Most of this article appeared on Wild Women Wisdom originally on March 4, 2013 Now, it’s important to clarify some ideas. This work, the women’s work or depth development, lets call it soul work. Soul work can edge up next to concepts that are self-helpy and lots of people, including myself, get eye rolls…
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Stop demonizing black youth.
And if you’re white, ask yourself if the privilege of taking your child’s safety for granted blinds you to your ethical responsibility of speaking up.
Wild Wisdom IS Social Justice
Wild Wisdom is about trusting inner, authentic soul, and instinct. TO GET THERE, one must take on the Real Work of deprogramming our persona wounds. One major form of this are the societal rules and roles to which we unconsciously subscribe. In doing so, our power of choice is limited. When we do our own…
The Women’s Work
Two Thursday’s ago, in the low, monastic candle-lit room here in the hobbit house in the canyon wall, I prepared wordlessly for an important initiation. Not that of an ancient rite or mysterious sect. To all appearances, in fact, it was little more than a scholastic necessity. I prepared to drive to Santa Barbara, to…
Call for Submissions: Riot Wise
Call for Submissions! Introducing Riot Wise…a Zine-to-be with the kind of gems from riotgrrrl’s all grown up…Who have well-fought Wild (not socially programmed) Wisdom! Riot Wise wants work from Ladies & Gents—I’m looking for YOUR personal stories!!! of YOU! About the complexities of finding, or honoring your self, taking you seriously, that struggle, confusion, frustration,…
Looks, cast with wary
And here it is, moonlight again; we’ve bathed in the river and are sweet and wholesome once more. We kneel side-by-side in the sand; we worship each other in whispers. But the inner parts remember the fermenting hay, the comfortable odor of dung, the animal incense, and passion, its bloody labor its birth and rebirth…
Kairos: The art of this sacred moment.
Read about my recent visit to Catalina, and the necessity of cultivating soul-time, or Kairos, over at Dandelion Moms…
Today is Appreciation Day
Which is the 15th of every month, and created and celebrated by me as a means of practicing deep, unconditional self-love for 24 hours, no matter what. It means I have to be really aware of self-talk and behavior. It means I get to relish in love and good feelings. It means I get a…
Emotional Embodiment
Here is my latest post on Dandelion Moms, on embodying the feminine in psychotherapy…
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