There are seasons in a woman’s life when the noise of expectation grows louder than the pulse of her own truth.
For Priscilla Zorrilla, that dissonance reached its height during her years in corporate life. Outwardly, she had built what many would call success: a stable position, predictable routine, and the promise of advancement. Inwardly, she sensed depletion because the life she was living and the voice within weren’t in harmony.
In The Quiet Awakening: Dare to Dream, Zorrilla traces her moment of divergence. The unsettling awareness that something essential lay dormant. She has spoken on her Substack, In the Search Bar®, about how this book was born during her transition “from a 9-to-5 career into soul-aligned work” (Zorrilla 2025). As she bears her raw emotion, she gains the courage to embrace the unknown, and like caution scattered to the wind, words dance freely across lines in newfound freedom. It marks the turning point from structure to surrender, from control to trust.
Writing became her reclamation. Poetry allowed her to navigate what prose could not: the intangible textures of change—hesitation, longing, renewal. Each page, both confessional and instructive, reveals how vulnerability can coexist with purpose. Zorrilla found fluency in authenticity, encouraging others to consider how to make their own dream a reality.
The struggle, silence, and brilliance of her awakening emerge from stability and desire; it is the dream transcended.
Zorrilla reminds us that resilience is beyond endurance; it’s trusting what will be.
Reader Discussion Guide
What emotional or professional turning point in The Quiet Awakening: Dare to Dream most mirrors a shift you’ve faced in your own life?
How does the use of poetry rather than traditional narrative shape your understanding of transformation?
How might modern women reinterpret the idea of perseverance, not as endurance, but as continual alignment with their truth?
The author describes her process as awakening. How does that word differ from “change” or “reinvention,” and where in your own life do you sense an awakening waiting to happen?
Journaling Prompts
Describe one role or routine that once defined you but now feels misaligned.
What would alignment look like?
Recall a period of silence in your life, an incubation.
How did it awaken within you?
Write a letter to your past self when you made a major decision.
What does she need to hear?
Choose a single word from the book that resonates.
Let it anchor a page of free writing.
Revisit these reflections after one month to arouse any new insight.
“A life so full, so aligned, so rich, SO free—I couldn’t even imagine it from where I stand now.”
Zorrilla, Priscilla. The Quiet Awakening: Dare to Dream, “The Illusion of Freedom.” Kindle ed. Amazon Publishing, 2024.
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