Lemon #1

I was talking online about Soul Mission and someone commented that I was privileged and that some people can’t even think about such things because they are simply trying to survive. And because it was someone I know in person, I sent a private message offering my coaching to her as a gift. To which she replied that she found my offer incredibly insulting and what it is that I know that she doesn’t.

My first internal reaction was to shrink and feel bad. But thankfully, after sitting with it for a little bit I realised that she is simply “not my people”, at least right now. I sent her love and let her out of my field.

What I know is that remembering the Soul Purpose can actually save people’s lives. It saved mine and it saved people in the most awful life circumstances, like war. She didn’t bother to ask me what I meant by the words Soul Purpose, but I will say here that Soul Purpose is to be alive first of all, and then growth and expansion through self-expression. So, yeah, trying to put food on the table to feed your kids is serving your Soul Purpose. But I regress.

The Lemonade #1 is clarity about who my people are, who I am supposed to serve. They are the people who don’t need to be convinced about their own divinity. They are people who are ready for transformation, they are ready to claim who they are by birthright. So, thank you for the reminder and clarity, Lemon.

Lemon #2

A man called me inquiring about my life coaching services. I was excited to tell him about what I do, but as the conversation continued it became clear that the men didn’t want my coaching, what he wanted was - to masturbate to the sound of my voice. Gross, disrespectful and yeah, thoroughly disgusting.

I hung up the phone and blocked the number. But I felt ashamed and I thought that I would just keep quiet about it. I even told myself that I should not have picked up the phone. It felt like a rotten lemon.

Then I realized that my shame was trauma response from the past. I had some unpleasant interactions with men in the past, I thought that now that I am older, I was done with that shit. But I guess I was not quite yet...

I remembered that silence is exactly what shame wants. So, I told my husband about it and also I reached out to my coach and asked for support. Because guess what, I have the right to pick up my own phone and expect respect from whoever is on the other side of the line. Because if something like that happened to my daughter, I would want her to tell me and not be afraid. It’s the guy who should be ashamed, not me!

I am a professional life coach and I will absolutely not stand for disrespectful behaviour towards me. Obviously, people can do what they want, I don’t have control over that, but I have control about what I do. With that, I am a coach for women and if a man would ever like coaching from me, he would have to have a referral from a woman.

The Lemonade #2 Thanks for the reminder dude! Respect is a non-negotiable.

Lemon #3

Just a couple of days ago I was thinking about my business and marketing and trying to figure out the best strategy and I realized that my body was feeling tight and I didn’t quite enjoy the process.

Then I went to grab something from my bookshelf and a book literally fell out. It was a book called “Outrageous Openness” by Tosha Silver, a good friend gave it to me some time ago (you know who you are, I love you and think about you often). Anyways, I opened the book on a random page and read about surrendering to the Divine Timing and the Divine Order. I instantly felt better, my body just relaxed.

Lemonade #3 Within two hours someone bought my online chair yoga course, and two biggest invoices got paid. What can I say? Surrendering the troubles to the Divine Order helps :).

With some lemonade magic,

Nataliya

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