🌿 What if Your Weakness Was Your Superpower?
We spend so much of our lives trying to fix ourselves — sanding off the rough edges, softening the tears in our hearts, pretending we aren’t as tender as we really are.
But what if the very thing we call “broken” is the exact place our medicine lives?
Thirty years ago, on my very first shamanic retreat, I was guided on a drum journey to connect with my beauty.
Not the surface kind — the kind that glimmers in candlelight or earns compliments — but the true inner beauty that remains when all else fades.
In that vision, I met my reflection.
She looked at me with ancient eyes and said:
“Your beauty is the way you love.”
At the time, I didn’t believe her. In my twenties, love felt like my downfall.
I loved too deeply, too quickly, too completely — and it broke me, again and again.
Every heartbreak left me certain that my tenderness was a curse.
But in that moment, my reflection showed me something different.
She showed me that to love fiercely and unconditionally is a kind of power — one that asks nothing in return, one that keeps shining even when life shatters your expectations.
That doesn’t mean no boundaries.
Oh no — I’ve learned the sacred art of loving and leaving.
Of recognising when someone cannot meet me where I am; when their wounds lash out or take more than they give.
But even then, love remains my compass.
It radiates through every cup of cacao I pour, every circle I hold, every drumbeat that echoes through the room.
Because love — wild, unconditional love — is my medicine.
🌕 The Alchemy of the Heart
So often, our so-called weakness is the very place Spirit hides our power.
The sensitive ones become the seers.
The wounded become the healers.
The overthinkers become the philosophers.
The ones who have lost everything become the ones who guide others home.
In shamanic practice, we don’t discard the parts of ourselves that ache — we journey toward them.
We listen. We ask what gift they hold.
Carl Jung called this the shadow — the unclaimed, unloved parts of ourselves that long to be seen.
But the shaman calls it medicine — the raw, wild, luminous force that becomes your power once you stop fighting it.
🌸 The Shaman’s Way
This is the heart of The Shaman’s Way — 13 Moons Journey.
Together, we uncover the parts we’ve hidden — the shame, the doubt, the anger, the grief — and bring them into the light for healing and integration.
It’s a path of remembering that you were never truly broken, only waiting to discover your medicine and share it with the world.
Each of us carries a superpower disguised as a wound.
Mine is love.
Yours might be courage, compassion, humour, or truth.
When we stop seeing our weakness as something to fix, and instead treat it as a teacher, everything changes.
🔮 A Little Ritual for You
Set aside a quiet pocket of time — thirty minutes to an hour if you can.
This isn’t a ritual of incense and incantations (though you’re welcome to light a candle if it helps you soften).
It’s a ritual of awareness — a space to listen to the intelligence within you that’s older than words.
Begin by sitting comfortably and placing one hand over your heart.
Breathe deeply, letting each exhale be longer than the inhale.
With every breath, allow your body to soften — your jaw, your shoulders, your belly.
The nervous system is your first temple.
As you breathe, you teach it that it is safe to rest, safe to open, safe to feel.
When your body feels quiet enough to hear the whisper underneath the noise, open your journal.
On a fresh page, write this question:
“What is my best quality?”
Pause. Let the mind offer its first quick answers — then breathe again and listen deeper.
Beneath the performance and people-pleasing, what quality has always lived in you, untamed and radiant?
Maybe it’s kindness. Sensitivity. Fierce love. Curiosity. The way you see beauty in everything.
Now ask yourself gently:
“How has this quality been wounded in the past?”
This is where awareness becomes alchemy.
Often the very trait that holds our light also carries our pain.
Sensitivity becomes overwhelm.
Generosity becomes burnout.
Honesty becomes rejection.
Write freely about the moments when this gift was misunderstood or taken for granted.
Then ask:
“Am I hiding my beauty — the expression of this gift — to stay safe?”
Notice any ways you’ve learned to dim your light to avoid criticism, loss, or disappointment.
How have you kept yourself small, careful, contained?
Finally, write:
“What would it feel like for this part of me to feel safe and radiant again?”
Close your eyes.
See what arises — an image, a word, a memory, a warmth spreading through your chest.
Don’t force insight; let it reveal itself in its own rhythm.
Write down everything that comes.
Don’t edit. Don’t judge.
The act of writing gives form to what has been hidden — it’s how the subconscious begins to trust you.
When you’ve finished, place your hand back on your heart and whisper:
“Thank you for showing me the gift hidden within my wounds.
I am ready to let my beauty be my medicine.”
Sit for a few moments longer.
Notice the calm that follows truth — the way the body recognises freedom before the mind fully understands it.
You’ve just begun the quiet work of reclaiming your superpower.
🌹 Walk the Path of Your Power
If these words resonate, perhaps your soul is calling for deeper work — for ceremony, community, and a return to your true essence.
🌀 Join me for The Shaman’s Way — 13 Moons Journey, beginning March 2026 at the Spring Equinox.
Over a full turn of the seasons, we journey together through healing, transformation, and reconnection to Spirit.
Or if you’re feeling called to more personal guidance, I offer 1-to-1 Shamanic Healing and Herbal Medicine Sessions— crafted with love and tailored to your unique story.
✨ Discover your medicine.
✨ Reclaim your wholeness.
✨ Remember that your heart — exactly as it is — is your superpower.
