<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></title><description><![CDATA[She is standing between her old life & her True One ☽ Love letters for her faith, her fire, & her freedom. Home of the Radiant Woman ঌ ]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mE2y!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64da58e-6ec0-4d32-ab20-2904fdfe4380_1280x1280.png</url><title>Kiss&apos;d by Bliss™</title><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:50:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[kissdbybliss@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[kissdbybliss@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[kissdbybliss@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[kissdbybliss@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[When You’re Rising Through Everything That Tried to Hold You Down]]></title><description><![CDATA[When God asked me to take His hand, I accepted.]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/when-youre-rising-through-everything</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/when-youre-rising-through-everything</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:33:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212462642/55b8f040b460f0eb81f6251c99e03922.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When God asked me to take His hand, I accepted. </p><p>Yet in choosing Him, I had to let go of everything He<em> </em>wasn&#8217;t. </p><p>Though difficult, the season of pruning and purification is sacred and courageous.</p><p>If you&#8217;re walking through the Fire, He is with you. </p><p>He has gone before you and will never<em> </em>leave you.</p><p>Stand brave, beautiful. </p><p>His plans are Good.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472; &#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>I wrote this as a declaration for the woman setting a flame to all that doesn&#8217;t serve her, to follow The Call of her soul. </em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>The audio (above) opens the soul with sound.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472; &#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>I AM Rising</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" 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/__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd229190a-5b40-45fe-a43c-5a5c9fe4445a_6000x4000.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jXvp!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_848, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd229190a-5b40-45fe-a43c-5a5c9fe4445a_6000x4000.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jXvp!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd229190a-5b40-45fe-a43c-5a5c9fe4445a_6000x4000.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jXvp!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd229190a-5b40-45fe-a43c-5a5c9fe4445a_6000x4000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;">The Stem of my<br>Rose stands up tall, </p><p style="text-align: center;">Promising to catch<br>me before I fall.</p><p style="text-align: center;">He is here for my<br>growth even when I hurt,</p><p style="text-align: center;">A Love that will never<br>leave me in the dirt.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">For the Stem has known <br>the dark of the soil, </p><p style="text-align: center;">And has already fought <br>to spare me the toil.</p><p style="text-align: center;">He rises as the Fire<br>inside my center,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Caressing my soul,<br>so He can enter.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Like gold tested deep<br>in the furnace heat,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Melting the falsehood<br>beneath His bare feet.</p><p style="text-align: center;">He does not scorch,<br>but frees my bloom,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Chasing the shadows<br>out of every room.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">What is not Love<br>turns to ash and flies,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Leaving only Truth<br>before my eyes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">What felt like death<br>inside my chest,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Becomes the fuel<br>for my Eternal Rest.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">No longer will I live in<br>fear or frantic,</p><p style="text-align: center;">I will choose His<br>Peace over the panic.</p><p style="text-align: center;">For I know the woman<br>I AM in Christ,</p><p style="text-align: center;">And it&#8217;s His Light<br>that will always suffice.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">I won&#8217;t be held down,<br>not now, not ever.</p><p style="text-align: center;">This rise is my purpose,<br>never to sever.</p><p style="text-align: center;">No longer silenced<br>or pushed aside,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Reborn in the glory<br>of Who lives inside.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">For my Stem is my<br>safety and my power,</p><p style="text-align: center;">I say it out loud,<br>that this is my hour.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The time has come<br>for my soul to shine,</p><p style="text-align: center;">To take my place at<br>the front of the line.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">I am more radiant<br>now than ever before,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Choosing to walk boldly<br>through that door.</p><p style="text-align: center;">To step into the dreams<br>I&#8217;ve held so dear.</p><p style="text-align: center;">To rise into the rainbow<br>that&#8217;s been made clear.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Hear my roar, a<br>New Dawn has broke</p><p style="text-align: center;">The doubt and the fear<br>has been revoked.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The Fire of my Sun<br>has been redeemed,</p><p style="text-align: center;">And the Rose of my<br>soul is forever free.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#2444;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>And so it is.</em></p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM RISING IN LIGHT.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM ALIVE WITH LIFE.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM FREE IN TRUTH.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM CHOOSING PEACE.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">May your dreams sparkle.</p><p style="text-align: center;">All my love,</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>jess</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[When You’re Afraid to Feel But Choose to Anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[I used to drink alcohol to numb the pain I didn&#8217;t know how to hold.]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/when-youre-afraid-to-feel-but-choose</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/when-youre-afraid-to-feel-but-choose</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:13:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210943879/c06f5879276e0ff8583bcc5f0db510a0.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I used to drink alcohol to numb the pain I didn&#8217;t know how to hold. Not just from the loss of my mom, but from an entire past that seemed to always haunt me.</p><p>I thought if I stopped I would drown in sadness and shame&#8230; yet it was keeping me from the only One who could carry me to safety.</p><p>When I quit, I felt happy for the first time in what felt like forever. Not the temporary kind, that comes with puffy eyes and pizza cravings, the real kind.</p><p>I started to feel passion and pretty in my own skin.</p><p>Not for another, but for myself.</p><p>And that was the beginning of a new beginning.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472; &#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>I wrote this for the woman who is moving through grief and heartache, afraid if she feels what&#8217;s rising inside, she may never make it out.  </span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>The audio (above) opens the soul with sound.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472; &#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">Burning With Bliss</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span>For too long she believed <br>the ancient lie, </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>That her feelings were <br>a burden to deny.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>That her body was made <br>for others to use,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>And that pleasure was <br>a gift to be refused.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>She numbed with things <br>that drained her soul,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Terrified to make the <br>broken pieces whole.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>She thought if she stopped, <br>she&#8217;d drown in fear,<br><br>That her True Self would <br>not be welcomed here.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>But in her breath, <br>Divine Love ascends,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>To meet her where <br>all suffering ends.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>Love whispers,</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Your bliss is not a prize, <br>but a birthright to claim.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Your body is a temple <br>for the Sacred Flame.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>That heaviness you feel <br>inside your chest?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Is only stored-up water<br>that has been suppressed.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Unshed tears that <br>form a stagnant tide,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Where grief and guilt <br>have been forced to hide.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>You made no mistakes, <br>only choices that felt true,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Even the hard times were <br>a step that led directly to you.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>The past is a teacher, <br>not a prison of shame,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>For it has already been <br>paid for in His name.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Drop it in the river and <br>watch it fade away,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Making space for the Sun<br>to flow through you today.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Can you feel the quiver <br>underneath your skin?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Like a rose bud sprouting <br>and ready to spin.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Now sway your hips and <br>let your spine unwind,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Like rippling water,<br>leaving the pain behind.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Let your belly soften, <br>let the heartache go,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>And tell your cells what <br>they need to know.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>&#8220;I am here. I listen. <br>I choose me.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>I am waking up to <br>who I am meant to be.&#8221;</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>She feels the spark, <br>the flicker, the flame,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Igniting the woman<br>they could never tame.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>The numbness melts <br>beneath her inner fire,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Awakening her truest <br>and most precious desire.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>She reclaims her <br>sensuality, wild and deep,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Not for another, <br>but as vows to keep.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>&#8220;My waters are sacred, <br>pleasure is my prayer,</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>I am filled with joy, <br>beyond compare.&#8221;</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>She worships the Sun <br>in the rose bud she&#8217;s in,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>And feels the glow <br>of Eternal Life begin.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>No longer a victim to <br>stories of the past,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>But a Priestess of the <br>present, built to last.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Drunk on sunlight, <br>divine and sweet,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Her victory is <br>now complete.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>&#9825;</span></p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><p style="text-align: center;">MY WATERS ARE SACRED.</p><p style="text-align: center;">PLEASURE IS MY PRAYER.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM FILLED WITH JOY</p><p style="text-align: center;">BEYOND COMPARE.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">May your bliss burn wild.</p><p style="text-align: center;">All my love,</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>jess</em></p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Know a sister who could use<br>a little love today?</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/when-the-sky-clears-and-the-ground?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MTk5NTk1NTksInBvc3RfaWQiOjIwOTAxMjY5MCwiaWF0IjoxNzg2NjQ2MjY0LCJleHAiOjE3ODkyMzgyNjQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03Mzk4MzM1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.vAuPvdQOjdGXzaOHsI7L1eyRc8GyUKQVfNrmBNGiz4Y&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary 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</p><p>the amount of peace and joy I feel in my heart, the amount of hope, the amount of love coursing through my body, through my cells, through my skin, is like nothing I&#8217;ve ever felt before. </p><p>It&#8217;s deeper than happiness. </p><p>It&#8217;s deeper than words.</p><p>I suppose that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called the peace beyond all understanding, because it is incomparable to anything else.</p><div><hr></div><p>It is pure safety. It is pure trust in the universe, in the Power of Love. It is knowing that nothing outside of you can give you this. </p><p>That it&#8217;s by removing the outer distractions, that we come home to the path of the True Heart. </p><p>The authentic heart.</p><p>When we live aligned to this frequency, aligned to the energetic force that runs through the veins of the entire universe&#8230;</p><p>of all creation&#8230;</p><p>we are aligned with the One True Light. </p><p>And that is true freedom. </p><p>Because you are not counting on anything else to make you happy or free. </p><blockquote><p>You are free internally. </p></blockquote><p>Free in the eyes of Source. </p><p>Free in the eyes of God.