Why claiming your vulnerability is the key to empowerment

And so it is, blessed be.

 I have sat in circle and listened to women and men for 25 years.

When I embraced this path, I was barely 25.  I had already had a lifetime of trauma and the healing was about listening to my greatest gifts - which I recognised through getting vulnerable.  You may know that I survived growing up in a military dictatorship in Chile and our home was direclty opposite a detention centre where they tortured political prisoners.

I dived into therapy at the age of 16 to uncover the depths of low self esteem, ancestral trauma and self hate, began to confront an eating disorder and depression and by the time I was 18 I had been treated for a psychotic episode which I couldn't understand but which in some ways was they key to the truth - an indication that change was the medicine I needed.  A year later I entered a Native American Sweatlodge in the USA and was initiated into a Rite of Passage which allowed me to step into my power.  

It was not a magic wand, it was the start of the most challenging life journey which has taken me to the edge of my vulnerability every year since. I wouldn't say everyone was going to have a life changing moment of transformation in this situation - but it happened for me because it was about truth and voice and regrouping, it spoke to my right to autonomy, to being visible, to representing myself in the world, and I was terrified.  You see, I know how to hold space thanks to the life I have lived, and I know how to guide your Rites of Passage because of my own journey.

And so we all have our vulnerabilities, and fear has been the key to my empowerment, because whenever I feel it, I know I am close to overcoming something hugely significant, that my triggers are my guides, that I can do it and I will. 

And being visible goes to the top of the list.  Why?  Because you matter dear Sacred Woman, you matter, your voice, your vision, your truth, you matter.  Claiming your space is everything.  

I have faced rejection many times, and I still do, but each time I know that my path is unique and my own and for every rejection there is a welcoming, from somewhere else, you begin to see the path through understanding that external validation is so lovely but does not define you, that your own self validation is the power.  You create your own path, the one never travelled before.

Allow the vulnerability to guide you to know yourself better, that the healing is in the love you create for your life, that the medicine is a soulful acknowledgement of what matters most.  Through surrender the love comes forward from many places.

Soulful Woman, I see you.

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