Daily Spark: The Fire Within

0:00Welcome to the Daily Spark. A quick flash of inspiration as you dare to shine. Here's your host, Pamela Gear. Hi there fellow luminaries. Welcome to the Daily Spark. If you've tuned into previous episodes, you'll remember that I've defined shine as living our passion, our purpose, and creating our lives intentionally by design, not by default. Join me as we learn to shine together. Today's episodes called The Fire Within. I've had a fire burning in me for a long time, a fire for more life, more growth, more becoming. When you grow up in dysfunction and chaos, you learn to survive in ways that lead their imprint. And for years, I felt held down in stagnant liminal spaces, those in between places where you're no longer who you were, but you're not yet who you're

1:00becoming, not chaotic anymore, not drowning, some healing, some grounding, but just not fully there either, not peaceful, not joyful, not whole. What we don't often hear is that healing is messy, it's frustrating, it's not linear. There can be overwhelmed when you're trying to build a healthier life with a nervous system shaped by old chaos. Integrating new practices, new mindsets, new ways of being can feel like trying to plant flowers and soil that still remembers the storm. It takes time to change a mindset. It takes courage to sit and discomfort. It takes tenderness to keep going. Today I'm using an affirmation that feels like truth in my bones, and it reads, I am unafraid of the fire within, I am learning to nurture that flame. That fire is the part of me that came here with purpose and passion, the part that refused to do life the way everyone

2:01else expected, the part that wanted autonomy, authenticity and freedom. Above all, the part that wanted to remember, remembered that I'm a spiritual being, remembered that I carry great creative power, remembered that I am more than this moment in time and space. Healing can hurt, sometimes a lot. But if you're in that space today, afraid of your own fire, take heart. We don't transform it a single day. We honor ourselves exactly where we are, messy, imperfect, but beautiful. So I ask you gently, how is your healing journey unfolding? Can you give yourself grace and the midst of change? Can you honor the fire within the one urging you towards your greatest self? Can you love all that you are even here, even now? I'm learning that there's great love for me in this messy molten place. I'm learning that the crucible is not punishment, it's preparation. And if one

3:03desires to shine, a little time in the fire is part of the becoming. That concludes another episode of Dare to Shine Podcast Daily Spark, a quick flash of energy to inspire you to shine. Please go on over to iTunes or wherever you listen to the Dare to Shine Podcast. And subscribe and leave a rating. That helps other luminaries like you find this show and begin to shine.