What’s knocking at your door…besides the delivery person with another Amazon package?
Which opportunity is seeking you out? Is it love, a new job, a change in lifestyle, a new place to live, a new friend or something even more wildly exhilarating?!
In 2014 I became a life coach. I loved coaching from the start. When I asked for five practice clients when starting my certification, I was shocked that people actually wanted me to coach them. I loved coaching so much I thought I should just pay them to do it.
Then my coaching clients asked me to do workshops in Amman. I started offering those in 2015 and loved conducting women’s circles and workshops so much that I again wondered how is it that I’m getting paid to do what I love?
I kept going. I kept coaching. I kept learning new ways to work with people as a ‘soul worker.’ I learned how to lead meditations and how to lead circles. I got certified to do Reiki energy healing and to open the Akashic Records. Maybe I just remembered how to do all of these things. Even so, I still wasn’t sure how to offer my own special sauce mix of all of those things.
In September 2018 I sat with a group of friends in NYC. “You’re so intuitive,” said one friend I’ll call Maria. “The world needs your intuitive gifts, especially now.”
“If you could print a business card with any title on it, what would it say?” asked another friend.
“Healer,” I said for the first time aloud. “Whether I’m working with people in a corporate environment, working with the Akashic Records, coaching, doing my stand up routine, or even writing blogs, it’s all about healing.”
That same night Maria sent me a message. “When you decide what you want to offer in terms of healing, I’d like to sign up.” That was September 18th, 2018.
I thanked her. I said I would put something together and send it to her.
Weeks passed.
Maria didn’t give up. She knocked on my door again (via text) on October 15th. “Could you do your intuitive healing work with me by phone?” she asked. “I have several people who want to sign up to work with you (including me)!”
Oh shit! She hasn’t forgotten! Maria even knows other people who want to work with me? But I don’t even know what I’m offering?
Another month passed. Maria gently probed once again, “Do you have my correct email address? I want to make sure I haven’t missed your email!”
Holy cow, it had been over two months since our initial discussion. I so much wanted to work with Maria and her friends, and I wanted to offer myself up in new ways. I just wasn’t sure how and I wasn’t sure what I’d call it or if I’d even be good at it.
At the end of November, Maria became my first official “intuitive coaching” client. I opened up her Akashic Records and blended coaching with Reiki distance energy healing along with the rich wisdom and energies of the Akashic Records. Since that time I’ve worked with several other people individually, some in person in NYC and others via phone. I’ve also led circles in NYC and a 6-week Zoom tele-class teaching others how to unlock the power of their intuitive gifts. I’m still wondering how I got those people to sign up and how they continue to find me since I still don’t have a business card…
Then there’s all the testimonials from clients:
“I’ve spent money on worse things,” said an unpaid actor who was unharmed in the making of this blog.
“I didn’t know what to expect from my Akashic Records session, and my expectations were low so Kimberly exceeded those,” said another unpaid actor.
“I knew one day Kimberly would stop being an Interculturalist (whatever that is) and do something I could actually explain to my friends,” said my mother. Sorry, Mom.
“Thank you for another eye opening experience in your group last night. It was enjoyable and by far the best meditation experience(s) I’ve had in New York. Please keep doing this wonderful work.” N.H. a real person in NYC
“Your 6-week course was a gift to my soul. When can we set up the next healing session?” said Maria, another real person who goes by another name and who I hope is smiling as she reads this blog. 🙂
“When are you going to tell people you are ‘open for business’?” Maria recently asked me.
You’d think the grim reaper was a-knockin’ at my door! What’s been knocking is about to knock down the door, and I’ll be laying there in my jammies eating gluten free chocolate cupcakes wondering what to put on my business cards!
After a session or a circle I dance my way through the streets of New York City and think, Well, that was just another lucky one-off experience. Crazy Mofos are paying me to do this work, but I’d pay them! Although this work is my calling, it’s like I wouldn’t answer the goddamn phone! It’s taken me many months, or even my whole 45 years on the planet, to catch up to the fact that maybe, just maybe this is what I’m supposed to be doing. Not just as a hobby, or a side business. Maybe this is exactly what I should be focusing my time and energy on now because it’s my true calling.
Here’s what I know for sure because Oprah and Deepak have said it to me in their meditations a hundred times:
What YOU are seeking is seeking YOU!
Your DEEPEST DESIRES are your DESTINY!
If something similar is happening in your life, listen to its’ whispers, which will eventually become calls, knocks or even shouts.
They are the voice of your soul.
Pay attention to what makes you feel alive and what makes your soul sing out for more. And don’t be caught with a mouth half-full of cupcakes in your jammies with a green facial mask on when the door gets knocked down. Trust me on that.
So I’m shouting it from the rooftops: “I’M OPEN FOR BUSINESS, Y’ALL!!!!” … at least until my neighbors tell me to ‘shut up’ or call the police. Maybe I’ll just keep it to an email newsletter and this blog for now because who cares about business cards anyway. And because I like my neighbors.
I hope that YOU also continue to step into your deepest desires, that you know that your gifts are absolutely essential part of what your community, your family and our world needs NOW, and that when LOVE, OPPORTUNITY and FUN come knocking at your door, YOU’LL ANSWER, too!!!
Rock on!!
