16/06/2022
M Y J O U R N E Y
✨PART ONE ✨
How do we nurture our desires and go after our dreams when all we’ve ever known were the moral constructs our society has created?
From a young age we learn it’s important to get a good education so that you can get into a good University, so that you can get a qualification and get a job high paying job, in order to have a family and a house with a white picket fence so that one day when you’re old and you’ve saved enough money you can finally retire and start living your dreams? 🤯🤷🏼♀️
I know that’s not the story for everyone but for many of us we get swept up in these ideals without questioning things…until things don’t work out the way we “thought” they would and no matter how hard we push we keep ending up at the same crossroad 🤷🏼♀️
I learnt this lesson in my mid twenties. I’d just graduated as a primary school teacher and was looking for a full time job. Only to find out that there were a very very limited number of jobs and A LOT of uni graduates all vying for the same jobs.
I spent about a year looking for work on and off while still working my part time job and it just wasn’t happening. I tried and tried but did I really try hard enough? I used to be so conflicted with what I thought I wanted and then I fell into a whole new world of coaching and personal development that.
I had to take a lot of time to reflect on what I truly wanted and make peace with the painful realisation that I’d been sucked into society’s expectations of what I thought my life “should” look like. I realised that teaching was my calling but maybe I needed to think outside the box and apply my knowledge and skills in a different way.
I decided to stop applying for teaching jobs and when people would ask me if I still wanted to be a teacher I would tell them yes, but traditional classroom teaching is not for me.
Suddenly my whole world opened up ✨💜
To be continued…