Burning Beneath

Today marks a big step toward what I have always dreamed of.

Today marks a milestone.

Today marks the birth of something I have always believed in.

Today, Burning Beneath Foundation has officially been incorporated in Ontario as a nonprofit organization.

This is more than paperwork.

This is the birth of a dream.

My dream. My passion.

A dream built to help people, help community, and help us remember how to reconnect, grow, and heal.

For a long time, I have lived through anxiety, stress, and depression. I have moved through life marching forward, and sometimes forcing myself forward, overcoming obstacle after obstacle. I have known destruction, and I have known what it means to keep building anyway.

I have always been the kind of person who reaches for the goals I set. But today feels different.

Today does not feel like just another goal reached.

It feels like something deeper.

It feels like I am standing at the edge of the life I was meant to build.

I hope this becomes my ultimate purpose.

The place where I find myself more fully.

My soul.

My passion.

My true love.

Not the kind of love we are taught to search for outside ourselves, but the kind of love that grows through giving, through sharing, through holding space, through caring deeply for others and for community.

Maybe my loneliness and pain have helped shape this part of me.

Maybe they have taught me compassion in a way nothing else could.

Maybe they have helped me understand what it means to truly see another human being.

I am not saying I will solve the world’s problems.

But I am saying this with all my heart: I will do my best to contribute to the solution.

This dream inside me is so big that sometimes it feels like my soul can barely hold it.

And maybe that is how I know it is real.

Today, a foundation was incorporated.

But even more than that, today a purpose took form.

And this is only the beginning.