This is the last in a series, WomanKind on reclaiming the feminine. A Dreaming Poem Do you ever feel like you exist between two worlds. This living and waking world and the world of dreams and visions? An origin story invited in by my sub conscious, like this one affirms my Piscean nature. Deeper and …
This is the ninth in a series, WomanKind on reclaiming the feminine. “author” from the Latin word auctus, which translates literally to ‘one who causes to grow.’ The story begins around the age of 50, it could be an alter-tale for many women. It goes something like this. Woman wakes from a recurring dream, one …
This is the eighth in a series, WomanKind on reclaiming the feminine. The body heals when I feel. Where does the pain reside, what does it need, what is love wanting to say to this place of discomfort, contraction, pain? How is the body teaching me to receive it? It’s a unique voice in all …
This is the seventh in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. The moment of bewilderment when I wake up from the trance. How did I get here? Where did I go wrong? How could I be so naive? I thought I knew my body. I’m 47 and unknowingly in my last bleeding year, earlier …
This is the sixth in the series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. Does the question, “What is your relationship with feminine power?” make you feel uncomfortable, ambivalent, angry, excited? When feminine + power exists in the same sentence, I’ve had to look at all the ways I’ve personally set down my power, consciously and unconsciously …
This is the fifth in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. Standing in the snaking line of a busy coffee shop, the woman in front of me comments on the lack of social distance I am giving her. I am standing on the front door mat of the cafe and she is on the …
This is the fourth in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. People like to put others in boxes; they become easier to understand. As women we often identify ourselves in very limiting ways, “I’m the wife of, the mother of, the CEO of….” How often have you asked someone what they do and then …
This is the third in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. Soft centre is found in the scent of jasmine in spring, a warm embrace, a sunset, the fertile forest floor, the vast night sky, a sunlight rock pool, an awakened heart. It is the first smell of rain hitting parched earth, surrendering to …
This is the second in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. In to me see* Intimacy is not a tap, it’s a wellof bottomless desire to drown in.A vulnerable, devastating place,echoes of my unmet needs.Dark risky places of raw rejection. Intimacy feels chancy, it can go either waydown a long corridor thatends in a …
This is the first in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine In this instant when we all need deep listening, peace, connection and compassion, the world is at war. The enemy can’t be seen or heard, has no shape, except a crown, a halo of light, a “corona”. The enemy, we have been led …
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