Today something dawned on me With all the pressure we feel to show up on social media, is the real fear being seen? Or is it being heard? For some people, being seen still feels terrifying But others love being visible They take pictures everywhere They pose They share parts of their lives online And they thrive in it It’s showing a part of themselves Yet they are still afraid to speak their truth To have an opinion that might be a little bit out there To say what they really believe To risk being misunderstood So they stay sitting on the fence I believe for many women, the fear of being heard runs much deeper than the fear of being seen This isn’t something we only learned in this life It has been passed down through generations because there were times in history when it was dangerous for women to be heard Women were punished for sharing their wisdom For working with herbs For supporting women through birth For healing For singing For challenging those who held power Midwives, herbalists, healers and wisdom keepers were branded as dangerous or evil and dangerous So we learned to silence ourselves to survive We stopped passing the wisdom on to our daughters because we wanted to protect them And the wisdom, we forgot it, It got buried But the imprint of that silencing still lives inside us In the decisions we make In the words we swallow In the anxiety we feel when it’s time to speak In the way we shrink just as we are about to be fully expressed I didn’t come to my journey knowing part of it would be healing ancestral wounds But I soon discovered that if we want to live in our full purpose and true alignment, we have to understand what has been driving our patterns Because when we make decisions from a wounded place, they are not coming from authenticity They are not always in our best interests They are old rules trying to keep us safe When we bring awareness to those patterns, we can start to listen before we react We can give compassion to ourselves and to the younger parts of us that learned it was safer to stay quiet