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Journey to the heart of the wilderness
In my community I co- facilitate two lodges for girls. Birthing these lodges has been a wonderful deepening of my own path. The reason for birthing them was my two daughters, as i wanted a community of women to be there for them as the journey on their path to womanhood. Each of the women…
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Healing the Maiden Within – Recovering your Soulskin
Healing the maiden within and recovering your ‘Soulskin’ When we look back at our maiden time as women, most of us did not have a smooth transition from maiden to Woman. As we emerged and blossomed into our fullness there was probably some people or situations which caused the unfolding of ourselves in all our…
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Restoring Community – Sisters working together to hold their daughters
Restoring community – Sisters working together to hold their daughters. How do we work together as sisters for the holding of our daughters? How can we work in harmony to recreate the lodges of old where the women held the girls as they grew into women? How do we all becoming the mentors our daughters…
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Recovering ourselves – Shamanic Journeying- holding our youth in strength
Recovering ourselves – holding our youth in strength I have recently started working with women to help them recover their inner girl and inner teenager. This work is vital for healing yourself, clearing your shield and enabling you to become your natural self. If your working with youth it is even more important. It…
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Ancestral Issues….Becoming your Natural Self
It was Samhain Yesterday and i held a ceremony with my daughters age 9 and 12, for healing for us and our family line. This ceremony was a follow on from the Big Girl Hoop Ceremony, or Girlbloom ceremony which help a girl step from little to big before their first blood.…
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This Spiralling Life
Hi lovely people I have made this little video of the ‘This Spiralling Life’ story that I wrote…the image is of the map of womanhood to use with girls. This story came from an encounter i had with a Mayan Shaman in a place called Lake Atitlan in Guatamala. I had such a profound and…
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Spirit animals and shamanic journeying with our youth.
In this blog i am sharing my experience of journeying with young people, mostly with Women-becoming. I start spirit animal work with children at any age…teaching them about the medicine of each animal , using the teachings and medicine of animals in stories and ceremonies. For example…I brought Heron medicine to the girl-bloom ceremony I…
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Recovering our natural self
I have been on my healing journey for 20 years. trying to find my way out of separation into connection, trying to understand why i am here, what is my purpose and healing the trauma that comes from separation from self ,spirit, love and our mother Earth. As a young one i always had a…
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The re-claiming and recovery of our ‘Soulskin’
Our journey as awakening women is one of deep healing and the recovery of our natural authentic selves. A powerful journey, reconnecting us back to Earth, spirit and love, leading to the re-discovery of our Wildwoman. It is the recovery of our ‘Soulskin’ as Clarrissa Pinkolas Estes writes in her powerful book ‘Women that run…
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Soulskin
One of the many stories i share with my daughters and with girls in circles, is the Sealskin Soulskin story by Clarrissa Pinkolas Estes…. I have weaved it together with a ceremony and activity, to create a powerful teaching tool : see gathering your wisdom bundle download for more details. It is such i wonderful…
The Map of Womanhood School - Rites of passage 