Meghan Gilroy’s Story
I was a smart, successful, well-paid, conscious, capable, caring woman
on a spiritual path –
but I was frustrated and stuck.
Why couldn’t I manifest the life and work of my dreams?
My story begins as a people-pleasing, overachieving, perfectionist “good girl” who had a goal and vision board for every aspect of my life. With willpower, hard work and determination, I set out to achieve whatever I set my mind to.
That lead to straight A’s, awards, media coverage, book deals, TV shows and million-dollar businesses – alongside a healthy dose of stress, resentment and exhaustion.
As a heart-based business coach at that time, I was taking home a big income, speaking at events with hundreds of attendees and teaching online with clients around the world.
It was all impressive, but deep inside I wasn’t happy.
Constantly busy, my head was still at work when I walked in the door of our home.
I was full to the point of overflowing.
Not present with my children. Barely had time for my husband – let alone real time to enjoy my life or truly focus on my sacred self-care and wellness.
I was doing work that I was good at, but certainly wasn’t my genius.
Ironically, I also had an extensive
spiritual toolkit.
Named “a spiritual leader for the next generation” in my early twenties by don Miguel Ruiz, the international best-selling author of The Four Agreements, I went on to co-teach with him and eventually run his business.
After I went off on my own, I built businesses and had babies, while quietly leading self-improvement & spirituality journeys, retreats and workshops at some of the most powerful sacred sites around the world and also working with my own clients as a side hustle.
So how could I be savvy, successful and spiritual –
and yet feel like I had so much more to offer,
so much more potential?
What I craved was a life and business that lit up my soul.
My heart’s desire was to share my soul’s calling and feel connected, fulfilled, cherished, centered, delighted and supported.
Relaxed – and present.
So what was my soul purpose? And how would I go about making it a part of my everyday world?
I knew that for my career and business to grow, I had to grow. (After all, I had been teaching this for years!)
I went on a hunt to know myself more deeply and on a retreat for myself, remembered the story of becoming a Fully Shining Woman.
The Story of the Fully Shining Woman
Many, many moons ago, when my husband Jamie was a single dad and dating, he was grumbling about women when his then 10-year-old son said,
“Dad, it’s like this. You meet all these women, date them and want to get married. But you need to wait until you meet your Fully Shining Woman.”
A few years later, we met, fell in love and Jamie and Nick bestowed the Fully Shining Woman title on me.
Now here I was, with Nick grown and children of my own, recognized by many as a successful shining woman but realizing that I wasn’t FULLY shining.
In fact, I was dimming my own light.
I wasn’t listening to what my heart knew to be true.
I didn’t always make myself a priority.
I wanted everyone around me to be happy –
often at the cost of my own happiness.
And that’s when it hit me. I had been using a masculine approach to get what I wanted – be focused, set goals, make a plan, don’t stop.
Yet when I looked back at my life, all the best decisions I had made came from being in my feminine power.
Feminine power and spirituality that came from trusting my intuition and feelings, leading from my heart not my head, taking leaps of faith that didn’t make sense at the time, tuning into fluid cycles of creation and spending time in connection with nature and Mother Earth.
When I let go of logical and linear…
and allowed the messy, magic and mystery to guide me,
my life was better than I could have ever imagined.
Embarking on a spiritual path… marrying Jamie… manifesting dream homes… teaching spirituality on the side… moving cross-country based on a feeling and astrology reading…
Excitedly, I reviewed all my top women client success stories and saw that they had also blossomed, found true happiness and authentic lives when they led with their feminine power, backed by their masculine (clarity, direction, structure, focus, grounded presence).
That’s when the
Fully Shining Women Leading Our World
movement was born.
When we ignite our heart’s desires, unearth the stories that are holding us back, trust ourselves, our intuition and Source, follow the breadcrumbs as the next right step appears and sink into a sisterhood of support, we become Fully Shining Women Leading Our World.
All my soul gifts, life experiences, ancient spiritual lineage and women’s wisdom traditions then started weaving together to work with women as a shamanic healer & spiritual life coach through 1:1 work, women’s circles, retreats & spiritual events and through the Fully Shining Women Leading Our World podcast.
So many women from around the world are like me – we don’t need another teacher or guru. We don’t need another thing to do.
Instead, we need a “spiritual midwife” to walk us through times of transition and growth in our life or we want structured support to pause in our full lives, stop holding ourselves back, listen more deeply to our souls and uplevel our spiritual practices.
As I built a network and community of fully shining women, I witnessed that when we unleash our feminine power, we can breakthrough our blocks and barriers, answer our soul callings and ignite bigger potential in ourselves, our lives, our communities and world.
What my clients and I know to be true is that it isn’t just “nice” to invest time and energy in spiritual support, mentoring and sisterhood – it’s necessary.
And we know that when women have space and breath and embrace our power and potential, we give back from a place of ease, abundance and overflow to our families, communities, humanity and to Mother Earth.
We empower ourselves – and that changes
our lives, our communities and the world.
Here’s what I know for sure:
You are sacred. You are enough. You can trust yourself, others and life itself.
You don’t need to push, struggle or constantly try to be better or more.
I’m now living a life that lights up my soul. I’m leading a movement that I love as a spiritual leader.
And I know my soul purpose: I’m a catalyst, a connector, a communicator, a channel and a shamanic healer.
My soul mission is to empower, uplift and celebrate women as sacred so we can fully shine as leaders in our communities, our work and our families in harmony with Mother Earth.
I do that through private shamanic healing & spiritual life coaching, in-person private retreats, spiritual retreats to sacred sites, through women’s circles and public events, in my online programs as well as with my Fully Shining Women Leading Our World podcast.
I can’t wait to see how YOUR LIFE and OUR WORLD change as you embrace not just being a shining woman, but the FULLY Shining Woman who already lives within you.
So if you’re ready… to saying yes to EASE and harmony.
Yes to support and synchronicity.
Yes to enjoyment, pleasure, fun – and fulfillment.
Yes to your soul.
Then won’t you join me?
Welcome to the sisterhood of fully shining women!
Let’s work together…
