Find Your People, Your Soul Tribe

Humans crave connection, to be heard, to be understood. What we really want, what we need, is to know someone else will go to the nines for us, will throw down, will show up. This kind of connection isn’t easy to find.

I am speaking to something greater than mere lovers, and something beyond mere blood ties. While some are blessed enough to find their people among family members or in a lover, not all are so fortunate. Indeed, not all are so fortunate to find their people at all.

I am speaking to those rare human bonds of Soul-level connection. They’re the people who come along and change you as a person – for the better. The people who you lose track of time with, who make you laugh, who get your inner-weird, who celebrate (and often share, or at least happily tolerate) your idiosyncrasies.

Beyond the joy your people bring, they remember not just your birthday, but the anniversary-dates of when you lost loves ones. They hold your hand and wipe both your figurative and literal tears.

You can tell when you’re with a person who is “your people,” because your vibration will be elevated and you’ll feel more alive. It’s a connection that ignites that spark of life. It Sources you.

I’ve been blessed to have found a few of “my people” over the years. I call these people my Soul Tribe and my Soul Family. I consider it a blessing that I can count these people on more than one hand, though it is still less than two.

A sage adage claims that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Some of my Soul Tribe were lovers or friends who were simply not meant for a lifetime. This doesn’t mean the connection was not real, or that the connection was not important.

Lack of longevity does not call into question the validity of someone’s contribution to your life, or yours to theirs. Give gratitude for all that was brought into your life and honor what once was.

When people you’re really connected with exit your life, trust that the Universe will guide you to new people, to members of your Soul Family you have not yet met. Hold yourself open for new connections. Remember that friendships can be forged in the most unusual ways, in the most unlikely places, between the most implausible of comrades.

Find your people, because each of them completes a part of you, and you a part of them.

“I love us!”

– Jenni & Amy’s Declaration

“You’re my person.”

– Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith & Christina’s Motto

“My dad said to me growing up:

‘When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you’re a lucky man.”

– Josh Charles