Rooted in Purpose: Overcoming Self-doubt and Pursuing Your Life’s Calling

By Tricia Dietrich Amara

Rooted in Purpose: Overcoming Self-doubt and Pursuing Your Life's Calling, Second Edition

 

Rooted in Purpose will walk you through a step-by-step programthat shows you how to connect with your true self and create the life you were born to live.

 

This book is intended for any woman:

Who is experiencing a life transition – the loss of an identity due to a change in employment, career, relationship, or health

Who knows there must be more to life and feels a pull towards something but just cannot figure out what it is or how to do it

Who is in overwhelm, being pulled in different directions with little time for self-care

Who is unable to recognize accomplishments and in the face of success, feels like a fraud

Who tends towards perfectionism

Who feels "not smart enough"

Who shoulders life alone and doesn't ask for help or support

Who wants to feel courageous enough to show up and be seen

 

Rooted in Purpose is a process of getting unstuck and finding self-confidence through understanding your unique gifts so that you have the courage and the power to launch your dreams and claim the life you want.

Are you yearning to make your mark and have an impact?

Are you trying to be everything for everyone else?

Are you experiencing imposter syndrome?

Do you feel you are born for something more?

Do you have a business idea you want to launch, a nonprofit you have been thinking of starting, a book to write, but you feel blocked and cannot move forward with the project?

 

The Ten Practices in the Book Will Teach You How To:

Remember your true nature

Match your unique genius to what the world needs

Overcome limiting beliefs that are keeping you small

Reconnect with your embodied and powerful inner wisdom

Plan and implement a strategy for your creative endeavor

Learn how to invite and collaborate with supporters

Feel more joy and freedom

 

The profound and effective tools outlined in Rooted in Purposewill guide you from being a good girl to being the brave change maker that the world is waiting for. Learn how to be deeply rooted in yourself. This is the pathway to your right life and potential for true happiness.

 

I wrote Rooted in Purpose because over 30 years of teaching, coaching, and mentoring women, so many clients and students have come to me saying "I know there's something more for me but I cannot see the way forward." I have guided hundreds of women on this exhilarating journey to a deeper sense of self and purpose. More than ever before in history, it is time for women to step into leadership positions and be equal partners in the decision-making process.

 

Join me for the most important work of your life.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hokulea Press
• Release date: Aug 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798218232467

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Rooted in Purpose

Overcoming Self-doubt and Pursuing Your Life’s Calling

SECONDEDITION

TRICIADIETRICHAMARA

HOKULEAPRES S ​A SHLAND ,OREGON

Rooted in Purpose: Overcoming Self-doubt and Pursuing Your Life’s Calling

Second Edition

by Tricia Dietrich Amara

© 2023 by Tricia Acheatel. All rights reserved www.rootedinpurpose.com

Published by Hokulea Press, Ashland, OR First Paperback edition March 2018 Second Paperback edition August 2023

The right of Tricia Dietrich Amara to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author and publisher except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This book is not intended to provide personalized therapeutic or medical advice. The author and the publisher specifically disclaim any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, that is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book.

Book design: Book Savvy Studio

ISBN: 979-8-218-23246-7

Published by Hokulea Press - First Edition published in 2018 Second Edition published in 2023

Printed in the United States of America

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt less than enough. May you find peace within yourself and clarity about the unique gifts that only you can offer the world. May you believe in your power and right to sovereignty and act on your calling so that you find the fulfillment of living life on purpose.

I express deep gratitude to the friends and family who encouraged and supported me through this journey and the many teachers who have been my guiding light through the manifestation of this work.

To be rooted means to be established, firmly and deeply. Purpose is the reason for which something or someone exists.

To be Rooted in Purpose is to be firmly and deeply established in the reason for your existence.

