“I think I have to quit my job,” my client Adrienne said in our recent session. “My boss, Charlene, is just becoming too difficult to work with.”
“Why, what’s she doing?”
"She's emotionally erratic. She lashes out at her employees, reproving them like they were children. Then the next day she's friendly. It's like walking on eggshells not knowing when the next outburst will come. Too unpredictable and it's getting worse. I think she's borderline or certainly has a personality disorder." Since my client has a master’s degree in psychology, I trusted her assessment, even before I tuned-in to the situation.
“She’s got other issues,” I said.
“I know. The first week I worked for her she told me about her verbally abusive mother and the emotional scars she carries from her childhood.”
“So, rather than healing her issues, she’s acting them out by becoming like her mother,” I began to say.
“Yes!” Adrienne said. “That’s why I didn’t quit in the past. I knew why she was acting that way so I could cut her some slack but it's become too uncomfortable; and now several colleagues have confided in me that they are looking for new jobs because of her behavior.”
“Well,” I said, “for you, finding another job is one path; however, it’s no accident that you are there, or that she shared her childhood issues with you.”
Adrienne was quiet, and I could sense what she was thinking: Please don’t tell me that I have to be this undiagnosed borderline woman’s unofficial (and unpaid) psychotherapist! Been there done that!
She had. Adrienne is one of those old souls who is perpetually in spiritual service. Not only does she have the psychological skill to understand what’s going on with people, but she has a very compassionate approach that people respond to in a positive way. And of course, along with being highly spiritual, the Angels always have her back.
Over the past 25 years that we have been working together, Adrienne has been called upon numerous times to assist Spirit in delivering a message to another person. I recalled another, almost identical situation with a female boss—a rather combative neurosurgeon—about yelling at her staff. Adrienne’s intervention opened the doctor’s eyes to her negative behavior. In the surgeon’s case, Adrienne observed that rather than her mother, it was her husband’s constant criticism of her that the doctor had taken out on her staff.
“The universe may be calling you to speak to Charlene,” I said. “I think she is acting this way unconsciously, just like the neurosurgeon.” In my mind there was no “maybe” about it. Adrienne’s service was needed and I knew she would give it—eventually.
Still, I could feel Adrienne’s hesitation, but being the lightworker that she is, she said, “OK if I feel the nudge, I’ll have a talk with her, but I really don’t want to. She could fire me.”
“True, but she won’t.”
The next afternoon, Adrienne left me a message. “Call me back, you are not going to believe what happened.”
Before dialing her number, I tuned-in and knew she hadn’t been fired, but I could sense something big had happened.
“I went to work today,” Adrienne began, “and Charlene’s best friend Megan came in and took me aside. Long and short of it, she asked my opinion about Charlene’s behavior, even revealing her friend’s childhood issues, which of course I already knew about. So, I was able to relate how poorly Charlene had been treating people and that several had decided to quit.”
“Well this has to stop,” Megan had said. “I don’t think she realizes that she is treating people like her mother treated her, something she swore she would never do. Thank you for being honest with me Adrienne. I am going to have a talk with her about it today.”
And she did.
A humbled Charlene appeared later that afternoon with Café Lattes and smiles for everyone. Adrienne’s colleagues were shocked. One said, “What happened to her?” Another answered, “I don’t know, but I sure like it!”
But Adrienne knew.
The night before, Adrienne had wrestled with the idea of confronting Charlene about her bad behavior and had decided that if Spirit really needed her, she would help. When the time was right, she would talk to Charlene. But in her heart, she was dreading it. And so, from within Adrienne’s angst a prayer arose, her Angels heard it, and they came up with a different plan.
Spirit’s message to Charlene was delivered loud and clear without a word from a very relieved Adrienne.
“It’s exactly what we talked about,” Adrienne said. “Charlene just needed someone to point out how she was behaving. Megan told me later that Charlene hadn’t realized she had been acting out and was horrified!”
A week later I got an update from Adrienne. “It’s a miracle. Charlene is really trying to be kind. I can tell it’s hard for her, but she is working on her issues and everyone is noticing. I feel so much more lighthearted at work.”
Miracles come in many forms. Some are the catalysts for healing old wounds and some come in answer to our prayers. Lightworker, Adrienne, reaped the benefit of both.
Copyright Maria Hart 2018