It is with a heavy heart that I announce the closing of SoulFire Vitality.

My mom likes to say that her dad was always really good about telling her she could do anything, but failed to mention that she couldn’t do everything.

I don’t know that I have ever resonated with that more than at this moment in my life.

I have been trying to find the silver lining in all of this, in having to walk away from a space and blossoming community that I care so deeply about. Despite only being in the neighborhood for a few short months, we were growing. Our classes were beginning to fill up, our teachers were finding themselves with regular students, and it was such a joy seeing the little ones playing in that sweet little room.

And yet, I still chose to close our doors, just a few short weeks after the grand opening.

I can’t say it was the easiest decision of my life, and it is one that is filled with sadness. But, somehow I am still able to find some beauty in it, and maybe this is the studio’s last gift.

I was raised to be a doer, a create, a maker of things. I was taught I could be anything and do anything and to never give up. I was taught to have grit and moxie and determination, to see things through. To fight the good fight. These were beautiful thing to be taught. And, they are also part of a mindset that has left me ragged and worn more times than I can count. A mindset that has keep me in jobs, relationships, and myriad other situations that were way past their expiration dates. I have spent days, months, years of my life hanging on to things that just weren’t right - be it timing, situational, or what have you - I have hung on for dear life way far beyond when I should have let go. I never wanted to be a quitter….

And, as I get older, as I find myself healing from a million other things I held onto for far too long, I also find myself feeling a deep sense of gratitude for the gift of acceptance I have worked for so long to, well, accept… I am able to look back at the road I have traveled and marvel at the fact that maybe, just maybe, I am learning.

Maybe I am growing into someone who sees quitting as a beautiful honoring of myself and my boundaries, rather than a sign of weakness or failure.

So, today, I am standing by my decision to honor myself and my limits, to choose to do one thing wholeheartedly rather than a million things with half a heart.

Thank you all for your time, your vulnerability, your willingness to try something new and show up for yourselves. I hope that you continue down your paths of wellness and self-discovery, and that our paths meet again along the road.

In the meantime, I’ll be in the classroom, helping to cultivate the next generation of doers and thinkers and movers and shakers and world-changers.

I think it was always where I was meant to be…