Unleashing Spiritual Sovereignty with Jennifer Regular

When Jennifer Regular was confronted with her own life's struggles, she discovered her spiritual sovereignty. "One thing is simply claiming your spiritual sovereignty, really recognizing that you are a spiritual being. To be able to tune into that is really about turning inward, turning back in. When we turn in and tune in, it restores our faith." - Jennifer Regular Jennifer Regular is an international speaker and author of Embrace Your Power: a Healing Journey of Self Discovery. She specializes in helping thought leaders and visionaries direct the life they live to create global impact, make the impossible possible, and fulfill their life's mission. On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast: The benefit of embracing one's power to make an impact and fulfill their life's mission. Why it's important to move away from a place of obligation and towards a place of passion. How making conscious connections can help you cope with life's challenges What the acronym "faith" stands for What happens to our spirit when we move from society's expectations or authority guiding us Connect with Jennifer Website: lightingthepath.ca Free Gift: https://lightingthepath.ca/pathfinder/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@awakenandascend Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/lighting.the.path Quick Links: Join the Live. Love. Engage. Community Intuitive Business Coaching The Live. Love. Engage. Book Support the Podcast with BuyMeACoffee.com Enjoying what you're hearing on Live. Love. Engage.? Subscribe on Goodpods or your favorite podcast platform, and click here to leave a 5 STAR Review. You can also watch the conversation on YouTube. TRANSCRIPT [Gloria Grace Rand] Namaste. I am so glad to be with you for another edition of Live Love Engage. And I have a lovely person who we are going to be chatting with today, who is someone I just met recently, and I had the pleasure to be interviewed by her. And now I'm turning the tables and getting to interview her. So I want to welcome Jennifer Regular to our show. Welcome, Jennifer. [Jennifer Regular] Oh, thank you so much, Gloria. I'm... so great to be here. [Gloria Grace Rand] I'm delighted because we are, I think, kindred spirits a little bit, and I'm going to share with our audience just who you are and what you do so they will learn about that and we'll get into our discussion. So Jennifer is known as the Soul Illuminator, and she specializes in helping thought leaders and visionaries direct the life they live so they can create global impact, make the impossible possible, and fulfill their life's mission. She's also an international speaker and author of Embrace Your Power - a Healing Journey of Self Discovery. And I like the title of that. I might have to ask you a little bit about that. [Jennifer Regular] Absolutely, yes. [Gloria Grace Rand] I'd love to know more about that, but I do always like to start. And I'm sorry for those of you watching me on YouTube today, I don't know, I've got this itchy nose. For some reason, I think that means something, but I'm not quite sure what it is. I know itchy palms are money. That usually works for me, but I'm not sure about the itchy nose, but I'll try not to do that anymore. Anyway, tell us a little bit about how you got started or just what is the path that has led you to where you are today and doing the type of work you're doing. [Jennifer Regular] Yes, sure. Absolutely. Well, one thing I can tell you for sure is that the path is not linear. There are so many pivots and turns we take along the way, and that was so true for me. Growing up, I thought this would be forever, and I'm going to study this, and this is the job I'm going to have forever. I'm going to live in this house, and it'll be forever. And I'll have this love relationship. Oh, we're going to love each other forever. But forever isn't so real. Well, it's real as long as it lasts, right? Forever is just for as long as it lasts. And studying into other spiritualities and religions and learning a lot about impermanence really made a lot more sense than forever; that we continue to evolve and we continue to learn and experience so many different things in this lifetime. And for myself, I ended up on so many different paths. I had 16 different jobs, I had five different business ventures. But where it all started was when I was younger and came in late in life. Actually, my mother didn't know she was having me until six months later. She actually thought she was going through menopause. And then she had hoped after three grown girls, basically they were 14, 18 and 20 when I was being born, that I'd be a boy. And I wasn't. So learning that later just felt like it was always a disappointment or a burden or something that wasn't really wanted necessarily. And thinking that, I really tried to prove my worth and find out, well, why am I here and what can I do to make up for being here? Because I didn't want to be a burden, you know? And I was just always trying to prove something or make my mother proud in some way, trying to meet society's expectations, being the teacher's pet, always trying to have the right answer and participate and engage as fully as I can, even as shy and introverted as I was. I just wanted to prove that I was capable of something or that there was a reason to be here. But that really tripped me up, Gloria, trying to please others and want that need for approval and just trying to prove my worth or some purpose for being here. But there's a flip side of that too, in that there is a purpose for me being here and that there is a path I meant to take. And I was born for a reason. And learning that who I am made a difference. It impacted the family in ways that were unexpected. And when I stopped trying to satisfy these expectations, I later realized didn't even exist, there was no pressure from my family to do any of these things. In fact, I was the only one in my family that even went to university. There was no high standards that I had to live up to. They were all self imposed, all through beliefs that I had and these emotional attitudes that I had something to prove or I had to make my way in the world, so to speak. And all of that really coming from ego, a lot of ego grasping. And it's really ignorance. Ignorance to who we truly are and the profession that we already are. So I hear a lot of people talking about what sounds like imposter syndrome, that maybe they're not good enough, or they don't have what it takes, or they don't have it all right yet and perfect yet. And what I learned is perfection actually repels people, and it doesn't speak to who you truly are. So being able to claim our spiritual sovereignty is actually an antidote to that imposter syndrome. And then being able to leverage our skills and abilities along the way helps us to build that capacity, which it did for me to be able to explore other possibilities. So it wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing. I was just passionate about so many different things that it took me in many different directions. And when I was able to let go of those expectations of what society would impose as rules, and expectations for how to live and how to control what we're meant to do or live up to expectations that maybe our parents had for us about. My mom thought I'd be a great nurse and my dad thought I was most inclined to be a teacher. And then growing up, I thought, well, how can they merge that and yet make it my own so that it makes everybody happy? And that's how I lived my life. How do I make everybody happy? I had this kind of worldview of, community and belonging, and always noticing the parts, the people in society that were alienated, isolated, ostracized, scapegoated, and I would always be drawn to them. Actually, you asked me a little bit about the book, how it intrigued you. That book was actually conceived when I was ten years old and under a very different title. And it was because of the way I was seeing the world and seeing society was quite different from many of my peers, actually, and made me question a lot because of that. But I started writing it down. It became bones of a book called When Society Determines Your Destiny. And pretty grandiose for a ten year old, when you think back to it now. But at the time I was all growing up and I was seeing the world that way. So I was always drawn to the people where I felt were pulled down, broken down, beat up, and told that they weren't worthy, or when they tried to express their idea, their opinion, being shut down for that. And I was always the one to listen and hear them and befriend them. And that translated later too, when I was working in social services for 25 years, again in 16 different types of positions and different populations. So I had an exposure to a lot what creates barriers in people's lives and obstacles, but it always remained the same, just wanting to make a difference in our life and wanting to be someone that is seen and heard and that had opinions. And so 30 years later, that book really became the true message, which was about embracing your power. And it's a healing journal, actually, of self discovery. And it's a journaling style book to really tune into who we are, what we value, what we stand for, and to reclaim that spiritual sovereignty, which again, is that antidote to the imposter syndrome. And what that means is remembering that we are spiritual beings having this human experience. And it's not just a cliche. I know many of you have probably heard this before, but it's really diving deep to understanding what that means and being able to leverage that. Realigning with what you value, understanding what that is, and being able to move from a place of passion rather than obligation. See, on that path, it became quite dense and created this fog and fog you can see as fear, obligation and guilt. The f-o-g, right?...