Introduction to the Fireside

Article 1 of the Fireside Series, written by Heather Malloy

Heather’s Fireside: A Welcome to the Flame

Welcome to Heather’s Fireside.

This isn’t just a blog. This is a living, breathing space for the soul-weary, the wildly curious, and the ones who have finally decided they’ve had enough of being told how to live, love, heal, or grow.

This is where I come to remember myself. And I hope you do too.

Heather’s Fireside is a new space on my site, and it was born from the need to stop striving for perfection and start living with grit. To stop asking for permission. To stop asking, “Am I allowed to feel this? Want this? Dream this?” and instead say, “This is what I know to be true for me, right now, in this moment.”

Here’s what you can expect from the Fireside:

• Unapologetic honesty. I will share my real thoughts. The ugly cries. The deep belly laughs. The moments where I finally said what needed to be said—to others, and especially to myself.
• Daily reflections. These won’t be recycled Pinterest affirmations. These are real-life reminders that you can be spiritual and still scream into a pillow. That growth is messy. That peace isn’t something you find in a book—it’s something you fight for inside yourself.
• Freedom work. I’m not here to tell you how to make six figures in six weeks. I’m here to show you how I stopped giving my time and energy to companies who didn’t care about my well-being. I’ll share what I’ve learned about making money online, creating value, and building something meaningful without selling your soul.
• Sacred neutrality. We don’t do forced beliefs here. We don’t convert. We don’t conform. We honor each person’s soul path, even when it looks completely different from our own. And that, my friend, is what real spiritual maturity looks like.
• Healing, not hustling. This is not a productivity cult. This is a sanctuary where healing is enough. Where doing the emotional work counts as real work. Where being still is just as powerful as taking massive action.

I created this Fireside because I needed a place to light the match. To stop hiding behind “maybe later” and start showing up exactly as I am—a woman who has clawed her way through trauma, silence, and self-doubt to arrive at a place of sacred power. Not power over anyone. Just the kind that says: I belong to myself.

If you feel like the world has demanded you bend too many times, sit here. Warm your soul. Breathe.

You don’t have to be a guru. You just have to be willing to show up for yourself, fully. Honestly. Radically.

So this is my Fireside. My daily ritual. My reclamation.

I hope you make it yours, too.

Yours in love and light,

Heather