Lifequakes.......

I saw this term the other day and loved it! Wish I could take credit but I cannot;-)........and it refers to a major life event that causes upheaval and significant change....and my lifequake has for sure changed my life.....my story.....in profound ways....and I wanted to explore this term today some, and dive deeper.....we all have big upheaval and change in our lives......but also small quakes right?? My divorce and my ex leaving wasn't the only lifequake I survived and have seen in this life.....but it felt like the biggest due to the moving parts of it, and the depth of it all......and no matter what comes, and what "quakes" find us......I think being steady in it all is the best way.....keeping ourselves open to what is on the other side.....I had a woman reach out last night about some coaching....and I am not sure if it is exactly what she is looking for right this moment, but from the little she expressed she is amid some lifequake or quaking.....and when the quake is active, and has just found us, it is sometimes impossible to find our way beyond that or see that there is a spot beyond that......because it is loud, and destructive, and messy, and we need to wait for the dust to settle.....the full moon this week is dredging up lots for me....it is in my sign so maybe that is why it feels so intense......lots of energy out there.....but I still vividly remember, and can still feel what it was like to sit in the active quake part..... staring at the wall, listening to music and just wanting to be left to do that for a little bit.....like somebody that wandered out of the wreckage of a collapsed building.....all disoriented and stuff.....and I think that is what the person that coined the phrase is referring to......a life event so significant that it rattles the core of our lives, and the only thing that can replace it is a changed and transformed space.....and I suppose I explore this in the spirit of being so so deeply fascinated bt the human condition, and by people's stories and hearing their lifequakes.....and I have been in contact, and worked with so many women that have had their quake come and they have overcome it.....there is a lot of cool information about this notion of lifequakes if you Google it....and one thing I read talked about the three phases of our transition.......the long goodbye, the part where we say goodbye to our old life and embrace the new one.........the messy middle where we shed old habits for new ones......and the new beginning where you embrace your new self and share it with the world......and I find all of that to be so true and it resonates.....and we never know when we are standing on the threshold of a lifequake.....but I now know how to be better equipped to weather them indeed......I used to love the song "Little Earthquakes" by Tori Amos.......would listen to it over and over in my dorm room...."give me life, give me pain, give me myself again"......and I suppose that is the crucial piece of the lifequake......rattling our core so deeply that it helps direct us back to ourselves.....our true selves hidden beneath the rubble.......at least that is what feels true for me......having my life fall apart so completely helped me find my soul again:) So if you are in a lifequake now.......or about to be.....or just left one.....I see you......we are all quaking together.....on any given day, there are more things that unite us than divide us......Happy Friday and Happy Full Moon......Enjoy the day:)