We are beginning a short series on leaving the obedient life.  For the next few episodes, my co-hosts and I will be exploring questions about what our shoulds have been, what it looked like for us to step across, or transgress, those well-worn paths into our own wildness, and what living from our own knowing and nature looks like for us now.   

In this episode I answer some of these questions about my own life. Before I invite my guests to share so bravely about their stories, I thought I would share with you some of the places I’ve encountered Great Shoulds in my life and what my experience of stepping beyond the bounds of obedience has been like for me. 

As I tell some of my story, I also explore the experiences of sacrifice, permission, grief, and blessing on the journey of leaving the obedient life as we learn to trust our knowing and to live from that knowing.