Sacred Within with Sophia Sol

Today’s guest, Sophia Sol, carries a story that will stop you in your tracks. After enduring chronic pain, more than 30 surgeries, and navigating genetic conditions that could have defined her life, Sophia chose a different path. Instead of staying trapped in victimhood, she began exploring sound healing, breathwork, and deep spiritual reconnection — and everything shifted. 

In this conversation, Sophia shares how she moved from surviving to self-empowered. We talk about radical responsibility, reclaiming self-worth, and the spiritual awakening that happens when you decide your life is still yours to shape. She introduces a powerful mirror exercise for self-acceptance — one that may feel simple but can profoundly change the way you see yourself. 

We also explore the role of sisterhood and sacred community in helping women remember who they truly are. Sophia shares her Empowered Women’s Starter Kit — practical tools for meditation, confidence, and embodied wisdom — and leaves us with this truth: 

You are not broken. 

You are not behind. 

You are magnificent. 

And you are sacred.      

Let’s “Call IT in With Dar”! 

Transcript

Today’s guest, Sophia Sol, carries a story that will stop you in your tracks.After enduring chronic pain, more than 30 surgeries, and navigating genetic conditions that could have defined her life, Sophia chose a different path. Instead of staying trapped in victimhood, she began exploring sound healing, breathwork, and deep spiritual reconnection — and everything shifted. In this conversation, Sophia shares how she moved from surviving to self-empowered. We talk about radical responsibility, reclaiming self-worth, and the spiritual awakening that happens when you decide your life is still yours to shape.She introduces a powerful mirror exercise for self-acceptance — one that may feel simple but can profoundly change the way you see yourself. We also explore the role of sisterhood and sacred community in helping women remember who they truly are. Sophia shares her Empowered Women’s Starter Kit — practical tools for meditation, confidence, and embodied wisdom — and leaves us with this truth: 

You are not broken. 

You are not behind. 

You are magnificent. 

And you are sacred.      Let’s “Call IT in With Dar”! 

Speaker Dar  

So hello, Sophia. I'm so happy to have you with us today, and before we dive into the sacred within, I'd love it if you introduce yourself and tell us how you got to this point you're at today 

Speaker Sophia 

Darla, thank you ever so much for the introduction and for the honor of being on your show. I am really, really excited to be here. Truly. This is such a great honor. So very quickly, the little story about me, so is my name, Sophia, soul. I also have the honor of CO creating a global community for women's sacred you. But how did I get here? I got here through really a journey of surrender, surrendering to the universe and surrendering to all that life brings, knowing that I'm in the right place at the right time, and also all the challenges that I've been through have helped me to be where I am now. I was born into a body with a genetic condition. I've had over 30 operations. I used to be in chronic, chronic pain, and have taken massive amounts of drugs to overcome that pain, not realizing that the drugs were actually causing the pain or adding to the pain because of the toxicity. But also, a lot of my life I spent, you know, blaming, blaming my mother, blaming my sister because she didn't have the condition, even though it's genetic, blaming the world, blaming God, blaming everything, instead of taking responsibility. And when I made that shift, when I actually realized that, you know, I have a choice. I can be a victim all my life, or I can take responsibility for my life and really make the best of what life has given me and also improve on that. So that's what I did. And I just went on a journey. I went on a journey of healing, healing naturally. For me, I found sound healing and breath work was incredible, because sound is, you know, nature's gift, and the frequency of sound connects with the frequency of our bodies, because we're all just frequency and naturally heals and breath work releases the suppressed emotions. This is what I've experienced with everyone. We all suppress things in our lives. We've had an experience. It gets suppressed into our muscles. It gets suppressed into ourselves. And over time, if we don't release it, that causes blockages, and it causes dis ease and it causes pain. So when I started, when I found breath work, I did so much of releasing. Can just continue breathing a lot of times. You don't even know what you're releasing, but you know that you've released a lot of stuff, and that changed my life physically. I also went on a journey of empowering myself because I was bullied as a child. I was extremely bullied. I look different. Okay, if you see me in real life, I'm vertically challenged. I stand out because I look different. It's the genetic condition that I've got. And I was treated as an alien by other children because, you know, children don't know how to react to someone who is different, so that's where bullying comes in. And I was very much bullied. So I had absolutely no self worth, no self worth. I didn't even think I was worthy enough to be in this world, and I also developed a belief that I wasn't worthy enough to speak, and got really and developed a really bad stutter. So I went on this journey of empowering myself, regaining my self esteem, regaining my self worth through a variety of steps. Really coming down to the basic of it all is, what do I do and what do I identify myself with? So many of us in our world today identify ourselves with the roles we play. You know that I'm a mother or I'm a teacher or I'm a chef or I'm a dancer on this, on that, on that, and if those roles get taken away from us, we have nothing left. So when I really identify with who I am as an innate being full of virtues, full of qualities. Qualities which we all have that can never be taken away from us. So I rebuilt my life on a basis of who am I, and I went through a whole step process where, you know, I really got down to appreciate myself, instead of relying on other people to appreciate me, to connect with my own inner worth, which is my own inner sacredness, and to really approve of the things that I did, to develop the confidence and to really get to believe in in myself as a spiritual being, as a being, as a woman that is worthy of being in this planet, on this planet, and has something to contribute and the again, all my life, I've been a spiritual person, and I have wandered away from my spiritual life. I've gone on many different paths, like everyone on this journey. But underneath it all, it was always coming back to this feeling, to this knowing that, you know, we are sacred beings, and especially women. There was a time I don't know, Darla about you, and I know my little short story has gone into a bit longer, but you know, there was a time when women were honored. Women were worshiped for their sacredness, a time before masculinity as such took over the world, but a time where, you know, we, we give birth, we hold within our bodies the it's, It's a sacred vessel. And when we can remember and connect with our bodies and treat them as a 

