Witnessing Our Own Brilliance:

Reclaiming the Gifts We Once Hid There is a sacred moment on the healing path when we realize: It’s not that we lost our gifts… It’s that we stopped believing they were welcome.

Gloria - Vani

9/6/20252 min read

Reclaiming the Gifts We Once Hid

There is a sacred moment on the healing path when we realize:
It’s not that we lost our gifts…
It’s that we stopped believing they were welcome.

As children, many of us were radiant —
not just cute or clever,
but deeply connected to truth, creativity, intuition, and soul frequency.

We expressed ourselves freely.
We saw things others didn’t.
We felt deeply, spoke boldly, imagined endlessly.
We were open channels…
✨ in our genius without knowing it was genius.

And yet…
the world didn’t always meet us there.
Often, the adults around us couldn’t receive our light.
Not because we were too much—
but because they had forgotten how to see.

Instead of encouragement, we felt confusion.
Instead of celebration, we met rejection.
We were told to quiet down, sit still, behave, be realistic, be less.

And so we did what all wise children do to survive:
We built masks.
We hid the parts that weren’t accepted.
We adapted, shape-shifted, dulled the shine.
We made ourselves palatable in order to belong.

But deep inside…
that spark never left.

It’s still there.
In you.
Right now.

Waiting to be witnessed.
Not by someone else—
but by you.

Your Soul Doesn't Need Permission — It Needs Witnessing

One of the greatest shifts we can make in our journey is this:

Instead of waiting to be seen, we begin to see ourselves.
To recognize the brilliance that has always lived inside us.
To remember what it felt like to be free, creative, intuitive, and true.
And to offer that version of ourselves the one thing they always needed:

Belonging.

Not conditional. Not performative.
But deep, soul-level belonging — as they are, and as you are now.

This is how we reclaim our gifts.
This is how we call our soul parts home.
Not by trying harder… but by honoring what’s already here.

If You Feel This Truth...

If you often doubt your value
If you struggle to share your offerings with confidence
If you feel the urge to shine but keep dimming your light
If you long to be seen but fear rejection
If you know there’s more of you waiting to come through...

Then this is your invitation.

Not to fix yourself. Not to prove anything.

But to turn inward —
toward that younger self who once radiated with knowing…
and whisper:

I see you now.
You were never too much. You were magic.
And I am ready to carry your brilliance forward.

The world doesn’t need a more polished version of you.
It needs the frequency only you can bring.

And the more you honor it, the more the world will too.

Let this be the time you stop seeking permission—
and start witnessing your own light.
It’s been waiting for you all along.