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Coming home to ourselves…

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Yesterday, as I was connecting with a client, we were reflecting on the experience of “home” in light of my recent move to Brooklyn. She said something really powerful (my clients are brilliant): “I think all of us are just searching for that sense of home in our own way.” The search for clarity, for confidence, to “get it right,” to know why we’re here, etc…these are all just different ways of searching for the experience of being at home in our own skin.

And it hit me: This is what I provide through The Soul-Mapping Journey. I unveil the map of your core essence, I connect you to your inner truth, I guide you home to yourself. And what does it feel like when you come home? It feels like clarity. Like freedom. Like comfort. Like acceptance. It feels like “there is nothing wrong here”…because there isn’t, of course.

Through the Soul-Mapping Journey, my clients come home to everything that matters to them, to what lights them up, and they see clearly, the pieces that have been missing for them, they gain access to new paths to create the fulfilling lives that they are longing for.

When we feel at home in our own skin, we naturally become generous with our love, and life takes a quantum leap. Obstacles turn into opportunities. We create and call forth what we want with ease. Life just flows because we are in flow.

And so, as I navigate this next chapter in my own growth journey, I am acutely aware that even in this new place, I am naturally easing into a sense of home because I am living out the YES inside of my soul.

And I want to create the opportunity for you to have this sense of home wherever you go or whatever dreams you wish to pursue, too. Between now and March 31st, the Soul-Mapping Journey is available at 50% of it’s valued worth through my GoFundMe project. As I ease into this next chapter of my life, I want to make it really easy for you to do the same. Let’s come home together, shall we?

http://www.gofundme.com/MelissaNYCJourney

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If you want to explore and uncover what might be available for you through embarking with me on The Soul-Mapping Journey, I offer a FREE Discovery Session to explore whether or not the program is a right fit for you. In this session you will receive:

– Clarity around your core needs & longings, right now

– Clarity around how you can meet those core needs & longings

– An unleashed desire to pursue your passions

– Unconditional love & acceptance for who you are and where you are in your life

– Full access to tools that you can use to create a life that you love

That’s a lot of deliciousness, no?

Private message me with your request to schedule your free sesh and I will send you my calendar so that we can get that schedule.

https://melissasimonson.com/index.php/soul-mapping/

xo,

:)Melissa

©2014 Melissa Simonson

Love Revelation: Stuck? Confused? Afraid to make a wrong move? I get you. I’m with you on that path.

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A few years ago, I experienced a channeled angelic reading in which I learned about the soul contract I created before coming into this life. It was transformative and profound for me–mostly because what she said resonated with me deeply as truth and also because I had never lived my life believing in or experiencing the presence of angels. I am deeply grateful to Audrey Cole, that amazing channeler, for the gift she offered me through her abilities.

I find myself thinking about this reading today because she expressed very clearly that in creating my soul contract, I asked for the ability to speak my truth in all of its forms and that I am here to be a divine messenger–that the more honest and real that I get in sharing my experience the farther my reach will become, the more people I will touch with my light and the more love I will receive in the process. She expressed that I know deep down that everyone has a story to tell, and I’m here to melt away feelings of shame and unworthiness, and transform them into love.

As tears formed in my eyes and I was nodding YES around every turn, she also said this one thing that is very present with me today: When forming my soul contract, I also asked that I go through LOTS & LOTS of challenging experiences so that I could know what it is to be truly heartbroken, to nearly fail, to have doubts–to have true empathy for the fear of not being a success. And whether I contracted for this in my life or not, I am very aware that I am consciously choosing to take on this move to Brooklyn, NY for this very reason–this move is just one of many choices I’ve made over the course of my life to expand my edges and discover what is truly possible for me…and for you. I want to feel it all, to experience it all so that I have that much more compassion, that much more insight to offer as I hold space for others who are also in the process of pursuing their dreams with everything that they have.

