WHY I started this Blog…
Life is a beautiful journey, filled with ups downs and all arounds. Over the past 7 years, I’ve used every experience, challenge & opportunity to help me grow and RELEASE MY INNER LIONESS. I’ve worked extremely hard building a life that brings me joy and gratitude. After doing my inner work I found this was because of the extreme discomfort I was avoiding. My work has consumed me for many years because it keep my mind busy and avoidant of the issues I had no control over.
I’m a firm believer that everything happens for us not to us. Covid was the forced time out I needed to be still. Which is how this blog finally came to life. I have spent most of my life’s work helping others and until I took the time to dive deep into my own wounds was I able to come home to my true self. I now know and better understand why it took so long to create this blog, because I had to do my own Releasing of my inner LIONESS.
When I first started the Femme Royale Movement it was to empower women through strength training and applying their hard work through Women’s Competitions. This is where I coined the phrase “Releasing Your Inner Lioness”. I truly believe that when women come together to support one another amazing things can happen. Over the years, the FR mission has never wavered, but I have changed, my mindset has shifted, my vision as become much bigger, & I’ve outgrown my own self limiting beliefs. I’ve lean in to my discomfort and that is where I have found my true happiness.
Working with hundreds of women over the years, I found that it’s not that black & white when it comes to achieving one’s goals. I have spent 13 + years as a fitness trainer, but my true passion lies in life coaching. Women are complex creatures. We have big hearts & emotions and with determined minds we truly can accomplish anything we believe we can. I have found that today’s society has played a major role in women’s insecurities, leading us to believe that we aren’t enough, or that we must shrink to fit into a mold that wasn’t designed for us to fully grow confidently. My goal is to bring you TRUTH and quality content that no matter where you are on your journey it will help you release YOUR inner lioness. No fluff, no gimmicks, just the honest TRUTH.
Over the years I have found Releasing Your Inner Lioness is so much more than just the weight on the bar or the success in the gym. Moving our bodies isn’t the only component to living a life of fulfilment. It’s what we are FUELing our bodies with & the way we train our MINDsets. RYIL has grown into a lifestyle, a mission, and my soul’s calling to inspire other women to do the same. I created the Lioness Academy because I deeply desire to help other women. The Lioness Mindset has been a daily practice and has changed my life for the better. My choices and listening to my heart even when it didn’t make sense has brought me home to the beautiful island of St Thomas.
It hasn’t been all joy or the best days ever — quite the opposite really. These past years have been some of the most trying times of my life. Which is why I want to share my struggles, my darkness that has brought me HOME to myself and inner peace. I truly believe we can’t let our light shine until we get comfortable in the dark and overcome our fears.
The Lioness Mindset is about allowing who we are and who we are meant to be SHINE BRIGHT. Each one of us has our own journey and soul’s calling — it’s our birthright to find out what that is and LIVE it out loud. Learning to train our minds is just as important if not more important than training our bodies.
This is why I created the Lioness Academy, to educate & help women dive in deep and effectively and intentional practice the
three simple practices MOVE + FUEL + MIND.
I can’t wait for you to dive in and learn how you too can live out your soul’s calling.
Together we can achieve and live out your own hearts desires.
Here in this blog I will share are my life’s lessons, missions, and passions to helping women just like you.
I hope you enjoy following along as I share my stories and how I choose to live daily — Releasing My Inner LIONESS.
