Women’s Health
The Winds of Homecoming: Surrender into Certainty
“The inner, what is it:
if not intensified sky hurled through with birds
and deep with the winds of homecoming.”
~~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Today, November 13, Mercury and Venus both turn direct, an alignment that rarely happens. After weeks of review, revisiting, and looking back, the energy begins to move forward again.
If last week was about gathering the year, this week is about carrying it home.
But before we rush forward, I want to ask you something.
Are you the woman holding up the world?
The one who remembers every birthday, anticipates everyone’s needs, and keeps all the plates spinning, especially now, as the holidays start to gather speed?
Just because you can carry it all, does that mean it’s all yours to carry? continue reading
The Long Way Home: Surrender into Certainty
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‘The desire to go home is a desire to be whole,
to know where you are,
to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars,
to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world,
that center called love.
~~ Rebecca Solnit
Greetings to all my precious people!
There’s a particular quiet that arrives in early November. The leaves are mostly down. The light retreats earlier each afternoon. Tomorrow, November 7, marks Li Dong in the Chinese calendar, the Start of Winter, when the year’s energy turns from the letting go of Metal toward the deep, gathering stillness of Water.
And the sky, it seems, agrees. Mercury is retrograde until November 13, a season many of us know as a time for review: revisiting, reconsidering, looking back before moving forward.
So this week, let’s look back together. continue reading
The Threshold & The Doorway: Surrender into Certainty
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“The natural healing force within each of us
is the greatest force in getting well.”
~~ Hippocrates
Greetings to all my precious people,
We have arrived at the door we’ve been walking toward since the first cool morning in September.
Samhain — the Celtic New Year — falls this week. Tonight, the old traditions say, the veil between worlds goes thin enough to cross. Not frightening, exactly, though it can feel that way if you’ve been taught to fear the dark rather than trust it. The ancestors are said to walk close on this night. The harvest is fully in. The wheel completes its turn and, in the same breath, begins again.
This is the final beat of the journey we’ve been walking together all Autumn — the hero returning, not to where she started, but somewhere new, carrying something she didn’t have when she left. The old stories call this the Return with the Elixir. For weeks, I’ve asked you to trust an ember, tend a root, survive a shedding you didn’t fully choose. Here is the truth those weeks were building toward: the elixir was never out there. It isn’t a lesson you bring back from the underworld like a souvenir. It’s the natural healing force Hippocrates named more than two thousand years ago — the one that was in you before any of this Autumn began, simply waiting for enough clearing to be recognized. continue reading
Your Healing Was **Never** Just About You
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“In the shelter of each other, the people live.”
(Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine)
~~ Irish proverb
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Longtime readers will remember The C.O.A.C.H. Method I return to again and again — Curiosity, Optimism, Awareness, Courage, and Hope & Healing. (New here? Welcome. You’ve arrived right where you need to be.) Today I want to follow that path one step further than we usually go — past your own healing, to the quiet truth that so many of you have been sensing lately:
Your healing journey was never just about you. continue reading
What Do You Need Right Now?
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“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do
is be on my own side.”
— Maya Angelou
Greetings to all my precious people!!
What do you need right now?
When was the last time you actually checked in with your Self and asked? We are exquisitely attuned to the needs of everyone else. We know when the baby needs feeding, when the dog needs walking, when our people need a hug, a nap, a snack. But us? How often do we touch base with our own precious Self and ask what needs tending?
Just let that settle for a moment. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Place your hand over your heart — and ask: What do I need right now? continue reading
