Transformation often requires letting go of the very “you” who began the journey.

There’s a moment on the spiritual path when you realize… the “you” who set out on the journey won’t be the one who arrives.

We often begin with an expectation of an idea of what awakening or healing will look like. We imagine the feelings, the way our lives will unfold once we “get there.” We prepare for it, we work for it, we long for it. But the path has a mind of its own.

And sometimes, the experience you’ve been walking toward only becomes possible when the part of you who was expecting it… no longer exists.

This is ego death

Not a violent ending, but a shedding, a molting. Old identities, stories, and wounds fall away because they can’t walk through the same doorway you are. 

Maybe this expectation of who you were going to become dissolved, only for you to discover joy was here all along.

Transformation is rarely about getting something new or arriving at a place. It’s about finding what was covering the truth you already know. 

That work can feel like unraveling, but it is in devotion to something larger, truer, and freer.

If you want to go deeper into this, I teach more in my episode of Soul Coaching Podcast.