Soul Growth

Empowering Chats with Susan Burrell

Ep #305 - Soul Growth - A solo show with your host, Susan Burrell

As I sat to contemplate this year and get ready for 2025 I realized I was trying too hard to get excited about this year of 2025. And I also recognized that I am holding pieces of fear. Pieces that I intend to look at closely to better understand why this is showing up.

And so here is what we are looking at for Empowering Chats for this year. Soul Growth. These two words kept dropping into my body as I was preparing for this year. So, Soul Growth is our overarching theme for Empowering Chats with Susan Burrell for the year of 2025. I feel this is so spot on for both my personal life and for my podcast.

I believe that life and nature have a way of illuminating those things we need to pay attention to in our life. For me dragonflies are a sign of transformation. As I prepared for this podcast and for my intention for 2025​, dragonflies began to show up for me. So pay attention to them. I think they will show up as a guidance system ​and as a way to lead us into transformation.

Transforming from the inside out requires that we continue to do our deep inner work. Meditating, walking in nature, journaling, taking creative classes or reading an inspiring book are all ways for us to dig deep and explore our inner landscape. And something that works for me is to continue to ask myself, Who am I now? I encourage you to do the same.

The inner work requires us to listen to our heart and choose to be more awake and lead from a place of light and love.

The fear, the anger, the being critical of others is really about what we are feeling inside of ourselves. So, I gotta ask – What are you afraid of? What is showing up for you? Are you afraid of what is showing up?

What if you fully embody the love that you are? Perhaps by doing so, the judgement, the critical eye we focus on outside of ourselves, will begin to diminish. What if instead we looked within to discern where those dark pockets are? And then we forgive ourselves.

Part of Soul Growth is all about forgiveness. It must start with us first​, with The Individual. If every individual did this inner work, then the outside world becomes a better place. All the chaos and stuff we are having reactions to will begin to diminish and transform – just like the dragonfly.

To learn more about how I show up in the world I invite you to visit my website: SusanBurrell.com