I know and have lived both sides of the quest for purpose:
- Knowing I had a purpose, but not knowing exactly what it was;
- And feeling that burning desire to live out my purpose, but not knowing exactly how to do it, or always feeling that I was far off the mark.
My journey to actually knowing and living my purpose took twenty years. And in the last four years I really took my quest to another level, focusing all my child-free moments on finally figuring out how to live out that burning flame of purpose that I had felt since I was twenty years old.
And that intensity, and almost desperation, to find and live my purpose has given me so many insights into the many things I was actually doing to block my own path.
And that's why I have created A Place for Purpose, to bring together the journeys and insights of many so that, together, we can all find our paths to living our purpose.
I know and have lived both sides of the quest for purpose:
- Knowing I had a purpose, but not knowing exactly what it was;
- And feeling that burning desire to live out my purpose, but not knowing exactly how to do it, or always feeling that I was far off the mark.
My journey to actually knowing and living my purpose took twenty years. And in the last four years I really took my quest to another level, focusing all my child-free moments on finally figuring out how to live out that burning flame of purpose that I had felt since I was twenty years old.
And that intensity, and almost desperation, to find and live my purpose has given me so many insights into the many things I was actually doing to block my own path.
And that's why I have created A Place for Purpose, to bring together the journeys and insights of many so that, together, we can all find our paths to living our purpose.
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It all started with two children. And not my two children.
It was the summer of 2003 and I was volunteering in a hospital playroom in Bucharest, Romania. And in came two smiling kids. Friends by circumstance. Ward buddies. Diagnosis twins. Two children who filled my heart with courage, my mind with wisdom and my soul with purpose.
And for the next eight years of my life I tried to live that purpose - to help children with cancer. So I volunteered in hospitals at home and abroad, I fund-raised, and I added post-graduate qualifications in Play Therapy and Psycho-Oncology to my Psychology degree.
But something didn't quite fit. And life built a big brick wall on my path.
Having commited to my life and now husband in Spain I was devastated to learn that my British degree and Spanish masters were incompatible. And effectively I was unable to work there as a Psycho-Oncologist - and essentially unable to fulfil my purpose.
Then one day as I was reading a syllabus book on finding life meaning, it hit me square in the face. There in black and white were the five dimensions of life: physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual. And do you know what wasn't there? Professional.
Somewhere along the way I had made my life meaning all about profession.
So I took a big step back. And I focused inwards.
I embraced the five dimensions of life and it took me on a whole new and very different path - to the Spanish countryside, owning my own business running English courses and becoming a mum.
But there was always a little piece missing. Something deep down in my soul calling out to become. And when I became a mum I couldn't ignore it any longer. Because I knew that whatever I was called to do, it wasn't just for me. It was for my children. And it was for the world that they would grow up and grow old in. So I dug deep. Really deep.
And finally I realised what it really was that those two children gifted me all those years before.
Which was in fact the biggest life lesson of all:
That all that matters is that we are alive.
Because if we have life, we can find meaning.
And if we have meaning, then we have it all.
And finally I saw that it was my purpose to inspire a world to see the meaning, beauty and fortune in their every day - and also to do whatever I can to help those who aren't lucky enough to be able to take life for granted.
It all started with two children. And not my two children.
It was the summer of 2003 and I was volunteering in a hospital playroom in Bucharest, Romania. And in came two smiling kids. Friends by circumstance. Ward buddies. Diagnosis twins. Two children who filled my heart with courage, my mind with wisdom and my soul with purpose.
And for the next eight years of my life I tried to live that purpose - to help children with cancer. So I volunteered in hospitals at home and abroad, I fund-raised, and I added post-graduate qualifications in Play Therapy and Psycho-Oncology to my Psychology degree.
But something didn't quite fit. And life built a big brick wall on my path.
Having commited to my life and now husband in Spain I was devastated to learn that my British degree and Spanish masters were incompatible. And effectively I was unable to work there as a Psycho-Oncologist - and essentially unable to fulfil my purpose.
Then one day as I was reading a syllabus book on finding life meaning, it hit me square in the face. There in black and white were the five dimensions of life: physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual. And do you know what wasn't there? Professional.
Somewhere along the way I had made my life meaning all about profession.
So I took a big step back. And I focused inwards.
I embraced the five dimensions of life and it took me on a whole new and very different path - to the Spanish countryside, owning my own business running English courses and becoming a mum.
But there was always a little piece missing. Something deep down in my soul calling out to become. And when I became a mum I couldn't ignore it any longer. Because I knew that whatever I was called to do, it wasn't just for me. It was for my children. And it was for the world that they would grow up and grow old in. So I dug deep. Really deep.
And finally I realised what it really was that those two children gifted me all those years before.
Which was in fact the biggest life lesson of all:
That all that matters is that we are alive.
Because if we have life, we can find meaning.
And if we have meaning, then we have it all.
And finally I saw that it was my purpose to inspire a world to see the meaning, beauty and fortune in their every day - and also to do whatever I can to help those who aren't lucky enough to be able to take life for granted.