Musings from the divine to invoke your feminine power, summon your divine feminine energy, and reveal the many faces of the Goddess within you.
Pleasure and the feminine.
Pleasure awakens the feminine. In our longing to heal and awaken our feminine energy, pleasure is a divine key. I talk a lot about shadow work and becoming deeply aware of what’s happening within — the cycles, habits, thoughts, and patterns that are keeping us stuck, but when we over-fixate on shadow work we can get stuck there. What we need to do, is fill the void with pleasure.
4 Keys on the Healing Journey
The healing journey can be hard work, but it also feels so good — this is why we do it.
As we deepen our capacity to feel the discomfort, we also expand our capacity to take in all the good because we aren't so busy holding our breath. The healing journey isn’t something that we necessarily choose to do, it’s a current that arises from life and pulls at us, and the journey begins when we choose to stop resisting and surrender to being taken by it.
What are Feminine Archetypes?
People often want to know which feminine archetype they are, but we are not one feminine archetype — the point is to embody all of them.
As we work with different feminine archetypes, we awaken different facets of our psyche, emotionality, and physiology, and we awaken untapped forms of power, wisdom, and medicine. This newfound embodied intelligence then naturally integrates into our consciousness, behavior, and heart, and it integrates into all facets of our life around us.
It’s not that simple.
It’s not that simple to not care what anybody thinks, to speak up when we are terrified, or to not let our insecurity or doubt take over. It’s not that simple to just snap out of freeze or to stop ourselves when we are losing our shit. It’s not that simple to believe in abundance or to trust and feel safe. It’s not that simple to just see our flaws, and patterns and become bigger than them — but why? And what do we do about it?
Are men and women really that different? And does it matter?
Men and women are biologically different, but to what extent are our behaviors and intrinsic nature truly intrinsic, and to what extent are we coerced into societal ways of behaving, relating, loving, and existing? Stereotypes are typically birthed from seeds of truth but as they evolve the lines of truth become messy. Unless we all question how we have been indoctrinated we have no power to liberate ourselves and one another.
The bridge between personal and collective healing.
When we are struggling, it’s never just ours. Nothing is just ours. Our shadows are not just our shadows. Our wounds are not just our wounds. Our struggles and our stories are not just ours — we are all bound. There is an undeniable bridge between our personal healing and the collectives. We are all affected by one another and we are all affecting everybody else. Until we understand the magnitude of this, it’s really challenging to transmute what is ours.
Dismantling the perfectionist.
There is not one temperament of the perfectionist that fits us all. It arises in many ways, looking different for different people, at different times in our lives, and in different scenarios. It is quite wise at its core, but there is often so much wounding that its habitual ways become debilitating. Until we understand the dynamics that are deeply imprinted within us, we cannot free ourselves from their grasp.
The necessity of creating sacred space.
Creating sacred space is creating space for the essence of life itself to come alive through your receptivity. It’s creating space for the essence of life within, and around, that is far beneath the chatter of accomplishment, consumerism, becoming, politics, work, responsibilities, or our mental interpretation of trauma, pain, struggle, dysfunction, justice, the past, the future, what may be, and what has been to take the forefront.
This type of space is sacred because it grants the essence of what is right here, right now in both divinity and physicality the throne it deserves.
The art of receptivity.
Receptivity is what keeps us nourished, our vitality up, our roots grounded, and our sight, actions, emotions, intuition, and thoughts stable and clear. Receptivity is also the driving force of what we give. Our resources are finite and unless we make peace with this, we will live constantly struggling in exhaustion, and angst in an attempt to survive on output not realizing we have nothing fueling us.
If our cup is empty we have nothing to give, and how we fill it is not necessarily based on self-care — it’s based on presence. This is the art of receptivity.
Slowing down is more productive than you may think.
One of the biggest entities that pulls us away from our feminine power is busyness and overwhelm. Even though it may feel counterintuitive, slowing down is one of the most productive things we can often do in this demanding world. Slowing down in itself is empowering. It’s illuminating — especially in the moments when we feel the most pressure not to. The rapid pace that society tries to sweep us up in, is one of the most detrimental forces to our power. Slowing down is an act of resistance.
The wild woman and the sacredness of our bodies.
We are not living in a body — we are a body. This is the wisdom of the Wild Woman.