</p><div><hr></div><p>I think about this and I stand here in such gratitude, and also reverence. </p><p>Reverence for my own path, my own soul&#8217;s journey that led me here. </p><p>I can see now what all of the suffering, the anxiety, the fear was for. </p><p>It was for this very moment. </p><p>And it was <em>through </em>that suffering that I could break the illusion altogether. </p><p>Because the most heartbreaking part of this whole journey has been seeing what the worldly ways have done to our human happiness.</p><div><hr></div><p><span>To think that I stand here feeling this level of contentment, and to think that I was ever made to feel that this was wrong. </span></p><p><span>To believe I was being irresponsible. To accept that this peace is only reserved for vacations, holidays, and days off.</span></p><p><span>How the system we currently find ourselves in has trapped humanity&#8212;financially, spiritually, emotionally, and physically.  </span></p><p>How it reversed the Law of God and taught us to follow the law of man.</p><p>Law was piled upon law, dragging us deeper and deeper into fear, into unbalanced lives, unbalanced bodies, unbalanced families.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>This is not the fault of humanity.</strong></p><p>We were born into this world. It is all we knew. How could we ever blame ourselves, or be angry at ourselves, for anything we have gone through?</p><p>Even in the dark times, we cannot be hard on ourselves.</p><p>Our souls were not made for this much pain and this much fear (forever).</p><p>We were made to shine. </p><p>To be one with God, one with the universe. In flow, in nature, doing the things we love with a purpose that serves the greater unfolding, where we are excited to get up in the morning because it lights us up.</p><p><span>So many of us wake up with a heavy heart, navigating traffic and office walls, feeling like we only truly live on the weekends. It is an exhausting reality that many of us know too well, and it is</span><strong><span> not what we were created for.</span></strong></p><div><hr></div><p>So I am standing here in this moment, realizing that no matter what we have gone through as a collective, <strong>we can rise out of it.</strong></p><p>We can take our power back. </p><p>By making small choices in our everyday life to turn the matrix reality <em>off </em>and get back in alignment with our True Heart, with what gives us joy, peace, and pleasure.</p><p>We can begin taking steps to live a higher life. </p><p>We can stop listening to the chaos and the noise, and start listening to our own soul. </p><p>And as we do, life gets brighter and brighter and brighter.</p><blockquote><p>Not because we are doing more, but because we are <strong>finally doing things differently, </strong>aligned to our Divine Nature.</p></blockquote><p>It is time to start believing we are worthy of that. </p><p>We cannot count on the world tell us what the truth is and what it isn&#8217;t.</p><p><strong>We have to stop giving our power away if we ever want it back.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>So start now. </p><p>Start taking the steps. </p><p>Start envisioning a different way. </p><p>The life you truly want. </p><p>No dream is too big. </p><p>Believe in yourself. </p><p>Believe in your heart&#8217;s desires, because God wouldn&#8217;t give you those desires if they weren&#8217;t <strong>yours to claim.</strong></p><p><strong>You are meant to be happy. </strong></p><p><strong>You are meant to be free.</strong></p><p>Stand tall and walk with your shoulders back. Be confident in who you are. Respect who you are. Do respectable things in the world. Treat your body with respect. </p><p>Be kind. Be loving. Choose love above all else.</p><p>When your mind goes into fear, say&#8230;</p><blockquote><p><em>I give this to love, <br>and love sets me free.</em></p></blockquote><p>As you do, your thoughts will be more loving.</p><p>And if you are having more loving thoughts on the inside, you&#8217;re going to have a more loving experience on the outside.</p><p>You are the one in control of your life. </p><p>Nobody <em>out there</em> dictates who you are, what you deserve, how much you&#8217;re worth, or when you can take your vacations.</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>I love you so much. </em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>If you are reading this, <br>thank you for being here.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>jess</em></p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Know someone who <br>may enjoy this post?</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/when-the-sky-clears-and-the-ground?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MTk5NTk1NTksInBvc3RfaWQiOjIwOTAxMjY5MCwiaWF0IjoxNzg2MTQyMTcwLCJleHAiOjE3ODg3MzQxNzAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03Mzk4MzM1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.PcgRcUkOHBX85arQyAJlrPf2kFreSDpwDQv1UtTP0Bw&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/when-the-sky-clears-and-the-ground?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MTk5NTk1NTksInBvc3RfaWQiOjIwOTAxMjY5MCwiaWF0IjoxNzg2MTQyMTcwLCJleHAiOjE3ODg3MzQxNzAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03Mzk4MzM1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.PcgRcUkOHBX85arQyAJlrPf2kFreSDpwDQv1UtTP0Bw"><span>Share</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>[ </span><strong><a href="https://hersoulspeaks.carrd.co/">Read your soul contract</a></strong><a href="https://hersoulspeaks.carrd.co/"> </a><span>&#127801;]</span><br><span>[ </span><strong><a href="https://ko-fi.com/kissdbybliss">Send a sunbeam </a><span>&#9728;&#65039;</span></strong><span> ]</span></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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&#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>I wrote this poem for others going through a rocky season to remind you that you are supported and loved, right where you are.</span>  </em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472; &#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Rooted in Radiance</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">Feel the earth beneath you, <br>solid and strong,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Inside her loving arms,<br> where your heart belongs.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The shaking has stopped; <br>the storm has passed through, </p><p style="text-align: center;">Mother Nature is here, <br>waiting patiently for you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">No longer at the mercy <br>of chaos or fear, </p><p style="text-align: center;">You are rooted in love, <br>you are anchored right here.</p><p style="text-align: center;">There is nothing more you <br>have to do or be,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Just breathe, and let <br>the weight fall free.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">From your mind, from <br>your body, let it all go,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Down to the ground, <br>into the Earth below.</p><p style="text-align: center;">What lives beneath you, <br>will hold you with care,</p><p style="text-align: center;">And restore the parts of you <br>left broken and bare.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">You do not have to earn <br>this love so sweet,</p><p style="text-align: center;">It is given to you <br>freely while you sleep.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You are her child, <br>her heart, her home,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Woven from the same <br>Spark she has sown.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Her Air is your breath, <br>rising soft and slow,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Like wind through the trees <br>where the wild things grow.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Her Water is your blood, <br>carving canyons wide,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Her Stones are your bones<br> where strength resides.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Her Fire is your spirit, <br>the sun&#8217;s radiant heat,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Moving through you to <br>make your life complete.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The rose does not struggle <br>to reach for the light,</p><p style="text-align: center;">She only stays still, <br>rooted deep in the night.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">She trusts in the sun to <br>pour through her being,</p><p style="text-align: center;">And that is the truth <br>your soul is seeing.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Feel as your body, your <br>skin, and your glow,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Begin to rejuvenate with <br>her heavenly flow.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Every inch of you starts <br>to awaken anew,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Your whole world blooming <br>in a beautiful hue.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You no longer apologize <br>for taking up space,</p><p style="text-align: center;">You stop questioning your <br>right to this holy place.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The part of you that <br>doubts &#8220;Will I be okay?&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Is replaced by a trust that <br>grows stronger each day.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I am supported. I am welcome. <br>I am held by love.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Inside this present moment, <br>I know I am enough.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The fire you walked through <br>was never here to stay,</p><p style="text-align: center;">It only came to prove your <br>ground will never give way.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You are not the wreckage. <br>You are the Spark inside,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Rooted, strong, and steady, <br>where true love abides.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The fight is over. You have <br>permission to rest. </p><p style="text-align: center;">To let the rose rise <br>from her sacred nest.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You are whole, you are worthy, <br>you are right on time.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Breathing as one <br>with the Earth Divine.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM SUPPORTED.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM WELCOME.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM HELD BY LOVE.</p><p style="text-align: center;">INSIDE THIS MOMENT,</p><p style="text-align: center;">I KNOW I AM ENOUGH.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><div><hr></div><p>Sending love for whatever you are walking through today.  </p><p>You are never alone.</p><p>Jess + KBB</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">Know someone who needs to <br>remember they are supported? 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</em></p><p><em>Why does it hurt so bad? </em></p><p><em>Why God, why me?</em></p><p>And I kept falling&#8230;</p><p>all the way down to the very bottom.</p><p>There were moments I didn&#8217;t think I would make it out. </p><p>Moments I didn&#8217;t know how I would get up. </p><p>How I would ever find happiness again.</p><p>But day by day, </p><p>with Love by my side, </p><p>I did.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472; &#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>I wrote this for the woman whose whole life got struck by lightning, and she&#8217;s alone in the dark, without a light or way out.  </em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472; &#10084;&#65038; &#9472;&#9472;&#9472;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Light in Her</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">Have you ever had a moment <br>when the world goes totally dark?</p><p style="text-align: center;">When something hits out of the <br>blue and leaves a jagged mark?</p><p style="text-align: center;">A loss, a breakup, a call you <br>never thought would arrive,</p><p style="text-align: center;">When something deep inside <br>you forgot how to survive.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">You ask the question every <br>broken heart has known:</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;Why did this happen? <br>God, why am I alone?&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe you feel like a flower <br>that has lost her only sun,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Fallen into the shadows, <br>feeling empty and undone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">But my sweet soul, <br>you are never alone,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Even in the deepest pain, <br>Love has already made a home.</p><p style="text-align: center;">A rose cannot bloom until <br>it&#8217;s buried in the ground,</p><p style="text-align: center;">The seed must start in darkness <br>for its true light to be found.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">When the voice whispers low, <br>saying &#8220;Just give up,&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;Pour another drink, <br>just fill the cup.&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: center;">When it says &#8220;What&#8217;s the point?&#8221; <br>and the anger starts to roar,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Gently whisper back: <br>&#8220;I&#8217;m not that anymore.&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Say, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t who I am, <br>it&#8217;s what I&#8217;m ready to release,</p><p style="text-align: center;">I give this to the light, <br>and I find my peace.&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: center;">You&#8217;re allowed to be scared, <br>you&#8217;re allowed to cry,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Safe to let the tears fall <br>from your eye.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">There&#8217;s no rush to heal, <br>no strength to prove,</p><p style="text-align: center;">No need to justify, <br>nothing to move.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You are safe to rest, <br>safe to let go,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Safe to trust the river <br>as it starts to flow.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">That sparkle inside? <br>It can never go out,</p><p style="text-align: center;">It&#8217;s the answer to your fear <br>and the cure for your doubt.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Today you chose your light, <br>and your light chose you too;</p><p style="text-align: center;">To love, to become, <br>and to see this through.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The rainbow you dream of,<br>that you think is far? </p><p style="text-align: center;">Reserved only for fairy tales, <br>or another person&#8217;s star.