The Sun Does Not Rise, We Must Rise to Meet the Sun
Dear Trailblazing Women,
On the journey to becoming the women who can hold and yield power with integrity, honor, and a firm commitment to serving humanity, we must learn how to receive and manage our own power.
Unfortunately, many women are blind to the power that they possess.
It is not their fault. Society is designed to distract and deplete us until we have no energy or focus left to turn within and remember how truly powerful we are.
In our endless efforts to meet the always moving societal goalposts for our enoughness and acceptance, we repeatedly lose ourselves. And that is by design.
A woman who knows herself and her power is considered “difficult” and “selfish” in our world.
While she cares deeply about others and serves with love, her life wouldn’t be centered around ensuring everyone else’s comfort and convenience.
She has boundaries. She has clarity. She has unshakable confidence in her vision and her mission. She has a voice that is kind, yet firm and clear. She does not shrink herself to please or appease.
She is wise, discerning, and sovereign.
This would make her “difficult” to manipulate and control. Our world does not like these women very much because it challenges it to grow and evolve in ways that it is not yet ready to do so.
But this is all about to change.
In the aftermath of Covid and now with the AI revolution, the old profit-centric extractive systems are leaving too many human beings neglected and out in the cold.
As this trend progresses, these systems will not be able to hold the burden of inequality that is being created.
The dam will eventually break, and a new paradigm shift will have to be introduced to reimagine and redefine how we live, work, and lead as human beings.
When this happens, women trailblazers who have had to navigate the heaviness of these biased extractive systems for far too long will be primed and ready to lead at the forefront with compassion, clarity, and vision.
And this is why we gather here. This is what these letters are for: to nourish you, to remind you of your power, and to fuel the path ahead.
I call on every person who reads this letter to share and forward it to every woman they know.
Because my friends, we are not just here for feel-good nourishment, inspiration, and reflections. We are here preparing for the transformative and historic times ahead.
The sun does not rise over the horizon.
We are the ones who move and shift until we can meet the sun.
We are the mothers who must prepare our wombs, so that when the time comes, we can meet the opportunity and birth a new world that supports the thriving of every human being.
We are the women who will rise to spread light and yield our power, to build a brighter and more expansive world for all.
I hope you’ll join me here.
With love,
Maliheh