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Between the Burn and the Breath

Updated: Oct 20

There are seasons when I move like fire and rise like flame -- bold, unapologetic, boundless with precision.


I rise through the crevices of what others buried.

I touch what’s been left cold.

I dare the air to remember warmth again—

resurrecting the bloodline.


Fire does not negotiate its presence.

It transforms simply by being what it is.


And so do I.


But make no mistake—my fire is not chaos. It is translucence.

It burns away illusion. It refines.

It is the heat that shapes, and confronts inadequacy

It is the frequency that says, “I will not shrink to fit what was never meant to hold me.”


Because when you’ve had to build identity from ashes,

you learn that flame is both your fight and your freedom.


Still,

there are moments when I become something else.


I become ether.


Ether, the unseen.

The calm between inhale and exhale.

The presence that does not announce itself,

yet fills every space it enters.


Ether teaches me gentleness without surrender.

Patience without passivity.

Power without permission.


In my ether state, silence reveals what sound conceals.

I expand beyond the edges of what people think I am.


Fire transforms what’s around it.

Ether transforms what’s within.


And that is the essence of my work—this journey called Colliding Into Place.

To help you master both.


To help you Discover your fire and your ether—

when to burn and when to breathe.

To Dispel the smoke that keeps your vision clouded.

To Decode the stories you inherited but no longer need to carry.

And to Decide how to move—how to flow—in your own currency.


Because transformation isn’t always loud

Sometimes it’s fire—teaching you to be the heat, without fear.

Sometimes it’s ether—teaching that stillness, too, is movement.


I am fire. And I can be ether.

Somewhere between the burn and the breath, I collide into place.

And maybe… you’ll find yours there too.


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Be gentle with yourself

-Celestina


Discover the art of transformation through fire and ether — a poetic reflection on balance, power, and personal growth by Celestina Dankwa Agyekum.

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