What I Remembered in Bali… A Reflection On My Entrepreneurial Journey

I have just got home from 3 weeks in Bali, an interesting feat for a mother of 3 and owner of one of the busiest natural health clinics in our home town of Newcastle.

When I went to Bali, it was with every intention of working on my business, having all the uninterrupted time in the world… and I did for 3 days.

I pushed, drove, strived, did heaps of work…

But then, I …

… slowed down and got into flow.

… took part in an incredible Women’s Retreat exploring femininity.

… experienced a sense of being me – the whole, best version of me – like I hadn’t experienced in a long time.

And it wasn’t a new, improved version of me,

It was a remembering.

It was re-aligning all the pieces of my soul and coming back to who I really am and always have been.

I am reminded of the quote

‘To remember who you are, you need to forget who they told you to be’

Have you ever created a job, or a life for yourself, that when you sit back and look at it, you notice how trapped you are in something that isn’t entirely you?

Well, that was me, and I didn’t even know it.

Whilst exploring femininity I reconnected with those goddess-like qualities of dance, creativity and playing with the energy of the unseen and intuition.

After pondering the word ‘remember’ I noticed the similarity and opposite to ‘dismember’.

If ‘dismember’ is to pull apart from limb to limb, then remember could be viewed as finding all the pieces and putting back to whole again.

That’s what it felt like too. Like somewhere along the way I had left pieces of my soul in different parts of my life. Like I had shut off or shunned parts of me because they were to woo-woo or out there for my scientific, masculine, driven self.

What I found when I went exploring in my inner world and through the flow of conversations and kismet connections I made in Bali was that all those pieces make me whole, and I can be of more service when I am in my truth, and I can be a healthier more balanced version of me when I acknowledge all of me.

So I am embracing all of me, my masculine, logical, scientific, driven side whilst honouring and integrating my feminine flow, my connection with what is unseen, my creativity, intuition and compassion.

What parts of you have you left behind on the road to success and drive, that if you re-membered them, could change the way you show up in the world?