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It&#8217;s not someone else&#8217;s, <br>it was written in your name. </p><p style="text-align: center;">You&#8217;re the reason for the promise,<br>you are the sacred flame.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Don&#8217;t let the world tell you, <br>your longing is too much. </p><p style="text-align: center;">The desires in your heart are<br>the fingerprint of God&#8217;s touch.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Even when you can&#8217;t see, <br>through the rain pouring down;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The sun is shining inside you, <br>wearing love like a crown.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Just like the rose, you hold the <br>original seed, the original Spark. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Your compass through the tunnel, <br>your candle in the dark,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Your clarity, your center, <br>your one unshaken home. </p><p style="text-align: center;">You were never truly lost. <br>You were never left alone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The storm is passing over, <br>the Rose begins to rise,</p><p style="text-align: center;">The rainbow is already yours, <br>beneath these healing skies.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So take this truth, <br>and let it burn bright;</p><p style="text-align: center;">You have been filled <br>with the One Holy Light.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9825;</p><p style="text-align: center;">May every part <br>of you be free.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#127801;&#129419;</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM SAFE TO REST</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM SAFE TO FEEL</p><p style="text-align: center;">I AM SAFE TO BE</p><p style="text-align: center;">EXACTLY WHERE I AM</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8902;&#8881;&#3899;&#92536;&#3898;&#8880;&#8902;</p><div><hr></div><p>If you know a friend, sister, or co-worker who could use a little love, please share this post to help spread the Kiss&#8217;d by Bliss light.</p><p>To support our sanctuary, you can send us a sunbeam, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/kissdbybliss">here. </a></p><p>Thank you for flying with us.</p><p>Love,</p><p>Jess + KBB</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">She is standing between her old life &amp; her True One &#9789; Love letters for her faith, her fire, &amp; her freedom. 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another.&#8221;</span></em><span> </span></p><p><span>&#8212; Galatians 5:13 </span></p></div><p><span>In the quiet moments before the fireworks light up the sky, I&#8217;m reminded to pause and breathe. </span></p><p><span>The Divine, that Universal Light dwelling within all of us, whispers a gentle truth: </span><strong><span>freedom is not found in external circumstances, but in the sacred space within our own heart.</span></strong></p><p><span>Often, we search for liberty in changing our surroundings, achieving more, or striving harder. </span></p><p><em><span>Yet, what if true freedom is already here, waiting to be uncovered? </span></em></p><div><hr></div><h4><strong><span>Inviting Love into the Cracks</span></strong></h4><p>Life sometimes leaves us feeling fractured, wearied by expectations, burdened by past hurts, or constrained by fear. </p><p>L<span>ove wants us to know that </span><strong><span>we do not need to try harder.</span></strong><span> We can simply surrender to the sunshine within.</span></p><p><span>When you feel broken or stuck, instead of forcing a solution, try this:</span></p><p><em><span>Invite Love into your cracks.</span></em></p><blockquote><p><span>Ask for relief where you feel heavy.</span><br><span>Seek renewal where you feel drained.</span><br><span>Welcome rejuvenation where you feel worn.</span></p></blockquote><p><span>This is not passive; it is an active trust in the soul&#8217;s wisdom. Your soul knows the path to peace. It recognizes what brings true happiness. Not the fleeting kind the world offers, but the deep, abiding joy that comes from alignment with the Divine. </span></p><p><span>As you follow this inner guide, you&#8217;ll discover that freedom grows from within, radiating outward to touch everyone you meet.</span></p><div><hr></div><h4><strong><span>Walking in Freedom Today</span></strong></h4><p><span>As we approach Independence Day, consider this reflection:</span></p><ul><li><p><span>What does freedom truly mean to </span><em><span>you</span></em><span>?</span></p></li><li><p><span>Where in your life are you striving when you could be surrendering?</span></p></li><li><p><span>How can you let the Universal Light shine through your unique gifts today?</span></p></li></ul><p><span>Take a moment to sit in stillness. Place a hand over your heart. Breathe in the wisdom that you are already whole, already loved, already free. </span></p><p><span>There is nothing more you need to become&#8230; you are already </span><em><span>it.</span></em></p><p><span>Then, let that truth guide your steps.</span></p><div><hr></div><h4><strong><span>A Kiss of Bliss</span></strong></h4><blockquote><p><em><span>When shadows fall and doubts arise,</span><br><span>Remember well the light inside.</span></em></p><p><em><span>No chains can hold a spirit wise,</span><br><span>Who lets love&#8217;s river freely glide.</span></em></p><p><em><span>So breathe the bliss, let peace begin&#8212;</span><br><span>A kiss of freedom on your skin.</span></em></p></blockquote><p><span>May this &#8220;kiss of bliss&#8221; remind you that freedom is your birthright, and love is your guide. Walk gently, live openly, and let your heart lead the way.</span></p><div><hr></div><p>With faith, fire &amp; freedom,</p><p>Love,</p><p>Jess &amp; KBB &#127482;&#127480; &#128171;</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xyFB!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aa58ca8-153a-41fc-8cd3-2b109ece025e_4912x3264.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I used to catch myself thinking&#8230; <em>I don&#8217;t belong here.</em>  </p><p>What I felt inside me felt so different than what I saw around me. </p><p>Then I realized&#8230; </p><p>It&#8217;s God that lives inside me&#8230; and God is in everything and everyone&#8230; so how could my thought be true?  God doesn&#8217;t make mistakes.</p><p>He created this world and He created us&#8230;</p><p><strong>not to be </strong><em><strong>of</strong></em><strong> it, but to be </strong><em><strong>in</strong></em><strong> it.</strong></p><p>So could it be that when we feel like strangers, it&#8217;s not because we are in the wrong place, but because we aren&#8217;t yet living the purpose He made us for?</p><div><hr></div><p>Often our purpose is not what we think. </p><p>It&#8217;s much<em> </em>simpler. </p><p>And when we are wondering&#8230; we can ask. </p><p>Ask our soul, ask our heart, ask God<em>&#8230; </em></p><p><em>Lord what am I here for?</em>  </p><p>Then take the first thing that pops in your mind&#8230; even if it seems a little strange or leaves you with a&#8230; <em>huh? </em></p><p>Trust that first instinct, and look deeper.</p><p>Look at the things that make you happy. </p><p>Look at what you have been through&#8230; the hardships, the lessons, the miracles, the ways you got through every single thing you thought you wouldn&#8217;t. </p><p>What did you gather? </p><p>Could someone else benefit from those same things? </p><p><strong>How could you serve the world with the life you have already lived?</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>This does not require you to go to school, learn something new, or become an expert at anything at all. It simply asks you to look at your existence and extract the nectar. Then use it to serve whoever you feel called to serve.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t have to be the whole planet. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a program or a business. It can simply be the way you show up&#8230; for your family, your friends, the people you move through your days with. </p><p>Even a simple perspective shift: instead of seeing your life as something that has happened <em>to</em> you, you can see it as something that has happened <em>for</em> you.</p><p>Everything we go through is to help us heal, evolve, and raise our frequency&#8230; so we can live in harmony with our happiness, with our divine essence<strong>, </strong>with the woman God designed us to be.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>In the ordinary moments<br>of your day, ask: </em></p><p><em>is what I&#8217;m doing aligned <br>with my Soul? </em></p><p><em>And if it&#8217;s not &#8212; </em></p><p><em>what&#8217;s one thing I can <br>do to change that?</em></p></div><p>Because every choice<em> </em>has a reverberation<em>.</em></p><p>Let&#8217;s say you come home after a long day. You could pour a glass of wine, eat a frozen dinner, and lose a few hours to the TV&#8230; <em>or</em> you could draw a bath, get your journal, and sit with your Soul for a while.</p><p>One of those choices keeps you numb. Keeps you in the same spot. The other turns you &#8212; beautifully &#8212; back toward your True North, back toward the Divine. </p><p>And it doesn&#8217;t matter what comes out of that journal time. Something will. And even if your page turns up totally blank, you still chose yourself&#8230; and choosing yourself <em>always</em> matters&#8230; choosing yourself will always have a positive reverberation in your life.</p><p>I like that word, don&#8217;t you? ;) </p><div><hr></div><p>So gorgeous, you have said you&#8217;ve wanted to feel good, alive, more free.</p><p>A woman who lives with purpose and the power God gave her.</p><p>Now create the structure to hold your commitment&#8230; whatever that looks like for you&#8230; <strong>5-10 minutes a day to connect with the Love inside you.</strong></p><p>Then let Love do what Love does best&#8230; </p><p>dissolve what doesn&#8217;t fit, so you can live<em> </em>fully in the light.</p><p><strong>This</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>is the secret no one tells us.  </strong></p><p>We don&#8217;t have to try harder. We only have to sink deeper.  </p><p>Trusting that God has our back, that He will never let go, that with every step, and every breath, He is forever leading us home. </p><p>He <em>is</em> home. </p><p>We are home.</p><p>Together, we are free.</p><div><hr></div><p>With hugs &amp; hearts,</p><p>Jess + KBB</p><p>&#128150; &#128171;</p><div class="pullquote"><p>If you&#8217;d love to go deeper into <br>your divine gifts &amp; purpose <br>you can request your <br><strong>Soul Contract Report </strong><em><strong><a href="https://hersoulspeaks.carrd.co/">here.</a></strong></em></p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w7yw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F54283658-342c-4908-a968-6c36621e5ad8_2025x2531.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Heavy. Sitting right in the center of your chest like it never left.</p><p>You lie there for just a moment in the space between sleep and the day and something in you knows.</p><p><em>This isn&#8217;t quite right.</em></p><p>&#10022;</p><p>Then you get up anyway. You make the coffee. You put on the face. You step back inside the machine.</p><p>Nobody handed you a cage and called it a cage.</p><p>They handed you a schedule. A salary. A role. A ring. A definition of a good woman that was already written before you arrived.</p><p>They handed you a life already assembled. Neat. Acceptable. Achievable.</p><p>Here is what success looks like. Here is what love looks like. Here is what a woman like you is supposed to want.</p><p>And you were young and you were trying and you didn&#8217;t yet know that you could question the blueprint.</p><p>So you stepped inside.</p><p>You optimized yourself for a world that was never built for your soul.</p><p>You got good at it. God, you got so good at it.</p><p>The performance. The productivity. The pleasing. The shrinking just enough to fit through every door they decided was right for you.</p><p>You called it living.</p><p>It looked like living.</p><p>From the outside it looked exactly like living.</p><p>&#10022;</p><p>For a long time it worked.</p><p>The busyness kept you from the quiet. The next goal kept you from the question. The wine, the scroll, the weekend plans, being needed, being wanted, being everything to everyone&#8230;</p><p>it all worked.</p><p>The noise was loud enough to drown her out.</p><p>That part of you. The one who knew. This isn&#8217;t how it should feel.</p><p>But then something shifted.</p><p>You can&#8217;t quite name when. There was no dramatic moment, no single second everything changed&#8230;</p><p>it was slower than that. Quieter.</p><p>Like a tide going out.</p><p>The relationship that used to feel like home started feeling like jeans three sizes too small. </p><p>The job that used to give you purpose started feeling like a sentence. </p><p>The routine that used to feel like safety started feeling like walls closing in.</p><p>The things that were supposed to comfort you stopped working.</p><p>And no matter how many times you rearranged them, dressed them up, told yourself to be grateful&#8230;</p><p>the feeling was still there.</p><p>Waiting. Patient as stone.</p><p>&#10022;</p><p>The hardest part isn&#8217;t the waking up.</p><p>It&#8217;s looking around and realizing no one else seems to feel it.</p><p>The people in your life are still inside the machine and it appears to be working perfectly fine for them.</p><p>They are making plans. Hitting goals. Posting the highlights. Celebrating the very things that have started to feel like sand in your mouth.</p><p>And you smile. You show up. You say the right things.</p><p>But inside you are somewhere else entirely.</p><p>You try to explain it once. Maybe twice.</p><p>The words come out wrong or they land wrong or the look on their face tells you before they even speak&#8230;</p><p><em>they don&#8217;t feel it.</em></p><p>So you go silent.</p><p>You stop trying to name it. You start carrying it alone&#8230; this strange, heavy knowing that something is ending even though nothing has officially fallen apart.</p><p>You start to wonder if something is wrong with you.</p><p>If you are unappreciative. Unstable. Too much. Not enough.</p><p>You are not the problem.</p><p>You were never the problem.</p><p>You were just the first one in your world to wake up.</p><p>And that is the loneliest place a woman can stand.</p><p>&#10022;</p><p>And then.</p><p>Something falls.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s the job. The email arrives, the meeting happens, the thing you built your security around suddenly isn&#8217;t there anymore.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s the relationship. A conversation that cannot be untaken. A truth that once spoken changes the entire shape of the room.