Follow Your Design: (Re)discovering your Truth and Purpose

By Michelle Layli Farnsworth

Each of us has a Purpose and Truth in this life - but most of us have gotten distracted away from what it is, if we ever knew what it was in the first place. 

 

It is not too late to (re)d

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mainspring Foundations LLC
• Release date: Jun 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781736898802

Michelle Layli Farnsworth

Over the last 15 years Michelle Layli Farnsworth has completely transformed her career, health, relationships, finances and healed from past traumas, and now lives in a place of gratitude and ongoing learning. She has (and still does some days) struggled with codependency and people pleasing, with remembering to use her voice and her power, with overthinking and analysis paralysis, with trusting the Universe/God to guide her, with remembering who she is instead of who the world wants her to be, with remembering to love herself and lavish herself with self-care, with falling for the negative voice in her head, and with remembering to trust her intuition. However, thankfully, the work gets easier and easier over time as she continues to remain committed to her growth and learning. Now she has more days than in the past when she is living in her authentic self, fully in her power and intuition and living out her purpose and her truth which is to help others through coaching, courses and her writing to reclaim their authenticity, power and inner knowing, to discover their own purpose and truth and live it. She lives with her teenage daughter in Washington, D.C.

Book preview

Beginning

I have been guided and blessed over the last 15 years to have completely transformed my career, health, relationships, and finances and healed from my past traumas. I now live in a place of gratitude and ongoing learning.  I have struggled with codependency and people pleasing, with remembering to use my voice and my power, with overthinking and analysis paralysis, with trusting the Universe/God to guide me, with remembering who I am instead of who the world wants me to be, with remembering to love myself and lavish myself with self-care, with falling for the negative voice in my head, and with remembering to trust my intuition. Some days I still struggle.

Thankfully, the work gets easier and easier over time as I continue to remain committed to my growth and learning and have more tools to draw from. Now I have more days than in the past when I am living in my authentic self, fully in my power and intuition and living out my divine design. I believe my divine design is to help others through coaching, courses, and my writing to reclaim their authenticity, power, and inner knowing, to discover their own purpose and truth and live it. I provide the questions and the space to explore, and I believe that you already have the answers inside of you.

Our work together - whether through this book, in private coaching sessions with me, or through the courses or retreats that we at Mainspring Foundations hold - is about overcoming the things that get in the way of you living your authentic life (fear, expectations, ‘should’s, mental blocks, etc.).

I am a partner with you, and I know that you have the strength and wisdom within you to make it happen. My goal is to create a space where you can tap into your own intuition to powerfully guide your decisions.

What I share is my personal experience, tools I’ve relied upon in my own journey of healing, my intuition and what I’ve seen that helps my private coaching clients. In this book I share much of what I’ve learned as I have tapped into the connection to the Divine for inspiration. I trust that when we work together, everything is possible.

This book can be read in the order presented or you could skip around or read it backwards or see what pages or chapters you are drawn to read each time you pick it up. Some chapters have questions or potential practices at the end that you may wish to reflect on. Or not. The importance is to follow your own intuition always, whether about how to use this book or the decisions you make in the rest of your life.

This is my gift to you, and I hope it brings you clarity, truth, purpose, direction, and peace.

A few notes:

Throughout the book I use the Universe/They/Them to speak of the unknowable Divine essence Who created and cares for us. Please feel free to replace this with God, Goddess, Allah, Jehovah, the Almighty, the Great Spirit, Energy, Love, or whatever resonates the most with you, even if it is nothing at all.

I also use they/them to refer to the Noble Self. I see this part of each of us as our soul, which I believe has no gender. Feel free to replace they/them with a gender if it resonates better with you.

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If we could be guided by the abundance of our Noble Selves, we could create

an entirely different world.

I’ve come to understand that each of us are composed of two parts: a Noble Self and a Shadow Self.

The Noble Self is what some call soul, spirit, intuition, higher nature, or heart. It’s the part of us that is connected to something greater than ourselves and the part of ourselves we connect with in meditation or moments of wonder or happiness or peace. The Noble Self is the essence of certainty that has an inner knowingness, a belief in abundance, and a trust in the greater forces at play.

The Shadow Self is also known of as the ego or lower self. It is the part of us that we were given to protect the Noble Self. It has an important role to play as the protector. It was created when we were small children trying to make sense of the world. It is fueled by fear, a belief in lack and a need