Can You Trust it When it's Good?

Can You Trust it When it's Good?

JULY 21st, 2025

Can you trust it when it’s good? This is a message that my guides shared with me years ago. Like all spiritual Truths, it’s one where my understanding of it has deepened over time.

As many of you know, the past 7 years have been incredibly intense and challenging for me. I know I am not alone in this experience. I think, for the most part, all humans have gone through some sort of revolutionary/evolutionary passage over this period. The past few years felt like everything I’d built was dying. It was all endings and collapse. It was one of the most difficult phases of my life.

There’s a quote by Wendell Berry that pretty accurately describes where I have been.

“When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”

Even though I never lost faith that it would all someday make sense, there were more than a few moments where I questioned my faith.

Then, one day a couple of months ago, this phase of difficulty quietly came to an end.

I remember waking up and realizing that something had changed. The difference was atmospheric. Almost imperceptible. Everything looked the same, but the vibe was totally different. At the time, I’d just transitioned my father into assisted living, so a certain amount of new energy was to be expected. But this was different. This wasn’t me reacting to an external change like someone having moved the furniture around. This was something deep within me that had finally reached an end point.

At first, I didn’t know what to make of it. I think sometimes in life it’s really easy to give into despair. When it seemed like there were dead ends everywhere, it’s no surprise that I stopped expecting it to change. I wouldn’t say I had given into cynicism, but I wasn’t exactly wishing on shooting stars either.

One of the most unexpected things has been realizing just how accustomed I had become to limitation and restriction. In many ways, I’ve been in an excruciatingly extended time out. I made a downshift into a MUCH slower pace that was necessary for this period.

I recently shared a post that spoke about how the moments of transition from one phase of life to another is where most of us have a tendency to get stuck or to lose our way. It’s as if our natural resilience almost traps us. Even though I fought and resisted much of my experience over the past 7 years, there was also a large part of me that eventually just accepted it.

Our systems are always seeking stasis, and our ability to adapt to most any set of circumstances is pretty remarkable. Once we find our groove, there’s a large part of us that will fight to stay there, even if it’s less than ideal.

Someday I will share more about the myriad of lessons and insight I acquired through this chapter. However, for now what seems most relevant is one concept in particular.

If I could sum it all up, the past 7 years have been about liberation. What I know now, is that the most powerful shift that occurs on this journey to freedom is the reorientation from outwardly focused to inwardly directed.

This has been the common thread through everything I’ve learned thus far. At some point, in order for the vision I have for my life to manifest, I must choose to become unshakable in my allegiance to it. Not only my belief that it is possible, but to trust my ability to receive it and know that I am worthy of it.

The pivot from outwardly focused to inwardly directed is no small feat. For me this is the foundation for life. It is the key to:

  • Manifestation
  • Fulfillment of life’s purpose and mission
  • Clear connection to guidance
  • Deep communion and merging with the Higher Self
  • Vibrant and vital health
  • Abundance, wealth, and joy
  • Happy and stable relationships
  • A life of peace, ease, and flow

Honestly, I can’t think of anything worthwhile that doesn’t begin and end with a very strong and healthy connection to Self.

Which brings me back to the question “Can you trust it when it’s good?”

I wanna recount a recent experience with you to illustrate this question.

For the past few years, even in the darkest moments, the larger vision I’ve had for my practice and the legacy I’m building has remained constant. Several weeks ago, I got the nudge to do a meditation journey. A few years ago, Santa Fe was where I’d set my sights for my next destination. With the amount of changes in my life recently, I was curious about the status of that plan. When I settled in to meditate, I set the intention to receive guidance about the path forward. I stated clearly that whether it was Santa Fe or somewhere else, I was completely unattached. All I wanted was intel on where I was going next. I closed my eyes, took a few deep breaths, and dropped in. After about 5 minutes my mind settled and the message came through loud and clear. Like the credits at the end of a movie, a single word in bold caps, rose up in my inner vision: S E D O N A.

It took me by such surprise that I actually gasped.

“WHAT?!” I exclaimed out loud with my eyes still closed. “SEDONA?!”

The message unfolded itself before me perfectly. In that moment, I knew, without question, that Sedona was where I was headed next.

To be perfectly honest, I was stunned. Sedona had long been on my shortlist of places I’d love to live, but for whatever reason, I’d convinced myself it wasn’t possible. My mind began its litany of the million reasons why Sedona wasn’t an option. It was too expensive, too hot, too saturated with spiritual seekers. My inner critic rolled his eyes at the notion of a spiritual practitioner moving to Sedona. “It’s like the US version of a healer deciding to move to Stonehenge.” he offered sardonically.

I can’t say I disagreed, but I also couldn’t ignore what had just occurred.

Immediately after the meditation journey, I reached out to a trusted friend and shared my experience with him. I’m not sure what I was expecting him to say, but his response also took me by surprise.

“I can totally see you there,” he said confidently. “100%, without question, Sedona makes perfect sense for you.” He continued on. “The past 7 years have been brutal, but you never backed down. You did your work, you faced yourself, and integrated your darkness. After a cycle of so much loss and collapse, this is your era of creation and expansion. This is when life starts to give to you, rather than take from you.”

I spent the next 3 days basically walking in circles trying to make sense out of this idea. It wasn’t that I was resistant to it, I just couldn’t believe it. After SO many dead ends and false starts, my life had become incredibly small and confined. I’d gotten so used to restriction that without realizing it, I had started to expect it. The idea of a life of fulfillment, expansion, and satisfaction seemed foreign to me.

It was this same friend who helped break me out of this mindset.

“You need to remember who the fuck you are,” he stated. “You moved to Seattle at 18, and you had never even been there. You also moved to NYC, LA, and SF without having been to those cities.” “You are a force of nature, and whenever you have decided something is going to happen, it always does. You can move mountains. You are fearless. Remember that.”

Something in his words relit a fire within me and everything started to shift.

The more I deferred to my inner knowing, despite the protests of the small self, the more powerful the idea of Sedona became. Even Spirit was directly challenging my disbelief. A few days later, I discovered a painting of Oak Creek in Sedona in my Dad’s home! What are the odds?! Spirit had hidden this breadcrumb literally right under my nose to be revealed at the perfect moment. Clearly, now was that moment.

So here I am, sitting in my Father’s house, in the town I grew up in, counting down my final days here. My AirBnb in Sedona is booked. I’m wrapping up the last tasks of getting the house ready for sale and in just about 5 days, I will be moving on. Not only from Cody, but also from the chapter where everything in my life fell apart in real time, right in front of my eyes.

I would be lying if I said I was 100% convinced. There’s still a voice within that can’t bring itself to trust this turn of events. This part of me is screeching in protest about moving towards a life that feels like paradise. The part of me that only knows itself as unworthy and incapable can’t possibly comprehend how to trust it when its good. Yet, trust it I must.

What’s the alternative?

I’ve often shared that sometimes in life the scariest thing can be getting what we want. My relationship with Self is the beginning and ending of everything. A lack of faith in The Universe is only reflecting back to me a lack of faith in myself.

So, can I trust it when its good? The only way to know for sure is to trust myself and take the step forward. This chapter is me betting on myself. This is the scene in my movie where I put all of my chips on one bet and roll the dice. There is no Plan B. There’s only Plan A. The plan where everything works out and I live happily ever after. 

The End.

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