Hi Reader,

I want to share something vulnerable with you today.

I started finding it hard to get out of bed.

Each morning I'd wake up and want to pull the covers back over my head, to hide in my cocoon just a little longer. I felt lost. Every direction felt possible - and that was the problem. Too many possibilities. Drowning in overwhelm. No idea where to put a stake in the ground.

I had finally reached the income level I'd only been dreaming of. The clients. The cashflow. The "success." And I was miserable. I was no longer in love with my business. I was showing up for the work, but my heart had checked out. I knew it wasn't aligned anymore.

But what do you do when the thing that's "working" is the thing that's killing you? Should I burn it to the ground? Go back to employment? Keep pushing through and hope something shifts? I always believed this level of success was what I was working toward. So why did it feel so empty?

The pause that changed everything

I knew I had to hit the brakes. I started saying no to new leadership development projects. Turning away work I knew would bring in cash I needed to keep the lights on. Because I also knew - if I went any further down this path, it would be even harder to walk away later.

So I gave myself three months. Three months where I could just cover the bills. Three months of breathing room to ask the hard question: Is what I'm building actually what I want?

And those three months showed me it was not.

But here's what I didn't know before

There were moments during that transition where I wondered, "What's wrong with me? Why can't I just let things work easily? Am I making this harder than it needs to be?" I was so frustrated that I couldn't just let the working system WORK. I kept wondering if something was broken in me that I couldn't just accept success and be happy.

Maybe I should have been more grateful. Maybe I was sabotaging myself. Maybe I was overthinking everything.

But there was also that part within - quiet but insistent - that wouldn't let me settle. That part knew I needed to find a truer, more aligned path, even if I couldn't see it yet.

There was something deeper calling. Something more aligned with who I was becoming. The coaching and healing work that didn't just change my clients' lives - it changed mine.

What I learned

Sometimes finding a truer path feels scary because we don't know what else is out there, but a part of us just knows we have to let go of what we're doing now to find out. It can be terrifying to take that leap, to jump blindly into the unknown and hope it will somehow be better than what we've already experienced.

But sometimes saying "no" to what's working is the only way to find what's truly aligned. Getting out of the day-to-day motions of our current reality is often the only way to meet our true selves.

You're not ungrateful for wanting more. You're not broken if the success you've been working towards doesn't feel aligned with the life you actually want to live. You might just be hitting your own inflection point - ready to ask the question, "What's next?"

If you're in that place right now - successful but something feels off, and you can't quite name what's missing - I want you to know you're not alone. That quiet voice whispering "there's something more" isn't being ungratful or sabotaging your success. It's your inner wisdom trying to guide you home to yourself.

An Oracle Reading can help you see what you already know but haven't let yourself admit yet. It creates space to hear that quiet voice more clearly, to name what's been unnamed, and to find the thread that leads you forward.

If this resonates, reply to this email with ORACLE and I'll send you the details.

With love,

Amanda

P.S. If you know someone who needs to read this today, please forward it to them. Sometimes we all need permission to pause.