There are so many cycles we go through as women. At our Menarche, or first period, we go from child to Maiden. Then we become the Mother as we go through the birth cycle, which can be human babies or other creations. Then we fold all of those experiences into wisdom as we enter the Crone phase.
Maiden and Mother have been romanticized and women look forward to these phases, but for some people, Crone has fear and dread attached to it. That phase isn't always appreciated
Read MoreI wasted so much of my time not being happy with my body, in fact, I sometimes hated it. I looked at myself in the mirror and compared myself with others. This trap of comparison is poison. Throughout my life body shame has come in waves. Sometimes it was in my own head, and other times it was spoken by others TO me.
This was simply a reflection of the way I felt about myself, I spend a lot of time feeling like a victim, “You wouldn’t believe what he said to me!!!” and getting angry at the societal standards that are not a reflection of real bodies. This peeved me (still does, but in a different way. I no longer take it personally. )
Read MoreThe other day I chose to put my senior dog out of his misery. He had cancer and it had moved into his lungs.
He stayed by my side until his breathing seemed to be labored. There’s always doubt, but he was starting to use his outer muscles to breath, and sometimes started panting. This was more than a dog, he was my baby. I raised him since he was a bean and his eyes were not yet opened. We saw him the day after he was born and he scooted over to my young daughter and she named him Cinnamon.
Read MoreThere is nothing more magical than the beach. It’s the edge where we see the endless horizon, salt spray fills the air covering our bodies and hair, the gulls fly low calling out into the ocean wind that magically relaxes the muscles and opens the mind.
Read MoreHow do you start your day? If you’ve been trying to get up earlier so you can attain greater focus during your day, then you probably have heard that one of the key parts of getting there is through having a solid morning ritual. When you do a morning ritual, you’re more likely to have quiet reflective time to yourself. The next few paragraphs will be sharing a few ways for you to practice self-care in the morning.
Read MoreNot all of life’s lessons are “pretty,” of course, we all know that. They come disguised as tough ongoing relationships, painful breakups, humiliations and shame, “mistakes” and I could go on.
There are so many ways in which the light of enlightenment is switched on, so many ways to wake up. Yes, pain as a part of the process, but are we supposed to find some sort of pleasure in all of that pain?
Read MoreI remember when I started belly dancing. My son was a baby and I remember feeling that my whole lower body was locked up. It’s hard to describe, but I had lower back pain and since I was still nursing my son there was no menstrual action going on. Locked up, no movement and I wanted to jump into the womanly art of bellydance.
Read MoreI love this quote but will make the correction that magic lives in angles too! Magic is everywhere!
Don't you think?
When you walk in beauty and love the body you're given then YOU ARE MAGIC!
Here are a few journal prompts for you.
Read MoreI have one question: How can you be a positive force for change and touch lives if you’re all caught up in feeling “ugly” and not able to walk upright and confident?
I know when I have felt this way and expressed it out loud I have been told everything from “It’s the inner that matters, it doesn’t matter how you are on the outside.” to “you are not ugly, that is silly!” or, “You are not ugly, you are beautiful!” The latter being the nicer thing. Each statement has one thing in common.
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