Don’t Confuse a Season With a Lifetime

Trina Harmon
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

The only thing we can really count on in life is that things will change. Change is inevitable, because we change. The career status we once dreamed of and worked so hard for, is now the thing we complain about. The relationship that used to feel like a fairytale eventually turns into a regular old movie that you can pretty much predict the ending. Yet, even your greatest problems have expiration dates. As we mature in mindfulness, we look back and see our lowest and darkest moments, were perhaps, our most significant catalysts to our greatest transformation. And the accomplishments we thought were going to hold the most importance tend to fade into the background, as our current life begins to hold more purpose than our history.

Sometimes, we have a tendency to attach to a transitional season of transformation, and think it’s going to last forever. As a coach, I’ve witnessed many clients, from every level of success, confess they’ve had thoughts of ending their life, myself included. I believe this has become a natural response to our desperation to connect to more meaning in our lives. In today’s world so many of us long to be important, to make a difference, to leave our mark in a way that really matters. And it seems the obstacles we face are blocking us from our purpose.

But what if the challenges that confront us, are part of our purpose?

I’ve been told hundreds of times the reason why people trust me as their coach, healer and spiritual guide, is because of all I’ve overcome and endured in my own life. All those seasons I thought I was being kept from my life, was actually preparing me for a calling so much greater than my imagination. After every one of my ‘hurricane’ seasons, as I like to call them, I came out of it with a more heightened spiritual gift, or an inspired creative idea, or an even deeper clarity about myself, what I had to offer, and how I could serve.

I’ve found the key to staying aligned through every season of life, is to love yourself all the way through. True transformation sometimes requires us to be or feel alone for awhile, and there is a great benefit to this. When we are only left with ourself and the God within, we’re forced to make friends with both. And that’s really the only thing that can lead us into a brand new season.

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