Contents

PREFACE to the Second Edition             xi

PREFACE             xxv

INTRODUCTION             xxiv

Chapter 1: The Call             1

LifeHappensforUs,NottoUs             2

TheCompleteWipeout             5

Life Transitions and the Loss of Identity             9

The VictimTrap             14

Tools and Exercises             16

Journaling             16

MilkyOats             20

Chapter 2: The Fracture             21

The JourneyAhead             21

Self-Sabotage             24

The Fracture             28

Tools and Exercises             33

Mind-BodyConnection             33

Hawthorn             38

Chapter 3: The Good Girl             39

UniversalSelfvs.SocietalSelf             43

Tools and Exercises - 1             46

DailyMeditation             46

BoundariesandConflicts             48

Be Your Most Powerful Self             53

Tools and Exercises - 2             59

DiscerningYESfromNO             59

Nettle             62

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Chapter 4: New Beliefs             65

ThoughtWork             66

Tools and Exercises             69

OverwritingNegativeBeliefs             69

Lemon Balm             74

Chapter 5: Original Medicine             77

Your Original Medicine             78

Imagination             80

Life Experiences Made You Who You Are             81

Mapping Your Peak Moments             83

UniversalConsciousness             86

OriginalMedicineinAction             89

Tools and Exercises             93

DreamJournal             93

Your Life Mission Statement             94

Elderflower             96

Chapter 6: Hold Fast to our Thread             99

LizardFears             100

Tracking Your Reptilian Brain             103

Take a Vacation from Concern             107

DoingtheScaryThing             110

Purify Your Vessel             116

Tools and Exercises             119

Personal Love Statement             119

Your Ideal Day Visualization             121

VisionBoard             126

Motherwort             128

Chapter 7: Your Roots in the Ground             131

IdealintoReal             133

Tools and Exercises             134

Alternative Lives             134

500Lives             134

Innovate Three Real Life Alternatives.             135

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PlausibilityExploration             136

Working Your Timeline Backward             140

Your Backward Flowchart             140

Add Dates to Your Flowchart             141

Taking Small Steps             141

Lady’s Mantle             143

Chapter 8: The Universe Conspires             145

AskingforHelp             147

Your Support System             148

Mastering Resilience Against Criticism and Rejection ​149

VisibleandInvisibleHelp             151

Trust in Universal Support             152

Chamomile             157

Conclusion: Connecting the Dots             159

AbouttheAuthor             162

PREFACE

totheSecondEdition

In 2018, shortly after I wrote the first edition of Rooted in Purpose, my life was forever altered by one week in Mexico.

Then the world changed.

Itisnowthreeyearssincethebeginningofthe pandemicandtheworldlooksverydifferent.The pandemic changed the way most of us live and work. We learned how to go within and be with the person who we must learn to love the most, ourselves. We learned how to work and educate from home. We got comfortable being on video. We mastered how to respect personal space. We gained a whole new appreciation for human connection and what it feels like to lose that connection. We cultivated our capacity for feeling our deepest fears, especially around our own mortality. We learned to appreciate and reorganize our lives around what matters most. Systems fell apart and are still rebuilding. New technologies advanced as our capacity to create and imagine was born from having time and space to nurture possibility. NotlongafterthereleaseofRootedinPurpose,I decideditwastimeformetoconnectwithaneven deeper layer of my own sense of life purpose. I wanted to commit myself to being of service and to making a positiveimpactonthelivesofothersandonbehalfof

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the Earth. I needed to know if there was something else that I could offer that I wasn’t yet aware of.

I tossed around different ideas that included theCamino de Santiago in northwestern Spain and the Inca to Machu Picchu in Peru. After many signs and synchronicities, I ultimately decided to make a pilgrimage to my inner world by going to Mexico and working with an ayahuasquero, a shaman who leads ayahuasca ceremony. Ayahuasca is a sacred plant medicine of the FirstNationspeoplesfromcontemporaryPeru,Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador that is used for religious ritual and therapeutic purposes. It is in a group of plant medicines that are psychedelic, a class of uniquely powerful consciousness-shiftingsubstancesthatproviderevelation or even contact with the divine.

There are dozens of names given to these multifaceted compounds, with

Psychedelics or Sacred Plant Medicines or Plant Medicine or Entheogens being the most common.

