Reflections on our Awaken the Fire Program

Holy hell, what a journey we just completed.

The eight weeks of Awaken the Fire was a raw truth-telling, brutal mirror-facing, messy letting go. Eight weeks of burning down the illusions, with tender awe, as something authentic emerged from the ashes.

For the record: this wasn't some fluffy self-improvement program. We weren't fixing anyone. We were stripping away the bullshit to remember what's been there all along, and own it! The clear-eyed knowing beneath our carefully constructed stories.

And boy, did our participants ever show up for it.

I'm still catching my breath from the sheer courage I witnessed. Walls that had stood for decades came crashing down. White-knuckle resistance transformed into radical honesty. I saw the exact moment when a story that had defined someone's entire existence suddenly lost its power and the person underneath it stepped forward, blinking in the unfamiliar light of their own truth.

Each week had its own distinct fire:

• 🔥 Week 1: Staring unflinchingly into the mirror

• 🔥 Week 2: Setting our precious stories ablaze

• 🔥 Week 3: Summoning the warrior within when the ego screamed for the familiar

• 🔥 Week 4: Breaking the chains of our most seductive behavior patterns

• 🔥 Week 5: Carving a path forward with nothing but intention and truth

• 🔥 Week 6: Standing steady when everything burned around us

• 🔥 Week 7: Leaping without the safety net of old identities

• 🔥 Week 8: Planting seeds in soil made fertile by everything we released

This group taught me something profound: transformation doesn't need drama. Sometimes the most revolutionary act is as quiet as not picking up the phone when that person calls. Sometimes it's as subtle as feeling the familiar flood of shame and just... not believing in it this time. For others it was a simple but radical awareness of holding back.

There was something powerful about deliberately beginning in winter's dark stillness and culminating exactly at spring equinox. This precise timing was deeply intentional, a conscious alignment with nature's own transformation cycle. Our inner landscapes mirrored what was happening outside our windows, the necessary dormancy, the uncomfortable thawing, the vulnerable emergence.

Like seeds that must completely surrender their form before new life can break through, each of the participants encountered their own necessary dissolution. We let narratives crack open that had defined us for years. We composted patterns that, while limiting, felt safely familiar. We discovered that peculiar paradox at the heart of all true change…we transform most profoundly not when we're desperately trying to become something else, but when we finally have the clarity, discernment and courage to see and accept who we really are.

We didn't just awaken the fire. We learned to live it. To tend it. To let it illuminate without consuming everything in its path.

To everyone who dove into this container with me: my heart is full. Thank you for your trust, your courage, your willingness to get uncomfortable. Thank you for showing up not just for yourselves, but for each other.

With a heart cracked wide open,

Leanne

Looking Ahead: The Fire Returns

For those who felt the pull toward this work but couldn't join us this cycle, the fire will return, but only in rhythm with the earth's own transformation. We've made the conscious choice to offer Awaken the Fire just once annually, beginning in winter's depth and culminating precisely at the spring equinox.

This choice is about integrity. It's about honoring the natural cycles that have guided human transformation for millennia. Some work simply cannot be rushed or repackaged to fit convenient schedules.

And next year, we're taking it even deeper. The journey will culminate in an in-person retreat at the equinox :) a sacred container where we'll gather to embody our transformation together, standing at the exact threshold between winter and spring, between what was and what will be.

Registration opens in late autumn. If something in you is already saying "yes," get on the waiting list now. This container will be intentionally limited to preserve the depth and intimacy of our work together.