
Every so often, this practice reveals something so elegantly orchestrated, it takes my breath away.
This past week, two separate clients—each at very different stages of their Positively Focused journey—experienced the same situation from very different perspectives. Each showed up carrying the weight of several difficult interpersonal dynamics going on between them. Both were feeling triggered, off-balance, unsure of themselves.
One is a founder and business owner. I call her Madison. I wrote about her personal experience earlier this week. The other is her employee. I call her Jane. I wrote about her individual experience too. This post seems like it might be a repeat of those previous two posts.
It’s not though.
Instead, this post reveals the sacred opportunities showing up when family members, or, in this case, co-workers, are Positively Focused clients. We get to see the sacred process from two sides; we get a rare glimpse at how two people co-create the larger expansion process happening between us all. Where we each serve as transformation/transmutation angels for one another.
Perfect mirrors and manifestations
From their individual perspectives neither Jane nor Madison knew what was happening for the other person. Neither knew what stirred inside each of them was part of the same vibrational story playing out in perfect divine symmetry in the other.
But I knew.
Madison came to her session feeling frustrated and confused. She believed her employee wasn’t showing up the way she hoped — there was resistance, emotional unpredictability and apparent unwillingness to complete assignments. All that left Madison disappointed, frustrated and angry. She wasn’t sure if she was failing as a leader or simply outgrowing a version of herself that still felt responsible for everyone’s well-being. She also felt she was not get anything in return for what she’s paying Jane.
Jane, two days later, showed up with her own agitation. Something gnawed at her — an emotional static she couldn’t shake. She felt misunderstood. She also felt fear. Her fear was about letting Madison down by failing at assignments Madison gave her.
Jane didn’t want to be a failure in her own eyes either. But Madison’s assignments were vague or unclear. That’s because it’s not only Madison’s first time being a business owner, it’s also her first time being a boss. So she too is insecure in herposition. She, like Jane, also fears failure. But Madison suffers from a double-whammy: potentially seeing herself as a failure and her partner Tom seeing her that way too.

Unbeknownst to Madison, she was getting exactly what she focused on, which is what her fear was calling her attention to. So was Jane. Jane didn’t want to fail in Madison’s eyes. But her fear of failure prompted inaction on vague assignments. She also feared asking clarifying questions because that triggered Madison’s fear which surfaced as frustration in the past.
Isn’t it ironic?
Jane, acting out of her fear, or, rather, not acting, was the perfect reflection of Madison’s fears. Madison’s fears, meanwhile reflected back to Jane her fears. Both women were getting exactly what they were creating; frustrated versions of one another. And both were pointing the finger at the other person!
Conflict invites letting go
And here’s where it becomes divine: Both Madison and Jane were each feeling the same frequency…from opposite sides of the mirror: Fear and insecurity. They were a perfect match, in other words.
Madison was wrestling with the idea that to be a “good” manager — she had never been a manager before — she needed to present a picture of flawlessness. Jane wrestled with the idea that to stay employed, she had to suppress her authenticity. One was over-functioning. The other was under-expressing. Both were reacting to the same energetic pattern: the fear that authenticity isn’t safe.
In their own way, however, each showed up ready to release that distorted belief.
In Madison’s session, she saw how “I must show that I know it all” was an echo from long ago — an old strategy to survive in corporate culture. The strategy wasn’t wrong. It was wise when she worked in the corporate world. It doesn’t work in the small business world though.
What’s more, she’s learning to lead from alignment, not control. But old echos resisted that. So she created a version of Jane reflecting what Madison was doing so Madison could let those old beliefs go.
Ah-ha moments from intensity
In Jane’s session, she saw that her agitation wasn’t dysfunction. It was guidance. A signal that her own expansion was arriving. Not through rebellion, but also through letting go and opening up, softening.
She feared something she couldn’t possibly do: letting herself down and letting Madison down. She needed to trust the version of herself that wanted this opportunity instead of fearing Madison’s reactions as an indication of something bad about her. This fear pointed the way to expansion through authentic expression (asking questions). That version is what Madison needed most. Not a “yes-person”.
A lot more than this was happening in the interpersonal dynamic. But what you just read highlights the main event. As a result, neither woman “fixed” the relationship in our sessions. Instead, they needed an extra session. One in which both attended. We held it shortly after Jane’s. It was intense, as fear is an intense emotion.
But it offered many ah-ha moments for both women. That call wasn’t easy for either of them. But they’re both better now, as is their working relationship, for having it. Both stepped more fully into clarity of who they are becoming…as individuals, as business partners, as employee and employer.
Other people are gifts
They also offered each other a sacred gift: the opportunity to evolve in real-time through authentic, shared contrast. Each was a reflection of the other’s edge. And both navigated it not by hardening, but by softening. Not by demanding change from the other, although both probably wanted that initially, but by each becoming the version of themselves that no longer needed the old patterns.
This is what makes the Positively Focused journey so profound. We begin seeing how nothing is random. How every difficult interaction is divine orchestration. How life isn’t punishing us — it’s partnering with us. Offering mirrored experiences that reflect the exact vibration ready to be released. Often that mirror is other people.
Madison and Jane never planned this coordination. But their Broader Perspective’s did. And in honoring their own unfolding, they became co-creators in each other’s expansion — each woman rising through her own contrast into a new level of sovereignty, understanding, and empowerment.
If you’ve been in a tangled work relationship dynamic lately, pause before blaming or fixing. There’s a mirror waiting to be seen. And often, what looks like conflict is actually harmony in progress — a symphony of expansion tuning itself through two instruments, you and the other person, learning to resonate at a higher frequency.
That’s what I witnessed this week. And it was stunning.