Hey everyone, how are you? I hope you're having an amazing day. My name is Cheryl
Flaire and I am so delighted to be part of this amazing community here working
from rest with Ashley. I am one of her personal clients like she said in her
introduction of me. Thank you Ashley for that. And yes, Ashley had introduced me to
this idea of working from rest months and months and months ago and what a
life-changing thing it has been. I'll tell you a little bit more about that soon.
But a little bit more about me. I am a wife and a mom, a stay-at-home mom. I have
three kiddos, two boys ages six and four and a little daughter who just turned
one year old. My husband Dan, he is a concept artist at Sight and Sound
Theater and that's really close to where we live. So we all just love
working from home and being together and as much as possible here in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. So yeah, I started my business with Young Living Essential
Oils. I'm a professional marketer, a network marketer with Young Living
Essential Oils and I started that business when my firstborn was 11 months
old and I continued to grow that business and do that business for the
past five plus years. So hi Priscilla, how are you? I hope you're having a
wonderful day. So yeah, I have had it for five plus years and there's only
been like literally 12 months checked in the middle there where I have not been
pregnant or nursing or both. So I know a lot of y'all stay-at-home, work-at-home
moms can so relate to typing on the computer or doing things on your phone,
holding the baby, rocking the baby, right? Multitasking all the time. So yes and
the more kids, the more stress, right? The more places your mind is at at the same
time and doing it with three has been a significant challenge. Ashley did a video
about working from rest and on her Facebook group in November and it caught
my eye. Ashley has been a lifelong friend. We go all the way back to our freshman
year in college and she was always one of those business-minded friends who no
matter where we were at in life or what we were doing, if I had a fun idea I
could just call her up and share it with her and she would be my biggest
cheerleader and I'm so grateful that we never lost touch in our life because
God knew that this moment would come. So when I hired her as my as a one-on-one
coach for me in my business, I was coming out of maternity leave from having my
baby girl and at that time the Lord was stirring in my heart about this idea of
Ashley's video that I had seen working from rest and which was a totally
foreign concept to this crazy going crazy mom and he was also stirring in my
heart to create some new boundaries going forward to protect and keep safe
some of the people that were closest and most precious to me and help us all to
be able to work from a place of rest more better and of course at any place
in our life when we are creating new boundaries, healthy boundaries, it can
cause turmoil, right? It's a change. It's something new. It looks different and
this indeed was causing that in my life so I actually hired Ashley initially to
walk with me through this transition phase in my business and the Lord's words
to me when I created those boundaries, I knew it could create turmoil. His words
to me were sit still and see the salvation of the Lord which is of course
working from a place of rest in a sense, isn't it? And I had seen Ashley's video
about rest and heard her thoughts there. I had also been learning from her about
what it is like to be seated in spiritual places, to be in Christ and I
remember scheduling a call with her and leaving her a voice message and saying
okay Ashley please detail out to me what it looks like to be in spiritual places.
Detail out to me what it looks like to be to be there living there. What does it
look like? Because it better be greater than I ever dreamed possible. Working from a place of rest.
It must be like more powerful than I can even imagine.
Otherwise, at this season in my life when there's this turmoil,
things are kind of shaken up.
Otherwise, the cost and the risk to me of working from a place of rest is too great.
And I don't think I actually said that to her,
but that's what I was thinking in my heart.
Unless this is better than I can imagine,
the cost and the risk to me of resting right now, I cannot.
And of course, y'all know the end of the story, right?
How it is truly better than I ever imagined.
Working from a place of rest, being in Christ,
being in heavenly places where there is no shame and no condemnation.
It is better than we ever dreamed, isn't it?
But I wanted to share two of my favorite shifts that happened
during my time and my talks with Ashley.
And I just want to say, you know,
maybe we talked about things that aren't in all the material here.
And I know there are things in the material here
that we haven't talked about personally, Ashley told me.
So I cannot wait to dive in and learn what a lot of y'all have already learned.
But okay, so one of my favorite shifts is that
Ashley was inspiring me.
She said, and she made this phrase at one point.
It was just in passing as she was talking.
She said, you know, there's this interpersonal stuff going on.
God can grow your business without people.
And I jotted that down and I was inspired.
And I said, okay, God, I want to see you grow my business without people.
That would be the craziest thing.
That would be the coolest thing ever.
Show me, show me your power.
Just do it.
I want to see what it looks like.
And would you know, a few days later,
some transactions, business transactions dropped into my account, into my world.
They were postdated before Ashley told me.
They were postdated before I asked the Lord,
show me how you can grow a business without even people.
And network marketing, right?
It's all about people, right?
And God's like, Cheryl, I can do anything.
Watch me.
You arrested me and watch me.
And God did this thing before I even asked him,
dropped it into my world just after I asked him.
I cannot even, I can't even elaborate.
What a wow moment that was for me to see God's power working from a place of rest.
The second shift that is tops for me, absolute tops,
was this idea of no shame and no condemnation when we are in Christ, right?
Okay, so we're working from a place of rest where, you know, we're thinking about,
you know, if I'm experiencing something good right now,
it's probably because of something good I did in the past.
Kind of that work results, you know, shift that we've been working out of.
But, you know, the kind of that preconceived idea,
I do something and then the result comes.
And in my world of turmoil that I was experiencing,
there was this fear in my heart, you know, this bad thing is happening.
Is it some kind of karma?
I hate to use the word karma.
We all know what we're talking about.
So I just use it.
Is it some kind of karma or payback from something I did in my past and it's coming?
I have, maybe I, you know, I have to experience it myself.
And, you know, good thing, good happens, right?
Bad thing, bad happens.
Kind of this, this mindset that we have probably had for a long time.
And I should say, no, you know, you're seated in Christ.
There is no shame.
There is no condemnation.
No.
Whatever happened in the past, no.
Karma, karma, karma is a thing down here.
That, that work and get results is down here.
This is a totally different place up here seated in Christ.
And I cannot even express the load that lifted off my shoulders.
I know I was crying literally when Ashley was telling me this.
I felt this little lift off my heart.
But guess what?
After that talk, every 15 or 20 minutes, just a little tear would come out of my eyes and
roll down.
I wasn't choked up.
I wasn't crying.
I wasn't upset.
I was so at peace.
But this little tear would just dip down out of my eyes.
You know, for three days, for three days, every few minutes, a little tear would come
and roll out of my eyes.
Of course, we know tears.
Scientifically, they contain chemicals and, and things from my body that are a result
of different emotions, different turmoil.
different feelings that we're experiencing and my body was not only
spiritually having a load lifted but physically it was letting go of pressure
I didn't know I felt and didn't know I had carried with me so so much in my
life that my body was physically releasing it in the form of little tears
for three days that was so amazing to just feel and see my whole world
shifting and being made new so those are my two favorite shifts in the course
and I just had to share this with you being seated in the heavenlies is so
great working from a place of rest is so amazing and I just want to thank Ashley
again for bringing that truth into our world I know she's walked this journey
personally first in order to be able to take each of us on it so thank you
Ashley for that I'm so excited to be here to journey this with you in a
community and yeah so many good things to come all right y'all thanks for
letting me share I love you all I'm excited to get to know you better have
an amazing day