sacred vessel, as a sacred temple, then magic happens, because so much, and you know, I experienced this, and I'm sure I'm not the only woman out there where you kind of forget about your body, or you did own it because you don't like the way it looks, or whatever it is, you don't accept something about it. You know, we all go through that, but when we can really turn that around and reframe it, that no matter what we look like, because we're all unique, right? I think the world Darla again, let me know. You know, wouldn't the world be really boring if we all looked the same and we all had the same personality? It might be easier, because then we wouldn't have to cope with all the different personalities. But wouldn't it be boring, absolutely and so when we can really experience our bodies as unique and special everyone, we're all we're all equal. We are all special in our own way. And really get to love our bodies first of all, really, first of all, really, accept them. And I did a really powerful exercise, and I still do it occasionally. I still do. I'm sure everyone's heard of it as a mirror exercise. The mirror thing is that you stand in front of a mirror and first thing, it's just your face, and you look at your face and you really accept it, and you say that I love you. And when you start this, it's you. Feels very ugly, very awkward. Some people shy away from it. You go through all the nervous stuff, but to really look deep into your eyes, really deep into your eyes and go, I love you. I appreciate you. And then you move on to standing in front of a mirror, naked, completely naked, being completely vulnerable to yourself and really again, look deep into your eyes and go and say, I love you. I accept you for who you are and how you are, and I truly appreciate you. That is such a powerful thing we can do for our bodies, for ourselves, especially as women, and that, you know, connects us with our sacredness, especially with it does, and it doesn't matter what stage you life, you've had, and if you've still got all your parts, or if you've had some removed, you know, we all. All are women, and we all started off being able to give birth. So we all had a womb. We all had that divine feminine energy in us, and we've still got it. So it's connected with that energy. It's experiencing that energy, that sacred energy, that is innate in us. And I really feel that it's time that I speak to a lot of women within sacred you, that it's like the divine feminine or the sacred feminine doesn't matter which way you look. You used to me, it's the same. It's coming back there. What many years ago, centuries ago, when women were worshiped as sacred vessels. That is starting to come full circle and be reclaimed again. We are starting to step into the power of our sacredness, of that energy, of the reason, the purpose that we are on this planet. We have to live in this world. We live in the world. We have our roles to play, and even now, especially with technology, when technology has brought us together in a big way. If it wasn't with technology, we wouldn't be talking today. But it's also taken us away from ourselves when we allow it. So it's living in this 3d world, absolutely, because we have to, that's why we're here. And learning to flow with all the changes and everything that's happening, learning to accept all that, but not letting it affect us, and not allowing it to take us away from our connection with ourselves as divine beings, as sacred beings. I don't know was that a little bit about myself, 

Speaker Dar 

thank you, not only about yourself and your story. You have such beautiful vulnerability that you share from earlier and the choice of going from victim mentality to empowerment, what a powerful choice that you made, and you're encouraging all of us to make. How beautiful. I love the mirror exercise. You're right. It feels very uncomfortable when you start it, but I'm so glad you encouraged our listeners to try it. Let's move into some client stories where you just work with women all over the world, and some examples of the transformation they've made by recognizing the sacred woman within camels. 

