If You Feel Lost in Your Career, Read This
Jan 29
I spent years chasing a career that looked impressive to everyone else. Degrees, promotions, paychecks—I had it all. But the more I achieved, the less I felt like myself.
And I kept thinking, “Okay… maybe once I get to the next level, it’ll feel better. Maybe once I get that title, that office, that salary, that little gold star—then I’ll feel fulfilled.”
But each time I climbed a little higher, I felt a little emptier. It was like success was happening to me, instead of something I was actually creating for myself.
Until one day, I realized the truth: my career wasn’t my calling. It was just the cage I built to feel worthy.
And the wildest part is that I didn’t even know I was doing it. I thought I was being responsible. Successful. Mature. I thought I was doing everything I was supposed to do. But deep down, I felt so lost.
In this post, I’m sharing why I finally let go of the career I thought I was supposed to have, and how that choice gave me back my peace, my purpose, and honestly… my actual identity.
And hey, if you’re new here, I’m Moriah Riona—an award-winning luxury brand designer and business coach for women who want to quit their 9-5 and make their first $100k in their own business.
So, let’s start with those subtle whispers—the earliest signs I was out of alignment. You know when nothing is technically wrong, but everything still feels wrong?
That was me. Every Sunday, like clockwork, I’d get this knot in my stomach. And not the cute, “ugh, Monday” feeling. I’m talking full-body dread. Like my nervous system was pulling the fire alarm.
And as I’ve mentioned before… I never even unpacked my moving boxes. New job, new apartment, I moved everything neatly packed and organized—and most of those boxes just sat there. For months.
I could never bring myself to open them. Which is hilarious now, because it was the universe leaving me the most obvious clue. Like, “Sweetheart, you’re not staying. Don’t get too comfortable.”
But the loudest whisper? The one I kept trying to ignore? I was doing something I used to love… and I hated it.
When I went to college, I loved design. I loved being creative, I loved making beautiful things, I loved the craft of it.
But in that corporate setting, the joy drained out of it. I was doing the same work… but it didn’t feel like me anymore. That wasn’t burnout. That was misalignment. That was my soul yearning for more.
And here’s the thing no one tells you: your soul whispers before it screams.
The problem is… most of us don’t listen until the screaming phase. And I was so deep in the “good girl, high achiever, make everyone proud” mode that I didn’t know how to interpret those whispers yet.
I just told myself, “Everyone feels this way. This is normal. This is adulthood.” Spoiler: it’s not.
But once I started paying attention—even just a little bit—the universe got very, very loud. It was almost comical.
Every time I worked on my own business? Flow. Ease. Time disappeared. I’d look up like, “How is it 1AM already?” I was lit up, energized, alive. My creativity felt like it could breathe again.
And every time I logged into my corporate job? My entire body said, “Absolutely not.” It felt heavy. Draining. Boring. Not because I was lazy. Not because I was entitled. But because it wasn’t aligned.
And here’s something I coach on inside Superbloom Coach Society all the time: alignment doesn’t require motivation. Alignment is the thing that pulls you forward naturally.
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Motivation is what you need when you’re trying to force something that doesn’t fit. When something is aligned, you don’t need pep talks. You need boundaries. You need someone to physically drag you away because you love it so much.
Those moments weren’t coincidences. They were messages. They were breadcrumb trails.
And then came the identity unraveling. The worthiness wound. The big one. The one most women don’t talk about.
I spent years trying to prove myself. Getting the degree. Get the “real” job, the salary, the benefits. Get the approval.
I was ticking every box on that traditional, old-school success checklist. And everyone around me loved it. Parents. Friends. Society. It was predictable, respectable, safe.
And because everyone else seemed so happy with it, I told myself I should be happy with it too. That this was the dream. The thing I’d always wanted. Or at least… the thing I thought I was supposed to want.
But the longer I stayed, the more I realized it wasn’t a dream at all—it was a cage. A shiny, socially approved cage. But a cage nonetheless.
And when the shiny exterior cracked? When I finally admitted to myself that I didn’t want this life?
