She is Un-Becoming

Christine Winebrenner Irick, Lotus Sojourns Founder (Photo by Kelly Eileen // Essence+Artistry)

Today is my day!

This year I have been given the word mountain and the word journey to guide me to the path I am on right now...literally my journey.

I started the year reading this quote,

“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

I have worked so hard up until this point of my life to become everything that everyone ever asked of me. I have given and given and given and bent to fill this mold and fit into that box. I have cried myself to sleep. I have ached for truth. I have felt so lost that there seemed no way I could ever be found. Then slowly, I began to look inside and work my way through that darkness, and in the depth of those shadows lay my light.

During a powerful meditation, my young self, around 10 years old, came to me...she took my hand and said, "I am here and I have never left you...we can do all of this...together."

It has taken me 2 years to see what she was asking me to do. To stop trying to be who I am not and to know that I was always just as I was meant to be and when I reconnect to my true self I will step into the world and be able to create the change I have longed to create. I will guide women to connect with one another, to stand together, to know their value and their worth and their truth.

Today is the day I see that there is no other option for me than to move forward, to Un-Become, to step out of the darkness and let my light shine the way it has been meant to all along.

It is both a difficult and terribly simple journey and I hope that many of you will join me as we Un-Become and return to who we have always been.

Christine Winebrenner Irick
Founder, Lotus Sojourns

PS - You can travel with me soon to Guatemala in July or November, 2020. Click here to join me on this Sojourn to Guatemala...I’d love to welcome you to our traveler community and share this experience with you!