Thank you Peta, for always sharing so honestly and authentically in a way that leaves no doubt to your sincerity. The heart behind the words is so big.
I must admit, I’m intrigued. Raised and schooled Catholic in Perth, I abandoned religion and esp the Catholic Church in my 20s. I now walk a spiritual path and am connected to beliefs around universal love, Source, the divine light. I teach my children that God/Source/Universe is one and the same and that we are all aspects of the light.
I too relate so much to wanting to feel the ease and softness in my life and to stop chasing. In recent times I’ve pulled back on the constant chase for perfecting my life, and have instead focussed on being in it. On being present with my kids and being in the magic of life. So I truly can relate so much to your longings and your path.
My resistance and confusion comes in around the labels. Why does it have to be ‘Him’ with male labeling, with conviction around it being God/Jesus and Him guiding you home, and why does that concept have to be something different than universal love guiding you?
You speak of the new age spiritual world being narcissistic, but in my experience it has opened me up to being more loving, open, softer and free. I guess you have abandoned these views now, but the idea of us and Earth rising in frequency and shifting more to a 5D frequency has resonated so much for me and has opened me up to shift in so many ways. So I get stuck on the idea of this male figure HAVING to be ‘the one’ that leads you HOME.
Why can’t the universe/love/light/Source reconfigure your life in the same way; show you your veils, show you what you are ready to release etc. Why does it have to be ‘Him’? and the bible? This is the part it get stuck on.
I have often loved the idea of Jesus being a leader, wise man, spiritual leader and now ascended master who once walked apon us. Why does this concept have to be abolished in place of ‘Him’ as a proper noun?
This is in no way a criticism of your path that you are walking but as a real curiosity. Especially because I follow Tara Bliss too and have been watched a similar story unfolding for her too. It’s fascinating.
I wish you all the love and peace in the world and look forward to seeing this unfold for you ♥️
Oh and I guess the other part to my curiosity is around where you go to safely explore this world. I get nostalgic when I see beautiful old churches, it triggers such fond memories in me for my childhood growing up in the church. I especially adored the Christmas Eve mass and connecting with the nativity scene and baby Jesus. I literally grew up from birth being in the Catholic Church and went to a Catholic primary school and high school. So I have many many beautiful memories and understandings around Jesus and his life.
My young children are fascinated by the story of baby Jesus. There are many beautiful parts to my understanding of Jesus/God that I would like to weave into my life, but the thought of actually reintroducing myself and my children to the Catholic Church makes me feel a bit sick. There is too much darkness hidden there for me to be comfortable ever being in that area. But I also find the new age evangelical style Christianity hard to stomach. So I’m curious to know where you safely go to unpack this all, and what ‘style’ of Christianity have you landed apon? X
I also share this curiosity. And would like to know your thoughts.. where does one go to safely explore this?
I am for the FIRST time in my life open to “Him”. I was raised with an strongly atheist communist mother and an eccentric, universal-love father. I was not raised in ANY church environments so it’s all new... completely. But I feel a softened truth in the idea of Jesus in our life for the first time too. Realising he has probably been part of it and guiding it my whole life when I look back at those moments of profundity.. I often guided MYSELF to Church as a young child, a teenager and even as an adult. I often asked Raf if we could “mirror” a Christian marriage and parenting, as our template. Many times over the last decade we’ve been together...
I don’t really have fear of welcoming in Jesus, but I guess I have fear of welcoming in exclusivity...
Perhaps that’s another thing to unpack... Why would I fear that?
And also the fear of what my family would say. Only my grandma would be happy, I think 😅
My step-mum had a lot of crosses around her house, and something shifted massively after her passing.
And I do 100% subscribe to your beliefs about the self-help and guru and healer world... so dark, so self-absorbed. And I can see how the devotion to God is the answer. I had arrived there myself over this last year of deconstructing my life, and actually I had always known in it my “mind” (just had not integrated into my body / life). But what about Buddha? Or the Hindu gods? Or Allah? Which to me is all very similar to the path of Jesus. It’s all pure and untainted by the modern Ego.
