Authenticity isn’t a strategy
It is your path forward.
There is one week left in May, and I’m amazed at the edges and growth that have been revealed and lived this month.
I think large, awakening shifts happen from time to time in a swath of a moment.
That’s been what’s true for me.
The theme for the month
I love to spend time teaching and writing to a theme or a word for a month. This is a practice I cultivated in the thick of leading weekly coaching sessions for the last almost 4 years, and May’s theme has been… Authenticity.
I’ve built and created a coaching library that doesn’t just span time, it holds my own transformation. I have left every coaching video up because I want my private clients to have access to each part of my path because it might be exactly what they need.
I will continue to add to my coaching library because it’s a real, living and breathing body of work that holds tremendous value. It is its own form of education. I’m connecting to it from the nostalgic place of graduations, moving forward in life, celebrating, and entering into summer.
A summer to savor
I believe in a summer to savor. One where you lose yourself in time, feel the sun on your skin, and are reminded of your own childhood adventures as you were becoming.
I’ve been talking about the present moment this month. I’ve been navigating and finding my way through to the other side of grief. I’ve been shedding and rising. In essence, I’ve been made new.
I believe we each are made to reinvent and become new creations. We are made to live and learn and rise from it. We are made to belong and weep and lament. We are made to dream new dreams and meet ourselves in these moments and to feel our own aliveness, whether it’s joy or sorrow that’s splitting our outer shells.
I’ve found pieces of myself in my work when all else has seemed lost this month. I’ve re-engaged my creativity when despair has crept in. I’ve turned to beauty and making just as I have in every one of my chapters in years past when I’ve needed to move forward and inch my way back into the light.
Your authenticity isn’t a strategy
What I want to offer you is authenticity isn’t a strategy. It’s the way you allow what’s real for you to matter and then how you infuse that into your living and working and your world around you. I know this can be hard. Especially when you’ve been conditioned to put others’ needs before your own and perform your success.
Authenticity isn’t a strategy, it is your path forward. And the way to create a path is to begin walking it.
Let’s walk into June together. Let’s take one step at a time. I’m trying something new on Youtube. Each week on my channel, I will be releasing 5 short videos on things I have learned over the last decade. (What a joy to be starting my second decade.)
The videos are kept short and conversational covering the things I’ve had the gift of learning across my coaching career and my own personal path. It’s not a polished production - it’s a warm mug and kids in the background and just someone who has done the work sitting down to share it.
What’s real for you
I believe an empowered, beautiful life is available to you. I believe you are absolutely worth building it for. It begins with your authenticity and what’s real for you.
I hope to see you on my channel! Videos will start dropping on Tuesdays. I invite you to pull up a chair with me, gather, and be met on your own path by someone who is walking right alongside you.
What a month of creativity and shifts. I’m grateful to be traveling it with you.
With care, Rachel
The most important work isn’t more strategy. It’s learning to exist well within yourself, your story, and your life and work. Light a Candle is where that begins. Five gentle prompts, completely free, waiting for you whenever you’re ready. 🕯️