I didn’t just feel lost—I felt betrayed by my past self. Like, how could I spend all these years building something that wasn’t even mine? How could I dedicate so much effort, so much energy, so much identity to something that didn’t fit?
That moment—the moment when you realize the thing you sacrificed for isn’t the thing you actually want—that moment is heartbreaking. Confusing. Humbling.
You feel like you’re standing in the ruins of a life you built with your own hands. And you have no idea what to build next.
But this is also the moment… when everything can change. And for me, it did.
Because acknowledging the truth made space for the next truth: I had to quit. I couldn’t stay. I can’t go back to pretending, keep living the version of my life that made everyone else comfortable while I slowly dimmed myself into nothing.
And quitting wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t a movie moment. It wasn’t “I’m following my dreams, goodbye forever!” It was messy. Emotional. Terrifying. It required backing myself in a way I never had before. Needed trust and courage I didn’t know I had.
It required believing—even without evidence—that my life could be bigger than a paycheck.
And when I walked out of that job for the last time? My whole body exhaled. It wasn’t relief—it was release. It was like I finally stopped betraying myself. I finally stopped abandoning myself. I finally decided to be on my own side.
That’s what quitting was. Not a leap. Not a risk. A homecoming.
And once I made that choice, everything started shifting. Quietly at first. And then all at once.
I started co-creating with the universe—not in the glamorous, “I manifested a million dollars overnight” way the internet tries to sell you.
But in the real, honest, awakening way. The way where you sit with yourself and ask, “What actually makes me happy?” And you listen—not with logic but with your heart.
I noticed I came alive when I worked with women. Creative women and coaches. Women who wanted beauty and intention and elegance. I noticed that I thrived in feminine energy. That I was happiest when I wasn’t forcing myself into a masculine paradigm.
And trust me—I had been told my entire career that I needed to be more masculine to succeed. Tougher. Louder. Hardened. Less intuitive, emotional and less sensitive.
But what if sensitivity was my strength? What if emotional intelligence—the thing the corporate world tried to strip out of me—was actually my power? What if the feminine wasn’t a weakness, but the doorway to my success?
These were the questions that started everything.
These were the questions that eventually became the foundation of my Feelings for Success framework inside Superbloom Coach Society.
Because here’s the truth: women are conditioned out of their power.
And when you reconnect with your feminine intelligence—your intuition, your emotional depth, your presence, your ability to feel—you become unstoppable.
So I did the inner work. Journaling. Visualization. Future-self identity work. Embodiment practices. Emotional processing. Asking myself daily, “What would the most aligned version of me choose today?”
I didn’t know it, but I was co-creating with the universe. I was shifting my identity. And when you shift your identity? Your reality has no choice but to reorganize itself around that shift.
Little by little, I started taking aligned action. Imperfect. Messy. Sometimes terrified. But aligned. I said no to what drained me. Yes to what lit me up. I allowed myself to imagine a life beyond what I’d been taught to want. And that’s when everything started changing.
And now? Life feels completely different. And not just because my schedule is nicer. It’s energetic, internal. It’s a “my life finally feels like me” kind of different.
I wake up with joy. With gratitude. My mornings feel calm. My nervous system feels safe. I work with women I adore, on projects I love. And I make ten times my corporate salary working just three days a week. I feel connected to myself. Proud of myself. Aligned with myself.
But here’s the really crazy part.
A few years after I quit, I went back to my old hometown for a coworker’s wedding. At the reception, around our dinner table, I found out: Half the staff had been laid off.
And The entire business shut down shortly after.
So that whole “safety” story we’re told? The idea that corporate is stable and entrepreneurship is risky? Yeah. That story is a lie.
The only safe investment you will ever make… is in yourself.
So if you feel lost right now, hear me when I say this: you are not failing. You are evolving and you are shedding an identity that was never yours. You are being redirected to something deeper, truer, and more aligned.
And speaking of alignment… that brings me to something I wish someone had told me years ago. Because this realization changed everything for me. And it’s something most women have never been taught.
It’s the truth that your feelings—not hustle—are the actual key to business success.
Because once you start understanding your emotional world as a success tool instead of a liability, the entire game changes.
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