Donna Bond

You know how to push through hard feelings. You’ve built a career on it.
Frustration shows up, and you channel it into the next task. Anxiety creeps in before the board meeting, and you breathe through it, prep harder, perform anyway. Grief, disappointment, the quiet ache of feeling unseen. You’ve mastered how to function around all of this. It’s not a small skill. It’s taken you far.

There’s a moment most of us know well. The one where life throws something at us. A challenge, a conflict, a recurring pattern that makes us want to throw our hands up and yell, “why does this keep happening to me?”
What if that question contains the seed of your greatest liberation?

Someone wise once said, “If you think you’re enlightened, spend a weekend with your family.”
As the bustle and rustle of the holidays are upon us, as Mercury is in retrograde, inviting us to slow it down and take another look, we will be given many opportunities to return ourselves to the loving Presence of our true nature.

Earlier this week, while working with a client, she blurted out something that stopped me in my tracks:
“My whole life is just…… a circle of death.”
She had just realized how everything in her day-to-day existence was on repeat. She woke at the same time, ate the same meals, drove the same route, did the same workout, went to bed at the same hour. Day after day after day. No surprise. No aliveness. Just routine.

Have you ever noticed how exhausting it is to fight against what is? That tension you feel when life isn’t going “your way” – that’s resistance, and it’s more costly than you might think.
When we’re trapped internally in a tug-of-war, per se, between the polarities of life, we struggle. That struggle takes up a lot of our life force energy that could otherwise be used to power our dreams and a life we love.

Me and sixty other people lost our jobs in 2010 when I was the West Coast VP of Sales & Marketing for a little hospitality company based in Southern California. I knew then I didn’t want to be in hospitality, but I didn’t have the internal framework then to imagine the possibility of doing anything else. It took me 30 years to reach my successful, tenured career with a multiple six-figure salary.

“The gifts you came here to share can only come through you. You are a unique, individualized expression of the Divine, an expression of Love, and an expression of God.” —From the topic What Gifts are You Sharing? in Original Wisdom by Donna Bond

You recognize the duality of your existence. In the corporate realm, you’ve mastered what’s expected—strategic thinking, decisive leadership, measurable results. Yet in private moments, you connect with your spiritual essence through meditation, journaling, or contemplative practices. The gap between these worlds often feels like living two separate lives.
This compartmentalization is not only exhausting—it’s limiting your fullest expression.

Donna Bond, a former Ritz-Carlton marketing executive turned spiritual psychology maven, is the founder of Consciousness Rising, Inc. and creator of healing modality Higher Human Integration™ Donna’s highest mission is soul liberation. To remind women of who they really are, activating their Sacred Soul Signature; awakening them into higher purpose and authentic power. She supports conscious women who are ready to challenge conventional paradigms, and integrate their life with the power and wisdom of their Soul.