Idelette | Sovereignty Coach for Women

EXPANSION. These past few months I learned that I can both walk through fire and hold on to Love. I learned that I am stronger than I could have even imagined.

I am also softer.

I’ve had to face my biggest fears. And I am reminded, again and again, to transmute fear into Love.

These past few months I interviewed some of the most inspiring individuals—a doctor who built a hospital brick by brick in Techiman, Ghana. A neurosurgeon who sewed clothes to put himself through medical school. A Liberian businessman who ran for president and sweeps the floor of his church on Saturdays.

I was surrounded by stories and I fell in love again and again with humanity.

I felt the expansion in my own heart. I also felt its weight.

One afternoon, I huddled around a hospital bed with a woman in Liberia who was about to receive back surgery. She told me about the years she had to walk to the market with her products on her head and how she now struggled with crippling back pain. I thought about how often we romanticize that idea of women carrying all that weight on their heads.

Her story brought me to tears. Something about these ideas we have about each other and how strong we are … but how we were never really meant to carry these loads. We just do it, because we can and there are seemingly no other options.

I don’t want any woman in our world to carry a load that will produce excruciating pain. I long for a lightness, more ease, more joy, more aliveness for each and every one of us.

That woman received back surgery and her pain was eased, for now. She was also surrounded by a community of women around her bedside. I was reminded how living our most beautiful, alive life is so unique to each one of us on this earth.

Personally, I need:
👉🏻 adventure
💃🏼 play
🖊️ meaningful work
🌎 connection & community
😇 pleasure
💪🏻 agency
💡 clarity
🩷 Love

AND YOU?
What do you need to feel most alive? I’d love to hear.

As we walk through these days, may we keep mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.

[All images from my recent trip to Liberia, Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa.]