When my daughter was little, she loved making videos of herself. She would dance and sing and be her silly, fabulous self, and she did not have a care in the world about who was watching, commenting, or judging. She was just being her!
That’s her Soul Fire.
I see it in little girls everywhere. Most often it’s before they start school, usually about five and younger. They play, they laugh, and sing out loud. And they don’t care who’s watching.
We were all born connected to ourselves. We don’t start life out wondering if we’re too much. We feel what we feel, and we follow what excites us.
Then life starts dimming our light, little by little. Family, relationships, friends, culture, and what the world expects of us teach us to question what we feel. We start looking outside ourselves for the answers. And without even realizing it, we learn to protect ourselves so we can feel safe, loved, chosen, or enough.
And I believe that fire was never put out. It’s still burning inside all of us. Some brighter than others.
That’s your Soul Fire. It’s your inner knowing, your voice, your desires, and the part of you that still knows what feels true for you, even if you’ve spent a long time questioning yourself.
Your Soul Fire is yours to let shine. It was yours before the world told you who to be.
A Soul Fire is a woman who’s choosing to come back to it. She doesn’t have to have it all figured out. She might still be untangling old patterns or learning to hear her own voice. Being a Soul Fire means you’re choosing to trust yourself.
And when women who are doing that find each other, that’s the Soul Fire community. We’re not here to fix each other or tell each other who to be. We’re here to remind each other and help each other’s fire shine a little brighter.
The Rise Room is where we do that together.