Broken Open: 2025 A Year of Shedding, Healing, Release & Rebuilding Inner Safety
What happens when the armour falls, the systems collapse, and you choose to rebuild from the inside out.
This Wasn’t a Gentle Year. It Was a Necessary One.
2025 didn’t ask politely.
It stripped. It tested. It broke me open.
This was the year I had to crack through another layer of myself in order to finally receive the love, care, and support my soul had been craving for far longer than I realised. Not by achieving more. Not by holding it together. But by letting go of the armour I’d spent a lifetime perfecting.
2025 was a nine year — a year of completion. A year designed to close cycles, shed outdated identities, and dismantle the structures that once kept us safe but now keep us small. And while I understood that intellectually, my body experienced it viscerally.
I didn’t shed this year.
I broke — repeatedly.
When the Armour Falls, the Truth Comes First
Layer by layer, my ego gave way.
My sense of control loosened.
My reliance on strength-as-identity collapsed.
As a Leo sun and Leo rising, I have always been the responsible one. The one who leads. The one who has answers. The one who doesn’t need help. That shadow — of masculine pride wrapped in self-sufficiency — has followed me my entire life.
Except in 2025, I didn’t have the answers.
And for the first time, I had to ask for help.
That choice — as uncomfortable and vulnerable as it was — led to the deepest support I’ve ever known. The most love I’ve ever felt. Not because I performed strength, but because I told the truth about where I was.
I Teach What I’m Willing to Live
I could never teach this work if I wasn’t living it.
For years, I believed I had built a meaningful life through doing:
Being the high achiever.
Being the dependable friend.
Being the one who showed up, held space, gave time, and never asked for much in return.
I told myself this was contribution. That this made me good. Worthy. Safe.
But the truth is — much of it was armour.
The last five years have peeled away many layers.
2025 took me to the bone.
And what it revealed was this:
Rising without rooted foundations is just another form of survival.
Healing Isn’t Linear — It’s Devotional
This year, old childhood wounds resurfaced — even the ones I thought I had healed. Boundaries I believed were solid were tested, crossed, and demanded to be rebuilt from a deeper place.
What this year taught me is simple and confronting:
We are never fully healed — but we can be actively healing.
Healing doesn’t mean life stops.
It means we build internal safety strong enough to hold life as it moves.
From that place, things don’t become easier —
we become more equipped.
We stop performing.
We stop shapeshifting.
We stop projecting versions of ourselves we think the world wants.
Instead, we take ownership — of our trauma, our boundaries, our patterns, and the role we play in our own becoming.
From Collapse to Responsibility
2025 tested me in ways that could have pulled me back into old cycles:
Victimhood.
Resentment.
Feeling hard done by.
And while those emotions surfaced, I didn’t live there.
I chose to see this year for what it was: death and rebirth.
Because every challenge I’ve faced in my life has carried a lesson — and those lessons are the foundation of the work I now hold, teach, and embody.
Money, Power & the Systems That Had to Collapse
One of the most confronting awakenings of 2025 was around money.
Not money as a tool — but money as a measure of worth.
We live inside a patriarchal system that places money on a pedestal, and without realising it, I had internalised that hierarchy. I believed that doing more, carrying more, and being paid for that effort was evidence of growth.
Even when I shifted out of over-doing and into leadership, money was still sitting at the top.
And so were people.
I hadn’t fully stepped out of hierarchy — I had just changed my position within it.
The systems I thought I had dismantled were still operating quietly beneath the surface. Old ideologies I believed I’d “worked through” were still shaping my choices, my relationships, and my sense of safety.
Yes, I had done the cord cutting.
Yes, I had done the shedding.
Yes, I had done the burning away.
But 2025 brought it all back to the surface — not to punish me, but to be released for good.
When the Old World Ends, Something More Honest Can Be Built
This wasn’t just personal — it was collective.
2025 wasn’t only a nine year of completion. It coincided with profound astrological shifts we haven’t witnessed in over a decade. Neptune and Saturn began their exit from Pisces, and Pluto entered Aquarius — a transition that signals the breakdown of outdated structures and the dissolution of false authority.
Capricorn — the sign of masculine structure, productivity, and external safety — is being redefined.
As a Capricorn Moon with Saturn in my sixth house, this wasn’t theoretical for me. Everything I thought I knew about stability, routine, and security was dismantled. The ground I’d been standing on disappeared.
So I had no choice but to rebuild.
Not from ambition.
Not from performance.
But from embodied self-worth.
I built a new inner system — one where safety comes from within, not from achievement, approval, or control.
Why I Do This Work
When everything external fell away this year, what remained was unmistakable:
A deeper sense of self-trust.
A more grounded internal safety.
A genuine capacity to receive.
And that is what I want for you.
This is why I created She Rises, taking place on 22nd January.
Because when inner safety is established, everything else becomes a byproduct — not the goal.
We stand taller.
We become adaptable.
We become resilient.
Not rigid — rooted.
Ways to Work With Me
If you can’t join us in person for She Rises, my RISE three-month mentorship is now open for application.
This journey includes:
Weekly 1:1 calls
Ongoing voice-note support
Two in-person meet-ups
A celebratory spa day or experience of your choice
Because the inner work we create together deserves to be honoured — and celebrated.
Click here to find out more and apply
A Closing Reflection
2025 was the year that stripped you of everything you thought you were.
2026 gets to be the year you become everything you were always destined to be.
Take the New Moon in Sagittarius workshop here
I look forward to supporting you.
With love and light,
Sherisse