Exchanging Ego for Soul: Your Body is Your Oldest Ally

Our bodies aren’t evil. They’re not bad. There’s a reason we’re not disembodied souls floating around a spirit world made of fog and twilight. But we’re often so busy telling our bodies what to be, what to do, and what to look like, that we forget to listen to their inherent wisdom.

Your mind will often lie to you about your body. But your body never lies.

Exchanging Ego for Soul: Listening for Soul Messages from the Spiritual World

Have you ever been going about your day, doing something totally normal like getting groceries, logging into your email, picking your kids up from school, or going on a hike, and something happens that stops you in your tracks… some little coincidence or a moment of deja vu, or a text from a long lost friend you just had a dream about the night before?

I think most of us have.

Exchanging Ego for Soul: What Does True Soul Freedom Look Like?

If you’re following along week by week, you know that last week we talked about the difference between ego and soul. This week, we’re going to talk about what soul freedom looks like.

Exchanging Ego for Soul: How to Remember Who We Are

My kids recently lost their great grandfather. It was an open casket. Before the visitation, I told my kids that even though they’d be looking at their great grandfather’s body, his soul was not there.

Have you ever noticed that the body never really looks like the person did in life? There are many reasons for this, but the most important one, to me, is that a body isn’t really anything without a soul.

EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Mourning the Life We Thought We’d Live

Sometimes, whether slowly or all at once, you realize that your life is not and will never be what you thought it would be. Even if it is more beautiful than you thought possible, even if you are more fulfilled than you could have imagined, even if you wouldn’t take that first dream life back for all the money in the world, you eventually need to grieve the life you fought so hard for… the life you’ll never have and maybe never had.

EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Finding the Unexpected Gifts in Trauma

I remember when Brian and I moved to Nashville after our year of traveling the country in an Airstream, and I was convinced that putting down new roots in a new city would be the final step in our healing journey. Both individually and together. I thought Brian would finally be able to meet new friends, get excited about getting a job, we could go on dates to places we've never been before, and enjoy the culture of a big city. There was nothing I wouldn’t do to help us move forward. I just didn’t realize at the time that the one thing I couldn’t do was move Brian forward with me. And I tried.

EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: A Purposeful Surrender

In order for something to grow, it first has to be pruned. If you’ve ever lived in the south, you’ve seen Crepe Myrtle trees surrounding houses and lining neighborhood streets in cities all over the place. There is nothing more jarring than seeing a Crepe Myrtle in springtime. They prune back those trees so much it’s hard to believe they’ll ever produce growth again.

And yet every year, they come back bigger and more beautiful than ever before. And if they hadn’t been pruned, they’d be weak, scrawny, and more susceptible to damage.

The same is true with us.

Embracing Darkness and Unpacking Grief: The Bright Side of Shadow Work

For the first four weeks of The Path Back to You, we focused on energy, digging into what it looks like to raise our vibrations. Now, I bet I can guess what’s happened since you’ve started that journey.

Sh*t got hard. Really hard.

We have the phrase “growing pains” for a reason.

When you start growing, everything gets harder before it gets easier. You’ve decided to wake up to yourself, which means casting off all the old coping mechanisms and numbing techniques you’ve used to get through hard things in the past.

What Happens When Energy Gets Stuck

Today, we’re going to talk about energy chakras. Even that word, “chakras,” might set off alarm bells in your head. As a church going girl who was raised to believe this stuff isn’t real, I get it.

But like most things, learning about chakras isn’t nearly as helpful as experiencing their truth.

All of Us Are on a Path: Where Are You Headed?

At some point, in all lineages, a soul will be born that decides that the bullshit ends with them. This brave soul refuses to conform. It only knows how to speak truth. It stands up to the machine. It brings healing to the world and to all its ancestors who came before. And if you’re reading this, chances are good that it’s you.

There comes a time when the only choice we have left is to believe in our own magic.

And one day, you will tell the story of how you overcame. Maybe it won’t be in a year-long series like this one. Maybe it won’t be written in a book. Maybe it won’t be spoken on a stage. Maybe it will. Or maybe it will be through conversations held with those around you. Your story of overcoming will become someone else’s survival guide. Your future generations will look to you as the one who charted a new course.

You are about to embark on a journey of evolving to the best version of you. Do not apologize for it. This is your birthright.

PersonalJessica ZimmermanJanuary 11, 2024The Path Back to You, energy, healing journey, healingComment

Signs and Synchronicities

I arrived in Fayetteville, Arkansas a few days ago. I walked outside on the balcony of my friend’s Airbnb and was immediately greeted by two red cardinals. Signs and synchronicities. Ok. I’m here. I surrender. It’s time.

Too Comfortable with Negative Emotions

In many ways, I think we’ve become too comfortable with negative emotions. Bitterness, resentment, shame, anxiety…these aren’t natural byproducts of being alive but our inner guide (God) showing us that we are not in alignment with our desire, our core energy.