We were lucky to catch up with Briöna Jolie recently and have shared our conversation below.
Briöna, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
As a young adult, I worked tirelessly trying to find the right place, career, and partnership destined for me. I became quite obsessive with the idea of purpose in my early 2o’s. I believed that if I could find that one “purpose” I would have everything I needed, and that I would be who I am, therefore believed my problems would be solved.
Naturally I first became curious about this word purpose because I was just diving head first into my spiritual path, and was not shy about asking some big questions of myself and the universe. When I began doing psychic and intuitive readings for myself and others, this was one of the most popular questions to be asked in a session. What is my purpose?
What I discovered more and more each time I did one of these sessions, was when someone wished to know their purpose, what they really wanted to know was a few things, what are my gifts?, what makes me unique?, and how can this be done or used in a way to make my life feel more fulfilling? More often than not, the answer came down to love but explored in a way which helped us to understand WHY we love, which gave us fulfillment. How we loved, which gave us our gifts and what made them unique. It becomes less about what our purpose is, and more a question of how do we live a life which helps us to feel more of it.
As I began to actually dive deeper and more intimately into who I was on my spiritual path, I discovered that the idea of “purpose” was actually more open and less concrete as many people try to approach it. Finding your purpose is like finding and discovering magick, either finding it for the first time or rediscovering magick. Like magick, our purpose can evolve, it can ebb and flow like the elements, and it can even change especially as you grow. I discovered that in order to continue find my purpose I had to be okay with knowing I might want to continue to ask myself this question as I evolved in mind, body, and spirit instead of leaving it up to one answer to define me. If I declared the same purpose I had at 20, I would most likely be trying to fit into shoes of a past version of myself, because truth is I did grow and my personal why and meaning for life and how I view it, has thankfully changed as I have.
In the past my purpose felt like it was to find my true love, when I found that my purpose transformed into more ways of loving myself and giving myself the same selfless attention as I did for others. Now that I have been practicing this it has been devoted to acts of service and ways I can use my gifts for this. Maybe one day that purpose will transform again when I have children, and I will remember again why this gives me meaning and being aligned to the truth of the things I do and how they fill up my soul.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Growing up being the only child in my home gave me a lot of time and space to interact and play with the unseen realms. Little did I know at such a young age I was cultivating shamanic practices on my own to help center, calm, and heal what I left in my past, create with my present, and build for my future. I was becoming Soul and spiritually guided. Through many uncertain and traumatic experiences in my childhood like tending to my fathers addiction to alcohol, roleplaying as “therapist” between my parents relationship because of his illness, and then his illness manifesting into a living cancer in my early 20’s. I became a resilient advocate for my own healing, continuing my path in search of true sanctuary within my soul besides the animals, the earth, and my spirit guides.
I found confidence and comfort in practices like tarot, working with the elements and animal kingdom, the akashic records, healing my wounds using my shamanic tools. So in 2020 I officially opened up my gifts and services to the public. Teaching, guiding, mentoring hundreds of souls across the world and in my local communities through the practices that helped me find the most meaning even in the dark or uncertain times.
I am proud to be sharing experiences all the time with clients and community members that align with the many seasons of life weather that be connecting deeper to your ancestors, earth based healing, or expanding your own personal intuitive gifts.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
For myself the three most impactful lessons I have gathered as skills for my journey have been my shamanic teachings, community, and lastly knowing and or continued discovery of who I am.
The biggest gift of transitioning a spiritual focus into shamanic work is because it is balanced, we welcome and embrace are darkness and our light equally. We also welcome in wisdom and teaching from not just spirit but the earth so that we remain grounded on our path.
Community has been able to aid in my own strength, resilience, and seeing myself more clearly. It is ancestral medicine that lives deep in our bones. Teachers are important, and knowing how we can offer teachings we learn and give back that love to the community is important and can make our purpose feel that much more fulfilling.
One of the most important pieces of advice within all of the tools, all of the practices, all of the skills you can partake in is to know who you are. If your not aware of you you are or becoming throughout the process you can easily lose yourself to those things or give your power away. This will always remain your greatest strength.
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Any advice or strategies?
We can all feel overwhelmed. A place which always calls me back to my body and out of my head is being within nature or with nature. What I love about this tool is it can really look very intuitive and fit your needs that day. If I am overwhelmed and need immediate relief or I have 5 seconds, I can be with nature by hugging my dogs or using my own breath.
If I have been having an off week and I know I can make the time, I can visit the forest, mountains, or streams. I can step outside my house and listen to the birds or receive the sun on my face. Nature is spirits gift to us of showing how spirit can live within the physical world, healing can live within the physical world, peace can live within the physical world. Nature provides that medicine with no cost. That gives me great relief when life can get hard or something challenging arises.
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