I used to think I had way more masculine energy than feminine energy. I was the no label, jeans and t-shirt wearing, mountain climbing, adventurous outdoor chick. I was definitely not a girly girl. Even growing up in a pretty liberal, hippy, idealist community where everything goes, I still absorbed these cultural norms we…
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I wanted to talk about something I see a lot i the self development world and is often totally misconstrued, and that’s risk taking. More specifically the relationship between risk taking and growth. You’ve heard it many, many, (many), times before. “Life begins outside of your comfort zone” “Great things never came from comfort…
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We are under the illusion that we live in an equal society. This is a gross understatement and rather dangerous illusion. By “we” I mean the educated Western world. We believe that in this post-feminist era, here in the year 2022, we are somehow above our biology, our neurology, our history. We are not. In…
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Yesterday I was chatting with my friend Naomi about my past experience with all of the past Tower moments in my life – how I usually embrace and accept them. I hate them just as much as anyone else, but I also accept them – this is what is happening right now. Ok. There is…
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Something I have gotten very clear about recently is just how vital – literally vital – it is to fully occupy my form with my essence. To grow something, to truly create something, to allow it to emerge through you, you must be able to lay down it’s roots – your roots. This is the…
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I didn’t pull a tarot card today. I’m feeling the pull to write from the Great Mystery and see what emerges. As I moved through the last few days of personal retreat, I sat with something the main teacher/mentor had said many times. She said (abridged) that a lot of people struggle with…
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I don’t feel qualified to write about this. However I also can’t deny my own lived experience in a female body, embodying a predominantly feminine essence, and so I will write this from my own lived experience – from living in my own body. First, let’s get clear about what I mean by “shadow”…
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