Liberation, the Journey

Work Issues and Identities The way in which we create sustenance for ourselves and bring our ideas into form can be the expression of our passions, but can tend to become strained by administrative and challenging dynamics; losing focus, inconsistency, and the survival based need for manifesting an income can often lead to a performative identity that we create to cope around this aspect of the human experience. With Liberation, we find that ‘getting the job done’ in all its iterations is accessed through creating space for this a part of life to simply flow; leading us closer to balance, freedom and success.

A year ago, I made a huge decision to leave my job that I really loved, and open my own Montessori school. I had been playing with the idea in my head for a few years and trying to work towards it, but just never had the means. We sold my car, and invested the money, and then started building a very small environment on my parent’s property, as this was the only way that would be possible for us at that moment to get things started.

For months, 7 to be exact, I struggled with my fears, and my feelings of not being good enough, or being prepared enough, or not having enough to do this, although, I had created the most incredibly beautiful and magical space with only what I had available at that time, I was stuck in the idea of still needing to do all sorts of things or have all sorts of things in order to be successful.

I think it was a week or maybe 2 after starting Liberation, that I suddenly got my first enrolment and the next day I had another. Since then, I have been able to get massive interest in my school, and I am already working on expanding my dream into its entirety.

Liberation has helped me so much to be ok with my fears, to feel it, and then to be able to say, "it's ok to feel afraid, but I don't need to stay there, I only feel the fear because this means so much to me, and I want to do my absolute best. What if I am as great as I believe? What if I already have the means to create anything I wish?”

What if the next step is the only thing I have to focus on right now at this moment? What if I create the most incredible Montessori school South Africa has ever seen? I am in the vortex, I am literally living in my dream, in the vortex, I can physically feel the excitement and the intensity of what I am busy creating, and I was completely blocked from experiencing this before I started Liberation. – N -49-