Five Foundational Frameworks
Motherhood has asked me to strengthen the structures that hold me, so I can show up with the best of what I have to offer. It's led me to contemplate my foundations and the themes that are constantly at work in an Intentionally Designed Life and Business. I’ve laid out the five foundational frameworks that inform how I see the world, how I guide my own life, and how I work with others.
🌀 Holistic Intelligence
We are dynamic, multifaceted beings. All parts of us are interconnected and influencing each other all the time. When looking from this lens we are constantly seeing the relationship between our different parts, and between our selves and all of life. Holistic intelligence is the invitation to welcome all parts of ourselves, and to appreciate and collaborate with the body, mind, emotions and spirit.
🧘🏻♀️ Embodied Wholeness
We exist on this planet in a body. It is how we experience ourselves and life. It takes the shape of our life story and lineage. It's the vessel that holds our soul. The body is a portal, a compass, and a place of remembering. Learning to listen to, work with, and trust our shapes, patterns, and sensations is how we deeply and completely embody our wholeness.
🎨 Creative Contribution
We each have unique gifts, perspectives, and ways of engaging with others and life. What we choose, what we express, and how we live, is how we offer our unique energy to the world. When we begin to recognize that each of us has influence and we're co-creating our reality all the time, this orientation empowers us to create consciously and on purpose, aware of our contribution to the greater whole.
🏹 Purposeful Living
Purpose provides meaning and motivation, it gives us accountability and feeds self actualization. We can get hung up on purpose being a vocation, or a certain circumstance, but truly purpose is our ability to live in alignment with soul and seasons. To remember that life is a rhythm of relationships that teach us to discover for ourselves what truly matters. When we're on purpose we move toward those values with intention, attention, and deep connection.
💥 Thresholds of Change
Everything is always changing. We are continuously cycling through seasons of becoming and unraveling, of expanding and contracting, learning and growing. Change is constant, and the process between where we were and where we're going is a sacred threshold of personal inquiry and self discovery. Often deeply uncomfortable and confronting, it teaches us to cultivate coherence and self-trust so we can move through uncertainty with authenticity and grace.
Sharing these pillars feels important as I continue to reconnect with my work and how it wants to move through the world since becoming a mother. There's a deeper reverence now, a desire to honor the calling I've been entrusted with, and to show up with more intention, commitment, and clarity.
You may feel these same pillars woven through your own life, or maybe you'll feel inspired to explore your own. However they land, I hope these words offer a deeper understanding of what Intentional Life Design is about. And I hope these pillars hold us, guide us, and continue to teach us how to remember who we are, why we're here, and the gifts only we can give.
