A Year of Healing, Grief and Realignment.
A personal moment from Untapped Founder, Briony.
Re: Collective energy upgrades
This year has been huge, hard, and challenging for so many of us.
For me, this year has brought so much expansion and joy, but really, if I look back, it’s been a huge year of healing, grief, and death—on a metaphorical level—and rebirth.
It’s been a process of letting go of things that are not aligned and brought so much forth for me to heal. I’m still working through that.
Why I closed HPW
One of the biggest decisions for me this year was to shut down one of our foundational programmes, High Performing Womxn, HPW. It was really hard. It was one of our core offerings, but I knew it was what I needed to do.
I didn't necessarily know what the next thing was going to be. But I had this inner deep knowing that it was something I needed to let go of, perhaps you can relate to something in your life.
Of course, I had a fear of what was going to fill that space.
It’s an act of courage to sit with that feeling, and not force ‘the thing’.
The thing could be a new relationship, a new job, or for me, a new core offering. It’s not about filling the void or abyss.
It’s like standing on the edge of a cliff, can create such a sense on unsafety or unknowingness. I’m only now just coming out in the reemergence with clairty and excitement of whats to come.
Energy
As a Manifesting Generator, I’m used to energy coming and going at different times. But I sat in a ‘energy-going’ time for 5 months after taking away a core pillar of my work, and the identity I had attached to it.
When you take away something significant there are repercussions, and for me, it was financial and the fact I had a team looking to me as well.
For me, in that time, it was about reclaiming groundedness without rushing. It was taking the space. In a modern society, everything moves so quickly.
It takes so much courage to push pause.
How I did it:
Team.
I had a team holding me and holding our business. If anyone out there is a solopreneur, my greatest gift this year was this space I was able to take as the team kept everything running. 2021 was our biggest year in business, hitting over seven figures. I needed the time this year to slow down and take stock both externally and internally.
Money Mindset.
I completely acknowledge that I am privileged to be in this space of taking time out AND that I’ve spent the past five years investing in other pools outside of the business to support myself. I adjusted my lifestyle and expenses and focussed on what things really mattered. The most important thing for me here was having more than one income stream, and some of them were passive income.
Community.
Untapped has an incredible community. I have an amazing community as well. I got clear on my commitments I could and would show up fully for, and bring 100% of myself to these spaces.
Creating more safety in myself
I’ve spent most of this year travelling, and living in different countries. It completely disrupts my physical environment, and so much of my deep work has been around creating a deeper safety within myself this year, no matter the circumstances. I’ve been engaging in alternate modalities: Breathwork, therapy, spritual guides, and plant medicine.
Outside of me, having the people with the integrated wisdom I;ve been seeking is so helpful. People who have been, and are even going through the phases you are going through in life. It’s been so reassuring to be amongst other entrepreneurs who had been exactly the same position. So many of them, like me, have gone from the best moments to absolute confusion and complete realignment.
In this episode of the Untapped podcast I expand on the above, and delve more into plant medicines, my relationship, and reclaiming my space and safety in the world. Hopefully this episode allows you insight into your own year, and the steps you can take to move forward.
Remember, we are our own inner wisdom and guides.
