I’ve been thinking about you.
Not in a general way. In a specific way, I wonder how much of yourself you’ve given away trying to do everything right. Trying to be a good leader, a good partner, a good parent, a good human.
I’ve been sitting with something I want to share with you today. It’s a term that came to me a couple of years ago from my Spirit guides, and it’s been shaping everything I’ve been building since.
The Sacred Warrior of the Heart.
When I first heard it, I understood it in my head. It took me much longer to live it.
Here’s what I’ve come to know. Most of us start in one of two places.
Some of us lead from the warrior. Fighters. Truth-tellers. Confrontational. Mouthy, if I’m being honest about myself. All defense and very little softness. I spent years here. I mistook my mother’s love and vulnerability for weakness. I was a fighter. I thought that was strength.
Some of us lead from the heart. Givers. Peacemakers. The ones who acquiesce, who go along, who abandon their own knowing to keep things smooth. This is its own kind of armor. It looks like kindness. It feels like self-abandonment.
The Sacred Warrior of the Heart is neither of those things alone.
It is the integration. Warrior and heart. Strength and grace. The ability to speak truth and lead with love at the same time. Not one sacrificed for the other.
This is the arc I’ve been living. Fighter to acquiescer to Sacred Warrior of the Heart. And when I finally found my way into truly embodying it, it felt like liberation.
I think a lot of you are somewhere in this arc right now.
And I’d love to know where.
Does this resonate? Where are you in this arc? Warrior? Acquiescing? Heart? Or have you discovered the Sacred Warrior of the Heart?
