Servant or Warrior at Work?

The ego is a tough taskmaster, an operating system all its own. We are born to its travails at home, in school, with friends, at work. It is part of being human and always will be.  Managing this system is part of everyone’s spiritual growth and also part of our individuation from family and the collective. Are we a servant or warrior at work?

This is the difficult terrain of the third chakra.

Maria is a client who is a digital media crackerjack. She is magnificently capable. She is in the midst of a deal breaker crisis at work –underpaid for her role, being paid less than men in her position, with a job title that doesn’t reflect her high level contributions – while a workhorse with a lot of responsibility, for a company whose mission she cares about. Exhausted and despondent, she was at the end of her tether.