BRENDA’s JOURNEY

Most of my life I felt like a misfit. Nobody experienced the world the way I did. From a very young age, I knew things other people didn’t, I saw things like spirits and other beings that other people didn’t see. My family didn’t know what to make of me. I recall sitting on the back steps at the age of 5 pondering my predicament. I can’t say what my exact thoughts were as a 5-year-old however if I paraphrased them now it would have been something like . . . “Send the mothership—you dropped me off at the wrong planet!” I befuddled my parents, annoyed my sisters, and scared off most of my friends. Eventually I adopted the belief that there was something wrong with me. I must be broken or damaged somehow. My concerns were validated at age 6 when my parents chose to put me on tranquilizers to stop my ‘daytime nightmares’. I spent my life trying to be normal, trying desperately to fit in. I spent most of my time attempting to figure out who I had to be to appear like other people. I just wanted to be ‘normal’.

I REALLY wanted to be included with the other kids—to think and act like them so I would fit in with everyone, make friends and be loved.

I was struggling with my identity—how to be true to myself and still fit in with people who experienced the world so differently from me.

I felt terrible because I had no friends, my sisters didn’t want me around and everyone thought I was weird. I felt even worse because I realized I had created a comfortable outer world for my family, friends and colleagues, while at the same time creating a parallel world where I tucked away those aspects of ME I didn’t deem fit for public consumption. I thought I was damaged or cursed in some way and wished I could leave the planet.

The problem arose when my 2 worlds collided. My life took an interesting turn when all the stuff I buried as a child began to make itself known once again. I started having visions and knowing things I had no logical way of knowing. I discovered I held powers to help others heal—both physically and emotionally. Hitting the wall came when these inner gifts bubbled up into my professional persona and colleagues began to notice. In this case, hitting the wall triggered all the fear and anxiety I experienced through my young life and left me fighting for survival once again.

Then, as if by chance, something amazing happened…

I had 2 colleagues who confronted me and pointed out that I often knew the results of a meeting before we even entered it. When I brushed this aside, they said “You have special gifts and it is time you shared these with the world. It will make all of our lives much easier.” This event made me realize bringing my gifts to the world was now safe for me!

It was clear to me how important it was to help other empaths reclaim their power and bring their unique skills to the world. Discovering this hidden need revealed a void in the marketplace that nobody was addressing, and it was a perfect place for my unique combination of skills.

I thought my special abilities were a curse—something broken in me however I learned that they were actually a powerful gift. All these unique abilities prepared me to contribute in a brilliant way to the evolution of humanity. Now I encourage people to show up authentically, step into their truth and bring their full brilliance to the world.

As a result of this epiphany, I left my career as a finance executive and started my company—Awakening Consciously where I help guide people to discover their inner truth, fall in love with themselves and show up in the world in their full power.

After I did that, I experienced new breakthroughs personally and more abilities began to come to life. My intuition came on very strong, my higher guidance kicked in bringing incredible people and opportunities to me.

Suddenly, I saw a way of contributing to the world at a very high level by helping other people through the same journey I had taken.

That’s when I realized that the secret to fitting into this world was to embrace my uniqueness, love who I came here to be, and confidently offer all of me to the world.