Live This Year With Intention — Don’t Sleepwalk Through Your Life

Most of us don’t plan to disengage from our lives.

We don’t wake up one morning and decide to go numb, to live on autopilot, or to stop listening to ourselves.

And yet, somewhere along the way, often quietly, it happens.

We get busy.
We cope.
We manage.
We survive.

Days fade into weeks. Weeks into months.
Life becomes something we move through rather than something we are present with.

This is what I call sleepwalking through life.

It’s not laziness.
It’s not failure.
It’s often the result of not remaining present to each moment, or carrying too much for too long.

How Sleepwalking Happens

Sleepwalking tends to arrive during times when life hurts, and our nervous system does what it’s designed to do -  to protect us.

During times of:

• prolonged stress

• grief or loss

• rejection or disappointment

• addiction — our own or someone we love

• divorce or relationship breakdown

• financial pressure

• major life or career transitions

Sometimes that protection looks like numbing, disconnecting, or staying busy enough not to feel too deeply.

But the cost of that protection is often disconnection from ourselves. 

Living with intention is often misunderstood

It’s not about:

• fixing yourself

• forcing clarity

• making perfect plans

• being “spiritually evolved”

Intention is much quieter than that.

It’s about presence.

It’s the willingness to pause and ask:

• How am I really doing?

• What am I avoiding feeling?

• What matters to me now — not last year, but now?

Intention begins when we stop and go within.

Within - where the very essence of who we are, our spiritual selves reside.

How does Spirituality impact our daily lives?

Spirituality, as I understand it, is not an escape from real life.

It is a way of meeting real life with awareness, compassion, steadiness, meaning, and purpose.

Spirituality brings us back into relationship with ourselves — especially when life feels uncertain.

When we are faced with the adversities that show up in life.

Therefore, Wake Up Gently

Waking up to your life doesn’t require dramatic change.

It can begin very simply:

• noticing how you actually feel

• choosing one honest conversation

• listening to your body

• allowing yourself to want what you want

• offering yourself kindness instead of criticism

This year doesn’t need to be extraordinary.

But it can be intentional.

And sometimes, the most courageous thing we can do is to stop sleepwalking — and come back home to ourselves.

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TESTIMONIAL

Colleen,

I so appreciated our session on November 10. Together we found our way to some deep emotions/hurt that had been with me for years.

As I mentioned during the session I had already reached out to various people (social workers, psychologists) for help with my particular issue. Though I found my last life coach to be untrustworthy, she did help up to a point.  Then She became a problem.  You helped me past that.

You asked why I trusted you after my last experience.  I gave an incomplete answer.  When I got home, I thought about your question some more.  The answer is that you exude a special warmth, sincere caring.  Love.  My last counsellor (?) treats it like a business, cold, professional.  I felt that you really cared about, not just me, but everyone and everything.

I do feel an extra “lightness” after our session.

Thank you,

T O'T