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Shine Your Soul's Light: Permission to Be Visible and Radiant

Jan 28, 2026

Don't worry about those who judge you, act in ways that are unkind or seem not happy for you. No one who is not judging themselves, is kind to themselves, or happy in themselves would be anything but kind, loving, curious and graceful towards you.

Give yourself permission to shine your soul's light in your soul's way. Allow yourself to be visible, to be seen.

Shining is not as much about you as it is through you.

Allow your soul to breathe, take up space, inspire, and just to BE.

People who feel whole inside and know their soul's preciousness lift other people up. Period. They celebrate others, mind their own business, and work through their triggers because they know if they are activated by anything outside it's an opportunity to grow.

If you see someone not doing that, it's safe to say they don't know who they truly are: a radiant soul.

Please don't resist sharing who you are out of fear or hiding from the judgement, unkindness, or questioning of someone who doesn't know who they are.

Stand in your radiance. That's how we all learn.

Keep standing tall and taller. Keep shining bright and brighter. Keep loving true and truer. And keep your clarity. You know you. You know God. And you know your gifts. Shine like you know who you are. Because you do. You are. You are who you are.

Your unique light is a light that only you can shine in your unique way. Thank you for turning your radiance on.


A client told me the other day: I've learned in working with you to pray instead of worry. I've learned to shine my soul's light in my soul's way and not to worry so much. She said, I used to be so anxious about others' questions, judgements, and the potentially rude or mean things they may say when I shine my unique light.

But I've learned in working together:

Don't worry about the people who question you, they spend most of their lives in their heads. Don't worry about people who judge you, they judge themselves too. Don't worry about people who aren't happy for you, they aren't too happy for themselves either. Don't worry about people who don't celebrate you, they barely celebrate themselves. Don't worry about those who aren't kind or patient with you, they aren't kind or patient with themselves either. Don't worry about those without capacity to love you, their capacity for self-love is limited. Don't worry about others who don't lift you up, they spend so much time in their own minds knocking themselves down.

The people who are judging you are judging themselves. The people who question you with judgment, or are afraid of your light, radiance or power, do the same for themselves. They are often afraid of their own light. They needed grace and all they received was other things from their parents, communities or society... if they were connected to their soul, and the ever-present flow of life, they WOULD be kindness, radiance, love, beauty, spaciousness, curiosity, forgiveness. They would feel safe to BE their souls too.

Instead, if you choose, pray for them.

But don't hide your radiance and your soul out of fear of judgement from someone who forgot theirs.

Instead, give yourself permission to shine, to be seen, to be free.

Eventually, it will remind every human soul of their essence. Of the light inside of them, that is always lit. As soon as they too go inside. And do nothing to shine, but Be, Receive, channel, and expand.

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