Hi, I’m Kimberly Sheridan, the Founder of Fueled By Soul.
I teach women how to embrace their true nature as the path to happiness, fulfillment and meaning. I’m passionate about helping others reclaim their authentic self & express their unique voice in the world.
There is one truth I believe more than anything else and that is that the path to happiness is being true to yourself.
When you fully embrace who you truly are and follow your heart, you will be happier & make your most meaningful contribution in the world.
I discovered this truth when I was 22, but it took me more than 25 more years to fully embrace it in my own life. Since then, I’ve dedicated my life to empowering others to reclaim their most beautifully authentic self.
There is only one path to happiness, and it’s through the door of authenticity.
When we share our truth, we give other people permission to share theirs.
I was raised in a lower middle-class home without a lot of exposure to new thoughts, ideas, or experiences which made me into a late bloomer.
When I moved away to college, I discovered the book “Creative Visualization” by Shakti Gawain at the local health food store which started me on the path of personal growth that I’m still on today.
There is nothing I’ve been more driven by in my life than the search for meaning. Why am I here? What I meant to be doing?
These thoughts started chasing me at 22 when I’d been out of college for less than a year. Since then, the search for understanding what gives us meaning has been my greatest quest and fuels my passion for teaching.
There’s nothing more important than expressing my authentic self & living a meaningful life.
Trusting your intuition is the path to living authentically.
The first New Thought book I read was by Florence Scovel Shinn. Since then, I’ve read countless more. That book, “The Game of Life & How to Play It” was given to me by Kay, a woman I’d become friends with when we both volunteered at the St. Louis Art Fair in 1994.
Most of the books from the New Thought era are based in Christianity. However, I derive my understanding and faith from many different sources including Buddhism, Taoism, philosophy, and psychology.
I’ll seek truth wherever I find it. I practice the religion of compassion, understanding, and kindness.
I’m a human motivation nerd. When the coaching industry was still in its infancy, I discovered Coach University, the first coaching training organization.
Like most people drawn to coaching, I was born to be a coach. I’m a natural believer in human potential. And over the years, I’ve developed my faith in the ability of the human spirit to overcome any obstacle on its path.
I help people remember who they are.
In all of my courses, I focus both on the process of getting what you want as well as dissolving the blocks that are keeping you from getting it. I have dedicated my life to helping people get to their why. However, you don’t know what is in another person’s heart unless they are willing to show you. So, my number one priority is always to provide my students with a safe place to do that.
I was my mother’s primary caregiver for the last 7 years of her life. Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, or another degenerative and debilitating disease, thrusts you into a reality most people will never experience and cannot understand. I recently heard the isolation and separateness referred to as the parallel universe of full-time caregiving.
Three years before her death, she forgot how to wash her own hands. Two years before her death, she forgot to eat when hungry even if sitting in a dining room with food on a plate in front of her surrounded by other people eating their meals. One year before her death, without a fall or injury, she forgot how to walk. Until the day of her death, she never forgot my name & who I was to her. It’s a mysterious disease that has no diagnostic test, treatment, or cure.
Sometimes we need the dark night of the soul to break us, so we can mend the places that need healing.
This experience opened my eyes to the experiences of others that create this same sense of isolation or otherworldness that I had been blind to before. It showed me that even as an empath, your compassion and understanding can grow much deeper than you ever imagined possible. I now see the world through new eyes.
I now see that every person who teaches life-changing work has gone through their own transformational experience. It prepares you for doing the work you’re here to do. So, I think I’m in good company. And the same is true for everyone. Your life is your teacher, but it’s also your path.