Guiding Lights: Unveiling Your True Calling and Purpose

Ever feel like you're wading through a fog when it comes to pinning down your life's purpose? I've been there, veering off path, tackling self-doubt, and finally realizing, with a mix of relief and surprise, that my purpose was woven into the very fabric of my daily life. Join me, Jacenda Villa, as we cast aside the grandiose expectations and uncover the sublime truths about purpose in our latest heart-to-heart. This episode, brimming with personal anecdotes and warm revelations, offers a fresh perspective on how recognizing the divine within can illuminate the impact we have on others, and how our everyday actions can resonate with profound intent.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Hi, loves, welcome to the Journey to the Soul podcast. I am your host, jacinda Villa, a spiritual life coach and holistic health coach. Every week, we will be diving deep into all things purpose, wellness, spirituality and creating the life that you dream of. This space is meant to be safe and transformative for you to dive into the deepest parts of yourself. I will share what I have learned from my journey along this path years of research and mentors along the way. Having spent many years living life out of alignment and afraid to go after my dreams, I know firsthand what it means to take the first step down, living a life authentic to you. We are on this road of self-discovery together. It is time for you to live the life you imagined. Hello, my loves, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Another episode of the podcast.

Speaker 1: 1:12

I am sitting here just looking outside. It's a rainy and a little bit of a gloomy day. Here in Tennessee it is truly winter, but it's so beautiful to see the changes in the season as well, and the birds are just chirping, singing their song. It's so sweet to see. It's been a couple of weeks since I actually recorded an episode and I am really excited to be sitting here with you and share with you this particular episode, because this is something that I feel like so many of us definitely struggle with and it is something that I myself have gone through an evolution with. Evolution with. It's the idea of us needing to find our purpose in this life. And this episode is for anyone who feels like they're struggling to find their purpose in life right now. Maybe they feel lost, like they've fallen astray, like they don't really know where they're going, like they don't really know where they're going. And I know so many of us definitely have resonated with being in some kind of a similar chapter in our life, and we all go through chapters of feeling this way Like we are not living on purpose, that we're not living our life the way that we were intended to live it, and most of the time, this is life simply redirecting us to connect more deeply with our purpose so that we can truly walk the path that was intended for us.

Speaker 1: 3:03

By feeling that discomfort, it highlights this aspect of ourselves that we're trying to find answers for, but a lot of the times, this uncertainty creates such a huge fear for so many of us. We feel like we need to know it all. We need to know the book of our life right now, in this moment. You know where we're going to be next year, in five years, you know, plan out our entire life, and for some people that aspect may work better than for others. But fundamentally, we've all experienced as well where we have set plans or intentions for our life and them not planning out the way that we intended.

Speaker 1: 4:01

The terror of never really living the life that was meant for us and not living our purpose in this world is something that truly consumes so many of us. So today's episode is for anyone who is on this path, for anyone who is walking this path of trying to find their purpose. Just know that it's never going to look the way that you think it will. You may have a plan of what you envision and what you believe is meant for you, but the universe will have another plan for you and a lot of the time it's a lot better than what we could have envisioned for ourselves. Our scope of what is possible is simply a fraction of what is truly possible, is simply a fraction of what is truly possible, and so much of our work in this life is breaking through our ceilings, is breaking through what we believe is possible in this life. And I know, if you think back to 10 years ago or five years ago, even the version of you that's here and has experienced all the experiences that it has has a greater understanding of what is possible in this world. And that's because, with every year, with every day that passes, we gain more wisdom and more knowledge and we open ourselves up even more to those possibilities, but know that it can be so much greater and grander than what you can imagine for yourself. We also feel like it needs to be this big and grand thing. So that is what we look for when we are trying to find our purpose. We look for the bigness, the thing that makes a statement. What is going to be that thing? What is my purpose? Because it feels like such a big question. And that's what we look for. So we look for it in our partner, our friends, our family, our career. We look for it in our relationship with others. We are constantly looking and pushing to understand it more and more, because not fully understanding it makes us feel uncomfortable.

Speaker 1: 6:48

Know that your purpose in this life is in the energy of everything that you do. It is who you are fundamentally your interactions with others, how you shine your light in the world every single day in the smallest ways that no one else but you can do. It is not always this big and grand thing. It is truly how we live our life every single day. Sometimes it's hard to see the divinity that lives in us, but that is our purpose and a lot of the times it's so hard to actually see it within ourselves. Our gifts, what we have to give to this world because they come so naturally to us. Sometimes it takes someone else pointing out what that may be, whether it's you making other people feel safe or seen or heard or inspired, and those are things that only you can do in your way. But the energy of that, the energy of whatever this is in you, your magic, your divinity, this is something that we radiate in every single thing that we do. Your purpose is not one thing, and we feel so much of the time that it needs to be that way, because that is what so much of the world shares. When we look around us, what people share on social media and we look at how people are living their purpose even though that's not fully true as well, because we know that with social media, it's only what that person chooses to share.