The term entheogen, which translates to bringing forth the divine within, was a way to clearly describe the spiritual exploration of psychedelics. These conscious- ness-expanding substances were part of the perennial traditions of shamanism and visionary journeying that cultures across the world have practiced since time immemorial.

It was through this experience that I was able to understand a deeper layer of my divine mission as well as the emotional growth I must be committed to.

Now, five years later, my life looks very different. As can happen when we open up a window of possibility, one thing converged with another, and my world opened up in ways I could never have imagined. This is the profound magic of a life on purpose!

When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart leadto nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

~Terence McKenna

There are many different types of psychedelics. While every psychedelic creates ‘psychedelic effects,’ each deserves its own classification, because of a unique characteristic it has.

Many psychedelic substances occur in the natural world. Different types of psychedelics can be found in a range of plants, mushrooms, toads, and mammals (including humans).

The use of naturally occurring psychedelics has a long and rich history, with psychedelics being used in a ceremonial way in Mayan and Aztec civilizations (e.g., psilocybin mushrooms), Native American culture (e.g., mescaline-containing cacti), and among Amazonian indigenous tribes (e.g., ayahuasca).

When natural psychedelics are used for healing and

therapeutic purposes, they are commonly referred to as plant medicines. On the other hand, psychedelics can also be synthetic (made via a chemical reaction)or semi-synthetic (made by a chemical process using a natural product).

Psilocybin is the primary chemical agent behind the psychedelic effects of mushrooms in the Fungi kingdom and the genus Psilocybe. It has been used for thousands of years, for ritual, religious, medicinal, and recreational reasons.

How long have humans been using psilocybin?

Mushrooms containing psilocybin are found across most ecological zones on all continents aside from Antarctica. Academics are working to provide the best estimate yet for when the first psilocybin mushrooms emerged. Unpublished research set to come out of Ohio State University and the University of Utah’s biology department may provide evidence suggesting they go back 75 million years ago – making them far older than homo sapiens.

Psilocybin mushrooms have been used by humans since the birth of civilization 12,000 years ago, and possibly were even used before then.

The earliest evidence of psilocybin mushroom use is a mural that was found in Northern Australia which depicts mushrooms and psychedelic illustrations. Archeologists have dated it back to 10,000 BCE. Rock paintings in Spain suggest magic mushrooms were around prehistoric people in Europe in 4,000 BCE.

In Ancient Egypt, mushrooms were regarded as plants of immortality, which were given to people by the god Osiris. Because of their unique taste, mushrooms were proclaimed as a food reserved only for Egyptian royalty. The earliest depictions of fungi in Ancient Egypt date to 4500 B.C., when ancient Egyptians produced many monuments with carvings of plants (many of which are psychedelic) on walls and within texts throughout Egypt. Temples with countless pillars, e.g., Philae temple, shaped like huge mushrooms with tall stems, umbrella caps, and mushroom engravings are distributed all over the country. Both ancient Egyptian crowns, white and triple, looked like they could have been inspired by the mushroom primordia.

Some scientists argue that it can be assumed humans

have been consuming psilocybin since our brains developed and we became evolutionary distinct. Ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna argued that shrooms may have expedited human evolution, by creating a state of hyperconnectivity between brain networks, doubling the size of human brains, enabling technological innovations, and sparking ideas like religion and language. (Terence and Dennis McKenna developed The Stoned Ape Theory in the 1970s.)

The ancient civilizations that most famously used psilocybin were in Central America. Indigenous artwork in Central America depicts mushrooms as a means of communicating with the gods.

In the Nahuatl language, which was used by Mayan

and Aztec people, psilocybin mushrooms were called Teonanácatl, which translates to flesh of the gods.Aztec Mayan and Toltec religious myths frequentlymention mushrooms, stating that they were given to their ancestors by the serpent god who created all life. Because of this, psilocybin was used in religious and spiritual ceremonies for divination, healing, anesthetizing pain, and celebrations. Their use can be traced as far

back as 1,500 BCE.

In 1955, Gordon Wasson and his wife