Coming out of the spiritual closet

Coming out of the spiritual closet.

Not even ten years ago, I was talking to my mate and noticed she had an envelope on her bench from the Spiritualist Society. I asked her about it and thought she must go to church. She laughed and said no! She asked if I thought spiritual meant God, church and all that. I replied yes. What else could it mean? Well, didn’t that open my eyes?

You need to understand that my ONLY experience growing up was going to church on a Sunday (mainly to hang out with my bestie, tbh), and that’s it. I wasn’t christened or baptised by my parents, as they said that was my choice, but I did take an interest in Religion at school.

I hadn’t ever heard of Spirituality outside of Religion until then.

This must have affected me, as I clearly remember this conversation a decade ago.

It turns out that I was quite spiritual but hadn’t been given any information (or thought to seek it), so I considered myself VERY new to this concept.

Over the years, I have embraced many aspects of my spiritual self – yet talking about it openly has been a journey (and still is). And why would I feel this way? I have no idea, but I guess I feel something inside that isn’t ready to come out. Who knows…but I know that I am ready to come out of the spiritual closet, so to speak.

And probably no one really cares about this. And isn’t that the point here? We often feel scared to be our true selves, yet no one has even noticed that we are not doing that.

Expressing who we really are.
Stepping into our truth.
Owning our true selves.
Leading with the light that’s inside, that’s been burning for a while now.

It’s hard.

And, of course, we are not just talking about Spirituality here. It could be any aspect of ourselves that we are afraid to ‘show’ the world. In our heads, we make this much bigger, don’t we? And when we tell our loved ones, for the most part, they can be accepting. Ok, not EVERYONE is accepting – just realise that when you get a negative reaction, it’s more about you challenging their belief system around it. Confusion can often come out as anger, and grief around losing (in their minds) who they thought you were can also come out in a hostile way.

So back to my story.

This whole spiritual aspect of me that’s been growing steadily ever since has been challenged. By what? Mainly my own sh*t and stories about how something should be.

In saying all of that, I can’t deny what is happening. For example, I have been fasting for the last 11 days, and I have been getting downloads (messages), and I don’t know where they come from. Is it the fasting? Or I now have clarity in my body and mind that is usually concerned with digesting food. They are like signs from somewhere (universe? Source?), and I am not questioning them for the first time ever. I am going along with whatever I am led to. Even client sessions have taken turns down some odd/surreal paths. There’s no such thing as coincidence.

If you have read this far, well done. But I don’t know if this post has an ending…more like a ‘stay tuned’ as I have more to share.

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With light,
Emma xx