You’re Longing to Be in Community with People Who Get It
Because surrendering who you were to become who you are requires a deeper connection.
I went to lunch today with a new friend I met at the park last weekend. And within 5 minutes of our conversation, I knew.
I crossed my arms, turned and shook my head, marveling at how we find our way to each other. How people who've chosen to listen to that still, small voice inside somehow find each other out in the wild at just the right time. Without knowing each other, we know each other. We know what it means to be on this journey—how it feels to walk through the wilderness towards ourselves with both weight and wonder, fear and conviction, desire and surrender. All because we answered the call, following our spirit instead of our head into what's next.
Being in community with somebody who gets it feels like the most beautiful reminder that we are held.
And it brought me back to something I've been thinking about: there is something holy, blessed, tender, and healing about being in community with people who have chosen to live this way.
If you have already chosen to walk this path of honoring and listening to your self, divesting from this idea that success is the goal, you know that sometimes you are walking in this gray fog. You are walking in uncertainty. You are walking in newness. You are walking in spaces that do not make sense in your head, but they make all the sense in the world to your heart and to your spirit.
What You're Longing For
You’re longing to be in community with people who get what it feels like to have a seat at the table and wonder every single day what life could be like without it.
You want a space where it's safe to take off the cape, where you don't have to put on or be the “leader.” You can just be you. Uncertain. Growing. Evolving you.
You want rich, deep conversation that isn't about the next step on the ladder. You are so over that damn ladder. You want conversation about living, about your dreams, about nothing, and about everything.
You want to be in space with people who push you, who grow you, who expand your sense of what's possible in this life. You want late-night conversations that feel so rich, so nourishing, so good to your soul, that you don't want to leave them to go to sleep.
The Circle You're Seeking
You want a circle. An intimate circle of people who, like you, believe that there is more to life than being successful. People who have, or have had, an amazing career. And now, they want a life. A full, beautiful life.
You want to be in community with people who get how hard it feels to stop being the person everyone else wants and expects you to be, so you can be the person you want and feel called to be.
People who know what it's like to battle yourself. Battle the old you. So you can become the free you. The joyful you. The expansive whole you. The you that doesn't push or feel the need to prove. The you who trusts herself.
Who knows how to draw from every experience, whether it's personal or professional, to steady herself and find a way forward. The you who delights in slow mornings and relishes taking care of her mind, body, and spirit. The you who knows that time with yourself and in community is the ultimate regenerator.
What it gives you in energy, insight, and perspective is the greatest return.
Learning Together
You want to be with people who, like you, are learning. Who are committed to learning how to rest. Yes. And how to surrender. Not superficially, not like that fake rest—real deep from the inside out rest. Not rest as something you do, but rest as a way of being. Surrender.
You want to be with people who are retiring their achiever. Retiring the part of themselves that felt the need to be validated with every accolade. Who felt more important with every accomplishment. Whose value and impact felt tied to their work ethic.
You want to retire her. So you can be you.
You want to be with people who believe, who are clutching fiercely to the belief that there is something bigger. Something more beautiful. Something lighter beyond success. A new way of being that doesn't require so much sacrifice. A way that doesn't demand so much striving.
The Courage to Walk the Unfamiliar Road
You want to be in community with people who believe in the possibility. So much so that they are willing to try. To walk the unfamiliar road. To navigate uncertainty. To shed. To be raw and exposed. To be a beginner. To risk failing. To not know. And still believe.
You want to lock hands, share knowing embraces, and sit with people who are okay with asking the deeper questions. Those who have committed to walking towards and finding answers together.
Why This Journey Feels So Weighty
This journey towards yourself is not easy. But it's a journey that you've already committed to making. Because your spirit said so. And it takes such courage to even get to this point. It takes such strength to even get to this point.
Once you make that decision and you walk in that direction, there are not many people who choose this path. And so for a while, you are walking alone. And there's nobody to blame—but sometimes you do want to blame people. There's nobody to pulse-check with. There's no one to be like, "Is this what it's supposed to be like? Is this normal?"
And so having this community while you make the pilgrimage back to yourself, to not have to do that alone.
When I was at lunch with my new friend, there was a moment where she and I both just got teary. Because this journey can feel weighty. And if you're doing it alone, it's just harder.
The Community for Those Who Can't Not
This is the community you find in Beyond Success. It is not for people who need convincing to walk this path. It is for people who can't not. Who have already chosen. Who have committed to surrender, as hard as it may be. People who understand that surrendering is a process. That every day, every day, it is a process of outgrowing and shedding your old self. Your head self. Your smart self. Your achiever self. So you can be you. Your spiritual self. The actual you.
Not the you that has been programmed and conditioned by all the things out here. But the you who knows.
Beyond Success is a community for that person. Because this journey towards yourself—while magnificent—is the hardest work of your life.
It is about together. It is about alongside. It is about you doing the most magnificent and the hardest work of your life in community with other women who are also doing their most beautiful, hardest thing in their life.
If You're Ready
And if you are like, "Yes please." If you are tired of walking alone, if you have already committed to yourself, then this community is for you.
And I don't have to convince you. Because if it's right for you, your spirit will let you know. And if your spirit says yes, I'm excited to have you in the community.
Ready to walk alongside others who understand the weight and wonder of this journey? If your spirit is saying yes to community over isolation, Beyond Success is waiting for you. Join us.
