As an acute care nurse for over 14 years, Antoinette Njombua-Fombad had turn out to be accustomed to saving lives. It was embedded in her nature, and what she lived and beloved to do. Nonetheless, with the onslaught of COVID-19, Njombua-Fombad’s duties in healthcare, and her total notion of life, took a drastic change. As an alternative of saving her sufferers’ lives, it was time to avoid wasting her personal. In her newly launched e book, All the pieces is Inside: Crafting a Aware Life—My Journey to Self-Connection and the Classes Realized Alongside the Approach, Antoinette dives deep into her journey again to self, self-love, and empowerment. Leaning on 4 important pillars for conscious dwelling, Njombua-Fombad invitations readers to embark on a reawakened state of being. In her personal phrases, “You might be yesterday, at the moment, and tomorrow—ever-evolving.”
Encourage N Type Journal: What impressed you to write down your e book?
Antoinette Njombua-Fombad: “Through the pandemic, I lived via an awakening that had me questioning my life and the way linked I felt to and with it. That exposed a want to write down, particularly for therapeutic. Like many others, I wanted therapeutic—deep therapeutic from previous traumas and anxieties. The final 5 years introduced within the profound realization that all the things begins with the self as a result of all the things is inside the self. One yr after deciding to start out my manuscript, that providing is lastly right here to share.”
Have you ever all the time wished to be an writer?
As early as childhood, I used to be ceaselessly misplaced in my ideas and in another world inside this one—experiencing artistic visions that to a different weren’t tangible to really feel with such depth. Being artistic has all the time been a bit of my soul signature, and one of many blessings from 5 years in the past was the reward of a want to write down. When that figuring out got here, I felt a freedom I hadn’t felt earlier than. That’s what writing is to me now. It’s my information to freedom.
The title of the e book is “All the pieces is Inside” — will your e book assist those that have a tendency to hunt exterior validation or exterior sources to be linked and blissful?
The seed of this e book is from a gnosis of self-disconnection on account of not essentially exterior validation, however our lack of inner that means with our environments. We’re all created on goal, and the Concept that there’s a finiteness to each metric for a way we matriculate via our time here’s a supply of this notion. We aren’t disconnected from our environments; we really feel disconnected from ourselves inside these environments. The highway to happiness is figuring out who you’re and how one can create a life that matches you. That have to be the main focus, to be the most effective of you based mostly on YOU, not one other. We’re our biggest presents, and all the things we want for our journeys is inside us.
We hear the phrase “authenticity” so many occasions now-a-days that it’s nearly taboo. What does being genuine imply to you, and the way can one achieve this — with out feeling as if it’s part of a pattern?
Genuine dwelling is guided by inner that means, honoring the intuitive figuring out of who we’re, trusting that with acutely aware intention, (which is all the time our truest start line for our contributions), and dwelling higher aligned with ourselves and our communities. It’s surrendering to the truth that our contributions in any surroundings are important and legitimate inside our capability, no matter whether or not we’re working to develop that capability. After we try to be ourselves, we’re by no means ourselves as a result of it’s guided by a pressure outdoors of us. That’s conformity, not authenticity. So, the purpose have to be figuring out and specializing in how being your self can add, elevate, develop, and construct any surroundings, the way you co-create, moderately than how it’s trending.
What key takeaways would you like readers to go away with after studying your e book?
- True belonging is belonging to ourselves first. We select our belonging, not the opposite manner round.
- Vulnerability is the gateway to connection, externally and particularly to the self.
- Change is all the time an possibility when you don’t like the place you’re. It’s selecting new habits, with constant apply, and creating a brand new way of life.
- Life is twin, and transcending via every season in your life is the purpose as a result of life is in regards to the experiences.
We’re human and can expertise completely different environments and energies. As an alternative of specializing in the misfortunes that come, the main focus is on how we remodel and transcend them. Alchemize it into one thing helpful for our progress as a result of we’re continually rising. What higher strategy to dwell via our progress is there than to affect what we create for our lives? Dwelling deliberately.
What can we look ahead to from you sooner or later?
My mission is to nurture souls to completely embody and dwell out their lives in line with their signatures and assignments. My imaginative and prescient is thru Self-love and freedom. I’m a soul nurturer with an project to affect our particular person and collective freedom via self-connection, for we’re solely free with our world to the diploma to which we’re free to ourselves, and we combine synergistically after we present up authentically trusting and honing into our distinctive contribution.
This yr, my work will concentrate on creating affect and constructing a neighborhood of self-connected people in order that we collectively dwell higher soul-connected lives. All talking engagements, visitor panel discussions, a podcast I plan to start out quickly, a workbook for ‘All the pieces Is Inside’ for straightforward and personalised utility of practices within the e book, and a bi-weekly digital workshop webinar for reflections on the teachings in ‘All the pieces Is Inside’.
I look ahead to connecting with you all, diving deeper into private progress, and supporting your journey towards dwelling a extra genuine and conscious life.