From Bacon to Breakthrough: A Sizzling Journey in the 3D Oven
Revealing the hidden insights in the crispy and burnt edges of life
After fifteen minutes at 350°C in the oven, I pulled out the baking tray filled with shriveled, delicious bacon.
As I looked at the brown, greasy outline of the bacon on the aluminum foil, I thought of how much bigger the bacon was when I first put it in the oven.
Living in the 3D world can be similar to cooking bacon because we are put in this heated container. Over time, we shrink ourselves to conform to the expectations of society, family, friends, and the world.
We diminish our personalities, dreams, soul, spirit, intuition, gifts, talents, superpowers, and skills to a shell of a person we no longer recognize. Then, we twist ourselves into a pretzel for anyone and anything for love, validation, approval, and acceptance.
As a baby, we are born with a clean slate. We bring curiosity and wonder to every experience, eager to explore with wild abandon. Over time that curiosity and wonder turn into caution, skepticism, and jadedness due to the dings and dents on our slate.
The longer we keep the bacon in the oven, the more it shrivels and eventually gets burnt to a crisp if not taken out at the right time. Similarly, the longer we keep ourselves in the consciousness of the 3D world, we eventually get burned out, which is what happened to me.
I was in a job that I no longer found fulfilling. Every year I promised myself I was going to quit but I stayed around for the money. I did that for six years and it caught up with me.
In 2021, I quit my job due to burnout. At that point, there was not enough money in the world to keep me there. I just wanted the pain and misery to stop.
Normally, I would have planned it out and been more strategic about leaving with a backup plan and a new job in place. However, the pain outweighed any desire for stability because I could not take it anymore. I was crying on the way to work at my cube, and in the bathroom stall. On my way home, I was upset that I had to drive one and a half hours in traffic to get home. Wash, rinse, and repeat for several years.
The pandemic made me realize that my definition of success and happiness was fulfilling societal expectations. I questioned the meaning of life and more specifically the meaning of my life and purpose. I wasn’t put on this earth to earn a paycheck, go home, and live for weekends and vacations, was I? No!
I was put on this earth to serve a bigger purpose by shining my light and providing value to the souls who needed and wanted it. I am here to alchemize my lessons, breakthroughs, downloads, and insights to shine like a lighthouse so that folks in the darkness do not feel alone. My purpose is to guide spiritual beings towards their breakthrough on their healing journey back to their authentic Selves.
Although I barely made it out of the 3D oven, I am grateful for my journey. As surprising as it may sound, I am even grateful for the burnout, which I can only say in retrospect. At the height of my burnout, I was anything but grateful.
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” -Steve Jobs
The job, which I assumed at the time was the cause of my burnout, was playing a pivotal role in my life but in the moment, I was unaware of that insight. The company and the people had to play out their roles so I could make the decision to put myself on a different timeline and trajectory.
Had I continued to stay at that job and toughen myself up to get through it, which I had done for several years, I’m not sure where I would be mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually right now. As a result of taking the leap into the unknown and trusting the process, the Universe provided a net to catch me.
Now, my life is more expansive and fulfilling than I could have ever imagined. I started writing online and putting myself out there by taking another leap into the unknown. I pushed through the perfectionism, people pleasing, imposter syndrome, dimming my light, and playing small by being vulnerable online, just like I am in this article.
None of that would have happened if I stayed in my comfort zone, which ironically, turned out to be uncomfortable. By listening to myself, going inward, and choosing what was in alignment for me turned out to be the best decision I ever made.
Did it come with a lot of growing and expanding pains? Yes, because my burnout triggered a spiritual awakening. However, on the other side of the pain, trauma, and blocks was freedom.
The freedom to be myself and find my purpose. The freedom to play the music that was inside of me all along but was buried underneath the shoulds in life.
Don’t should over your Self!
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi
Right now, I invite you to play the music that’s inside of you, regardless of how it may look to others.
Choose you in this present moment because all we have is now. The past is done, and the future isn’t guaranteed.
Are you going to stay in the oven and shrink like the bacon or are you going to break free of the 3D oven and choose YOU?
Choose YOU because YOU deserve it!
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Lovely post!
One of the best gifts my father ever gave me was how he always used to say, "Screw should!"😁
Transforming from "a passive onlooker to an active participant in your life" sounds like a perspective we might all benefit from. Solid advice - thank you!