27/10/2025
Good morning you rising Soul!! ☀️🥰💓💫
This is the fifth out of a seven series posts about:
HOW TO MAKE IT THROUGH EVEN WHEN YOU FEEL YOU’RE ALL ON YOUR OWN.
5. Rise Quickly - Turn “Failure” Into Fire
Have you ever wondered why even after becoming stronger and calmer in life, you still fall? Especially when no one is there to lift you up.
“Failure” in its truest sense isn’t about loss or defeat. It’s that moment when you stumble right on the path you believed in most. The times you thought you’d conquered your ego only for one small event to shake you again.
You feel weak, ashamed, and in that loneliness, you’re tempted to go back to being the pleasing version others once loved just to be accepted again.
But as Jung taught, those falls, don’t come to destroy you, they come to reveal the parts of you that remain unhealed, the ones still waiting to be integrated and loved.
Every time you fall, the shadow reappears. It is not punishment, it is illumination. It shines light on your hidden arrogance, your fear of criticism, your hunger for approval. And the moment you rise again without applause or support, your Self expands.
I’ve come to realize there are no wrong turns in life, no mistakes, no true “failures”, only foundational truths about our most inner selves, meant to emotionally steer us towards our self realization and integration.
So what you’ve perceived as “failures” wasn’t weakening you, it was making you more real and true. Falls do make you more honest with yourself, assertive and true to what truly matters most for you. That’s how failure becomes fire, that’s soul alchemy, that’s how you transform and grow.
You can’t grow in safety because safety lulls the unconscious to sleep, to staying stagnant, to staying stuck.
But when you hit bottom, every layer of pretense burns away and your soul stands bare.
From a neuroscience perspective, when you fail, the brain activates the anterior cingulate cortex, the area that processes the gap between expectation and reality. If you respond with fear or self-lame, your body releases cortisol, the stress hormone that freezes you. But when you take action, even a small step, your prefrontal cortex activates, releasing dopamine, the chemical of progress, and hope. In other words, regret paralyzes you, but action heals you. This is your Phoenix Rising freer and brighter — becoming purer and truer to the Source Light 🌟 from which it once parted.
If you dare to rise from your own ashes, you’ll see that what burnt away wasn’t you. It was just another outer layer that had finished its purpose, stripping you off from what insulates you from your truest Self.
When we face failure without judgment, wounds cease to be enemies and become teachers. In pain, awareness is born. Jung once said, “There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.” I say, pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice.
Only when we touch our wounds can we truly touch our humanity. In every failure, you have two choices, let it define you or let it refine you. When you say, “I’m a failure“, you imprison yourself in the past. But when you say, “I’m learning something”, you open a door to the future.
Rock bottom is never the end, it is the ground you push off from. Strong souls aren’t born from comfort, they’re forged in collapse. Humans find their true strength when they face failure and refuse to retreat.
Remember, falling doesn’t make you weak, staying down does. When you shake off the ashes, face your mistakes, and take one more step, even a small one, you’re rewriting your story.
One day like me, you’ll realize that every so called failure had a Sacred Purpose. It didn’t come to break you, it came to reveal the truer, brighter, steadier version of you.
So don’t wait for someone to lift you up. Rise quickly, firmly with a heart still warm. In that moment, you don’t just overcome failure, you become the flame that nothing can extinguish. 🔥💫😍💓🙏🏼
✍🏼 Vanessa Vega