Trusting Your Magic: Mid-Year Guide for the Emerging You


News + New Good Things from Tia Norman

"I–I hardly know, sir, just at present–at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."

-Alice in Wonderland

Peaceful, Centered + Connected

I call it "The Agreement." It's this thing I said yes to when I began to sense an invitation to change what I was doing for a living and instead trust who I was becoming in life. It was the portal across a threshold into what the late Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Canon refers to as, "..the work your soul must have." (The full quote is, "Do the work your soul must have.")

Many of you here are guides and healers. You're the person in your friend group everyone confides in.

The secret keeper.

The problem solver.

You're the person strangers open up to. The type of person who goes into the coffee shop for your morning cup of joe and leaves knowing the intimate details of the barista's life.

People open up to you.

People naturally lean on you for grounding.

But what happens when the ground moves beneath the guide and you find yourself at the intersection of a proven path and an uncharted but deeply resonant future?

You feel in-between.

Gentle reminder: Unresolved is a place.

You're not discerning your next move, you're discerning what wants to live through you. This is not a break it's a becoming.

This unresolved place? It's not smaller or less faithful but more aligned with your soul. You're not just answering the question, "What do I want to do next? But, "What wants to come through me for this season of the world?"

The magic you possess that draws people to you is the same magic that is moving the ground beneath you.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves..." ― Rainer Maria Rilke

You don't have to rush clarity. Sometimes in limimal space, the most sacred thing is to name what is unresolved and let it be.

With deep respect for your path.

Grace + Ease,

Tia


A New Way to See the Good News

A new way to see the Good News offers a short passage that may offer a fresh perspective or insight into the ancient collection of poems, letters, and stories known as the Bible.

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”

⎻ Isaiah 43:19

A Breath Prayer

Pause. Take a moment. Find your breath.

Inhale: You are doing a new thing…
Exhale: Help me to perceive it.

Close your eyes. Continue with the guided inhale and exhale.

A Mid-Year Guide for the Emerging You

Prompts for reflection and journaling. Not to get answers, but to let truth rise at its pace. Take the kind of breath that let's your shoulders drop a little. The kind your soul can trust then free write your responses.

🩵 What unresolved heart matters need naming?

🪽 Are there any rhythms of life that once gave shape but now feel like a cage?

🖇️ Are there any areas where I've bought into the myth that my value is tied to what I produce?

🌱 What is longing to emerge?

🤲🏽 What grief do you notice as you hold this vision differently? And alongside it - what relief? What parts of you are saying,"finally"?


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