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The Edge Holds the Keys to Transformation

June 22, 20253 min read

🌀 The Edge Holds the Keys to Transformation

You’re Trying to Solve the Wrong Problem

You think the problem is that you’re not doing enough.
That you haven’t found the right productivity system, the right morning routine, or the right mindset hack.
That if you just worked harder, thought differently, or showed up “better,” you would finally feel at home—in your life, in your work, in the world.

But what if you’re trying to solve the wrong problem?

What if the real problem isn’t your energy, your focus, or your ambition?
What if the real problem is
that you’re trying to thrive inside a center that was never designed for your wholeness?

🔍 What’s Actually Happening

In the dominant culture, belonging is conditional.
It requires agreement, conformity, and a kind of self-trimming to fit into spaces shaped by patriarchal, dominator systems.

From schoolrooms to boardrooms, we are taught that success means fitting into pre-approved molds—quieting our sensitivity, rationalizing our instincts, and sanding down our edges until we’re smooth enough to be accepted.

But here’s the truth:
Those very edges—your sensitivity, your deep-seeing, your refusal to flatten yourself—are not problems. They are indicators that you are wired for a different role.

You are not here to conform.
You are here to transform.
And transformation doesn’t happen at the center of the old system.
It happens at the edge.

🔮 Why the Edge Matters Now

We are living in a time of profound unraveling.
The old systems of control, extraction, and suppression are crumbling under their own weight.

The edge is no longer exile—it is the birthplace of the new.
Those who have long stood outside the dominant story are now being called to lead:

  • Intuitives who can navigate uncertainty

  • Sensitives who perceive patterns emerging before others do

  • Visionaries who can dream and map new ways of being

In the years to come, the edge will no longer be optional—it will be the essential threshold of transformation and leadership.

💠 My Journey to the Edge

In my young adult years, I believed I had to earn my belonging by performing, producing, and pretending.

I silenced the wild, intuitive parts of myself to gain approval and fit in.

But I was never truly at home in the center.

When I finally stepped away—when I allowed myself to explore the edge—I found something I hadn’t felt in years: truth.

At the edge, I remembered the language of symbols and soil, of myth and mystery.

I reclaimed my sensitivity and vision not as liabilities—but as medicine.
And I saw how many others were walking the same path, quietly, bravely, wondering if they were alone.

They weren’t. And neither are you.

🪧 What We Practice at the Edge

In this space, we honor what the world told us to hide.

Here, we:
🌿 Reclaim sensitivity and intuition as sacred
🔥 Treat the edge not as exile, but as initiation
🌌 Learn to move in liminal spaces with clarity and courage
🌱 Refuse to shrink to fit systems that are already falling apart

You are not here to “fix” yourself.
You are here to remember who you truly are.

The edge holds the keys to your transformation—and to the transformation of the world.


Let’s walk it together.


✨ Your Next Steps

🔗 Begin the Transformation

Explore Stage 4 of the "Transformation Journey Roadmap"
The Roadmap is a powerful six-stage path to help you reclaim inner sovereignty and learn to navigate thresholds of growth with vision and resilience. Stage 4 offers maps to navigate your edges of change.
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View the FREE At the Visionary Hearthfire Workshop Replay

✍️ Reflect and Reclaim

Take a moment to ponder:

  • What parts of yourself have you trimmed down to try to fit in?

  • What wisdom might live in your sense of not belonging?

  • What if the edge is not a flaw, but a calling?

Let these questions guide your journal, your conversation, or your next brave step.

🌱 Join the At Village Edges Community (AVEC)

Be part of a community of intuitive edge-walkers.
The At Village Edges Community is a space where wild wisdom, seasonal practice, and deep remembering meet.
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Explore the AVEC membership »


Sheila is a catalyzing guide on your edges of change to transmute limiting mindsets and tap into the power of your inner wisdom. She has over 40 years effectively translating consciousness-shifting alchemical inner practices into life-changing ways for thousands of grateful clients and students.

Sheila Bélanger

Sheila is a catalyzing guide on your edges of change to transmute limiting mindsets and tap into the power of your inner wisdom. She has over 40 years effectively translating consciousness-shifting alchemical inner practices into life-changing ways for thousands of grateful clients and students.

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