clients to serve, my first book being published, and the rest of 'life as I'd known it'.

Yet I found that the things that had motivated me for so long no longer did. My motivation, inspiration, joy, creativity, and vision seemed to have gone missing. It was as if I'd returned home, but everything was foreign to me.

This, needless to say, was a real crisis - a bona fide Dark Night of the Soul. But then, I didn't know what that meant, either.

Well, I know a bit more about that journey now.

Over the years since, through a series of tumultuous changes and bona fide Heroine's Journey -- of which the Dark Night is one phase -- I've radically changed my mind, transformed old habits of thought, tracked unhelpful energy patterns, and more.

Through my own life-experience and the guidance of wise teachers, I've learned so much more about the powerful connection between our bodies, our minds, and our spirits -- and the absolute necessity that those are aligned. And I've learned much more about how powerful nature of our minds affects our experience and what we create.

As a result, I'm wholeheartedly committed to sharing what I've learned with others moving through transition, change, and transformation, and being called to embrace new ways and new visions of what's possible -- as so many of us are now.

There is an ancient wisdom saying from the writings of St. Paul: Be renewed by the changing of your mind. There are others that speak of that change starting with a change of heart -- that the longest journey we'll take is from our heads to our hearts.

And it also couldn't be more challenging. That's probably why it's called a Hero's Journey. But the Hero, or Heroine, gains gifts in the journey, too.

How do we even begin to shift the habits of thought that are so deeply entrenched that we hardly notice them -- yet are no longer serving us in these times?

How do we change our experience, and move into new possibilities and visions, by renewing and changing our minds and hearts?

How do we 'let go of the life we planned, so we can live the authentic life that's waiting for us', to paraphrase the great mythologist, Joseph Campbell?

In this SeaZine you'll find links to some of these resources -- including audio programs and an online resource portal.

For those of you who prefer more personalized work, I'd be delighted to co-create with you through individual 'Transformation Mojo' sessions and organizational consultations.

Just follow the link below for these and more.

Send me an email to explore personal, project, or organizational consultations, and browse Ivy Sea Online for a wealth of helpful resources, upcoming audio- and tele-classes, PDF workbooks, and other treasures.

Wishing you very well!

Jamie Walters, Transformation-Guide, Inspiration & Insight Catalyst, Author, and Founder, Ivy Sea

The VIP Collection and the Feminine Mojo V-School offer a variety of audio programs to support you in your transition or transformation journey.

Feminine Mojo V-School audio programs explore Feminine gifts that help us to understand, intuit, and navigate transformation journeys a bit more confidently.

There are also audio programs that outline the 'descent into the Underworld' -- the Dark Night -- and provide a roadmap of sorts given to us in the ancient myths.

New audio programs are added throughout the year, so there's always fresh material to support you in your journey.

The VIP Collection includes audio programs on energy and intuition management, visioning, visionary entrepreneuring and solopreneuring, and more.

You can access both with a Feminine Mojo V-School membership, or purchase the VIP Collection membership separately.

After many years of consulting with entrepreneurs and organizations on communication, vision, and mindset while moving through change and transformation, I've learned that there are 'behind the scenes' reasons why change often doesn't work -- or isn't as graceful as it might be.

I created the Energetics of Change & Transformation at Ivy Sea Online to share a few perspectives and insights, and can work with you through personal or organizational consultation to explore these issues as well.

And based on my own experience and explorations with the Hero's Journey and Dark Night of the Soul, I created the Spiritual Awakening Resource Portal to share resources and links that are helpful to the journeyer -- and were helpful in my own journey.

My Sophia's Children blog includes a variety of entries on the Feminine, including the Dark Night and Hero's Journey to reclaim aspects of our Feminine nature that have for too long been submerged and call for remembrance.

You'll find articles on the Black Madonna, the "Dark Places of Wisdom", and more.

TELE-SESSIONS & CONSULTATIONS (Individuals and Organizations)

You can schedule a Transformation Mojo session-series, or explore other aspects of your vision, communication, transition, and 'return to the Feminine' in other types of Mojo session-series and consultations.

You'll learn more about some of these Mojo sessions and consultations here.

Or Jamie an email at info 'at' ivysea 'dot' com to explore and schedule a tele-consultation or series, or arrange for a more indepth project or organizational consultation.

Sincerely,
Jamie S. Walters
Founder, Ivy Sea
Creatrix and Publisher, Ivy Sea Online & the Sophia's Children Blog
Author, Big Vision, Small Business (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)