The Fruit Flies

My kitchen has been inundated with fruit flies. For weeks now, whenever I put something in the trash or grab a banana, I unwittingly kick-off a small party of little flies that float around my head. I’ve done all the things one should do - I keep the garbage tightly shut. I put food waste in a bag in the freezer until garbage day comes. I wipe down the counter with a solution of vinegar. Still - they persist.

Then, the other morning, when I woke up to a brisk temperature in the house, one was already flying near my head. And I heard “Hello! We’re trying to tell you something!”

Of course you are, I thought. Geez, you’d think this Soul Level Animal Communicator® would ever learn! Haha.

So I asked, what are you trying to tell me. I heard “you’re going to get through this.” I took a deep breath. And then another, this time a deep, cleansing breath. I believed them - and let go of the tension in my stomach.

As you may know, our new life in the UP of Michigan is not going as we had intended. My husband’s job is not working out, the house needed more work that we realized and are up to do and, most importantly, we’re discovering we are too far away from my aging parents and 4-year old grandson to have the interactions we need.

And so, we are looking to make some changes. I, being the finance minister of the household, worry immediately about the money. And, as the Universe would have it, I am going through a program with my teacher - Danielle MacKinnon - to learn how to be a Soul Level Intuitive Coach®. I am in the last class right now and will hopefully have my certification next month. Over the course of the classes, I’ve had to do the same work on myself that I now do with clients. And in learning this coaching method, the shifts I have experienced have been revolutionary. For example, I don’t think I would be wanting to move to my hometown had I not done this work. And I wouldn’t be writing about any of this without having done this work. Those are just a few of the ways the work has shifted things for me and allowed me to grow exponentially.

So back to the fruit flies. When I head that message, I realized how much anger, tension and fear I was keeping inside. And, because of the coaching work I’ve accomplished, I knew what negative belief was being triggered and how I was deploying workarounds to avoid it. (More on all of that and the Soul Level Intuitive Coaching® process next month!)

I thanked at the fruit fly, got out of bed and felt the anxiety around the pending changes melt away.

This too, shall pass and I will persevere.

An image of a banana - a favorite party spot for the fruit flies in my kitchen. (I couldn’t find images of fruit flies and my guides said pictures of the flies may have made some of you squeamish.)

Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash