I am so excited to announce that Career Catcher is now Soul Healing with Ali! During these past couple of months during quarantine, I spent a great deal of time reflecting and contemplating my career path. As a previous career coach, I went through all the steps I used to coach my clients on how to figure out the next step in my career. After hours of meditation, I ultimately decided to quit career coaching and become a healer 100% of the time.
Spiritual Awakening
My path is probably similar to many entrepreneurs trying to build a business they are passionate about. You start out with a vision and then your business starts to unfold into something completely different! I started Career Catcher three years ago in 2017, after graduating with my master’s in professional development. As my business was evolving, I too, was evolving. I experienced a spiritual awakening a couple years into being a full-time career coach. After that, I began to follow my spiritual path full steam ahead.
I discovered I had intuitive gifts that had been dormant for so many years but were yearning to come out and play! So, I started focusing on developing my intuition by taking courses on all sorts of topics I was interested in, such as Reiki, crystals, chakras, spirit guides, auras, etc. There was no turning back at this point! This was the piece in my life that had been missing for all these years, and it felt so good to connect back with my spirituality.
When Two Paths Converge
At one point, I was doing both healing and career coaching separately. I started to see where these two could complement one another. I noticed a lot of my career coaching clients were experiencing the same struggles: What is my purpose? What are some career paths that are aligned with this purpose? How can I find meaningful and fulfilling work? Additionally, they were experiencing blockages, such as low self-esteem, low self-confidence, and low self-worth, that were preventing them from being able to identify and then pursue a career that brought them true joy and peace. I went back and forth on whether to combine the healing with career coaching, but ultimately it just seemed like a no brainer!
I started marketing this new spiritual career coaching program and worked with several clients. They really seemed to enjoy the healing aspect, even if they were a little skeptical at first. Most people don’t immediately see the connection between spirituality and career! However, by providing healing and career coaching, it became evident to me what my passion was – healing.
And Then There Was One
I love helping people discover their soul purpose and watching them transform into confident, healthy, and inspired individuals. I witnessed first-hand the incredible impact energy healing has on a person’s entire being – mind, body, and spirit. My clients started listening to their own inner guidance and became more independent and self-empowered. They started implementing the practices learned in sessions in their own daily lives. I watched them come out of their shells and find their voice.
It’s such a beautiful and heart-warming experience to see people who have experienced past trauma find and love their True Selves again and feel confident in creating a life for themselves based on truth, authenticity, passion, and joy. This was the aspect of my job that truly energized me. I felt so much love and compassion during healing sessions. However, I also realized that my heart just wasn’t in the hardcore career coaching aspect anymore. Honestly, I’m not sure it ever really was.
Loss of Identity
I wrestled with this inner conflict. I felt a loss of my identity. The career world was all I had known since I graduated from college. I was a recruiter for 13 years and then became a career coach for 3 years. Could I really give it all up and completely start over? Was I being pulled toward healing but still hanging on to career coaching because I was afraid to let go? How could I start a new business from scratch? Did I even want to start over?
These are the questions I have been contemplating for the past several months. My guides kept telling me to “Center and go inward to find the answers. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself. Use this time in solitude to explore your options.” So, I meditated for hours every day and tried not to think about my career. I cleared my mind and just wanted to be and sit with myself for a while. After several weeks, information just started flooding in from my True Self and my guides. Just taking the pressure off myself was all I needed to connect back with my inner guidance. I went back and forth on many different ideas and paths I could take and journaled about everything that was coming to me.
Your Soul Purpose – It’s Much Simpler Than You Think!
See, that’s the beauty and the curse of free will. What I think most people don’t understand and what I came to realize after working with clients, doing my own self-reflection, and listening to my guides, is that our soul purpose is so much simpler than we think. It doesn’t have to be some grand thing to make a difference. Just being a mother, or helping a neighbor, or connecting with nature is enough. You don’t have to start a non-profit in an under-developed country to make a difference in the world. If that’s what you want to do, then that’s wonderful, of course! But it doesn’t take much to live out your purpose.
For me, I am here to learn to love myself and others wholly. That’s it. It’s up to me to decide how I want to go about that. That’s where free will comes in. I get to choose my path, and as long as I’m loving myself and others, then it’s the right path! This isn’t the answer most people, including myself, want to hear. They want to know the exact career path that is aligned with their soul purpose. This is where free will can be challenging. With free will comes responsibility. We have many options and sometimes just want to be told what to do! But, at the same time, you wouldn’t want that choice to be taken away, right?
Letting Go & Having Faith
What I have always told my clients is that our paths may change course several times throughout our lifetimes, but that’s ok! We are always learning and evolving and will continue to do so until the day we die. By taking chances and listening to our hearts, we grow spiritually. Sometimes we must let go of control and surrender to the Universe, Source, God, or whichever higher power you believe in.
This is a lesson I am currently learning through my latest career move. I decided to follow my heart, take a risk by changing career paths, and have faith that spirit will guide me. Through healing, I am showing myself and others love and compassion, which aligns with my purpose. So, I am letting go and trusting this is the right next step for me. I am learning to ease up on the pressure and structure, and, most importantly, just have fun! I will admit this is really hard for me. I come from a very structured corporate background with some Type-A tendencies and feel the need to have tight control over my own business. However, with this new direction, I have to throw everything I previously knew out the window. I need to just open my heart and my mind, and just go with the flow, because when it flows, it’s just easy! It doesn’t have to be that difficult. It just is. How amazing is that?! Yes, please!
It’s the Journey, Not the Destination
I see this career change as just another chapter in my life journey. I don’t feel like I’m starting over completely. I might not be here if I didn’t have all my previous experiences. Everything I have accomplished led me to this moment. I gained valuable skills and learned many lessons along the way that I can apply to my new career path. And I know my path will continue to evolve, and my business will change shape as I continue through life. Will I be doing this 10 years from now? Who knows! I’m just excited to be where I am right here, right now. Life is all about the journey and not the destination. I’m so thrilled and honored to help you on your own healing journey, and I thank you for your continued love and support as I go through mine.
Peace and love,
Ali