Sovereign Spirit
..One Woman’s Path from Shameful Sheep to Spiritual Sovereignty
Foreword
Before you read further, I wish to offer a delicate warning.
The story recorded in the pages to follow is my own, nothing more and nothing less. I don’t view myself as someone to emulate exactly, nor do I see the views I have come to hold as a result of my experience as absolute truth. My ideas on religion and spirituality have changed more than once in my thirty years on planet Earth, and I expect they will again. In fact, I would be disappointed if they did not. With life experience come new lessons, and as I strive to grow and learn, I am constantly presented with new information, new perspectives and new ideas. With these, my views evolve, life’s puzzle fills in a few holes, and expands to reveal a brand new horizon I didn’t even know existed before. It is a process that will never stop because, as we’ve all noticed, there seems to be more information out there than ever. This is a beautiful, wonderful thing, don’t get me wrong. It means we can know things we’ve never been able to know before. However, sifting through this information to find the nuggets of truth and learning to discern the intertwining fabrications is a lifelong task. I believe it is one I’ll never finish to completion. I don’t claim to know it all. I am only offering my perspective. I invite you to take from it what serves you in reaching your highest good, the most true version of yourself.
With this small memoir, once again, I aim to convince no one of anything. I only want to share my experience in hopes of connecting with other souls on similar journeys. I hope to inspire a questioning spirit to any who read these words. I hope to share some hope from my shadows. I hope to realize that I am not alone.
More than any of those things, however, I hope to use the writing and publishing process of this work as a catharsis. Yes, my deepest reasons for writing are entirely self-centered and self-serving. Only by first serving myself can I ever hope to offer myself in service to anyone else. My wish is to pull out dark shadows and demons from the rugs I’ve hid them under over the years, face them, give them a meaningful place in my existence, and heal on levels deeper than I ever knew were possible.
Take from my journey what you will, and I hope down the road a ways, our paths will intertwine.
***Some names and places herein have been changed to protect the privacy of those who may not wish to have their identities connected with my story.