Working with inner dialogue, self-compassion, and emotional awareness This reflection explores the practice of being kind to yourself through awareness of inner dialogue, emotional patterns, and self-compassion. Rather than fixing or silencing the inner critic, this approach invites curiosity, presence, and gentler self-relationship, especially during moments of contraction, discomfort, or self-judgment. _ Not being kind […]
While we dive into the energies of the ovulatory/inner summer/flowering phase (days 12-19 of your cycle), lets talk relationships. “Intimate or romantic relationships – those relationships in which you reveal (either all at once or slowly, layer by layer) the tender and beautiful and large and small aspects of who you are to another – are fodder […]
“Our impulses of self-love, the desire to nurture ourselves, to receive pleasure and support, and our practical actions and commitments to give our body what is needs to thrive and bloom, are rooted in our connection with the Divine Mother.” – Azra & Seren Bertrand, Womb Awakening Nature is my biggest teacher. Everywhere I look […]
Even the softest, sweetest flowers have boundaries. Boundaries are necessary for growth. When your boundaries are healthy, you will: – Be able to ‘hear’ what your needs and desires are moment by moment and make decisions that honour those needs and desires – Feel how you are feeling, not just how everyone around you (or in the […]
Your follicular phase (or roughly days 5-12 of your menstrual cycle) holds the precious energy of new beginnings. Like an inner springtime. There is often a major energetic shift here – a sudden upsurge of testosterone and estrogen as your body prepares for the abundance of inner summer to come. New beginnings are great, but they […]
RECLAIMING MENSTRUATION:FROM SHAMEFUL TO SACRED SERIES Ritual: Offer Your Life Blood Back to the Earth Besides taking deep rest, this is the one ritual I share with every client because it has the capacity to heal our relationship with our blood and all that is symbolizes for us. I first learned it from my dear […]