My Journey Beyond Myself

Julie Nyhus MSN, FNP-BC, RN 💜
3 min readJul 17, 2024

Part Fourteen — Personify Your Roommate

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When 2024 pulled up to the gate and rang the doorbell, I answered by opening the book “The Untethered Soul” by Michael A. Singer.

Mr. Singer doesn’t waste any time and begins with the not-so-simple task of awakening consciousness. I’m still in chapter one…..yes, still.

In an effort to share my journey, learn about and have faith in myself, I’m sharing my journal entries here. I respect that your life experiences and soul journeys may look very different from mine and ask only that you respect my soul journey as well.

Come to know the one who watches the voice, and you will come to know one of the great mysteries of creation. — Michael A. Singer

Lesson Fourteen: The way to catch on to what your inner roommate is really like is to personify it externally. Make believe that your roommate, the psyche, has a body of its own. You do this be taking the entire personality that you hear talking to you inside and imagine it as a person talking to you on the outside. Just imagine that another person is now saying everything that your inner voice would say. Now spend a day with that person. Just get to know what you live with by letting this voice talk to you.

Mr. Singer’s prompt: Take your inner roommate for a walk on your favorite trail or even…

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Julie Nyhus MSN, FNP-BC, RN 💜

Nurse practitioner, health/medical writer, wife, momma, amazing badass rocking 12 years without evidence of cancer! www.nprush.com Twitter @joolzfnp