Mythic Mode: The Softness I Fought to Keep

People think softness is easy. They think it’s passive. Weak. Something you’re born with, until life inevitably burns it away.

But that’s not how it works.

Not when you’ve lived through the kind of trauma that rewires your body.
Not when neglect, abuse, abandonment, or betrayal taught you that love isn’t safe.
Not when opening your heart once felt like walking through fire barefoot, again and again.

In this video game of life, where every level tests you, where every boss battle is coded in shadow work and survival triggers—softness is not the default setting.

It’s the reward.

I used to think closing my heart was smart. Even necessary. That the only way to survive was to get sharper, harder, less affected.

And for a while, I did. I got good at surviving.

But there was a part of me that refused to die. A glowing ember that kept reaching for love, again and again. Even when it hurt. Even when it would’ve been easier to shut it all down.

Years ago, a healer looked at me in awe and said:

“After all you’ve been through… I am so admiring of how you are still so kind and loving. How you keep opening your heart and reaching for love.”

It stopped me in my tracks. Because I hadn’t realized that was something I could be proud of.

That the way I still love, feel, hope—that it meant something.

It meant I had done my job.

I didn’t just survive.
I alchemized.
I went back through the underworld and retrieved every last power-up.
I met the shadows. I integrated the code. I refused to let my past dictate my capacity to love.

And now?

Now I’m playing on Mythic Level. Heart open. Boundaries sharp. Soul sovereign.

The world doesn’t often celebrate the ones who stay soft.
Who feel deeply.
Who lead with love even when life has handed them every reason to harden.

But I do.

So if that’s you too—if you’re still reaching, still opening, still trusting life to touch you—then I want you to know:

Your softness is sacred.
Your tenderness is a triumph.
Your open heart is proof of your power.

This is what mastery is.

You’re not behind.

You’ve already made it to the bonus level.

And you didn’t just survive.

You won.

In sovereign softness,
Sharon

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