Episode 36 Voice Shaking, Soul Speaking: The Path to Real Intimacy (Part 2)

In this continuation of "The Edge of Intimacy," I go deeper — into the fire, into the shadow, into the parts of me that once stayed silent.

My voice trembles, but I still speak my truth — because love doesn’t require perfection, only presence. This is true for love of self, love of others and connection. Perfection is a fallacy anyway. it doesn't exist. So be real. Be present. Be YOU. 

The edge of intimacy isn't a cliff — it is a doorway into myself.

This episode is about what happens after you meet yourself. When you’ve stood naked before your own truth, stared into the mirror, and begun the sacred work of being honest — now what? You open. You connect. You allow.

I share pieces of my own journey — the words I’ve written, the truths I’ve spoken, even when my voice trembled. I talk about how the darkness is not always a void or a place of despair — but a fertile ground where growth, passion, and deep feeling are born. This is the space where shadow work becomes sacred intimacy. It is where you find your sacred power you have forgotten. 

It’s about letting someone say, “I see you — let me hold you,” and not retreating into the safety of “I’m fine.”
With tears in your eyes, shaking as you hold to your truth and allow someone hold you where you are at and just sink into it, is another kind of self love and trust. 
It’s about standing in your sovereignty and still allowing others to witness and hold your humanity.

This is real intimacy.
This is love, unmasked.
This is the path into the flame.

This is cracking yourself open as the light shines from inside you into the places that once felt isolated and too dark to see in. 

You are the light in the darkness. 

I let the darkness hold me long enough to remember I was made of fire. Now I am reborn as a phoenix. 

This is Inspired Perpetual Alchemy. 

With love, 

Lizzie