In my work with my clients, people often tell me that they don't trust their guidance. I understand the fear of trusting since I experienced that for many years. But what I came to question is: Why am I not afraid of trusting my wounded self? Why do I “trust” the controlling, programmed part of me who loves to make things up? True, she comes off as if she is an authority, but in reality, she has no access to truth at all. I eventually came to accept that she is the voice of ignorance – she doesn't know what is truly of value to my highest good.

The way I came to trust my Guidance was by deciding to trust, and then seeing what the results were.

Something that occurred in my life in 2001, which I wrote about in "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By God?”,is that my guidance warned me way ahead of time to get everything of value out of my house in Los Angeles after I sold it. My guidance said that I had to get these things out at least one week before escrow closed. I had images of my house all crumbled. I had no idea what it meant, but I'm so glad I listened, because one week before escrow closed, construction workers accidently burned my house down. If I had not listened, everything of value to me would have been lost.

After the dust settled and I was in a rental house, my guidance told me that, since I had lived and worked in that house for 31 years, it needed to burn for my health. My guidance told me that much of my energy was trapped in the walls, and that if people had moved in, they would have depleted my energy and I would have become ill. I didn't even know this could happen! There is no way my wounded self could have known any of this!

I realized then that staying connected with my guidance and listening to her is what makes me feel safe.

Ten years ago, I had a big challenge to staying in faith. I so wanted to leave Durango and move nearer to my family, and to have a more convenient airport. Our house didn't sell for the first three years we put it on the market. Finally, the fourth time around, it sold, and we ended up in our current a house – a place that meets almost everything on our wish list – even things I had long given up hoping for. In some ways, it isn't a house we would normally have chosen, but since it was the only thing available in the area, we went ahead with the purchase. It has become clear that God definitely picked this house for us, and almost daily I’m in awe and gratitude for the spaciousness, the views of the mountains, the incredible sunrises and sunsets, the wonderful barn, the beautiful pasture and hay field, and the shop with my art room and pottery studio in it. I hadn’t had an art room for years and my inner child loves this room! I'm blown away that we live in the country but are only minutes from shopping and great health food stores. I love that we have so many things we can do and see here. I love that we now have an actual office, and I love our office! I love that almost everyone here has horses and that they actually ride them! We rarely saw anyone riding their horses in Durango.

Today, many things I’ve wanted for Inner Bonding have happened.

By trusting my guidance, I now have amazing support, through having been invited to join a wonderful community of thought leaders, The Transformational Leadership Council, and I know it was my guidance that helped to manifest this.

So, yes, I finally came to trust my guidance rather than my wounded self. My guidance knows what she is doing, and she enables me to manifest my dreams.

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