Embark on a journey of self-discovery as I delve into the tranquil realms of slow business, finding solace in online courses, and battling the bureaucratic woes of immigration. Join me as I unveil and launch a new service amidst the auspicious energy of the Lunar New Year.
Through the endless inspirational space that is Pinterest, where posts are quiet and call to you rather than yell for your attention like other social media spheres, I have discovered Soul&Self.com and I feel as though I have found myself in the process. Everything I have been writing about lately – slow living, slow motherhood, finding the right balance between my spiritual creativity and abundance without over-extending myself, and searching for a course that resonated on a soul level – is spoken to, in this space.
I feel seen and I feel heard thanks to this website. I feel as if the Universe showed this to me in my Pinterest feed to say: we are listening, and here is a path towards that stillness you seek. And I feel drawn to taking her online course: growing a business without social media. This is exactly what I need, and it confirms what I have been feeling these past twenty days as I have been choosing, consciously, to dedicate myself more to my writing: that blogging authentically can be a way to draw people to my work and to make a ripple in the Universe at the same time. And that the exhaustion of social media – and selling your services – is valid and not unique to me, and there is an organic, God-driven way to grow my business in a manner that doesn’t feel pushy or like selling for my sensitive spirit.
The course is a small investment in myself but with the way it speaks to my spirit, I believe it is a necessary one (for me and my business). A lot of these slow business “coaches” I see online do not meet two important points: they don’t have children, so they don’t understand the day of a mother (and the need for our self-care spaces to not be filled with work), and they don’t know how to work for spiritual businesses run by introverted people. Soul&Self seems to get it.
I am an immigrant in France. I use the word immigrant instead of expat because an expatriate has intentions to return to their home country (Canada, for me). I don’t have intentions to return to Canada, and I hope to eventually get nationality here in France (not much longer to go!). And while I love living here and building a life here, the bureaucracy and dealing with members of the bureaucracy is the most soul-draining and nerve-wracking part of making a life here. I’m due for a renewal of my residency card, the only problem (and this is a big one): the website isn’t working for me. I have shown this (through screenshots) and told this to technical assistances and to the people who process my file, but they aren’t listening to me.
They continuously say I am “clicking the wrong thing” despite me showing them exactly what steps I am taking on the website and how it “switches to the wrong thing” on it’s own, no matter what actions I take. I have gone in circles with individuals for two months now and my residency card is nearing expiration. No one is listening to me and that is the most frustrating thing of all. It is making me irritable, it is causing anxiety in my heart-center, it is making me short-tempered and ruining my days. It is not the first time I have been through a situation like this (last time was during the horrible C-word), and each time I try to remind myself that patience is a virtue in France, but each round seems to get more and more horrendous rather than better, despite my knowledge and experience of the process.
Today, in my anger, I booked an appointment at the office that is 1h30 away from us just because I can’t take it anymore: if they will not listen to me via email, they will be forced to listen to me in person and consider my file in person. As any mother knows, this chaos is unneeded in an already busy day – and a one and half hour drive to an appointment with a baby is never a joyful outing. I think that’s the part that irks me the most: do these people really think I want to go there in person to solve this? Do they really think I am so incompetent that I would purposefully avoid the convenience of doing this all online? As if! That’s my saving grace; not interacting with people in person when I am busy with a kid. I just want this to be over with (so I can move onto the next stress: nationality).
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year – and this year it is the year of the Wood Dragon. While 1988 (my birth year) is associated with the Year of the Earth Dragon, I am actually a Rabbit due to where my birthday falls in accordance with the Lunar New Year of t1988. Regardless, the Wood Dragon is said to bring with it opportunities, challenges, and great change.
Quite fittingly, yesterday – at 2am China time – I launched a new service. Lunar New Year begins on the first new moon of February (which we are presently in) and it represents a new cycle with auspicious luck when projects are started on this new moon. Though it was completely unintentional, perhaps it is an omen and will be conducive to the manifestation of abundance for my family, abundance in my spiritual work, and for the collective through healing.
The service I’ve launched is called the Awakened Mama Life Offering.
A life offering is an all-in-one tune-in to understand yourself and your emotional, mental, and spiritual needs – as indicated by Source. I ask your Soul Team a question about various aspects of your life and listen to what you need right this moment. There is no external insight or opinion; I do not speak or scribe, I share what I receive. What you receive one month will be completely different from the next, as our journey as mothers is different from moment to moment. It can also be tailored to womban who are not yet mothers but who wish to be.
An Awakened Mama Life Offering consists of 10 different items, total. I will ask your Soul Team about:
- Advice and support for more soulful parenting
- Insight on satisfying your emotional needs
- Insight on meeting any physical or mental needs
- Your mindfulness and self-care needs
- Focused advice for Spiritual growth, advice for following your life path, or insight into your soul’s purpose
- Rituals, items, or advice for reconnecting to Source
- Chakra that requires current attention and why
- A past-life tune-in and the attention that piece of your karmic history requires
- Feminine spiritual guidance for growth on your motherhood journey and further bonding with your child(ren)
- A final line or quote from Source to round up the reading
It is presently my most expensive service but it is still offered at a reasonable price comparable to similar life review and insight services by other healers at 70EUROS. I also believe this will be my greatest energetic work, thus far in my healer journey. I’m really excited about it and I am excited for the Awakened Mamas who will be pulled to this service. If you are not yet a mother but wish to be, and feel called to this service, I will connect with your Spirit Baby and gain insight into how to best ready yourself for this spirit.
If you want to know anything more about this service, you know you can contact me via email at awakenedlittlesouls[@]gmail.com and I’m happy to answer any questions (or just chat!).
Last night, I dreamt I was pregnant. Last time I dreamt I was pregnant, I was pregnant. This time, it’s not biologically possible at the moment, but these signs of number two are everywhere. She (I believe it’s a she) shows up in my readings with spiritual advisors, she shows up in shops, she shows up in conversations that I have and my husband has, and now she’s showing up in my dreams. I am not ready for her, yet. I want a bit more time with R and I want him to foster more independence before I am ready to share what I have with another. Ideally, I’d like him to start at school, as well. He is obsessed with his baby doll and wants to show the “bayyyyyy” everything he does, so I know he will be the same little leader when he’s a big brother.
I know she is waiting on the sidelines for one little screw up, and it makes me laugh because I think it says a lot about her personality, as well. I am using she because that’s what I feel it will be, but I always remind people that our spirit babies can change their minds on entry or even in utero. It’s all related to lessons, needs, and karmic and generational ties.
I am pulled to a lot of reorganization and moving around in the house, right now. I heard my spiritual advisor, Carol, in my head as I wrote that: clear, cut, release. Perhaps I am doing this to make room for what is to come, physically/tangibly, but also spiritually.
Maybe it is the gloomy weather, the air of lazy that is taking over the home, or the anxiety of government related chaos but I’m feeling this is the end of the rope for this blog, today. I will pull from The Secret Language of the Light oracle deck as a way to round off my writing:
23. Nourish – You are love, and you are loved. The divine cleansing of Gaia that is expanding the love of all. Honour your temple, your body, for it is the physical manifestation of your soul. In doing so, you honour Earth, for she is the physical manifestation of Gaia.
Perhaps my body is calling for today to be my day of rest. Perhaps I have shared enough with the world through the birthing of my project and now I need to go back to slow again.
xx C
Awakened Little Souls 
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