There is a Spark of Divinity within each of us, a Light we are meant to shine. For many years of my life I dialed down the dimmer switch, allowing the circumstances of a mediocre marriage or a soul sucking job to suppress the feelings I had inside for who and how I wanted to be and become in the world. I played small. I shrank to fit in… Not any more.

You’re reading this because you know there’s something more inside of you. There’s a Light, a Divine Spark, a calling. No longer are you willing to neglect the Divine tug at your soul, the calling and desire you’ve felt to be and become something more. No longer are you willing to allow circumstance to suppress your Soulful knowing. It’s time to dial up the dimmer switch, time to answer the call, time to open up the Gifts within.

Here’s my invitation to you: Bring it, open it up, shine bright! Strip away the layers of what’s keeping your Light contained, thwarted, maybe even suppressed. Enough already! Bring forth the Light, YOUR Light! If ever there’s a time… it’s now.

Have you ever felt like you didn’t belong? Like your voice didn’t matter, or your presence was dismissed? I grew up with a belief that in order to be safe and secure, I must be silent. Not surprisingly I suffocated my voice, I muted my creative self expression. I lived lies as if they were real. Lies of being unworthy, insignificant, inconsequential. I interpreted many of my life experiences in ways which caused me to feel the need to apologize for the air I breathed and the space I took up in the world. It was ridiculous, self-sabotaging deceit and false storylines told to myself about myself, so many lies I lived as if they were real… and they weren’t.

I’m happy to say I’ve learned to swing a pretty big (metaphorical) hammer and shatter the lies, blow those ridiculous self-suppressing story lines up, again and again. (The lies have a way of rearing their ugly heads every so often, and when they do it’s swing, shatter, and live!) This practice of choosing to live my Truth allows me to live with unapologetic presence. It’s amazing. Truth truly does set you free!

Perhaps you’ve been living lies as if they were real. Perhaps you’ve felt the need for silence in order to feel safe and secure. And perhaps at times you’ve felt unworthy, insignificant, or inconsequential. Here’s my invitation to you: blow the lies up, live your Truth, live with unapologetic presence because you choose unapologetic acceptance… of yourself. You have choice, agency, self determination. What is it you choose for you… today?

I don’t know about you, but I can be my own worst enemy. How? By thinking and acting as if I can do this life, my life, all on my own. I’m fairly smart, fairly well educated, feel like I have my shit put together most of the time. I got this. Well, yes and no. What I’ve learned, and continue to learn, is that my life experiences and accomplishments are so much richer when they are shared with others. When I risk being seen, heard, “gotten” by others a divine magic happens. It’s hard to put into words. When I extend the same generosity to others, to see them, really hear them, and “get” them, the same divine magic happens as well.

We are social creatures, we are inherently wired and designed to be in relationship with one another, to be connected with each other. When I take a “go-it-alone” approach I rob myself and the Universe of that magic. Don’t get me wrong, as an extroverted introvert I cherish my alone time. Time to work out, decompress, read and meditate. But I know at such a deep level that the image of God lives in the magic of truly connected relationships. When I share from a soulful level my dreams and aspirations, my fears and uncertainties, there’s a quality of being witnessed, by myself and by those I’m sharing with. When this level of our own humanity is being witnessed… behold… the Alchemy of We.

Here’s my invitation to you: be willing to risk being seen, heard and witnessed at a soulful level. Extend to others you’re in a relationship with the very same invitation. What follows will amaze you. You decide. Go it alone? More scratch the surface social media posts? Or bring the raw and real Truth of you to the relationships in your life.