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Have You Met Your Angel-Ness?

June 20, 2012

I’ve met my Angel-ness.  Have you met yours?

Since I met her, my Angel-ness has helped me leave a safe, 175K a year, and life- sucking JOB, and leap off the ledge of solo-preneurship– and soar!

She helped me heal my marriage, take responsibility for my own shit, release blame, connect with magical and dear soul-friends, and introduced me to amazing thinkers-feelers-and-seers.

My Angel-ness lifted me out of depression and helped me see my worth personally and professionally. She helped me manifest amazing trips, helped me fill my client roster, she attracted YOU to this site, and she took my coaching practice from USA and Canada–to GLOBAL.

She helped me release shit that was destroying my heart and she taught me to allow.  She draws most of my art, and she designed this webpage-and introduced me to my designer.

She follows her heart, she speaks with wisdom and love. She is right every time. I could go on and on with the evidence of her in my life….another time though.

What the heck is my Angel-ness?

Let me share a short story and an old personal blog post from 4 years ago with you.

Looking back at an old blog I used to write, it is fun to see where I was, and the dates behind those posts.  Today, I chuckled about this post I wrote about meeting my Angel-ness.  I chuckled, because now I call her by a few other names:  My Inner Whisper, My Inner Wisdom–  She is my Inner Goddess– she is PURE LOVE.

I also chuckled because of the date: June 15, 2009– and here I am 4 years later — almost to the day.

I’ve really discovered more of my authentic voice, and this gal is certainly a much larger and more consistent part of my life.  I am much more in tune with her voice… I hear it loud and clear on request. To hear her back in 2009, her voice was so buried under the noise of life, I had to be taken through a guided meditation.

Here’s the old post:

15 June 2009- Let me introduce you to my new best friend


This post is probably a little airy-fairy for some of you….so warning. I am pretty airy fairy sometimes and this is my blog. That being said, let me introduce you to my new best friend.

I was recently introduced to my Angel-ness and her purpose for my life. I’m grateful for the introduction and for the many messages she has been giving me since I met her. Today was the day I first drew her and put her to a visual symbol. She is the very best version of myself. The one God created me to be. She is here to remind me that I brave and strong and the words on her spirit tail are just some of the qualities that I know I have and am growing every day.
Here are a few of the other messages she has helped me uncover:

 

  • Watch out for downplaying who you are
  • Leave the small shit behind
  • Validation comes from the SPIRIT, not from the world.
  • You have an infinite capacity to grow and love and evolve
  • You are an artist–always have been.
  • You are able to trust completely…those wings are strong and will guard my heart when needed.
  • Life is meant to be enjoyed abundantly…this abundance is for all of us…including you, Allison
  • Laugh
  • Don’t take life so seriously
  • God takes care of the birds doesn’t he? and they are just birds…
  • Delight in the people you love
  • Just be. Just be has been your motto for a long long time…bring it back…and be all that you want to be. Be love-don’t DO love…just be.


I guess I share…because I’d love for YOU to have the gift of hearing what your angel-ness has to say for you? How can he/she/it contribute to your spirit…and then your life? 

To the one who introduced me to my Angel-ness, I am grateful for your contribution to my life..I look forward to speaking again soon…and learning more.

I’ve changed a bunch since that post.

  • I was afraid of my airy fairy…and now I freaking embrace it! I even took a professional photo recently in fairy wings! 
  • I had no idea how my life would accelerate and change for the better when I began an active relationship with that Angel-ness/Inner Whisper.  My marriage is 10 Zillion times better, I’m lighter, I still earn great money BUT I’m my own boss, I have time to play, create, and just be, I actually LIKE MY LIFE, and I’ve served so many hearts –all because I decided to begin & sustain that relationship.
  • I believe more in The Universe – that we are all connected and there is Goddess within (rather than one authoritative God that we are separate from).
  • I only had 2 coaching sessions with that coach—and the first one pivoted my life forever.
  • I’ve re-framed pretty much everything in life to consider being in alignment with that Angel-ness/Inner Whisper first.
  • I now teach people how to do the very same.

