Our hearts and what they beat for.
not a philosophical cooking blog
Hi. The last time we met each other in this way was in March. I can’t even begin to fathom encapsulating for you all of the life that has happened for me since. What I can say is that I went into a nine month cocoon (what a gestation period, eh?) a weary caterpillar and feel as though I’ve come out a wide-eyed, expansive, energized butterfly.
In June I moved from Empire, MI to Traverse City. I think about my move inland often. I think about how the editor of my photoessay shared with me that the allure of my writing and my specific connection to the lake is so compelling because of the personal emotions I’m tasked with processing in its presence.
While I’ve never felt so seen as a writer, I can’t help but think that, despite the resistance I initially felt to moving to Traverse City from a small beach village in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Forest, that maybe it was time to take a break from that work for a while. Maybe in my move I was being gifted rest. Maybe I was being gifted the opportunity to receive. To reep the benefits of all of the space I’d created within my self and my life for all that is meant for me to come through.
Maybe the lake sent me away like a mother to her reluctant child with a waiving arm; “go! have fun!”
These days I’m less reluctant. Though I miss the daily two hour beach walks, and have taken barely a photo since being here, I’m still living my life. It just looks different.
A photoessay of mine was published in a local publication here called The Boardman Review. I started dating a wonderful man. I cut 14 inches of hair off of my head. I’ve been learning how to cook. I performed a coup at my corporate job - unsuccessfully, but boy did it really stir some shit up. I have facilitated an incredible amount of change in the interpersonal and relational dynamics within my leadership team and have helped business growth tremendously. I feel like this job has been schooling for me, preparing me for the relaunch of my own business as well as acting as a training ground for the consulting that I’ve always wanted to do, including understanding and working with business energetics.
All that to say, something I’m most delighted about is the official launch of my business, Field Work .
Field Work is a container for holistic mind/body based executive coaching, business consulting and energetics, Akashic Record readings, and my newest offering - The School of Records - where I teach students how to read their own Records. I’m currently moving through a beta version of the School of Records, but that will officially be launching in December with a January start date.
With this relaunch, I feel like I’ve crossed a bridge. I’m looking at all of the same vantage points, just from a new perspective. Though I’ve felt this business brewing in me for some time now, in a matter of just three weeks (meaning just three weeks ago) I sat down, conceptualized the School of Records, gathered participants, and created the coursework. This week marked week one, and seven people are currently journeying with me through this experiment.
It feels nourishing to allow this to guide me closer and closer to the life that I want to create. I feel put on a clearer path. Which is ironic, because the landing page of my website says “putting you on a path through the Akashic Records.”
And all I really did was surrender to and trust the timing, and get the hell out of my own way.
I also prioritized my desires. The yearnings of my heart.
The Akashic Records are continually teaching me about desire. Especially that we’re all desirous of such similar things that we can’t possibly be as separate from one another as we tend to think we are.
The resounding themes of desire in all of my data collecting in doing readings for people through Field Work as well as teaching people how to read the Akashic Records in The School of Records, are as follows:
• Authenticity/Truth
• Trust - in self, in presence, in life and where it has you and the process it is ushering you along, in an external force like God/Source/Universe
• Deeper connection to intuition
• Clarity of purpose
• Love and relationships
The beauty for me of working in the Akashic Records is that it reminds me that we all have access to the five bullet points listed above. There is not a soul alive that can not access what is required in the multitude of their beingness to discover the answers to the questions that they seek.
I’m not talking about the magic key to open the enchanted castle that contains the answers to life’s most pressing questions. That key doesn’t exists, or is locked far, far away from us humans.
I’m talking about the magical moments of revelation, no matter how big or small, that lead you to knowing the next action to take or a knowing of what to let go of next. I’m talking about the unconscious belief that is exposed that may be holding you back in some way.
I’m talking about the things you encounter on your path that create clarity, or a moment of knowing, or a split second of unbridled bravery that drives your next move. Breadcrumbs on the treasure map of life, leading you from one check point to the next and the next and the next.
When you break it all down, we all want and need and desire the same things. What we all seem to forget, to some degree or another, is that we all have the mechanisms to get there. And they’re much more accessible than we think.
Anyway, you’re likely to see me around these parts more. I’ll be rambling about my affinity toward the heart, and what our hearts beat for. My experience in my corporate job as a Director of Operations, and how it not only provided a level of rest, safety, and security I haven’t felt in a long time, but also about how it felt like schooling that I get paid a salary to attend every day in preparation for reentering entrepreneurship. I might even write lengthy comparisons between my cooking lessons and how they philosophically parallel to my life.
Just going to view Field Notes as a Forrest Gumpy box of chocolates.
Tallyho,
Jenny