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s your body. Stopping you. Forcing you horizontal when you have spent years being relentlessly vertical.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s quieter than that. A moment alone in the car in a grocery store parking lot&#8230;</p><p>and you start crying and you cannot stop and you don&#8217;t even know exactly why.</p><p>Something falls.</p><p>And here is what no one tells you about the falling&#8230;</p><p>you survive it.</p><p>Not only that.</p><p>You look down at the rubble of the thing you thought was holding you and you realize with a shock that moves through your whole body&#8230;</p><p>it was never holding you.</p><p>You were holding it.</p><p>You were holding it together with both hands for years.</p><p>The job that was slowly extinguishing your fire. The relationship that required you to set aside who you really are. The version of yourself you performed so convincingly that even you forgot it was a performance.</p><p>You were gripping it so tightly.</p><p>And now it&#8217;s gone.</p><p>And you are still here.</p><p>Shaking. Uncertain. Without ground.</p><p>And more yourself than you have felt in years.</p><p>This is not punishment.</p><p>This is the force that loves you too much to let you stay comfortable in a life too small for your soul.</p><p>The tower doesn&#8217;t fall on you.</p><p>It falls <em>for</em> you.</p><p>&#10022;</p><p>You are not broken.</p><p>Let that land.</p><p>You are not too sensitive. You are not a failure. You are not difficult or dramatic or lost.</p><p>You are awake.</p><p>Feeling the first unbearable edges of a truth your soul has been trying to tell you for longer than you know.</p><p>The life didn&#8217;t stop fitting because something is wrong with you.</p><p>It stopped fitting because you grew.</p><p>Because something ancient and electric and completely your own has been pressing against the ceiling of everything they told you to be&#8230;</p><p>and it is done being contained.</p><p>You don&#8217;t know where you are going yet.</p><p>That&#8217;s okay.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need the destination. You don&#8217;t need the plan. You don&#8217;t need anyone around you to understand it or validate it or give you permission.</p><p>You only need this&#8230;</p><p>the willingness to feel the cage and stop pretending it&#8217;s a home.</p><p>That feeling in your chest on that ordinary morning when the alarm goes off and something in you knows?</p><p>That is not despair.</p><p>That is your soul speaking.</p><p>You don&#8217;t know where you are going.</p><p>You only know you cannot stay.</p><p>And that&#8230;</p><p>that right there&#8230;</p><p>is faith.</p><p><em>Welcome to the beginning of your true story.</em></p><p><em>You have been Kiss&#8217;d by Bliss.</em></p><p>&#10022;</p><div><hr></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">She is standing between her old life &amp; her True One &#9789; Love letters for her soul, her fire, &amp; her freedom. 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;">Nothing is more powerful <br>than knowing her soul,</p><p style="text-align: center;">for it is the only way <br>she can truly grow.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Her lessons, her longings,<br>her strengths, her gifts&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: center;">by seeing their meaning<br>her life starts to shift.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Inside her heart <br>lives a Sacred Star,</p><p style="text-align: center;">a Spark of Source <br>that has never been far.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">It holds her blueprint,<br>chosen before birth&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: center;">every joy, every trial <br>she would meet here on Earth.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">The why behind the hurts, <br>the grace beneath the lows,</p><p style="text-align: center;">a higher perspective to <br>her most difficult blows.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Every cycle that spins, <br>every pattern that stays,</p><p style="text-align: center;">was written with love <br>to strengthen her ways.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">No more waiting for <br>something to appear,</p><p style="text-align: center;">her soul speaks now&#8230;<br>gentle, wise, and clear.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">It gives her the wisdom, <br>the path, and the key,</p><p style="text-align: center;">To release what is heavy <br>and finally be free.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">No longer repeating what <br>once held her tight,</p><p style="text-align: center;">She becomes Heaven on Earth &#8212; <br>a beautiful sight.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Unique as a snowflake, <br>wild as the sea,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Her life starts to <br>rhyme with pure destiny.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10209;</p><p style="text-align: center;">This is her remembrance.<br>This is her call.</p><p style="text-align: center;">This is how she shines <br><em>through it all.</em></p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">I know what it is to look at <br>your life and wonder why&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Why certain patterns keep <br>returning no matter how hard you <br>work to release them. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Why you can feel, <br>somewhere deep in your bones, <br>that you were made for something more&#8230; </p><p style="text-align: center;">yet the path remains just out of reach.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I wanted to create something for <br>the woman who knows that feeling. </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">Who has tried<em> all the things,</em> <br>over and over&#8230; and over again&#8230; </p><p style="text-align: center;">and still finds herself in a body and a life <br>that doesn't quite feel like home.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You can learn more about that here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://hersoulspeaks.carrd.co/&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Her Soul Speaks&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://hersoulspeaks.carrd.co/"><span>Her Soul Speaks</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">With love and wildflowers,</p><p style="text-align: center;">jess &#127803;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are the Love of This World]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Mother's Day Blessing]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/you-are-the-love-of-this-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/you-are-the-love-of-this-world</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:33:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Jhp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91fcef4a-1052-4f87-a501-8da2dcd5f888_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">For every woman,</p><p style="text-align: center;">Whether you are holding a child in your arms <br>or holding one in your heart.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Whether your mother is beside you <br>or lives in the beauty of remembrance.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Each of us holds the <br>love of a mother inside us.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Jhp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91fcef4a-1052-4f87-a501-8da2dcd5f888_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Jhp!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91fcef4a-1052-4f87-a501-8da2dcd5f888_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;">&#10038;</p><p style="text-align: center;">She is the voice of faith when <br>you are spiraling in doubt. </p><p style="text-align: center;">The strength that finds you when <br>you&#8217;re down for the count. </p><p style="text-align: center;">She is the warmth in your <br>heart when life feels alone. </p><p style="text-align: center;">The holy wisdom that resides<br>in every single bone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9789;</p><p style="text-align: center;">She is the peace that overcomes <br>in the middle of a hard day. </p><p style="text-align: center;">The sparkle that whispers,<br><em>everything is going to be OK.</em> </p><p style="text-align: center;">She is the part of you that<br>has been through it all,</p><p style="text-align: center;">and still&#8230; somehow&#8230; <br>refuses to fall.</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10038;</p><p style="text-align: center;">She is the kindness to a stranger, <br>no matter the moment. </p><p style="text-align: center;">The way you carry yourself <br>forward when you fully own it. </p><p style="text-align: center;">She is the depth, the grace, <br>the glitter, the flow&#8230; </p><p style="text-align: center;">She who walks with <br>The Infinite Glow. </p><p style="text-align: center;">&#9789;</p><p style="text-align: center;">She is <em>you.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10038;</p><p style="text-align: center;">So today, on this day&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Let pink roses bloom <br>from the inside.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Let yourself be cradled.<br>Let yourself be cherished.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>You are the love of this world. </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">You are a beacon. <br>You are a blessing.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>And we are so grateful you are here.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">Happy Mother&#8217;s Day &#128330;&#65039;</p><p style="text-align: center;">love, </p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Kiss&#8217;d by Bliss </em>&#127801;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love Always Finds a Way]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the woman in the void &#8212; the one holding on, one breath at a time.]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/love-always-finds-a-way</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/love-always-finds-a-way</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 22:08:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uwq-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fd99d5f-a677-43a7-9580-51587d8e9f33_1536x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uwq-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fd99d5f-a677-43a7-9580-51587d8e9f33_1536x1024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">A Love Letter</p></div><p style="text-align: center;">&#10022;</p><p style="text-align: center;">I know where you are right now.<br>You are not lost.<br>But you are not yet found.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You are standing in the in-between &#8212;<br>the place where the old life no longer fits<br><em>and the new one hasn&#8217;t arrived yet.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">Some days you wake up and you are fine.<br>And some days the weight of not knowing<br>sits on your chest before you even open your eyes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Some days all you can do is say a prayer,<br>take one breath,<br><em>and make it to noon.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">And the hardest part &#8212;<br>the part nobody talks about &#8212;<br>is being asked to stand up for something<br>you cannot yet prove.</p><p style="text-align: center;">To ask for what you need<br>without collapsing into it.<br>To let your guard down<br><em>without losing yourself in the falling.</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>That is not weakness.<br>That is the bravest thing a woman can do.</em></p></div><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe you have been carrying old wounds<br>that taught you love came with conditions.<br>That needing something made you a burden.<br>That asking for help was the same as being small.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So you learned to do it alone.<br>You learned to be fine.<br><em>You got very, very good at it.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">But something in you got tired of fine.<br>Something deeper started to move.<br>And life &#8212; love &#8212; began to rearrange things.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not always gently.<br>Not on your timeline.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>And absolutely not in the way you planned.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">The void you have been swimming in &#8212;<br>hear me &#8212;<br><em>it is not punishment.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">It is preparation.<br>The darkness only deepens<br>because the light on the other side<br><em>is more intense than you have ever known.</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>You are not falling apart.<br>You are being reassembled<br>by something that loves you too much<br>to leave you where you were.</em></p></div><p style="text-align: center;">And when you finally let someone in &#8212;<br>when you stop performing strength<br>and just tell the truth &#8212;<br>and they met you there.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They see you.<br><em>And they do not leave.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">Remember how that feels.<br><em>That is what love actually is.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">You are allowed to make love the priority.<br>Not love as a reward for when you have it together.<br>Love right now.<br>In the mess of it.<br><em>In the not-yet of it.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#10022;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Trust that when you move toward love &#8212;<br>even when it is terrifying,<br>even when you cannot see the road &#8212;<br>love is moving toward you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It has always been moving toward you.<br><em>It never stopped.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">What is waiting for you on the other side of this<br>is more beautiful than anything<br><em>you have had the courage to want yet.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">So breathe.<br><em>Keep going.<br></em>Love always wins.</p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">Kiss&#8217;d by Bliss</p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">A sacred space for the awakening woman &#10038; Love letters for every part of her journey &#9825;</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" 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style="text-align: center;">April 18, 2026 &#183; Planet Parade</p></div><p>Before the sun rises tomorrow, something extraordinary is happening in the early sky. </p><p>Four planets <em>(Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune)</em> are gathering just above the eastern horizon, forming what astronomers call a planet parade. </p><p>It is said that this period coincides with a significant &#8220;once-in-a-century&#8221; cosmic reset.