What is ‘Born for Something More’?
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Have you encountered it, the ache?
Have you experienced a deeply-felt knowing – an unscratchable itch that prickles beneath the surface of everything – that there’s something you’re supposed to do, or someone you’re supposed to become?
Has the idea, “I know I was born for something more than this”, been a drumbeat in your life, rising and falling in the background, sometimes quietened but never fully silenced?
Me too.
For decades I lived with this molecular knowing. It was a bone-deep ache that troubled my peace until I was finally able to work out what my ‘something more’ was and start fully living it.
Each of us is the sum of our experiences, stories and choices. We can’t change the experiences but my aim here is to help you rewrite your stories and make informed choices that will help you create a life that truly matters.
As a therapist, mindset trainer and deeply fallible human, this project is dear to me. It’s a place to share knowledge and connect with like-minded folk who’ve long carried the instinct that we were born to be, do or become something more than our current state.
Please note: ‘something more’ isn’t about grandiosity, scale or importance. It is about meaning and fulfilment.
You may have already discovered your ‘something more’ and be living it. Or you may still be trying to figure it out. Either way, I’d like this to be a sanctuary where you can:
safely explore what a life that matters could look like for you
relax into encouragement reflection, learning and growth
mix with like-minded others who’ve experienced the same ache.
In my articles and group-coaching sessions here, you’ll find a stack of proven mindset tools and ideas that could help you think, feel and behave in a different way. If even one suggestion hits home, it could lead to clearer focus and bring your something more within reach.
Please don’t expect it to be tidy: along with techniques for building the ultimate life skills of self-awareness and self-leadership, I candidly share my humanity – and occasionally that gets messy. When I find fixes for my stuff that might be helpful to others, I’ll share those too.
There are various ways you can take part:
💖 Subscribe for free and receive an article in your inbox every couple of weeks.
I aim to pack each post with value for all subscribers, whether you choose to pay or not.
💖 Upgrade to ‘More Mindset’ for £80 a year or £12 a month.
You’ll receive additional ‘More Mindset’ posts that contain powerful coaching prompts and techniques to help you become your something more. And here’s the real juice: you’ll have access to regular, live, group-coaching sessions, where I answer your questions and share growth mindset techniques. It’s like having your own therapist on tap. I also invite other experts to share their wisdom from time to time. You can access recordings of past sessions, plus the full library of nearly 200 articles.
💖 Become an ‘Even More’ member for £240 a year
Our top-level membership comes with all the benefits listed above, plus you get a bespoke, 90-minute mindset training session with me, built around your needs. In the outside world, people can pay up to £500 for this session alone.
Click the button and choose the level of subscription that’s right for you. Don’t risk leaving it ‘til later because you may not find me again amid all the noise here.
About me
I’m a sensitive, multi-passionate, high-sensation-seeker who didn’t discover the something more I was born for until mid-life. It took me that long to finally give myself permission to get to the bottom of the nagging, existential ache I’d lived with from my earliest years.
I used to be certain that my something more was being a writer. So imagine my dismay when, after years of hard slog, I finally won my dream job as an in-house writer for a film production company – only to discover that the pesky itch was still there! If anything it had grown even more insistent.
It took a big birthday, coupled with the tragedy of someone dying under the wheels of a train I was travelling on, to shock me into doing the work of exploring what the hell I was supposed to do with my life. An epiphany led me to train as a psychotherapist – something I swore I’d never do.
Ironically, through my training, and later working with therapy and coaching clients, I discovered that MY something more is helping sensitive, purposeful humans get out of their own way so that they can pursue THEIR something more. Using a blend of therapy, training, coaching and hypnosis, I show my clients how to overcome the limiting beliefs, emotions and habits that are stopping them from using their gifts to make a meaningful impact on the world.
Finally, the gnawing itch was soothed, replaced by the deeply fulfilling privilege of witnessing just who a person can become when self-sabotage habits like anxiety, low self worth and imposter syndrome are shown the door.
Who knew? And this Substack is part of the joy.
Lastly, before I close, I’ve recently brought to an end a nomadic lifestyle and moved in with my elderly parents as their carer-companion.
Thank you for reading this. If you’ve lived with the nagging itch of knowing all your life that you were born for something more, join me. I promise it will be creative, mind-expanding and profoundly human – and sometimes fun.
If how I show up here resonates and you’d like to explore tailored mindset training for you or your team, contact me and we’ll have a chat. I also regularly deliver talks and training to organisations, both virtually and in the room. You can reach me at carolineferguson@substack.com.
I look forward to being of service.
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PS – If you’re interested in values, these are my compass and underpin the way I live: LOVE, DARE, CREATE, HONOUR, CONNECT, EVOLVE.
