Finding Myself on F.I.R.E.

Hello,

It has been a while since I have posted. Life has been full of stuff. Full of all the sides of stuff. I have been learning lots and am growing what seem like in all directions all at the same time.

There has been some big life shifts including my daughter moving to Colorado Springs where her dad live and Jacob taking a job as a teacher’s assistant or an elementary Montessori school. I am learning what it means to mother adult children.

What I mainly want to talk about today is  a women’s conferences that I attended last week. The F.I.R.E. Conference. This conference was offered by the mother daughter duo, Barbara Turner and Tiffany Coleman. F.I.R.E. stands for Freedom, Intention, Revelation, and Evolution. I experienced all of this there.

I was invited by a friend, Soni (Thank you again.) She is probably one of the few people that I would have said yes to without knowing much about it. I will confess that when I first looked at the schedule and saw the panel discussion in the morning I was disappointed, I don’t like panel  discussions. Well, I didn’t like panel discussions. This panel showed up! They were vulneraous (Vulnerable + Courageous). They didn’t just tell us their stories but they shared themselves. This is where real transformation occurs.

Every speak at the conference shared themselves, and I am better for it. Because we not only belong to each other, but we are each other.

And then I heard the Keynote, Jaz Ampaw-Farr. Clink the link and buy her book, you can thank me later. She is a multi-award-winning speaker and one of the UK’s top female motivational voices. But to me she is a giant. I often say that I am giant hunting. I look for people who know they are giants. Everyone has the capacity to be a giant but not many people know they are one.

I got the opportunity to speak to Jaz one-on-one and found a giant. A giant that carried my stories with different details. It reminded me of meeting my sister/friend, Rhea while in India. Rhea and I joke that we had to be on opposite sides of the world because we take turns holding it up. She has even been known to text me from time to time to tell me that she was awake so I could go to sleep.

Jaz, there is something that changed in me when I met Rhea and the same thing happened when I met you. I found more of who I am and what is possible in the version of you that is me. I claim you as sister. You don’t have to claim me because love isn’t attachment.

Thank you for growing me, growing my story and growing my world.

Quanita