</p><p>Like a divine wake-up call, where old ways of thinking, habits, and patterns start to fall away&#8230; </p><p>making space for <strong>fresh beginnings, growth, and transformation</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Mhe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ac05bdc-d5bf-4328-a263-d9816e796e5a_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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breathtaking.</p><p>Four planets, standing together at the threshold of night and day. Not fully in the light&#8230; not hidden in the dark&#8230; right there at the horizon. </p><p>Which is exactly where many of us find ourselves.</p><p>&#183; &#183; &#10022; &#183; &#183;</p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">READ THE SKY. READ YOURSELF.<br><em>The alignment happening inside you</em></p></div><p>&#9791; <strong>Mercury &#8212; the planet of voice</strong></p><p>The messenger, the mind, the word&#8230; she governs how we speak, how we think, how we finally say the thing we&#8217;ve been holding in our heart for years.</p><p>As she gathers with the others, she whispers: <em>It is time to speak your truth. The world is ready to receive it.</em></p><p>&#10209;</p><p>&#9794; <strong>Mars &#8212; the fire</strong></p><p>The forward motion. The courageous yes to the life that terrifies you a little because it matters so much. </p><p>Mars in this alignment is the part of you that already knows what you want and is done apologizing for it&#8230; <em>get it girl!</em></p><p>&#10209;</p><p>&#9796; <strong>Saturn &#8212; the great teacher</strong></p><p>The planet of time, of harvest, of what was built through years of commitment, when you thought no one was watching. </p><p>Saturn reminds you that nothing you&#8217;ve endured was wasted. Every lesson, every winter, every bit of work you put in&#8230; created the foundation for what&#8217;s on the way.</p><p>&#10209;</p><p><strong>&#9798; Neptune &#8212; the dream</strong></p><p>Elusive, requiring binoculars or a telescope to spot&#8230; she is the invisible knowing. </p><p>The faith beneath the faith. She doesn&#8217;t make herself easy to see. Neither does the deepest truth of who you are. But she is in there&#8230; she always has been.</p><p>&#183; &#183; &#10022; &#183; &#183;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Gw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3cb60ef-e502-42b9-8ef7-e77cf507f0ca_1024x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Gw!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_424, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3cb60ef-e502-42b9-8ef7-e77cf507f0ca_1024x1536.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Gw!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_848, 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We are made of the same sparkle as everything that exists above us. </p><p>The stars in our sky are the same stars inside our cells. </p><p>The alignment happening <em>out there</em>? </p><p>It is also happening<em> in here.</em></p><p>&#183; &#183; &#10022; &#183; &#183;</p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">A TRIBUTE &amp; CONTINUATION<br><em>She Is Still Here</em></p></div><p><strong>April 18th is also a birthday.</strong></p><p>A day that belongs to a woman who carried light so naturally&#8230; a divinely beautiful spirit now dancing above the clouds.</p><p>She wrote poetry, not knowing her daughter would one day read those lines and feel seen in a way she has no language for.</p><p>As I walk through this life, I am learning to bloom in her honor&#8230; forever in me, she continues. </p><p><em>As above, so below.</em></p><p>So tonight, before the first light of her birthday, I share her words. </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;">A Poem &#8212; Written by My Mom &#8212;  Joni </p><p style="text-align: center;">&#183; &#183; &#183; &#183;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;This is a silly little poem I wrote about a flower.&#8221;</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#183; &#183; &#183; &#183;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>I am a flower yellow and bright<br>My friends and I make a beautiful sight<br><br>I live beyond the cool green grass<br>Waiting and waiting for someone to pass<br><br>I&#8217;m under a mountain big and tall<br>Just watching little rocks tumble and fall<br><br>I&#8217;m shaded by this pretty green tree<br>It gets hot in the summertime can&#8217;t you see<br><br>I have good company I guess you might say,<br>two best friends they&#8217;re red and gray.<br><br>We love the sun&#8230;it&#8217;s so hot and bright,<br>but we still look forward to the evening night.<br><br>The freshness of that cool, cool breeze<br>makes flower life fun with ease.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#183; &#183; &#183; &#183;</p></div><p>My mom knew how to find beauty in the ordinary. </p><p>She knew that existing&#8230; just existing&#8230; yellow and bright&#8230; was enough of a gift. </p><p>That good company, a cool breeze, and the soft arrival of nighttime were among life&#8217;s truest pleasures&#8230; how to wait under a mountain without losing her color.</p><p>Mom, the planets are lining up on your birthday. </p><p>I think God does that on purpose for people like you&#8230;</p><p>for women whose light was too big to be contained in one lifetime.</p><p>&#183; &#183; &#10022; &#183; &#183;</p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">FOR EVERY WOMAN READING THIS<br><em>Trust the Fall</em></p></div><p>The feminine fields are blooming <strong>wild, radiant and free. </strong></p><p>An invitation to follow the call of your soul wherever it leads. To not be frightened of what might happen&#8230; or what might not. </p><p><strong>The universe will catch you. </strong></p><p>And even if you don&#8217;t land in the exact place you set out for&#8230; you will find yourself somewhere better. </p><p>Because God&#8217;s plans for you are not just good. <strong>They are extraordinary. </strong></p><p>The cosmos are reminding you that your voice is meant to be heard&#8230; that your fire is not too wild&#8230; that everything you have endured has prepared you to hold what is now arriving.</p><p>Because sister&#8230;</p><p>it was written in you from the beginning.</p><p>&#183; &#183; &#10022; &#183; &#183;</p><p>With love and starlight,</p><p>jess </p><div><hr></div><p>&#9825;</p><p>P.S. <br>we are under a new moon tonight&#8230;<br>kiss a wish, blow it to the universe&#8230;</p><p><em>believe it, to see it.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" 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you]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/her-power-rises</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/her-power-rises</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:23:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dSMw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117f11f8-8f69-465f-9b1c-8fdccb70be64_1536x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p><em>You were never without it. <br>Not for a single breath.</em></p></div><p><strong>Life is guided by an infinite power.</strong></p><p>The same power that turns a caterpillar into wings&#8230; paints the spots on a leopard&#8230; blooms wildflowers in open fields&#8230; colors the sky, suspends the moon, and lifts the sun each morning before gently laying it to rest at night.</p><p>It is an intelligence beyond understanding&#8230;<br>yet simple enough to feel, because it lives in everything.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dSMw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117f11f8-8f69-465f-9b1c-8fdccb70be64_1536x1024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dSMw!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_424, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117f11f8-8f69-465f-9b1c-8fdccb70be64_1536x1024.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dSMw!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_848, 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There are no steps. No ritual to complete, no words to speak aloud&#8230; no threshold you must cross before you are allowed to receive it. </p><p>You already have it. You have always had it. It is not waiting for you to become worthy&#8230;<strong> it is the very current that makes you alive.</strong></p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>THE VEIL</strong></p><p>We come into the world with a veil. That is part of the design&#8230; not a flaw, not a punishment. </p><p>The forgetting is intentional. </p><p><em>For how can we know the fullness of love if  we have never known what love is not?<strong> </strong></em></p><p><em>How can we truly recognize the light if we have never walked through the dark?</em></p><p>The human journey is to forget this intelligence so we can have the joy&#8230; the deep, embodied, undeniable joy&#8230; of remembering it again.</p><p>And the world has taught us, in a thousand quiet ways, to go against its grain. To override the feeling. To distrust the spark. To seek permission, validation, direction from everything outside of ourselves. </p><p>We were trained away from our own compass&#8230; and for a long time we listened.</p><p><strong>But not any longer.</strong></p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><div class="pullquote"><p>When everything in your life feels heavy&#8230;<br>like nothing could possibly pull you out&#8230;<br>the Divine Intelligence can.</p><p>That is what it does.</p></div><p><strong>THE RETURN</strong></p><p>We are coming back into our Intuitive Power. Into our sacred fire. The path is not complicated&#8230; it only feels that way because we learned to look everywhere but within.</p><p><strong>The path is surrender.</strong></p><p>Not the white-flag kind. Not defeat. Surrender as in: releasing the grip. Quieting the mind long enough to feel what is already moving inside of you. Trusting the pull even when you cannot see where it leads.</p><p>Following the flicker of what ignites you&#8230; even when it takes you somewhere the world has no map for.</p><p>When we empty ourselves&#8230; our schedules, our stories, our bodies&#8230; of everything that doesn&#8217;t serve our highest unfolding, the intelligence flows naturally. It aligns us to our true self. Our true nature. Our true north. </p><p><strong>The radiant woman that shines and receives without effort&#8230; </strong></p><p><em>because she is already connected to the source of it all.</em></p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>YOUR SACRED COMPANION</strong></p><p>Think of it this way&#8230; you carry a sacred companion inside of you at all times. One who knows you completely&#8230; where you have been, what you have survived, what you are moving toward, and exactly how to get there. </p><p>A companion who laughs with you, grieves with you, loves you with a love that is not conditional on a single thing you do or do not do. </p><p>It waters the soul with whatever it needs. <em>Lover. Friend. Stillness. Fire.</em> Always meeting you exactly where you are.</p><p><strong>You are never, ever alone in this.</strong></p><p>And this is not only for the spiritually gifted. Not only for the mystics or the healers or the women who have done years of inner work. This intelligence belongs to all of us. It always has. </p><p>The inner seeing. The sensing. The deeper truth that arrives before logic. The feeling that stops you at a crossroads and says: not that way. <em>This way.</em></p><p><strong>That is your intuition. </strong></p><p>That is the Divine in motion through you.</p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>HOW IT SPEAKS</strong></p><p>It speaks through <em>all </em>of you.</p><p>Every emotion you have been told to suppress. Every instinct you have been taught to question. Every quiet nudge, every dream that lingered past waking, every moment your heart said yes or no before your mind had a chance to form an opinion. </p><p>That<em> </em>is the intelligence&#8230; speaking your language&#8230; in the voice of your soul, your body, your particular and irreplaceable life.</p><p><strong>Every part of you is sacred. </strong></p><p>Not the polished parts. Not the parts you have worked on and fixed and made presentable. <em>All of it. </em>Every feeling, every knowing, every ache that you haven&#8217;t found words for yet. </p><p><em>That is your power.</em></p><p>We only have to trust where it is guiding us&#8230; even when&#8230; especially when&#8230; it leads us beyond the version of ourselves we&#8217;ve been holding onto.</p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Heaven is creating miracles through you. <br>You are only asked to allow it.</em></p></div><p><strong>NOTHING IS TOO HEAVY</strong></p><p>Wherever you find yourself today&#8230; whether you are in the middle of something that feels impossible, or you are standing in the light of something beautiful, or you are somewhere in between, not quite sure where you are&#8230; know this:</p><p><strong>Nothing in you is too heavy for this intelligence.</strong></p><p>Not the sorrow. Not the confusion. Not the years it took to get here, or the choices you wish you had made differently. Not the part of you that lost her way. Not even the part of you that still doesn&#8217;t fully believe this.</p><p>The intelligence knows you in every shape you&#8217;ve taken. It has never felt you were too much. It has never left. It was there in the dark years, moving quietly, keeping something lit in you that knew the way, even when you did not.</p><p>It is what brought you here.</p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>There is nothing you have to claim. <br>There is nothing you have to earn. </em></p><p><em>It is Holy Love that is <br>flowing inside you right now.</em></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>You hold the power. You </strong><em><strong>are</strong></em><strong> the power.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">The same sacred force that transforms the caterpillar into God&#8217;s glory is at work inside you as we speak&#8230; painting your wings.</p><p style="text-align: center;">What moves through every living thing on this earth&#8230; and beyond this earth, through this entire universe&#8230; <strong>moves through you.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>You were always it.<br>And it was always you.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">And so&#8230;<strong> we are.