Lessons From The Universe: #1: Nothing Worked Until I Stopped Trying
Welcome to my new mini-series - Lessons from the Universe.
Each week, I’ll share a real-life moment of misalignment, insight, or one of those cosmic wake-up calls the universe loves to deliver. Because let’s be honest, growth rarely arrives wrapped in comfort. No matter how deep you’ve gone into self-discovery, there’s always another layer waiting to be revealed.
In the last month, I learnt a tough lesson from the universe about being in alignment. For those of you who don’t know, the whole goal of Human Design is to bring yourself into alignment with your soul’s path, so that you can experience more flow, more ease, more grace, and ultimately meet less resistance. However, truth be told, I have been more out of alignment recently than I have felt for a long time.
It’s quite ironic as I am finally able to spend my days doing what I authentically and genuinely LOVE – working on a completely soul-aligned business, filling my days with both my coaching and my artwork. So naturally you would think that as a Generator in Human Design, doing what I love all day, I’d be super in flow!
But here’s the big myth – when a Generator is lit up and doing what they love, they can still burn out, they can still be operating from a place of misalignment or the ‘not-self’ (HD lingo). This was a tough lesson I had to learn first hand. I heard the message a few times from the universe, the one telling me to slow down, to operate from my intuition, to dial down the long to-do lists and the false deadlines and the strict work schedules, and to go through my day with more ease and intention.
Even though I knew, both logically and spiritually, that aligning with flow is the most powerful way to approach life and business, my mind was still running the show. Fear-based thoughts kept hijacking my clarity, insisting that if I didn’t tick off 15 tasks that day, I was falling behind… that I’d never see the results I was aiming for. Some days, the fear spiralled so far it told me in the middle of the night that I’d end up broke, homeless, or unable to feed myself if I didn’t ‘keep up’.
Yes, I’m a Human Design coach. Yes, I know this work inside and out. But even after all these years, I still catch myself pushing against the current, ignoring my intuition and surrendering to the noise of the mind. The universe had been sending clear signals. But I overrode them, convinced that my plan, my hustle, my control, would be more effective than divine timing.
It started with the little things—the kind of glitches you brush off at first. Tech bugs, files not saving, my laptop randomly shutting down mid-task. Annoying, but manageable. I kept pushing, determined to power through at full speed, cramming every hour with productivity.
But then the universe upped the volume.
Within a week, bigger things began to unravel. My car broke down—not once, but twice. My bank card was scammed. And then came the flu… four relentless weeks of feeling less than optimal. I hadn’t been sick in years. In fact, I hadn’t had a stretch of “bad luck” this loud, this obvious, in a long time.
Eventually, after being hit over the head with what felt like a cosmic frying pan, I finally paused. I finally listened to my frustration. And I made the decision to let go, to stop clinging to my hyper-productive, control-focused, survival-mode way of being. I surrendered.
It really became so clear to me that way that I was going through my day was SO misaligned. Yes I am doing what I absolutely love, and I pinch myself each morning that I get to do this, but the ‘way’ that I was doing it was all wrong, it was from my not-self. I had been SO consciously and unconsciously conditioned by society that we need to push, to hustle, to force, to make something work, that I had completely lost touch with my flow.
It was a tough month, but sure as hell did it shake me up to realise that this is not the way forward. So for all the Generators out there who are wondering why they are still burnt out, even though they are doing soul-aligned work, take a step back, and ask yourself if the ‘how’ is soul-aligned.
What I know now (as in truly know from first hand experience) is that going through life in flow will bring you more opportunities than hustle ever will. Free space and rest is so productive - to the extent now where I schedule in one day a week where my goal is: to be as unproductive as I possibly can! And guess what, I always see more sales come through on the days where I rest vs the days where I hustle! Mind-blowing 🤯
So even as someone who has been practicing Human Design for years, there are still times where the mind kicks in to gear and tries to override my Sacral Authority. There are still times where I find myself operating out of fear instead of faith. Ultimately, I am grateful to this month for teaching me such a valuable lesson so that I can stop and realign my life before going any further.
If this resonates, and you’ve been feeling the weight of burnout (even while doing work you love!), I’d love to help you come back into alignment. I have 1:1 online Human Design sessions available in July & August, or alternatively, I offer personalised written reports & personalised voice-recorded readings for anyone currently lacking much space in this season of their life.
All offerings can be booked here ✨