Anyway -- I’m here with you sister. Life has not been about “me” for some time. Learning to let myself be carried by the Higher. The baby giraffe analogy feels perfect for the journey I’m on too.
Perhaps Jesus was waiting for the right moment to arrive, once I had released “my mind” finally, so I could come to Him with simple purity, without the need for Mastery, to be ABLE to be fully humbled, which are not things I would have been able to do earlier in my life...
I love mirroring my own journey through yours Peta 🫶🏻🧡 Thank you for sharing your story with so much love and grace.
I recently found myself starting to work in a nursinghome for people with dementia. Never thought I would/should do that. But God specificly guided me there - to THAT specific home, and I had to follow. Not knowing what it would bring me (didn’t even consider asking about the salary), and not knowing what I could bring to them. But it’s become clear after a month, that I’m there to Co-regulate their nervoussystems. Collecting their non-verbal consent to every tiny bit of nursing, that ‘we’ do with the best intentions, but not always make room for their autonomy. It’s suttle, and also so profound. And something that I couldn’t have found my way to, if I wasn’t willing to loose myself in the job. Not without boundaries, or at my own expence. But with carefully navigating their needs with my own, so we all win 🫶🏻❤️🌱
You were guided there. Working with dementia residents/ patients and children with intellectual disabilities has never felt like work. Yes to the nervous system regulation, and a big YES to “carefully navigating their needs with my own so we all win”. Because that right there is what feels best for everyone too. What a brilliant & beautiful way to use your talents. 🫶🏼✨❤️
Thank you Shannon 🫶🏻❤️ I were indeed guided by God here. This is a place where I can get valued for what my energy brings to my collegues and the residents. That alone feels new. Because it’s not about what I do, but what I AM. Yes I take care of them. But mostly I’m just being with them. That feels like a new way of ‘working’, that’s in a more balanced way ❤️❤️❤️
Oh Peta! I had just unsubscribed as I found myself having a huge grace filled experience where God revealed himself to me. I unsubscribed to simplify, now this just before my last month finishes. Needless to say I will resubscribe as everything you are sharing is where I am heading now. I explain to people as I also tenderly share my relationship to God through Christ that it is an experience I am having, not an idea I have. I too have found it hard, as yes, there is so much harm religion has carried out in the name of God. God's love and religion are very different and separate. Our own personal relationship with God and following Jesus' way is personal, intimate, simple and the strongest, purest, clearest way to live the most loving, forgiving, humble, joy and grace filled life for me. Dan Mohler has a stunning talk about Intimacy with God. So simple, beautiful, pure, humbling and loving is my growing relationship with God. Peta I feel so nervous writing this. I am so grateful for your writing and journey. Thank you and so much love and peace be with you. Chris
Peta, THANK YOU for this heartfelt, authentic post. I resonated deeply. I have been on a self-help, spiritual, 'woke' journey for 6 years. I have felt myself drifting away from it this year, without knowing where I was drifting to. The 'VOOSH' just happened when reading your post. I feel that God has been gently guiding me back this year without me ever realizing it -gently, and so very divine.
I feel like New Age philosophies was strategically introduced to our culture with the intentions to make society focus on self above all. To present this false hope that WE have the power to rule and reign and dictate everything in our lives therefore there is no need for God. And if we begin to think there is no need for God then the spiritual forces that are waging war for our souls have us right where they wants us. Focusing on self rather than Christ. Just a theory I suppose….I always question things that are popular and pushed onto us in the mainstream world.
Firstly, thank you again for being so unedited and authentic and allowing us to come along with you on that ride. I love that you started writing this passage with the words "I feel clumsy writing this" as that illustrates true surrender to what you speak of, and abandoning the self-help train that purports a destination, but is in fact, the wounded express for us overly self-critical improvement course junkies that never seem to end up any better off.
Thank you Peta, for always sharing so honestly and authentically in a way that leaves no doubt to your sincerity. The heart behind the words is so big.
