A heartfelt THANK YOU to @Suzanne Gaba , @Sara McNary , @Lavern Kettle & @G Obiyaa for joining our very first Sacred Prayer Circle. We gathered not to ask from fear, but to partner with God, pray for one another, and bless everyone connected to our intentions. It was a beautiful evening of faith, love, and community. Looking forward to next month. ❤️🙏 We will meet again first Friday of August using the same link. You have all been emailed your recording and fasting instructions.

The weight of the world is not on our shoulders even though it may feel like it. Just like the seasons change so will it. Let's just go within and inner stand and rest through it and don't give up on you. We aren't disconnected. Let the triggers be our teachers because that's all they are. Just observe them and not absorb them. As I write this I am truly this first to receive I invite you to be the second. Breath and Rest into the NEXT SEASON 🧡💡SSA

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(A Reflection on Hot Flashes, Womanhood, and the Privilege of Becoming) I was sitting in an office with the air conditioner on. Fanning myself with a book. And for a moment... I almost complained. Almost. I remember thinking, "Really? In an office this cold?" Then I stopped. Because suddenly, I realized something astonishing. "Oh." This is a hot flash. And just as quickly, another thought arrived. I smiled. Because I realized... I earned this fire. No one told me I was supposed to celebrate this part. They told me to fear it. To hide it. To fight it. To mourn the woman I used to be. As though aging were a tragedy. As though changing seasons meant I was disappearing. As though womanhood came with an expiration date. But the trees do not apologize when they change. Neither will I. I earned this fire. I earned it through every version of myself I had the courage to become. The little girl who looked at the world with wonder. The young woman trying to find her place in it. The woman who loved. The woman who lost. The mother. The dreamer. The immigrant. The woman who carried everyone else's burdens while pretending she was fine. The woman who made it through the days she never thought she would survive. The woman who buried parts of herself... and planted new ones in their place. I earned this fire. And then something curious happened. As soon as I smiled... I cooled. Not because the fire wasn't real. Not because acceptance magically erased discomfort. But because, for perhaps the first time, I stopped meeting my body's message with resistance. I didn't make an enemy of it. I listened. I recognized it. I honored it. And maybe...just maybe... the body we've spent our lives criticizing has been waiting all along for us to say, "Thank you." Thank you for carrying me through every heartbreak. Thank you for carrying my children. Thank you for getting me out of bed on the mornings I didn't know how I would keep going. Thank you for surviving stress I never thought I would survive.

My heart is so full after today's session of The 12-Inch Journey™. Thank you to everyone who showed up with open hearts, honesty, courage, and a willingness to be seen. Over the past two weeks, we explored what it means to suffer, to forget ourselves, and to begin the journey back home. Some of you shared stories you had carried quietly for years. Some of you recognized patterns you had never noticed before. Some of you said you felt emotional. Others said they felt a deep sense of peace, heaviness, or even sleepiness—as though your body was finally being given permission to rest. There was nothing to fix. Nothing to prove. Only awareness. Only remembrance. Thank you for trusting me, trusting yourselves, and trusting this process. The longest journey many of us will ever take is not across the world. It is the twelve inches from the mind to the heart. I know today, many of you have arrived. And this is only the beginning. With love and gratitude, Nekesha Burrell 💛 The 12-Inch Journey™Soul Shift Academy #the12inchjourney #recording