I first heard about the Diamond Path from my Dragon guides on one random sunny (or should I say fiery?) summer afternoon as I was pulling into my driveway. I heard them say as clear as day…

“You walk the Diamond Path.”

I thought to myself, “Okay…that's cool. Not sure what that means but thanks, I think?”

After that I went on with my day, not giving it too much more thought.

It would take years and countless initiations before I fully realized what the Dragons were talking about and what they really meant.

The Diamond Path is excruciating. It's a path of intense fire and pressure where those of us brave enough to walk it feel like we're being crushed, ripped in two, or both simultaneously. Fun times, I know…and yet somehow we alchemize all that pain into medicine so potent it defies logic. When we tell others our story their eyes go wide and their jaws drop to the floor in disbelief. They don't understand how we came out the other side intact.

Neither do we.

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A few years ago I was asked to get interviewed for a magazine!

WOOHOO, right?!

I was so honored and the whole interview went great...I felt AMAZING...and then I got to take a sneak peak at the video interview before it went live...

I gotta say, I was kinda shocked.

I sounded SO arrogant! So full of myself...It was actually a bit painful to watch. I had already struggled seeing myself on video and hearing my own voice, and now I felt ashamed of my words too.

Who was this person in front of me? She sounded cocky and looked like she was having way TOO much fun tooting her own horn.

Who did she think she was, anyway? Someone special? Someone who's allowed to talk that freely and openly about her beliefs, her accomplishments, and overcoming her struggles?

FUCK NO, that's not me. I'm not allowed to be or say or do that.

But that dear reader, THAT is a total and compete lie.

A lie my nervous system was telling me in the form of cringy embarrassment, shame and even a feeling of panic....