“at 39 i finally chose myself!”
Inner Woman Rising exists because I never really felt like I fitted in anywhere, ever.
I am the youngest of four, creative, ADHD, perimenopausal af, ambitious, bit of a lone wolf and for the last 9 years I've been gradually breaking out of my edited season of life.
I was always too chatty, too loud, too quiet, too nice… too something. Never quite right, whichever version I tried on. I never really knew what I wanted to do when I “grew up," which meant careers and jobs I wasn't really interested in. I found it hard to keep friends because I always felt different the music I listened to, interests and even the clothes I wore. I ended up living with constant masking and raging imposter syndrome, which was really just a symptom of the fact that these traditional, social norms were never meant to be part of my story.
I created a character to survive, and always felt like I was performing. (I swear I should have been on stage).
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“I am the one.”
TOGETHER, WE RISE
TOGETHER, WE RISE
“IWR has been my north star”
I grew up in a house of dualities: a dad who gave less f*cks than anyone I've met. He gave me my stubborn af genes and taught me to be the man in my life. My mum had the full good-girl conditioning, that so many women get stamped with at birth. She taught me in life however we are never too late to relearn and redirect. It's taken me 41 years and a thousand versions of myself to work out who Shara is underneath years of editing myself and following societies timeline.
At 32, I sold my flat and went travelling. I called it my "sod it” and say yes to life years. You name it I jumped out of, or off of it. I am a woman who has taken an untraditional path and is writing her own story (and re-writing it when the plot twists come her way). I've lived on boats, had more careers than I care to count, travelled a lot in my 30s, I tried following all the norms in search of happiness, money and finding “the one” and I ended up here, realising - I am the one!
My mission now is to help women step fully into their unedited selves, finding belonging for the first time in years, and building genuine connections and friendships with women who see them, hear them, and support them without asking them to become someone else or shrink themselves first.
Whatever brought you here…
heartbreak, boredom, burnout, or just wanting your people again, there's a room full of women who already get it.
Inside this app you get to control who you meet, what you join and if the group doesnt exist yet, take inspiration from me and start it!
You have the power to find women who are like you. Every woman here has taken the same first step. You get to belong, just as you are.
Welcome home.
Shara xo