I must admit, I’m intrigued. Raised and schooled Catholic in Perth, I abandoned religion and esp the Catholic Church in my 20s. I now walk a spiritual path and am connected to beliefs around universal love, Source, the divine light. I teach my children that God/Source/Universe is one and the same and that we are all aspects of the light.
I too relate so much to wanting to feel the ease and softness in my life and to stop chasing. In recent times I’ve pulled back on the constant chase for perfecting my life, and have instead focussed on being in it. On being present with my kids and being in the magic of life. So I truly can relate so much to your longings and your path.
My resistance and confusion comes in around the labels. Why does it have to be ‘Him’ with male labeling, with conviction around it being God/Jesus and Him guiding you home, and why does that concept have to be something different than universal love guiding you?
You speak of the new age spiritual world being narcissistic, but in my experience it has opened me up to being more loving, open, softer and free. I guess you have abandoned these views now, but the idea of us and Earth rising in frequency and shifting more to a 5D frequency has resonated so much for me and has opened me up to shift in so many ways. So I get stuck on the idea of this male figure HAVING to be ‘the one’ that leads you HOME.
Why can’t the universe/love/light/Source reconfigure your life in the same way; show you your veils, show you what you are ready to release etc. Why does it have to be ‘Him’? and the bible? This is the part it get stuck on.
I have often loved the idea of Jesus being a leader, wise man, spiritual leader and now ascended master who once walked apon us. Why does this concept have to be abolished in place of ‘Him’ as a proper noun?
This is in no way a criticism of your path that you are walking but as a real curiosity. Especially because I follow Tara Bliss too and have been watched a similar story unfolding for her too. It’s fascinating.
I wish you all the love and peace in the world and look forward to seeing this unfold for you ♥️
Oh and I guess the other part to my curiosity is around where you go to safely explore this world. I get nostalgic when I see beautiful old churches, it triggers such fond memories in me for my childhood growing up in the church. I especially adored the Christmas Eve mass and connecting with the nativity scene and baby Jesus. I literally grew up from birth being in the Catholic Church and went to a Catholic primary school and high school. So I have many many beautiful memories and understandings around Jesus and his life.
My young children are fascinated by the story of baby Jesus. There are many beautiful parts to my understanding of Jesus/God that I would like to weave into my life, but the thought of actually reintroducing myself and my children to the Catholic Church makes me feel a bit sick. There is too much darkness hidden there for me to be comfortable ever being in that area. But I also find the new age evangelical style Christianity hard to stomach. So I’m curious to know where you safely go to unpack this all, and what ‘style’ of Christianity have you landed apon? X
I also share this curiosity. And would like to know your thoughts.. where does one go to safely explore this?
I am for the FIRST time in my life open to “Him”. I was raised with an strongly atheist communist mother and an eccentric, universal-love father. I was not raised in ANY church environments so it’s all new... completely. But I feel a softened truth in the idea of Jesus in our life for the first time too. Realising he has probably been part of it and guiding it my whole life when I look back at those moments of profundity.. I often guided MYSELF to Church as a young child, a teenager and even as an adult. I often asked Raf if we could “mirror” a Christian marriage and parenting, as our template. Many times over the last decade we’ve been together...
I don’t really have fear of welcoming in Jesus, but I guess I have fear of welcoming in exclusivity...
Perhaps that’s another thing to unpack... Why would I fear that?
And also the fear of what my family would say. Only my grandma would be happy, I think 😅
My step-mum had a lot of crosses around her house, and something shifted massively after her passing.
And I do 100% subscribe to your beliefs about the self-help and guru and healer world... so dark, so self-absorbed. And I can see how the devotion to God is the answer. I had arrived there myself over this last year of deconstructing my life, and actually I had always known in it my “mind” (just had not integrated into my body / life). But what about Buddha? Or the Hindu gods? Or Allah? Which to me is all very similar to the path of Jesus. It’s all pure and untainted by the modern Ego.
Anyway -- I’m here with you sister. Life has not been about “me” for some time. Learning to let myself be carried by the Higher. The baby giraffe analogy feels perfect for the journey I’m on too.
