If you’re reading this, you’re likely a person interested in change, evolution, and life fulfillment. You’re seeking something. Looking for guidance. Wanting a map.

When we feel the pull to change our lives and find satisfaction in our humanness, a normal first step is to look to others to show us the way. We observe “gurus” and “experts” in our world appearing to have it all figured out. We yearn for the inner peace they so passionately promote.

This tendency to look to others for instruction about how to attain our own personal fulfillment creates an us/them mentality. They are good and I’m bad. They are spiritual and I’m just regular. They have it figured out and I don’t.

But, who are these spiritual people, really?

I have a truth to share: Spiritual people are regular people.

There is nothing fundamentally different about your guru or idol that makes them more worthy of life satisfaction than you. They did not have a head start, and they did not get to skip over the process of evolution that you are so earnestly beginning. They certainly did not get to hand over their responsibility for their suffering.

Evolution (spiritual fulfillment/inner peace/whatever we want to call it!) is developed over time when we face our suffering head on and learn how to consciously move through the lessons that life is offering us. These lessons, like how to take care of ourselves, heal, and accept ourselves, transform suffering into peace.

There is no shortcut. No “Pass Go and Collect $200”. No fast track.

When we accept this truth, we can develop a healthy, empowering, relationship with our guides, rather than a dependent one.

Now that we know we are just as worthy and just as responsible as anyone else, we can begin the work toward discovering peace.

(And we can watch that Eckhart Tolle youtube video without feeling less-than.)

If you feel called to shift your suffering into peace, let’s chat.