Aimee Ames

“Aimee is incredibly gifted at helping women find themselves.”

-Jen, 12-week Course Participant

How I found my light…

In my early 40s I found myself physically unwell and realized the random assortment of systemic dysfunction (IBS, endometriosis, thyroid nodules, chronic exhaustion) was my body begging for help.  I listened and changed my diet and made some lifestyle adjustments. I physically felt better, but wasn’t much happier. I was emotionally exhausted and untethered. I had been in survival mode with my 3 young children for 15 years and had lost any sense of self I once had.

I started prioritizing myself.

I learned about and began practicing boundaries with my time and energy, saying no to anything that wasn’t a “hell yes”. I learned that I had experienced more trauma than I realized, my nervous system and adrenals were shot, and I needed to make some significant changes if I wanted to truly be happy.

I spent time with myself. I explored more of nature. I began meditating. I turned down the volume on the outer noise and started hearing the voice inside of me, the voice that had always been there but had been silenced for so long.

I realized I had been living as the woman I was taught to be. Outer influences — my family, teachers, my church, my husband, my friends, media, and the system of patriarchy — had molded me. And I went along with it.

In my solitude I found the woman waiting for me. The woman I was always meant to be.

I was called to “wake up” and begin consciously living my life on a new path with new rules. My path. My rules.

I found my sovereignty.

Other women who were on a path similar to my own started appearing in my life. We joined together and I learned a new way of being with women, witnessing each other in both our wounding and in our dreaming. Coming together to heal, to celebrate, to grow. Never feeling threatened, knowing that our collective supports us in going deeper than we could ever go on our own. I healed more deeply in our gatherings than I thought possible.

I believe that at some point, often in midlife, a greater power offers us a tap on the shoulder. It could be in the form of a career change, a relationship shift, a death, a diagnosis, or more subtlety as chronic unhappiness.

That tap offers us a choice.

We can listen to and embrace it, leading us to a new path and a more profound, deeper existence honoring our soul’s purpose and who we are called to be, or we can ignore the tap, continue living as we have been, and never know the beautiful and fulfilling life that could have been.

I found my light and it’s brighter than I ever imagined. How about yours?

What are you choosing for your one, most precious life?

Always Evolving,

Aimee Ames