The Wild Woman’s medicine is rooted in sensuality, embodiment, and presence. Her medicine is rooted in her being fully alive and present in her physical sensual experience of this life. She trusts her bodily instincts. This is how her intuitive wisdom guides her. Her instincts are visceral, and this is where her presence lies.
Attuning to the unseen world.
Our feminine power comes from many things — and attuning to the unseen world is the center point from which we must navigate everything. Activating our feminine power is profoundly nurtured by our relationship with the divine, great spirit, or whatever that force that is greater than us may be. Yes, a huge part of our power comes from our inner work — it comes from the liberation of shadow work and the great work of shifting from shame to self-Love, but our power as women also comes from awakening our felt sense feminine intelligence that is bound with the divine.
The liberation of shadow work.
Shadow work is a process of unwinding between our conscious and unconscious selves to free ourselves from our own constraints. But sometimes we try so hard to let our story go and move on, and we try so hard to be the bigger better person, and we try so hard to heal, succeed, and liberate ourselves that we can engrain what we are trying to let go of more deeply.
The more conscious we are when we face shadow work, the more leverage we have for freedom, but for those who know this, it can be easy to think we are doing the right thing pursuing it when we are instead digging ourselves a trench.
Shame to self-love.
We all have shame, and we all hide to some degree no matter how minute. Shame to self-love is the first significant shift in claiming our personal power. Without shame, we have no inhibitions. And without our inhibitions, our inner wise one is set free.
We may intellectually understand that shame has no right to keep us small. We may know that we should love ourselves and that what other people think doesn’t or shouldn’t matter, but why is this so hard?
9 signs that you’re embodying your feminine power.
Embodying our feminine power means many things — but it ultimately means tapping into our many facets, energies, and the vastness of our magnificence and setting ourselves free.
Feminine power is everything. It’s beautiful and messy, dark and light, made of birth and death and the Goddess teaches us how to alchemize and work with all of it. Our life’s work is breathing in deeply to where we contract, what’s keeping us small, and the stories that no longer serve us and shining brightly in our exhale with all that we have.
The truth about feminine power.
Claiming our feminine power means knowing our worth, otherwise, we will never have the strength to harness it. It means embodying the shameless woman amidst all our imperfections. We can have self-reverence and be humble, and we can have confidence and make mistakes. We can trust in our knowing, even if we don’t know where we are going or what's next. We can have courage and be terrified. Ultimately, power is confidence because without confidence we freeze, hesitate, doubt, and are reluctant to follow the truth flooding within us — and we are reluctant to love and accept ourselves as is.
How to free our feminine energy: Let the Goddess Dance.
Our power and feminine energy is activated when we are able to surrender to who we are.
Our feminine power’s greatest ally is our ability to surrender and accept the current of energy within and around us for exactly what it is. It’s finding harmony with the forces attempting to carry us instead of distrusting the gravity. The feminine is fluid, cyclical, vast, and shapeshifting. We are many things. We are contradictory in nature but our vast polarities are what makes us whole. Our many faces, moods, energies, and embodiments are what make us complete. This magnitude is our power and we’ve been taught to constrain and deny it.
The biggest misconception of shadow work.
The dark side of shadow work is letting the process itself swallow us whole. It’s allowing our pursuit of healing to blind us from our already healed state. It's being oblivious to the abundance in front of us, the potential at our fingertips, and all the love that is waiting for us to wake up, open, and receive it. The dark side of shadow work is believing that we need to be fixed. It's becoming attached to the story of our survivorship, or what is wrong, lacking, or not serving us. It’s allowing our drive to become dependent upon our fires of rage, bitterness, and injustice — because this then binds us to a wounded identity.
How to activate your feminine power by surrendering to your capacity.
Beautiful woman, surrender to your capacity. Happiness does not come from denying ourselves, and joy does not live where we cannot breathe. Creativity doesn’t flourish on flumes, and passion cannot be forced.
Deaths adornments.
Rebirth is death’s adornment making us forget that we must burn to ashes to rise like the phoenix. Rebirth often conceals this bound relationship with the dark. It instead taunts us with its beauty. With its hope, light, and promises. Rebirth taunts us with images — images of what we long to become, of the life we dream to create, and the truths we ache to embody. In some ways, I thank god that they dance in this way — destruction and creation, life and death, endings and beginnings, and the dark and light. Because otherwise who would surrender? Who would ever step into the fire? Who would jump off the edge? Who would dare let go and leap for more?