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>With love &amp; wildfire,</p><p>jess &#127801;&#128293;</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>a little vibe lift&#8230; </em>&#128131;&#127996;&#10024;</p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273603f62557cff063e044d62c7&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Sun-Eater&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Vibe Tribe 101, Good Vibes Tribe 11:11&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/23xdj9b1pm9eQ3c1lsh9Qj&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/23xdj9b1pm9eQ3c1lsh9Qj" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" loading="lazy" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe to receive glow notes straight to your inbox &#128140; </p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The True New Year Has Arrived]]></title><description><![CDATA[And you were made for this moment]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/the-true-new-year-has-arrived</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/the-true-new-year-has-arrived</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:04:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PVlF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0592586e-a4d1-48e1-a60e-aed69c75a502_1536x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For most of human history, the new year didn&#8217;t begin in the middle of winter. It began in spring. When the earth came back to life, when green returned to bare branches&#8230; when everything started moving again.</p><p>Cultures across the ancient world understood what we are only now reclaiming - that new life cannot be forced in frozen ground.</p><p>That true beginnings arrive on nature&#8217;s timing&#8230; not a decree.</p><p>And nature is declaring it right now. <br>The light is back. <br>The earth is open. </p><p><em>And so are you.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>The Shedding Is Over</strong></p><p><em>You made it through the snake year. Do you know what that means?</em></p><p>The Chinese Year of the Snake, which carried us through 2025 and into this threshold&#8230; is not a gentle season. </p><p>The snake does not do things halfway. She coils. She waits. She sheds her skin not once, but completely&#8230; leaving behind every layer that no longer serves her.</p><p>That was last year. The grief you moved through. The relationships you released. The version of yourself you quietly buried so a truer one could breathe. </p><p>Every moment of doubt, every night of uncertainty, every identity you had to let go of&#8230; that was the sacred shedding.</p><p>A stripping away of what was false, so that what is real can rise.</p><blockquote><p><em>You did not lose yourself in the shedding.<br>You found yourself beneath it.</em></p></blockquote><p>And now&#8230;. </p><p>April 1, 2026, we step fully into Fire Horse season.</p><p>The Horse does not ask if the path is ready. She creates the path with her hooves.</p><p>She is deeply attuned to her own nature&#8230; moving not from force, but from a truth within her that cannot be contained.</p><p>She is wild, sovereign, electric&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;and she is calling something alive in you that has been waiting a very long time to run.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>This Is Your New Era</strong></p><p><em>This is not a small moment. This is a turning of ages &#8212; and you are standing right at the threshold.</em></p><p>We are stepping into a new era, a new way of living, a new time of life. </p><p>The old structures&#8230; the ones built on control, on performance, on the exhausting hustle of trying to make things happen&#8230; are crumbling&#8230; and in their place, something timeless and luminous is being born. </p><p><strong>You are part of that rising.</strong></p><p>This year asks you to follow your own Divine Spark.</p><p>Not another person&#8217;s truth, another teacher&#8217;s map, another algorithm&#8217;s version of who you should be&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;but to become intimate with your soul&#8230; and remember that everything you&#8217;ve been searching for already lives within you.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>The voice inside you is not random.<br>It is where God speaks.</p></div><p><strong>You Are a Fractal of the Infinite</strong></p><p><em>There has never been anyone exactly like you. There never will be.</em></p><p>You are a fractal of Source. A unique expression of the eternal, carrying a specific light that only you can bring into this world. </p><p>Just as no two snowflakes are the same, no two Sparks are the same. 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Let it <strong>expand</strong> you. Let it make you curious about who you truly are beneath the conditioning, the roles, the ways you were taught to make yourself small so others would feel comfortable. </p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;You are the light of the world &#8212;<br>like a city on a mountain, <br>glowing in the night for all to see.&#8221;</p><p>&#8212;Matthew 5:14 (NLT)</p></div><p>This is <em>your season</em>. </p><p>A time to stand bold in your power.</p><p>To choose the woman you will be&#8230; in your life and in the lives of everyone you touch.</p><p>The more authentic you are to your soul,<br>the more abundant you will be&#8230; in your heart and in your life.</p><p>So live fiercely. Live wildly. Live radiantly. Be kind to yourself - ruthlessly, devotedly kind. Lift yourself up with the same energy you pour into others. Carry yourself forward with dignity and grace, with care and compassion. </p><p>Feel every part of who you are. Live without apology.</p><p><em>You are a radiant, divine being of the Light.<br>And the Light is shining on you now.<br><br>Will you receive it?</em></p><div><hr></div><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2731ff8cd90043d21f3ca8e96d7&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Step Into Your Power&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Lenzspot&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/4ourU9rjxhty021JL5hPPE&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4ourU9rjxhty021JL5hPPE" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" loading="lazy" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>happy new year, beautiful.</p><p>love,<br>jess </p><p>&#127801;&#128171;</p><p>P.S. There&#8217;s a pink full moon tonight &#128150; &#127773;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>Gather in the glow with us</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty the Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[On purification, holy waters, and what is happening when life feels like too much to drink]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/empty-the-cup</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/empty-the-cup</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:11:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lQXt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf2b4f03-dc55-4bcd-b2bf-386023326d63_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever noticed&#8230; that when you are moving through a difficult season, the Light always has a way of finding you?</p><p>Last Sunday, I walked into church, and the moment the pastor began speaking, I felt like a seat had been saved for exactly what I needed to hear.</p><p>He spoke about the Garden of Gethsemane<em>&#8212;</em>the night before Jesus went to the cross, when he fell to his knees and asked his Father if there was any other way. </p><p><em>Do I really have to drink from this cup?</em></p><p>His disciples fell asleep. He was left alone. And when he reached for God, he was met with silence. Yet that silence wasn&#8217;t abandonment. It was an answer. The cup was still before him&#8230; because it was the only way through.</p><p>For him, and for all of us.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>That cup represented everything &#8212; <br>every sin, every sorrow, every broken <br>and heavy thing this world has ever carried.</em></p><p><em>And every drop mattered.</em></p></div><p><strong>&#10022; The Pressing &#10022;</strong></p><p>The feminine path asks things of a woman most around her will never see.</p><p>She carries her storms quietly. She does her deepest work in the dark&#8230; in the silence&#8230; in the seasons that look ordinary from the outside and feel like everything from the inside. And so often she feels it&#8230; the loneliness of walking a road she cannot fully explain.</p><p><em>Maybe you have felt this too.</em></p><p>I used to wonder why I had to endure so much to become free. Now I see&#8230; these things were my <em>cup.</em> I had to drink from it, because there was no other way.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lQXt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf2b4f03-dc55-4bcd-b2bf-386023326d63_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lQXt!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_424, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf2b4f03-dc55-4bcd-b2bf-386023326d63_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lQXt!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_848, 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To carry his truth without distortion. To speak to his daughters from a place of real, lived experience rather than borrowed wisdom.</p><p>The cup was never meant to break me&#8230; it was meant to build me in His image.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#10022; The Purification &#10022;</strong></p><p>What we experience as hard times, as overwhelming emotion, as the rising of old pain&#8230; is not punishment. It is purification. It is the holy waters moving through the temple of your body, washing away what was never yours to carry, making space for what is ready to be poured in next.</p><p>We were never meant to go through our whole lives filling the cup and never letting it empty. When we do that, the body begins to feel it. Heavy. Tired. Aching in places we cannot name. </p><p>The stress that is meant to pass through us sinks beneath the surface, and we begin to mistake the weight of what we&#8217;re holding&#8230; for who we are.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>You are <em>not</em> what you are carrying. <br>You are the cup itself&#8230; </p><p>and you were made to <br>be filled with Light.</p></div><p><strong>&#10022; The Reaching &#10022;</strong></p><p>As the cup begins to clear, something shifts. </p><p>We stop reaching for what numbs and start reaching for what nourishes. We begin to choose with intention&#8230; not because we are forcing ourselves, but because we can finally feel the difference.</p><p>We reach for the living foods God grew from the earth&#8230; foods that carry life into our cells and make us radiant from the inside out. We reach for movement that honors our body's natural rhythms. For the song that opens something in our chest. For the prayer that doesn't need perfect words. For the friend who can hold the depths of us without flinching.</p><p>Because what fills the cup now is not what the old world told us to desire. It is what our soul has always known. The things that bring us closer to Love, closer to ourself, closer to the life that was always there&#8230; on the other side of the emptying.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>This is how we come alive. <br>This is how the temple begins to glow.</em></p></div><p><strong>&#10022; Even When You Cannot Hear Him &#10022;</strong></p><p>In the garden, Jesus heard silence. And he stayed anyway. He kept reaching, kept pressing, kept trusting&#8230; even when everything in him longed for another way.</p><p>And on the other side of that silence was resurrection.</p><p>Your silence is not the end of the story. It is the space between who you were and who you are becoming. God has not left you. He is in the cup&#8230; and he is drinking it with you.</p><p>Stay with yourself. Choose what keeps the waters clean. Have faith in what you cannot yet see.</p><p><em>Your cup is being made new.</em></p><p><em>And what is coming to fill it&#8230; is worth every drop of the emptying.</em></p><div><hr></div><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273fd4506a5ff0ef280f303cdfd&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Stand in Your Love&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Bethel Music, Josh Baldwin&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/2ndZLRXoc4nCKMdHcySSC4&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/2ndZLRXoc4nCKMdHcySSC4" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" loading="lazy" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>With love in your cup,</p><p><em>Your sister beside you </em>&#127801;</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>Gather in the Glow</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>She is sacred. She is held. She rises.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Waters Just Broke]]></title><description><![CDATA[On freedom, flow, and what happens when a woman finally stops squeezing herself into a box]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/your-waters-just-broke</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/your-waters-just-broke</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:44:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L5Ck!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadcb25b6-e1d0-43d3-bfd6-c12075176006_1808x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was lying on a massage table, somewhere between surrender and frustration, when I finally asked the question out loud. </p><p><em>Why am I so stuck?</em> </p><p>Why - after everything I&#8217;ve moved through, after all the healing, all the rising - was I still throwing my laptop across the room in the middle of the day?</p><p>I have been trying for weeks to write about the sacral chakra. To put into words what I was discovering about the womb space, the feminine center, the holy seat of everything a woman carries. </p><p>And instead of flowing, I was drowning in my own resistance.</p><p>That&#8217;s when something cracked open inside me.</p><div><hr></div><p>&#10022; What Lives in the Womb &#10022;</p><p>The womb of a woman holds more than I ever knew. Not just the possibility of new life - but <em>our whole life</em>. Our mistakes, our mishaps, our pain, our shame, our craving, our criticism, our passion, our pleasure, our joy, our desires.</p><p>It all lives here, in this holy center.</p><p>A space that exists beyond form, beyond the physical body, beyond what has been carried or let go. A divine frequency where new versions of us are born. New ideas. New worlds. New ways of being.</p><p>And yet so much of that life gets buried. Weighed down by the parts of us that have never been allowed to speak. Pushed so deep into the body, into the soul, that we forget they&#8217;re even there.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>The wound of the womb <br>is self-abandonment.<br><br>It is choosing <br>what drains us <br>over what fills us.</p></div><p>&#10022; The Lie We Are Sold &#10022;</p><p>We were told to be strong. To carry on. To keep going. And when the tidal waves come rushing in, we don&#8217;t always know what to do. So we reach for anything that might make us feel better, even when we know it won&#8217;t last an hour.