It is for this choice to take on my dreams with such vigor, to thrust myself into the unknown murky waters of transformation that I am so brilliant at what I do. Just like my experience of Audrey Cole, I hold up a mirror for my clients to see ALL of who they are and the sacred gifts they are here to offer, and the actions they can take that are truly in alignment with their soul’s purpose. I create an experience of deep clarity, of beauty, of understanding–and I do it all with a great amount of empathy and gentleness because I continually choose to walk WAY outside of my comfort zone again and again. If I did, indeed, contract to take my life on in this way, I’m SO grateful to my sweet soul for that choice. And on the days where life feels unbearably hard for me, I love to come back to that reminder: Oh yeah. I chose this. I’m here to serve, and this path I am on is the perfect curriculum for RADICAL service.

And so, If you find yourself swept up in overwhelm, terrified of taking a wrong step, doubting yourself, fearing that you will not succeed on the brave path that you have chosen–I get you. I am with you on that path. And if you find yourself longing to take on your life as an adventure, to pursue a deep down joyous dream, and you feel paralyzed to even begin, you feel stuck and confused, you can’t find the first step–I get you. I am with you on that path. If you are struggling to hear the call of your inner voice amidst all of the outside voices, if you are struggling to balance what you want with the wants of all those around you, if you are afraid of disappointing, of losing love and support somehow as a result of your choices–I get you. I am with you on that path.

And I was born to serve you, to meet you exactly where you are, to support you as you unleash, to love you as you doubt yourself. I was born to get you and to help you gain access to ALL of who you are so that you can fall madly in love with yourself, pursue your dreams and create deep fulfillment in your life and relationships. This is what I offer you through my soul-mapping work, and I’ve been practicing my entire life in order to serve you in the highest. And as I continue to dive into the depths of my own dreams, my capacity to hold space for you will only grow.

How frickin’ cool is that?

I love you.

:)Melissa

©2014 Melissa Simonson

Love Revelation: Moving to Brooklyn

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I’ve lived with my mom for the past 8 years. It started out as something that I needed to do when I was coping with and caring for a boyfriend who had Stage 4 Lymphoma (and thankfully, survived). I was 24 and miserable at my job and knowing in my heart that I’m meant to express myself and serve in really unique ways. I had no idea yet what that would or even could look like. I needed a break from the grind of my life, and moving back home provided that.

This move home was meant to be temporary in my mind because I figured that eventually I would move in with my partner. And after a year of coping with Cancer treatments together, he went into remission and our relationship began to dissolve. We lovingly chose to let each other go.

It was right around that time that I discovered Life Coaching and trained as a coach. Suddenly, I was catapulting myself into a whole new life, oozing with passion for this career choice and taking on a business venture at 25. Suddenly, It became a blessing to be living with my mom because I could afford to pursue this passion.

Fast forward my life another 7 years and I had to get present to the fact that I had become a slave to the vague notion of “someday.” “SOMEDAY, my business will be at this certain (undefined) level, and I’ll be making this certain (undefined) amount of money, and then I can have my own place again.” It has been totally reasonable to tell people that I have lived with my mom in order to pursue my passions when the truth is, I have been completely unaware of the fact that I’ve been living my life as a victim of circumstances and terrified to claim what I REALLY want.

I am the savior I was secretly waiting for.

The truth is that I was really unconscious with my relationship with money until my late 20’s and then I had all of this debt to contend with. I managed to get clear on that and pay that off and build a savings and then I lost a job that was providing a financial safety net and was challenged to REALLY nose dive into this work that is my soul-calling–and use up my savings. There was always a reason NOT to get my own place. And I’m finally getting that life is going to keep “happening to me” and it’s time I take the true driver’s seat and just choose to create what I want.

