Are you living the life you want to live?
What would happen if you listened to your imaginal cells?
When a caterpillar has had enough of being gravity-bound and decides it is ready to fly, it finds a safe place to shed its old skin and begin anew.
Once it has woven its chrysalis and is securely protected within, the caterpillar literally disintegrates into liquid.
In its dissolved state, the imaginal cells that are imprinted with the code for flight and the new form that goes with it, the butterfly now gets to become who it was meant to be.
The imaginal cells are both the only constant from there to here and the crucial catalyst that enables the metamorphosis itself.
As a life coach, one of the most useful questions I can pose to my clients is: what figurative imaginal cells have been left unexpressed inside you? What’s preventing you from flying?
Growing up isn’t always as straightforward for us humans.
Our journeys are complicated, often clouded, confused and stalled by noise, distraction and other external forces that may not have been meant for us to carry.
We’re already carrying the one thing we’ve needed all along:
Our imaginal cells.
In the quiet moments, there may be some things that still call to you. Things that you really love but for one reason or another haven’t explored externally to the degree to which you quietly wonder about them internally.
What’s inside of you that’s waiting to be expressed?
What would happen if you started reclaiming the passions, dreams and personality traits that you have consciously or unconsciously put away due to criticism, marginalization, perceived lack of permission or unbelief?
How then could you live, love and contribute?
I’m Lori Sase – but you can call me Sas.
My titles might be life coach and consultant – but I’m actually a butterfly coaxer.
My work is about helping people help themselves actualize who they’re meant to be – whether you are on the cusp, looking for a place to hide, right there in the dark liquid goo or ready to spread your wings.
I’m here to help you to fly.
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