Perhaps Jesus was waiting for the right moment to arrive, once I had released “my mind” finally, so I could come to Him with simple purity, without the need for Mastery, to be ABLE to be fully humbled, which are not things I would have been able to do earlier in my life...
I love mirroring my own journey through yours Peta 🫶🏻🧡 Thank you for sharing your story with so much love and grace.
I recently found myself starting to work in a nursinghome for people with dementia. Never thought I would/should do that. But God specificly guided me there - to THAT specific home, and I had to follow. Not knowing what it would bring me (didn’t even consider asking about the salary), and not knowing what I could bring to them. But it’s become clear after a month, that I’m there to Co-regulate their nervoussystems. Collecting their non-verbal consent to every tiny bit of nursing, that ‘we’ do with the best intentions, but not always make room for their autonomy. It’s suttle, and also so profound. And something that I couldn’t have found my way to, if I wasn’t willing to loose myself in the job. Not without boundaries, or at my own expence. But with carefully navigating their needs with my own, so we all win 🫶🏻❤️🌱
You were guided there. Working with dementia residents/ patients and children with intellectual disabilities has never felt like work. Yes to the nervous system regulation, and a big YES to “carefully navigating their needs with my own so we all win”. Because that right there is what feels best for everyone too. What a brilliant & beautiful way to use your talents. 🫶🏼✨❤️
Thank you Shannon 🫶🏻❤️ I were indeed guided by God here. This is a place where I can get valued for what my energy brings to my collegues and the residents. That alone feels new. Because it’s not about what I do, but what I AM. Yes I take care of them. But mostly I’m just being with them. That feels like a new way of ‘working’, that’s in a more balanced way ❤️❤️❤️
Oh Peta! I had just unsubscribed as I found myself having a huge grace filled experience where God revealed himself to me. I unsubscribed to simplify, now this just before my last month finishes. Needless to say I will resubscribe as everything you are sharing is where I am heading now. I explain to people as I also tenderly share my relationship to God through Christ that it is an experience I am having, not an idea I have. I too have found it hard, as yes, there is so much harm religion has carried out in the name of God. God's love and religion are very different and separate. Our own personal relationship with God and following Jesus' way is personal, intimate, simple and the strongest, purest, clearest way to live the most loving, forgiving, humble, joy and grace filled life for me. Dan Mohler has a stunning talk about Intimacy with God. So simple, beautiful, pure, humbling and loving is my growing relationship with God. Peta I feel so nervous writing this. I am so grateful for your writing and journey. Thank you and so much love and peace be with you. Chris
Peta, THANK YOU for this heartfelt, authentic post. I resonated deeply. I have been on a self-help, spiritual, 'woke' journey for 6 years. I have felt myself drifting away from it this year, without knowing where I was drifting to. The 'VOOSH' just happened when reading your post. I feel that God has been gently guiding me back this year without me ever realizing it -gently, and so very divine.
My sister. So bold... 👏🏻 to KNOW that we are loved so deeply by Him is indescribable.
I feel like New Age philosophies was strategically introduced to our culture with the intentions to make society focus on self above all. To present this false hope that WE have the power to rule and reign and dictate everything in our lives therefore there is no need for God. And if we begin to think there is no need for God then the spiritual forces that are waging war for our souls have us right where they wants us. Focusing on self rather than Christ. Just a theory I suppose….I always question things that are popular and pushed onto us in the mainstream world.
I couldn’t agree more
P.s. heart stirred. Tears that could not be held back. I will be resting different tonight.
Thank you for your warm sincerity, raw vulnerability, and soft wisdom. This was absolutely breathtaking to read...I loved it all’
I sure adore you PKC! xx
Thank for continuing to share honey. ❤️ Big love to you and your fam during this special time in Aus. How magic! x
Firstly, thank you again for being so unedited and authentic and allowing us to come along with you on that ride. I love that you started writing this passage with the words "I feel clumsy writing this" as that illustrates true surrender to what you speak of, and abandoning the self-help train that purports a destination, but is in fact, the wounded express for us overly self-critical improvement course junkies that never seem to end up any better off.
♥️♥️♥️