In August, I committed to myself and then, to my loving mom, to be in my own place by January 1st. As I started looking at apartments and nearly signing a lease for a beautiful, brand new apartment within walking distance of where I’m living now, something inside of me started to feel trapped. It was just months earlier that I had started exploring the idea of moving to NYC and I knew in my heart that simply taking on rent in Madison was a small game for me to play when knowing in my bones I’m ready to follow a different path. And suddenly, I heard myself declaring that I would be moving to NYC in March of 2014.

I’m now being confronted with all of the doubt, fear and overwhelm that come with actively creating a life of my own design. And I’m growing and surrendering. Growing and surrendering. I’m feeling grief welling up within me as I try to wrap my brain around all that I must release in order to embrace this next chapter in my life, and I’m facing many demons telling me that what I want isn’t possible. I find myself on the verge of tears quite often these days.

And I’m doing it anyway.

Something tells me that I’ll look back on this time of my life years from now and smile with gratitude and also with awareness that this move is little compared to the big things I’m really called to do with this life I’ve been given.

For now, I’m just being present to all of the emotions within me and offering myself gentleness. Lots of deep breaths and audible sighs for me these days. As I prepare to visit Brooklyn in a few days to start paving the way, remembering to breathe has been crucial.

Right now, loving myself means letting myself be pulled by the larger vision of my life and taking the scary, challenging steps to actually live it. Like I said, lots of deep breaths, right now…

~Melissa

Love Revelation: You Are Sacred And Precious to Me

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I had a session with my own wonderful coach, Christina Dunbar, last night–and I’m giddy today and overflowing with love and excitement because after months of re-birthing and years of doing my work in various forms, she helped me tap into my core essence, my signature genius work that I am meant to deliver in the world. It was like angels-singing-the-hallelujah-chorus-epiphany-moment kind of good. Something inside of me was seen & unleashed in a way that I’ve never acknowledged before: the transformation that I create in my one-on-one sessions, my ability to reveal to you all of who you are with laser insight, to connect you with the truth of your soul, while creating a space that has you feeling PURELY and UNCONDITIONALLY loved is A HEALING. I AM a sacred healer.

You see, I have this part of me, this wounded middle schooler/high schooler that has been afraid to claim the serious depth of the work that I do. Back when it was uncool to take life seriously, I was taking life seriously–and the sense of not belonging had me constantly feeling like I needed to lighten up some how, to not come across as so introspective, to not be so intense. I see now that I’ve approached my work, my work that goes deep and leaves you feeling whole, complete, free and at the source of your own life–I’ve approached my work from this place of trying to hide my depth and what we REALLY create together. And the truth is, what I do with Astrology and who I am as a coach is so unique & so powerful in it’s ability to catalyze love, that it’s high time I claim it for what it truly is: SACRED and PRECIOUS. The truth is, having you loving and fully embracing all of who you are and being freely at the cause of living a life that sets your heart ablaze is something that I take VERY seriously. YOU are precious to me, and the work that we do together is sacred.

I’ve been afraid of having my astrology work lumped into a category with entertainment or woo woo froo froo fortune-telling, and I wasn’t getting that the moment I take my unique gifts seriously, the rest of the world will take them seriously, too. And the the thing I’ve had to fully embrace is this: I am not one thing. I am tremendously playful and fun in addition to being a loving, grounded and nurturing healer. I hold within my heart a rich, deep, earth and gorgeous, airy spirit & light. When we work together, we laugh and we cry together. There is deep release. There is blossoming. There is a discovery of how beautiful that you truly are & the uncovering of your soul-map to fulfillment. When we are complete, you get in your bones who you are here to be, and you have all of the ingredients to be fully expressed. When we are complete you fully EMBODY the FREEDOM that is your birthright.

And It is deeply precious and sacred work because you deserve nothing less.

Are you ready to be free, at peace and fully aligned with the sacred whisper of your soul? Click here to schedule a 1 hr. consult so that we can see if my Soul-Mapping Session is a right fit for you: http://melissasimonson.youcanbook.me

With all of my love,

:)Melissa