</p><p>And when none of it works, we decide we are broken. We decide something must be wrong with us.</p><p>But here&#8217;s what I know now&#8230; <em>that is the lie.</em></p><p>We are not broken. We are whole. We are worthy, exactly as we are, without needing to fix or earn or prove a single thing.</p><div><hr></div><p>&#10022; The Dam I Built Around My Own River &#10022;</p><p>I realized, on that massage table, that I had been doing to myself exactly what I was trying to help other women heal from. I was writing about freedom while keeping myself in a prison.  </p><p>I had built a rigid structure for my writing. This topic first, then this one, nothing else until it&#8217;s done. And I was wondering why my words had stopped flowing.</p><p>I was putting a dam in my own holy waters.</p><p><strong>Creativity isn&#8217;t born through limits.</strong> <strong>It&#8217;s born through light.</strong> </p><p>And the moment I forced my writing into a box it didn&#8217;t want to live in, something inside me shut down. I became paralyzed. I couldn&#8217;t write at all.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>A woman does not want to feel squeezed <br>or heavy or weighed down. </em></p><p><em>She wants to feel light and <br>flowing and glowing.</em></p></div><p>&#10022; The Moment My Waters Broke &#10022;</p><p>Right there on the table, I felt something shift. Like a dam breaking inside me. I saw a picture in my mind of a woman, smiling, being swept away in her own beautiful divine river. Laughing. Free. 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And I heard my soul say four words&#8230; <em>Your waters just broke.</em></p><p>I understood immediately. I had been so focused on creating the perfect structure to help others that I had stopped honoring my own flow. And in doing that, I had abandoned myself - which is the very wound I&#8217;m here to help us heal.</p><div><hr></div><p>&#10022; This is How We Actually Heal &#10022;</p><p>We heal through feeling. Through getting curious about every emotion that rises instead of running from it. When something feels heavy, we can ask&#8230; </p><p><em>What is this? Is it grief? Anger? Loneliness? What am I afraid will happen if I let go?</em></p><p>At the bottom of every painful feeling - every craving, every reaching, every reaction - there is always a fear. And fear just wants to be seen. It wants you to stop trying to forget it, and finally turn toward it.</p><p>Your own life experiences show you where you can heal. Through your longings. Through what drains you. Through the moments you go against your own knowing.  Through everything that doesn&#8217;t feel good inside you.</p><p>Follow those threads. <br>Get curious. <br><em>Curiosity is the key to freedom.</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>When we heal our inner garden, <br>those around us bloom. </em></p><p><em>That is not a small thing. <br>That is everything.</em></p></div><p>&#10022; Together We Remember &#10022;</p><p>Choose yourself. Choose what empowers you, what excites you, what moves you higher. Choose the light over the limit, every chance you get. Not because it&#8217;s easy, but because you are worth it and the world needs what&#8217;s alive inside you.</p><p>Be honest about what you&#8217;re filling your life with. Love yourself in every moment, even the messy ones. Especially the messy ones.</p><p>Stop squeezing yourself into boxes that were never built for you. </p><p>Follow your heart like a fire horse in a field of wildflowers - not knowing exactly where you&#8217;re going, just knowing that <em>this</em> is the direction. </p><p>This is the feeling. This is true.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>When we heal our womb,<br>we heal the way we see.</p><p>And when the way we see is clear,<br>we begin to birth<br>a more beautiful world.</p></div><p><em>Our divine power is waking up.</em></p><p>We are starting to rise.</p><p>with love &amp; wild water</p><p>Jess &#129419;</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Join our Glow</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div 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To her family, to her finances, to her friendships, to her future. And she does so beautifully - with love, with grace, with an open heart that never seems to run out. Yet in the quiet, still small hours, there is a whisper she has carried for longer than she can remember.</p><p><em>Who holds the one who holds everything?</em></p><p>Love brought her here to answer that question. To the root. The ruby-red foundation of her rainbow road. The first step. The first color. The deepest place in her body, where safety isn&#8217;t something she has to earn or find or hold together with both hands and all ten toes.</p><p>It is something she was born standing on.</p><p>&#10022;  &#10022;  &#10022;</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>The Leaf That Chose Her</strong></p><p>When a mother butterfly chooses where to place her egg, she does not do so carelessly. She searches. She discerns. She chooses her leaf with exquisite precision - the exact right position, the exact right moment, the exact right plant that will nourish the life about to unfold.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W1Bc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab313b6e-07db-4ab9-a9fa-7c005b5bb309_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W1Bc!, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/w_424, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/kissdbybliss.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab313b6e-07db-4ab9-a9fa-7c005b5bb309_1536x1024.png 424w, 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small and radiant beginning.</p><p>The egg did not find its leaf by chance. She was chosen to be there, placed by a Love that knew exactly what she would need before she knew it herself.</p><p>Beautiful sister, every season you have survived, every ground that has shook, every time you have wondered how you are still standing <em>-</em> you were on the leaf. You were never clinging by chance. You were held by an unbreakable bond.</p><p>&#10022;  &#10022;  &#10022;</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Divine Whisper</strong></p><p><em>You are not too much for <br>the ground beneath you.<br>You are not too heavy <br>for the arms that made you.</em></p><p><em>Every earthquake you have lived through<br>was never Love abandoning you&#8212;<br>It was the foundation shifting to hold<br>the woman you were becoming.</em></p><p><em>I am the soil that receives you.</em><br><em>I am the quiet intelligence that sustains you.</em></p><p><em>I am the steady home <br>you have been searching for <br>in every person, every place, <br>every road you have walked.</em></p><p><em>I do not move.</em></p><p><em>And when you feel the ground<br>beneath your beautiful feet &#8212;</em></p><p><em>that is Me.</em></p><p><em>That has always been Me.</em></p><p>&#10022;  &#10022;  &#10022;</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>She Was Never Unrooted </strong></p><p>What she called instability - the seasons when everything shifted and nothing felt certain anymore <em>- </em>was not Love leaving her in the chaos. 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Every ending, the careful hand of the Gardener loosening the ground so her roots could reach deeper than fear, deeper than approval, deeper than the fragile places she once called home.</p><p>And while no one else could see it, sacred work was unfolding. In quiet rooms and late-night prayers, she was tending the soil of her own life - choosing truth over noise, devotion over distraction, softness over survival.</p><p>She thought she was simply enduring. But roots were forming. Each unseen act of courage, every step taken in faith, was her life reaching past the wobbly ground of the world and into the deeper ground of Love.</p><p>She was never unrooted.</p><p>She was being planted in the only ground that will never, ever give way.</p><p>&#10022;  &#10022;  &#10022;</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Glow in Stillness</strong></p><p>Here we journey into the four quadrants of the soul &#8212;  <em>mind, heart, spirit, body</em> &#8212; creating a sense of steadiness within your own life.</p><p>&#127807; <strong>G | Growth (mind) <br></strong><em>If you were laying the foundation for the life you truly want to live, what five values would you choose as the ground beneath it? (ex. connection, health, faith, nature, love)</em></p><p>&#127807; <strong>L | Liberation (heart)</strong><br><em>Can you picture a younger version of yourself who longed to feel safe or supported? What would it be like to sit beside her today and remind her she is held?</em></p><p>&#127807; <strong>O | Oneness (spirit)</strong><br><em>If it feels loving, sit quietly for a moment with your feet or body connected to the ground.</em></p><ul><li><p><em>Close your eyes.  Breathe slowly. </em></p></li><li><p><em>Feel the Love beneath you. <br>Feel the Light within you.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Notice what changes when you remember that both are holding you.</em></p></li></ul><p>&#127807; <strong>W | Wellbeing (body)</strong><br><em>How are you watering the garden of your life right now? Does your environment feel fertile for the growth you desire?</em></p><p>~ ~ ~</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Where Radiance Meets Real Life </strong></p><p>The <em>root center</em> speaks the language of earth. Of roots that push down through darkness not because darkness is the destination, but because depth is where the water is. 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Into the trees. Into the grass beneath bare feet. Into the smell of rain and the sound of wind moving through something green and living. Nature is not separate from the Divine. Nature is the voice of the Divine, speaking in a frequency our body already knows.</p><p>This week, let life be simple. A slow walk beneath the open sky. A meal that came from the soil, warm and nourishing in your belly. Let the wild, tender, mothering presence of nature show you your own true nature.</p><p>You belong to this earth. And this earth rests safely in the hands of Love.</p><p>&#10022;  &#10022;  &#10022;</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>KISS OF BLISS </strong></p><p>There is a ground that holds my feet,<br>A steady pulse, a quiet beat.<br>Not made of stone, nor built by hand,<br>But living Love beneath the land.</p><p>Through every storm and shifting place,<br>Through every loss I had to face,<br>When life would tremble, bend, and move,<br>It was Love teaching me to root.</p><p>Now I can feel what once was missed &#8212;<br>The steady ground beneath my hips.<br>A quiet strength, both deep and true,<br>The living Light that carries through.</p><p>So here I stand, no need to prove,<br>No fragile ground left to remove.<br>The earth, my life, the sky above &#8212;<br>Are resting in the hands of Love.</p><p>And as I breathe, my heart can see:<br>The ground of God lives here in me.</p><p><em><strong>And so it is. Amen. </strong></em></p><p>&#10022;  &#10022;  &#10022;</p><p>SONG OF THE WEEK:</p><p>This week&#8217;s song is a reminder that we are never alone.  That no matter what we are going through, Love will always find a way.</p><p>&#127757;&#127801;</p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2731ae6807ea26ed12dcf78365d&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;All the Love in the World&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;MC YOGI&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/1xZ3ZBazqI5T8pkPDZq2t2&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1xZ3ZBazqI5T8pkPDZq2t2" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" loading="lazy" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p><em><strong>She is held. She is home. She Rises.</strong></em></p><p><em>She Rises Free  &#8212;  A Devotional Series for the Rising Woman  &#8226;  Devotional Two: Root</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>Gather in the glow with us</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Glow in Her]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before the wings she was the 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p>Before the word was spoken, before the first dawn broke open across the water, before anything was named or known - there was Light.</p><p>And that Light did not stay in the heavens.</p><p>It leaned in close. It breathed. It became.</p><p>It became <em>her.</em></p><p>~ ~ ~</p><p><strong>In the quiet miracle of a butterfly&#8217;s becoming, </strong></p><p>there is a beginning so small, so still, so seemingly ordinary that most would walk right past it. Nestled on the underside of a leaf - sheltered, hidden, held - lies an egg. Tiny. Perfect. Absolutely full of everything she will ever need.</p><p>She doesn&#8217;t know yet&#8230; she doesn&#8217;t know about the wings, the color, the wild and radiant freedom waiting on the other side of her transformation. She simply rests in what she is - which is already, entirely, enough.</p><p>Beautiful sister, this is where we<em> </em>begin - with what has always lived inside you. Your Divine Spark. Your eternal flame. The same Light that shaped your first breath is the same Light who will breathe life into every step that follows.</p><div><hr></div><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>The Voice in Her Glow</strong></p><p><em>I knew you before time opened its eyes.</em></p><p><em>Before the sky learned how to shine,<br>your name was already held in My heart<br>as something precious and sure.</em></p><p><em>The same fire that lit the sun<br>lives in the center of your chest.</em></p><p><em>The same love that hung the moon<br>is the love that holds you now.</em></p><p><em>You have called yourself many things ~<br>broken, forgotten, too much, not enough.</em></p><p><em>But I have only ever called you<br>mine.</em></p><p><em>Even now, in the quiet dark,<br>the Light in you is not sleeping.</em></p><p><em>It is rising.</em></p><p><em>It is becoming you.</em></p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>She Was Never Separate</strong></p><p>We live in a world that whispers to a woman that her light is borrowed. That it must be earned through enough suffering, enough striving, enough getting it right. That she must first be fixed before she can be loved. That she must prove herself worthy of what was already given to her.</p><p>This is the oldest lie.</p><p>The Divine Feminine - that wild, ancient, knowing part of God that moves like water, speaks like grace, and holds steady like the earth herself - has always known the truth: <strong>She does not earn her Glow. She </strong><em><strong>is</strong></em><strong> the Glow.</strong> </p><p>She does not reach for love far away. She turns inward, to the Spark that never went out, the fire that never stopped burning, and she remembers. </p><p>The same Breath that connects all creation to its Source is the Breath that fills her lungs this very moment.  