The coolest part of reading that old post is…that the messages My Angel-ness gave me haven’t changed –well maybe only a shift in language actually– the essence still remains.  Here’s how it has shifted:

  • Watch out for downplaying who you are  —>Stand in the tallness of who you are; Being truly yourself is the best way to find happiness and success.
  • Leave the small shit behind —>Focus on the BIG AMAZING SHIT, Live BIG, Share BIG.
  • Validation comes from the SPIRIT, not from the world. —>YOU ARE VALID!- You are above no one, you are beneath no one, you are independent of the good and bad opinions of others, you are LOVE, you are VALID.
  • You have an infinite capacity to grow and love and evolve  —> You are infinitely and actively growing, loving and evolving.
  • You are an artist–always have been. —>You are an artist, always have been, and always will be- Keep C R E A T I N G.
  • You are able to trust completely…those wings are strong and will guard my heart when needed. —>I trust the process of Life- I am safe and I am loved.
  • Life is meant to be enjoyed abundantly…this abundance is for all of us…including you, Allison —> I am in the flow of Abundance easily, always and with appreciation and joy.
  • Laugh —> REALLY REALLY LAUGH!
  • Don’t take life so seriously–-> Play, Celebrate, Notice & Enjoy Often
  • God takes care of the birds doesn’t he? and they are just birds… —> The Universe is FOR you and meets all your needs — Life happens FOR you. 
  • Delight in the people you love —> Delight in and make time for the people you love.
  • Just be. Just be has been your motto for a long long time…bring it back…and be all that you want to be. Be love-don’t DO love…just be.

Have you met YOUR Angel-ness?  Can you hear your Inner Whisper? Or,are you still hearing the voices of the Inner Critic, the Inner Judge, Inner Shame, and your Inner Meanie?

There is nothing I love more than making the introduction of my clients to their Inner Whisper– helping them learn to hear that small, still, true, and LOVING, and VALID voice within.   Nothing excites me more than teaching someone who is ready and willing, to turn up that volume and start living a new life and reaping the rewards of being guided by this new voice.  Old ways of thinking run deep, and they can be changed.

You want to change your life? You’ve gotta change your thoughts. You don’t change your thinking- your life won’t change. 

 

Thanks so much for reading. Feel free to share, or tweet, or comment– or all three! Spread the good ju-ju!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. ChristineMann says: June 21, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    Your words
    and thoughts are beautiful and you came along JUST when I needed you. I’ll be
    sharing and reading regularly. Thank you.

    • Allison Crow says: June 21, 2012 at 9:13 pm

       Welcome Christine! I’m so glad you read this post today…may your OWN Inner Whisper answer when you call!
      xo
      allison

  2. Lisa Marie says: June 21, 2012 at 11:21 pm

    Oh, my stars! You just sparkle with inspiration. I felt a big surge of love just reading your post above. Thank you for sharing your angel-ness, so that we can find our own. Oh, that bit ’bout quitting your job…many people want to do that. You are going to inspire many 🙂 So glad to have found you and your blog 🙂

    • Allison Crow says: June 22, 2012 at 6:37 pm

       Hooray! Thanks for the lovely words and encouragement! I wanna sparkle! Thanks my dear!

  3. Janice M. Simon says: June 22, 2012 at 12:08 am

    Love your post and website! I need some Angel-ness.

    • Allison Crow says: June 22, 2012 at 6:37 pm

       Call her forth, Janice! Ask her to speak up and the listen!!!! She will show up!

  4. Linda Ursin says: June 9, 2013 at 9:09 pm

    Don’t know if I can call her an angel exactly 😀 But my communication with my inner guide is usually pretty good.

  5. Neetika Rao Saksena says: February 24, 2015 at 9:32 am

    Love the post, Allison. The Angel-ness is telling me to love myself and to let the small stuff be. She is reminding me on how I need to treat myself. :). Again and again.

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