Embracing the vulnerable exposure that comes with reclaiming your voice
Scars of Gold live launch ceremony
Hi there,
Let me take you down memory lane for a second.
In spring 2024, around the time I signed the book deal for Scars of Gold with Hay House, I decided to start this substack community.
Yes my intention was to provide value. It was to help you build a healthy relationship with your brightness and with your shadow. So that you can reclaim a life aligned with truth and with your highest blueprint.
A life that is not ran by avoidance of pain. One where your deepest desires can lead. One where your heart calls the shots. One where you reclaim the aliveness we all long for. One where you feel liberated to lead, love and serve from your heart, not your wounds.
Yes I know, it is a tall order.
But that is still to this day what animates my spirit.
What I never told you is that this community has also been a way for me to engineer accountability with my heart and what it wished to express in my book.
I have shared my writing here weekly. Even when life was full.
It has been a place where I tested so many of the ideas I wanted to include in the book.
Some of them resonated… Some of them needed more refinement.
But this place has played a pivotal role in the birth of Scars of Gold.
Scars of Gold is officially out today!
And it feels surreal to write it in this moment. I don’t know that I have fully integrated it yet.
I am walking that threshold in real time at the moment.
The book starts shipping internationally today.
And I am a big mix of emotions. There is excitement, apprehension, some hints of joy, and the vulnerable exposure that comes with knowing that a piece of work that I put thousands of hours into creating is now in the hands of complete strangers.
That is humbling. And I am cherishing that feeling.
This vulnerable exposure is what I tried to avoid for years.
I procrastinated about writing to protect myself from this feeling because my body internalized that it was too risky.
I internalized that it would lead me to getting humiliated if I make a mistake.
Now I know that it is also the place whey your light shines the brightest.
I want you to celebrate with me.
In about 20 minutes, I will host a live ceremony here on substack.
Why here? Because this community has witnessed and shaped the writer in me.
So it only makes sense to honor you.
This Live Launch Ceremony is about unleashing the heart.
This is the core theme at the heart of Scars of Gold.
This is the reason why we enter the shadow.
This is the reason why we integrate and dissolve fragmentation.
To create the emotional capacity to let your heart lead in a world where it is conditioned to shut down.
Here is the link to join us live right here on the substack app.
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/62081
If you feel compelled to support this book, then you you can order it here: www.scarsofgold.com
You still get the preorder bonuses for a limited time when you register your order at the link above:
Access to the Golden Shadow Journal (a 7-day guided journey of prompts + practices)
A signature Golden Shadow integration journey (radiant return)
The 7-day Golden Shadow Challenge
Thank you so much for your support over the months and I am looking forward to connecting with you live for the live launch ceremony in less than 20 minutes (1pm ET).
In gratitude and reverence,
-Xavier
** PS - The Golden Shadow Challenge is just the beginning. Inside my membership, The Embodied Light Project (ELP), we devote ourselves to this kind of inner alchemy all year long.
When you join ELP, you’ll get access to the replay of the Reconciling with the Shadow workshop series, ongoing live teachings, practices, and a supportive community devoted to embodying their light.
If you feel called to keep expanding beyond these 7 days, ELP is the container where this work truly anchors.