Speaker 1: 8:57

But your purpose is not just one thing. It will encompass so many things and it is ever evolving as well out. Your purpose now and who you are meant to be now, what you're meant to share with the world now, is going to change the more that you change and continue to evolve. As you step more into your being, your purpose will evolve, and I know we can resonate with that as well, because what felt good to us five or ten years ago doesn't necessarily feel good now. I want to invite you to focus on what brings you joy every day, what piques your curiosity, what fills you with passion, what gives you energy, what makes time pass quickly for you. These questions will give you great insight into what you're meant to focus your energy on in this lifetime, at this moment in time, but also know that these things will change and evolve as you do.

Speaker 1: 10:15

We need to approach our purpose with an open heart open and receptive, but also willing to change and evolve. As we change and evolve, how can we break through our roof of what we think it is? Your purpose is something that you live every single day in all that you do. If you truly feel lost right now and you feel like you keep walking in circles or getting nowhere in your life, breathe. You will gain more and more clarity when you are meant to. Perhaps you're just meant to be here right now, where you are in this moment.

Speaker 1: 11:08

Not having clarity gives us the gift of contemplation, of being able to really think and process the life that we are living. It allows us to question and to mull over everything in our life and a lot of the times, that is what is missing in our life. For us to keep walking a path that's in alignment for us Is allowing ourselves to question. Does this feel good to me? Is this really the right thing for me? I know it can be an uncomfortable place to be being in, a place of not knowing where you're going, not really knowing how you're meant to show up in the world, sometimes what you want to do. Those are really big questions that have really big answers too, but the amount of clarity that you will gain from being in this moment, being in this chapter, will be the step forward towards you realizing and feeling into your purpose, more and more so every day while you're in this chapter of life, because that's truly what it is. You are just in this chapter of life and this can be the first time that you've ever felt this way. Or you could have been in a career for 30 years and now you're coming back to the drawing board again and asking yourself this question. So, whether it's the first time in your life that you're going through this process, or the second, or the third or the fourth because no one is exempt from this process and everyone will go through it at least once in their life, some more than others and every time that we go through it, it requires a sense of bravery, a sense of surrender, a sense of showing up and just wanting to see everything clearly for what it is.

Speaker 1: 13:29

If this is the chapter of life that you are in right now, I really want you to meditate on the questions that I posed earlier in this episode, and you can write about these things. You can meditate on these things. Maybe you stick to one of the questions for a week and see what answers come through you for the entire week, of noticing what gives you energy throughout the week. You can jot down those moments in time when that happens. You can jot down those moments in time when that happens. Maybe it is when you are cooking for your family or for other people, maybe it's when you are playing an instrument that you love, perhaps it's when you're painting. Maybe it's showing up for the people you love, perhaps it's reading and learning about different subjects that pique your interest.

Speaker 1: 14:33

But come back to these things your curiosity, the passion, the joy. What makes time stand still? And again, it does not need to be anything big, and that is where so many of us can overlook this. The more that you do this, the more that you will begin to walk that path, the red thread will start to reveal itself, and it's truly that one step in that direction that will reveal even more. You need to allow yourself to walk this path, and your purpose will slowly come to fruition for you. You will see it more clearly. You will see what it is, and a lot of the times it was always there. It was in front of you this entire time. You just didn't know what you were looking for. You didn't know what it was, and we feel like it needs to be this big and grand thing. But perhaps your purpose is to be an incredible mother and that's just something that you already do and you don't think about it. That's your purpose right now Giving love to those that you love so freely. There are so many things. There are so many things. There are so many nuances to all of it.

Speaker 1: 16:30

Leaning into this chapter of life with curiosity and fun and just being open and receptive to all the possibilities will make it that much lighter to experience, because the sense of purposelessness is something that can drown us if we allow it to. It is such a heavy emotion we feel like we are just wandering life without a compass. If you are on this path, my love. Surrender to life. Trust your process, trust in your beautiful evolution, focus on you and your being. This is your life and it's meant to look like your evolution. It's not meant to look like everyone else's.

Speaker 1: 17:19

If there's people in your life that you feel are already living your purpose and you're behind the ball, okay, that thought doesn't serve us in any way, shape or form, because, for whatever reason, you're meant to find clarity on this when you do, even if you feel like it's later, even if you feel like you've already done this three times. There is something so brave about that, about wanting to live life in alignment and wake up every day and feeling like you are giving your all to this life that is brave, that takes so much courage. Know that the universe has your back. Know that you are supported. Know that this life is unfolding in the most beautiful way for you, even if it doesn't feel like it right now, but you will find your clarity, you will find your anchor. The red thread will continue to reveal itself to you. Reveal itself to you. Just be open and receptive.

Speaker 1: 18:34

All right, my loves, I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope you are having a beautiful start to your week, wherever you are in the world. I can't wait to talk to you all in my next episode. I will see you then, you all in my next episode. I will see you then. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please make sure you subscribe so you never miss an episode, and share this message with any friends and family. I'd love to hear your takeaways, so share them with me by leaving a comment below or heading over to my Instagram at Jacinda Marie. I am sending you all so much love.