The same Spirit that painted the sky, parted the seas, and gave birth to all beginnings - that Spirit lives in her. She is not separate from the beauty she marvels at.  She is made of the same delight.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>&#8220;For the Spirit of God has made me, <br>and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.&#8221;<br></em><strong>Job 33:4 ~ (NLT)</strong></p></div><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>There is a journey ahead.</strong></p><p>A sacred, beautiful, untamed path that will move through the full spectrum of who you are - from the deep red earth of your roots to the shimmering violet crown of your spirit. A rainbow road of love. A metamorphosis of the soul.</p><p>The living, breathing<em> Butterfly of God.</em></p><p>It does not ask you to become anything more.  It asks you to remember - in your marrow and your midnight - that you are not walking alone. That the sparkle you&#8217;ve been searching for has been glowing in your depths all along.</p><p><strong>You are made of Divine Light, and nothing</strong> <strong>can take that away.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>Reflection in Stillness</strong></p><p>If it feels good to you, gently sit with these questions:</p><p><strong>&#10024;</strong><em> Was there ever a time you learned to shrink what was bright in you? Who told you that? And is that voice the voice of Truth?</em></p><p><strong>&#10024;</strong><em> If the One who shaped every rose and rainbow shaped your heart &#8212; what does that say about your worth?</em></p><p><strong>&#10024;</strong><em> Where do you feel a small warmth inside? If it feels comforting, you might let your hand rest there for a breath.</em></p><p><strong>&#10024;</strong><em> What might feel different this week if you moved as though Divine Light were holding you safe from within?</em></p><div><hr></div><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>A Kiss of Bliss &#127801;</strong></p><p><em>There is a flame that lives in me,<br>Quiet, steady, wild and free.<br>Not sent from stars, not far above,<br>But breathing here as living love.</em></p><p><em>It watched me wander, watched me roam,<br>Watched me search for what was home.<br>Through every ache and every mark,<br>It stayed &#8212; my everlasting Spark.</em></p><p><em>No voice outside can hold my key,<br>No borrowed light can set me free.<br>The path unfolds when I begin<br>To trust the Holy Light within.</em></p><p><em>So here I stand, no need to run,<br>For what I seek is being spun.<br>The next right step, the courage, the start &#8212;<br>Are rising now from my own heart.</em></p><p><em>Amen. And so it is.</em></p><p>&#10022; &#10022; &#10022;</p><p><strong>Song of the Week:</strong></p><p>Take a breath, press play, and let Love meet you exactly where you are.</p><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273c213d7490e4f1d05b367da16&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Held by Love&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;mister eternity&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/52CJj8AWCQ8kxRN3D7fFhy&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/52CJj8AWCQ8kxRN3D7fFhy" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" loading="lazy" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>~ ~ ~</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>Gather in the glow with us </em>&#9825;</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p><em>She Rises Free &#8212; A Devotional Series for the Rising Woman &#8226; Prologue</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rainbow Road]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where heart & heaven's light meet.]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/the-rainbow-road</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/the-rainbow-road</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:38:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X2xq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1abb76e6-2a8a-415b-b723-1d71e884021d_1536x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A woman&#8217;s life is not random.</p><p>And neither are her desires.</p><p>There was a time in my life when I thought mine were.</p><p>I used to believe the dreams in my heart were unrealistic.</p><p>Too bright.</p><p>Too different.</p><p>Too untethered from what the world called &#8220;logical.&#8221;</p><p>I tried to tone myself down.</p><p>To push away the wanting.</p><p>To follow the script that promised safety if I just played by the rules.</p><p>But the more I ignored what stirred inside me, the further I drifted from who I really was.</p><p>What I didn&#8217;t understand then, is that desire is not distraction.</p><p>It is direction.</p><p>And if you&#8217;ve ever felt that quiet <em>(or not so quiet) </em>ache for more&#8230;. </p><p>More love.<br>More happiness.<br>More aliveness.</p><p>You&#8217;re not alone.</p><p>You are remembering.</p><p>Because you were designed for the very life you crave.</p><div><hr></div><p>There is a road inside a woman.</p><p>Not paved by the world.</p><p>Not measured by clocks or comparison.</p><p>A current of love running through her body.</p><p>Seven living flames that shape the way she lives, loves, and longs.</p><p>&#10084;&#65039; A flame that steadies her.<br>&#129505; A flame that awakens her.<br>&#128155; A flame that moves her.<br>&#128154; A flame that opens her.<br>&#128153; A flame that speaks through her.<br>&#128156; A flame that sees beyond the surface.<br>&#129293; A flame that remembers she has never been separate.</p><p>She may not know their names.</p><p>But she knows their pull.</p><p>The way her body softens at the feeling of safety.</p><p>The way her hips sway toward what feels alive.</p><p>The way her belly flips when something calls her forward.</p><p>The way her heart aches for a love that goes deeper.</p><p>The way her throat burns to say what&#8217;s real.</p><p>The way her mind reaches for a life that feels clear and true.</p><p>The way something in her keeps whispering&#8230;</p><p><em>more.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Her longing is not weakness.<br>It is memory.</p><p>Joy is how it whispers.<br>Excitement is how it nudges.<br>Curiosity is how it opens the gate.</p><p>And when something ignites her from within &#8212;<br>when her spine lengthens,<br>when her breath deepens,<br>when a quiet yes blooms in her chest &#8212;</p><p>that is not delusion.</p><p>That is design.</p><div><hr></div><p>This is the Rainbow 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through.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>This is not about repairing a broken woman.</strong></p><p>It is about remembering a divine one.</p><p>She was never meant to survive her life.</p><p>She was meant to live it <em>fully alive.</em></p><p>The One who made her did not plant desire within her as a test.</p><p>It was planted as a promise.</p><blockquote><p>Her specific bliss.<br>Her specific calling.<br>Her specific heaven on earth.</p></blockquote><p>No other woman carries her exact constellation.</p><p>No other woman can walk her exact road.</p><p>And when she turns toward what lights her up &#8212;<br>not recklessly,<br>but reverently &#8212;</p><p>she is responding to the Divine moving through her nervous system, her breath, her heart, her soul.</p><div><hr></div><p>This is the meeting place.</p><p>Not in the sky.</p><p>In her.</p><p>In the pull toward something better.</p><p>In the sparkle she cannot explain.</p><p>In the way her shoulders fall when she stops pretending she does not want more.</p><div><hr></div><p>The Rainbow does not live above her.</p><p>It lives within her.</p><p>And the more she trusts what makes her feel wildly alive&#8230;</p><p>the more she lets herself want without apology&#8230;</p><p>the more the colors begin to glow beneath her feet.</p><p>Power with petals.<br>Radiance with roots.</p><blockquote><p>A human heart lit by holy flame.</p></blockquote><p>She is not here to manage her life.</p><p>She is here to design it.</p><p>&#127752;&#10024;&#127800;</p><div class="pullquote"><p>Dear holy flame,<br>which desire is trying to lead me<br>that I&#8217;ve been quietly dismissing?</p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe to walk the Road with us &#129419;</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This is the first love letter in a living series.</p><p>A journey from the first flicker of desire to the woman who trusts it.</p><p>From remembering the Spark to becoming fully lit.</p><p>Each love letter will walk you deeper into the seven flames within you &#8212;<br>steadying your roots, awakening your pleasure, igniting your power, opening your heart, freeing your voice, clarifying your vision, and returning you to union.</p><p>Welcome to the fire &#128293;&#127801;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Girl Before God]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the double life becomes one.]]></description><link>https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/the-girl-before-god</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/p/the-girl-before-god</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiss'd by Bliss™]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:33:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kTfH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58d4f9b1-a97b-49e0-821c-59422612129e_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before there was a woman of light, there was a girl who learned how to survive.</p><p>Not because she chose it, but because the world shaped her that way.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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learned to keep going instead of stopping to ask why, to move forward instead of listening for what felt true, to follow the path laid out before her, even when something in her knew it wasn&#8217;t hers.</p><p>She learned that acceptance was earned by being educated, successful, wealthy, and pretty. </p><p>That belonging was bought by abandoning the truest parts of who she was.</p><p>And like so many women walking this earth, she became fluent in a language no one applauds, yet everyone understands&#8230; the language of holding it all together while secretly falling apart.</p><p>Outside, she glowed.<br>Inside, she grieved.</p><p>Two lives lived in one body. </p><p>One for the world. <br>One for God alone.</p><blockquote><p>No one teaches you how heavy a double life feels, until the weight of it finally cracks your ribs open.</p></blockquote><p>For her, the cracking came slowly&#8230;</p><p>Through loss.<br>Through heartbreak.<br>Through the ache that follows you home even when you don&#8217;t know its name.</p><p>Through the quiet ritual of pouring another drink, because silence felt too sharp to sit with sober.</p><p>What she didn&#8217;t know then, in the middle of her darkest night, is that <strong>God does His finest work in the cracks.</strong> Not once she is polished, but precisely when she feels most undone.</p><p>It would take leaving everything she ever knew, and nights that pressed her face into the floor, before she would understand the truth that changes the whole trajectory of a life.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>Our greatest breaking is never the end.<br>It is always the beginning.</p></div><p>Because in the moment she thought she had lost everything, she finally stopped running from the one thing she had been avoiding the most&#8230;</p><p><em>Herself.</em></p><p>This is the moment a woman meets God.</p><p>Not in a cathedral.<br>Not in meditation.<br>Not in a perfect morning routine.</p><p>But in the stillness after the shattering, when she is too tired to pretend anymore.</p><p>It was here, in the raw depths of the dark, that a holy hand reached into her ruins and whispered what she had forgotten since the day she was born&#8230;</p><blockquote><p><em>You are mine.</em><br><em>And nothing you&#8217;ve lived disqualifies you from light.</em></p></blockquote><p>That whisper didn&#8217;t save her instantly. It awakened her gradually, the way dawn returns after a long night, one faint shimmer at a time.</p><p>She began to see that every heartbreak had been a doorway. <br>Every mistake had been a map. <br>Every loss had been a lifting of what could no longer go with her.</p><p>And the very thing she thought would break her forever became the place where God rebuilt her&#8212;diamond by diamond, truth by truth, breath by holy breath.</p><p>This is the metamorphosis she brings now.</p><p>Not as a woman who rose because she was strong, but as a woman who rose because God would not leave her in the ashes.</p><p>Maybe somewhere inside, there is a girl before God too.</p><p>The girl who smiles through struggle.<br>Who pours another glass to outrun the quiet.<br>Who carries grief in elegant disguises.<br>Who has spent years being everything to everyone, except to herself.</p><p>The life we long for is not waiting on perfection.<br>It is waiting on <em>our yes.</em></p><p>Our yes to look at what hurts without numbing it.<br>To trust that every stumble is not punishment, but preparation.<br>To believe we were created for more than a polished life with a hollow center.</p><p>To return to the One who has been guiding us through every twist of our story, even the parts we wish we could rewrite.</p><blockquote><p>This is what I learned at the feet of my own breaking.</p></blockquote><p>Enlightenment is not about leaving our human life behind.<br>It is the realization that our entire life has been leading us here<em>.</em></p><p>To this moment.<br>To this choice.<br>To this sacred threshold.</p><p>Where the woman we are meets the woman we were born to be.</p><p>And once we choose this path, once we choose to follow our soul more honestly, everything begins to change.</p><p>Not because life becomes easy, but because we stop walking it alone.</p><p>God steps in.<br>The Holy Fire rises.</p><p>And the parts of us that were never truly ours fall away like dust, revealing the woman we have always been.</p><p>A woman of light.<br>A woman of truth.<br>A woman being shaped for a destiny she is finally ready to hold.</p><p><strong>Every woman is a butterfly in the making.</strong></p><blockquote><p>The cocoon is not collapse. <br>It is the wilderness where <em>we are made whole.</em></p></blockquote><p>And the one thing in our life we are most ashamed of, the place we fear is too dark or too broken to ever heal, that is the very place our freedom begins.</p><p>Our metamorphosis does not start when life becomes seamless.<br>It starts the moment we let it unravel. </p><p>The moment we choose truth over hiding.<br>The moment we let God into the places we&#8217;ve kept ourselves out of.</p><p>This is where our journey begins.<br>This is where the Girl Before God becomes the Woman <em>with</em> God.</p><p>The woman who walks Heaven on Earth, <br>because Heaven lives inside her.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://kissdbybliss.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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