Did you know: The start of midlife has a “soul map”?

One of the gifts of getting older is our ability to reflect and make sense of why things happened the ways they did in the past. Soul Expressions has just published a complimentary guide for women beginning the midlife soul journey, which was born out of my own look back to when soul entered my awareness and the journey of awakening and healing that life brought.

I call it a “midlife soul map”.

Thanks to the support I received over the years and my growing interest in universal human developmental cycles, I became fascinated with archetypes and astrology which highlighted major midlife themes that people go through during their 40’s. The more I explored, the more wisdom I found, and the teachings I received about the alchemy of menopause added insight to what I was experiencing.

So to assist women navigating their own middle of life journeys, I’ve summarized the themes of the start-of-midlife soul alchemy into a short guide.

In A Soul Map to Awaken Your Midlife Magic, I’ve named 5 particular inner currents our psyches go through during our 40’s, offering how to spot them and how to be with them. These 5 themes are anchored in the universal archetypal insights found in writings about the soul and midlife, and psychological teachings about the phases of life.

I know that when I was doing my own deep healing work, these themes mapped to my own experiences, along with those of my friends, family, colleagues, clients and mentors.

So if you are reading this and are somewhere around your 40’s (before, during, after), check it out and see if it helps make sense of your own inner currents.

And if you’re ready to jump in for some deep chats with me, get in touch here.

Top 10 Reasons to Align to your Personal Cycles

How are you with change? Like being faced with needing to make big or small changes in life? I’m not talking about the kind of change that comes as a complete surprise – I’m talking about the kind of change where you have choice. Forced change is rarely easy – we are wired to seek comfort. But flowing with change is different and as wisdom teaches us, life IS change.

So the life journey is about change and moving through chapters of our life story characterized by our experiences and what happens as we grow, mature and experience life and loss.

But did you know that those chapters often follow a pattern? A pattern specific to YOU? It’s true. We cycle through change as we grow and learn, and this affects how we feel, think, and act. These patterns are our personal cycles.

As we age, our life takes on different meanings and purposes, so it’s important to check-in once in a while to take stock of where life is headed. Getting to know your personal cycles can help you navigate your way forward as you embrace the ups and downs of careers, relationships, health and more.

So here are 10 reasons why aligning to YOUR cycles can not only support you, but help you make conscious choices that nurture your soul and help make life changes easier: 

Aligning to your personal cycles….

1. Helps you to ride the waves of change with confidence, focus, and purpose.

2. Helps you to learn and integrate the teachings and lessons that come from each life experience.

3. Helps you let go, heal and not get stuck in the past or in challenging life circumstances that breed unhelpful thoughts and feelings.

4. Helps you embrace your future with inspiration and the needs of your heart and soul.

5. Helps you develop an awareness of a larger purpose in life as you grow and connect to your gifts, talents and desires - this brings trust in yourself.

6. Helps you be THE authority of your life, i.e. the one writing your life’s story (vs. others, or being the victim of circumstance).

7. Helps you make sense of, and find peace with life challenges and opportunities.

8. Helps you cultivate a sense of connectedness to the universal experience of being human and your ability to have a good, fulfilling life no matter what happens and according to YOUR desires.

9. Helps you make best friends with YOU!

10. Helps you grow into a relationship with your Soul and Spirit, which can feel pretty darn good!

Lastly, if you really think about it, the natural laws of life (nature) follow fairly predictable cycles - seasons, the daily flow of day and night, the orbits of planets and other objects in our solar system, how our cells work, etc. So we can tune into these cycles and their archetypal teachings to help us find our own personal flow.

When I started tracking my cycles in my 30’s, I was pleasantly surprised to see patterns in my life journey from the time I was born. This helped me see that life follows a spiral, not a straight line, so now knowing my personal cycles helps me flow with life a lot better AND trust my intuition. You have seasons and patterns too…let’s tune into them so you can flow better too.

For help aligning to YOUR cycles, I invite you to check out In Your Element, then book a complementary call to bring your questions about what’s happening in your life as we tune into YOUR unique soul cycles.