Speaker Sophia 

Well, thank you for that. Thank you, because there aren't many stories and clients as such. Well, I don't actually work with women as clients, but within sacred you, we have a community of women from all over the world in all different areas of life on their spiritual journey, some people, some women, are just beginning and are very unsure where other women are well into their spiritual awakening, their spiritual journey, and have their purpose that they want to share with the world. But some of the biggest transformations I see are the women who are just starting out, and you can and you get to know them, because they come into the community, but they're very skeptical, they're very hesitant. They're very much like I'm looking for somewhere to belong. They don't fit in anywhere in the world. I know some one, one woman, who told me that, you know, even her family and her friends don't get her. She's got no one to really talk to about the things that are important to her. You know, she's starting to get into spirituality and spiritual knowledge, but she doesn't have anyone to talk to. And then we've had other women. I remember one because we live in our community. We were going live on Facebook. Now we go live on our website, but we. Had one woman who was just watching us. She told me she's just watching you live. And at that stage, we had a beautiful member who's now passed on. So bless, bless Susie, who used to go live on zoom from her bed because she wasn't well and this, but that inspired other women to reach out and to connect, because Susie was an example of accepting herself fully with her physical condition and everything else. It's like this is who I am, and I need to stay in bed. But that was such an inspiration. And then I've seen other women who are so shy they don't even want to turn on their camera. The first thing is that they take the step to zoom. Not everyone's ready for that, but when they are, they come onto zoom, but I don't want to turn on my camera now on one woman, and especially now she's one of our guides, our sacred guides, and she leads others. But when she first started, she didn't have the confidence to show herself. She didn't like the way that she looked. Now she gets up and dances on camera, and you know, she didn't have the confidence to say, boo, but now she's being able to guide people, and that's all you know. It's Darla. We really have a choice. Unfortunately, there's so many people in our world, especially when we don't realize that, that we all have a choice of like I said, we can be a victim and blame everyone else, blame the world for all my feelings, everything that I experienced, someone else's fault not realizing that they're my feelings. And that's the big thing. We are so good at blaming other people. You hurt me, you hurt my feelings. 

But yet they're not anyone else's feelings. They're my feelings. So it is up to me to what I do with I said, I can be the victim and play poor me all my life and experience the effects of that, whatever those effects may be, for me, it was pain. The more I was a victim, the more pain I was in. And I don't like pain. I've had enough pain in my life. I don't need to go through that. So again, it was like, Okay, I need to take responsibility for myself. I want to take responsibility for myself. And I've seen that happen so much with other women that when you make that shift in your mind that you know this is my life, let's make the most of it. Let me, you know, take responsibility for my life and stop blaming others. 

Speaker Dar  

Yes, we definitely have free choice, and it's our personal responsibility. Thank you so much for going in depth on that. 

Speaker Sophia   

Yeah, yes, and that's that for everyone. Darla, that's what I see a lot of women in our community do when they're ready. It's like, okay, how can I transform my life? How can I start to empower myself? It's not an overnight thing, but I have seen magic happen when we make that decision and start and yes, we all go backwards. We all go back into our whole Old, old habits I have, and I still do occasionally, depending on what the habit is. But you know, when we start on that journey, it's like when you take that first step, then God or the universe or whatever you want to believe, is there and takes your hand and goes, Okay, I'm here to help you. You're not alone, and guides you to wherever. You want wherever you need to be with whoever you need to be to help you on the journey. That's a wonderful thing about you know, we've there's many communities, not just sacred you, but there's many communities for women that are there to help to be with you. Yeah. 

Speaker Dar  

So to get started, actually, Sophia came today with a free gift for everyone, and it's about getting started. So go ahead and talk about that. 

Speaker Sophia 

It is well, it is our empowered women's starter kit that you know about again. It's an honor to be able to share with your listeners, and that is full of tips and knowledge about anything that you can do to empower yourself. It is my this, the actual steps that I took to regain my self belief. I call it the seven steps to self esteem, to regain that that's in that we have a lot of our we do a lot of podcasts. I talk to beautiful women, like, like, like, you Darla, and I hope to be talking to you sometime very, very soon, but we have a lot of women who come on our podcast that, again, share tips about how to empower themselves. And that's in there, we have an incredible exercise. We call it exercise. It is a meditation experience that you get to know your higher self. You get to connect and experience with that sacred self that is always part of us. But in today's world, a lot of us have covered it back up, you know, and suppressed our sacredness, like, like we've talked about. So the exercise will help you to reconnect with your sacred self, your higher self. We have other just other tips and other techniques that you can definitely use from not just myself, but our other members we have within us. We have a guide within sacred use. There's a guide, Joe Irwin, who runs she's actually now doing wisdom circles about reclaiming yourself, and she shares her tips and her expertise in the Empowered women's starter kit. So there's a lot in there, and I'd love to share it with you, with your listeners. So thank you. 

Speaker Dar  

Well, thank you so much, and that will be in the show notes for all our listeners. 

Speaker   Dar  

As we wrap up today, is there anything else you're just being called to let our audience in on? 

Speaker Sophia 

Oh, really, the biggest thing is to remember your magnificence. Every single person. Darla, no matter what we go through. And I truly believe this, and I know for some people, it's really hard to accept, because we have people in our world that are on very different paths. But every single person from you know the women and the children and even the men who live in the African villages or the slums of India, to the, you know, the billionaires in New York Fifth Avenue or wherever that is, wherever they live, every single person has that spark within them, that magnificence, that sacredness, and now's the time to connect with it. Now's the time to remember that to you know, just to remember that, just to experience the energy. And that's what I'd love to leave your listeners with, that remember the magnificent being that you truly, really are. And thank you for having me on your show. 

Speaker Dar 

Yes, well, thank you for being here, and let's all remember the sacredness within you. 

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