nice to meet you, I’m Roselle

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Nice to meet you!

It’s been a real up and down ride for me to get here. And here is definitely not the end or the top. But I am so damn proud that I am still here. Not just with this offering, but literally also on this earth.

I’m still figuring it out. And sharing it with you along the way. Because I never got to see growing up, and well in society it seems we still don’t show, how messy it is to be human. How we are all still figuring it out as we go.

I didn’t learn a deep inner knowing level, that we live in a dynamic world, where things are always changing, so therefore we’ll always be responding.

I could have told you this as a fact. But I didn’t understand what it meant to live that.

Which, for the longest time, to me seemed like the MOST HORRIBLE THING! What on earth was the point of life and living if it seemed we always needed to be responding to things. Was life always going to be THIS. DAMN. HARD?

Thankfully, no. Yes, I still have to respond to things, because, well, life. But it’s not that hard any more. Sure it’s still hard at times. I’m not always well resourced but overall there isn’t this sense that things are impossible or that doomsday can’t come soon enough to put me out of my misery.

How did I get here?

I wish I could say it was by some big plan. But it wasn’t. I’ve been waffling around, going all over the place since I was that 15 year old girl sitting on the steps at school after yet another career event.

But I have been pretending. Making others think I had a plan. Telling myself that if I said it enough times that it would happen.

It did not.

Instead, I ended up with what feels like a million qualifications, yet feeling pretty average at everything I do.

Oh, and burnt out.

But, in not wanting to give it up, because some little voice inside me kept saying, it’s ok to go slow, but keep going, has landed me here.

Where? Working with clients and absolutely loving it.

I’ve finally found where I fit in. What it is I have to offer.

And that I still question and doubt, and wonder if I’m making it all up in my head. But I have found some peace with my doubt because I move with intention and the commitment to holding the work I do as one of the greatest honours I could ever hold.

So what makes me qualified?

Two things: 1) my actual qualifications and 2) becuase I LIVE it. I really live what I teach and share.

My Qualifications

You can see the full list here but what does that all mean?

Well, it means what ever you want it to mean. Sure I have a lot of knowledge and that does come in handy. But, as they say, there’s a big difference between reading about how to ride a bike an actually being able to do it.

My Life Qualifications

I’ve long adapted the saying “we live and we learn” to “we live and IF WE CHOOSE we learn”. Because it’s possible to do life and not really learn from it.

Learning is an active process.

One where we have to take time to question, reflect, seek other opinions and see how it all fits together.

I’ll share the in’s and outs of my journey as I go, and it’s up to you to decide if I’m ‘qualified’ enough for you. What matters for everyone is going to be different and I really like that. Because it shows the uniqueness of each of us, the realness of where we each are in any given moment.

Where is this blog going?

Not sure! I’m leaning into learning as I go. Sure I’ve read about strategy. But nothing seems to sit right with me.

So for now it will be a bit of a hodge podge of things as I find my way. I will try things and see how it feels.

Because life is messy. And I’m here for it.