“Trust synchronicity, trust intuitive living” were my first thoughts of belonging today. Belonging is born in a space of trust, a space of hospitable acknowledgement.
I was guided to look up a quote and this is what I got… which matches up with my theme for today: belonging in my creative entrepreneurial business.
At the end of the CS Lewis “Chronicles of Narnia” series, this quote appears:
“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”
I started my creative entrepreneurial business in 1999. I started as a Writer/Life Purpose Coach/Speaker who went on to facilitate groups and teach classes. I absolutely adored it and thrived until things fell apart in 2007/8.
Since that time, I haven’t been able to reclaim the earlier magic of my business. Back then, much of my experience was how CS Lewis described a real home, a real country. Combining my work with my (at that time) reclaimed home of theater, I was very, very happy.
Four loss-centered-events happened almost simultaneously. Pertaining to my business, I lost my website due to a miscommunication that couldn’t be fixed right after my son had a surprising diagnosis and I needed to be home with him as my focus right when my mom was diagnosed with cancer and a close friend of mine did what we now call “ghosting.”
I evaporated into myself – and later, when I attempted to bring my business back, I had moderate success off-and-on at best but the magic never returned in the same way. Underneath it all, I recognized some of that was because I had fear of trying and failing and risking a repetition of losses of the magnitude of last time.
Dreams may be deferred and they may go underground.
The best tend to reach back to the surface which is what is happening now. I have several book and journal projects that are nearing completion. With this foundation, I am ready to build my metaphorical business home, again.
I belong here, in my creative entrepreneurial business. This is the land I have been looking for and thanks to this 100 Day project in Belonging, I hadn’t realized that to be the case.
There are 79 more days in 2023. How are you investing these days?
Julie JordanScott is a Creative Life Coach, an award-winning storyteller, actor and poet whose photos and mixed media art graces the walls of collectors across the United States. Her writing has appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers List, the Amazon best sellers list and on American Greetings Holiday cards (and other greeting cards). She currently lives in a manse in Sussex, NJ, where she has recently finished her most recent book project, hugging trees daily and enjoys having random inspirational conversations with strangers.
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