423: How to Live in Sync with Your Inner Compass

423: How to Live in Sync with Your Inner Compass

March 31, 2026 · 38 min · Season 12 · Episode 423

About this episode

In this episode, Shannon Ables discusses the importance of living in sync with one's inner compass while navigating the challenges of supporting younger generations.

My niece is graduating from high school this year, and as an aunt, it is a practice in letting go and trusting the amazing person that she is that she will find her way in life. If I were her parent, it would be different, as there is more direct support involved. This has been a great practice in exemplifying what is talked about here on TSLL: Living with intention, having clarity, being loving and kind while honoring our integrity in all interactions, but not clinging, controlling or manipulating. Our life is our own, and every other person has their own life journey to travel. Often, when a younger generation is reaching a milestone we too have passed through, we project our experience onto them, errantly making assumptions that we know what they are going through, what they will want and need. But the truth is, while the fundamentals may largely be the same, just as the fundamentals for surviving as a human being are the same for each of us – fresh air, water, sleep, food, shelter, etc., the details of how life will be lived to be fulfilling and enriching for each individual will be unique to them. Now, let's flip the script and examine the journey as the journeyperson trying…

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