Inanna Sanctuary: Integrative Health

09/27/2025

Let’s Get Grief As Praise on the Bestseller List! 💫

My book, Grief As Praise: A Surrender Into Love, is now officially available worldwide on Amazon…and I need your help. ❤️🙏🏼

If this work has touched your heart in any way, or if you believe the world needs more sacred, honest spaces for grief and healing, I’d be so grateful if you’d support me in this mission:

- Buy the book (every early sale counts toward bestseller rankings!)
- Gift it to a friend, therapist, healer, or support group
- Share this post with your community or story
- Leave a review on Amazon if you’ve already read it

This book was born from deep loss, and written as a love letter to all who grieve.

Let’s make grief sacred again. Let’s show the world that mourning is praise.
With all my heart…thank you for walking this path with me.

~ Freyja

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09/24/2025

Embalming Grief: How We Delay the Inevitable
A reflection on our fear of mortality and the sacred return to the earth.

In the modern world, we often live as though we are separate from nature. We pave it, tame it, confine it, and try to insulate ourselves from its cycles. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ways we deal with death. We cannot seem to accept that the end of the body is not an aberration but the most natural conclusion of life’s arc.

Instead of allowing the body to return gently to the soil, we seek to delay, disguise, and deny what is inevitable. We place our loved ones in sealed coffins, stone tombs, and concrete vaults…as if the earth were a contaminant rather than the womb from which we came. We embalm the body with chemicals, halting the process of decay for a time, while pushing down our grief under the illusion of preservation.

But these practices do not protect us. They only reflect our deep discomfort with mortality. They reveal how much we fear the truth that the body…like every leaf, every animal, every breath…belongs to the earth. We are not above this cycle. We are part of it.

In trying to keep death “clean,” “sanitary,” or “distant,” we rob ourselves of the profound wisdom that comes from remembering: decay is not an end, but a transformation. The body returns to the soil, the soil nourishes life, and the cycle continues. To resist this truth is to resist life itself.

Grief, too, follows a natural rhythm. Just as we try to embalm and entomb the body, we often attempt to suppress our sorrow…delaying its expression or keeping it hidden. Yet grief is meant to move through us, to break us open, and to root us more deeply in love. By denying both grief and decay, we distance ourselves from the intimacy of our place in the great web of being.

What if, instead, we could re-imagine death not as something to hide from but as something to honor? What if our farewell rituals allowed us to witness the sacred return…the giving back of flesh and bone to Mother Earth? In such a perspective, mortality becomes not a horror to avoid but a teacher, a guide, a reminder that our lives are threads in a vast and unbroken tapestry.

To embrace death as part of life is to release control, to surrender the illusion of separation, and to remember that we belong wholly and humbly to the earth.



Photo - Glascow Necropolis taken by Freyja Inanna, October 2024

Embalming Grief: How We Delay the Inevitable
A reflection on our fear of mortality and the sacred return to the earth.

In the modern world, we often live as though we are separate from nature. We pave it, tame it, confine it, and try to insulate ourselves from its cycles. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ways we deal with death. We cannot seem to accept that the end of the body is not an aberration but the most natural conclusion of life’s arc.

Instead of allowing the body to return gently to the soil, we seek to delay, disguise, and deny what is inevitable. We place our loved ones in sealed coffins, stone tombs, and concrete vaults…as if the earth were a contaminant rather than the womb from which we came. We embalm the body with chemicals, halting the process of decay for a time, while pushing down our grief under the illusion of preservation.

But these practices do not protect us. They only reflect our deep discomfort with mortality. They reveal how much we fear the truth that the body…like every leaf, every animal, every breath…belongs to the earth. We are not above this cycle. We are part of it.

In trying to keep death “clean,” “sanitary,” or “distant,” we rob ourselves of the profound wisdom that comes from remembering: decay is not an end, but a transformation. The body returns to the soil, the soil nourishes life, and the cycle continues. To resist this truth is to resist life itself.

Grief, too, follows a natural rhythm. Just as we try to embalm and entomb the body, we often attempt to suppress our sorrow…delaying its expression or keeping it hidden. Yet grief is meant to move through us, to break us open, and to root us more deeply in love. By denying both grief and decay, we distance ourselves from the intimacy of our place in the great web of being.

What if, instead, we could re-imagine death not as something to hide from but as something to honor? What if our farewell rituals allowed us to witness the sacred return…the giving back of flesh and bone to Mother Earth? In such a perspective, mortality becomes not a horror to avoid but a teacher, a guide, a reminder that our lives are threads in a vast and unbroken tapestry.

To embrace death as part of life is to release control, to surrender the illusion of separation, and to remember that we belong wholly and humbly to the earth.



Photo - Glascow Necropolis taken by Freyja Inanna, October 2024

09/18/2025

📚 Any day now… it becomes real.
Grief as Praise: A Surrender Into Love will be available on Amazon any day now…and my heart is overflowing.

This book has lived inside me for years. Born from loss, shaped by love, and written in the raw truth of my own healing journey after the death of my son, Jared, and the many layers of grief I’ve walked through since.

This isn’t just a book. It’s a call to remember that grief is sacred. That mourning is not a problem to fix, but a devotion to express. That the pain of loss is also a testament to how deeply we have loved.

I can’t wait to place this book in your hands.
To invite you into the stories, the rituals, the poetry, the truths.

✨ Grief as Praise is coming… stay close.

~ Freyja

09/08/2025

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Freyja Inanna is a holistic grief guide, nurse, herbalist, and psychsomatic therapist. She blends ancestral wisdom and trauma-informed care to support deep healing. Rooted in personal loss, her work inspires compassion. Grief as Praise is her debut book.

09/06/2025

Grief As Praise: A Surrender Into Love

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We live in a culture that has forgotten how to grieve.
Instead of allowing sorrow to be expressed as the sacred love it truly is, society shames and silences it…leaving us disconnected, anxious, depressed, and unable to fully honour what (or who) we love.

Grief As Praise: A Surrender Into Love is a 14-module online program designed to restore the lost art of mourning. This journey does not attempt to “fix” grief—it allows you to fully feel it, honour it, and transform through it.

Through ritual, somatic practice, ceremony, storytelling, and guided reflection, you will learn to:
✨ Embrace grief as a sacred expression of love
✨ Honour the many forms of loss...death, relationships, identity, dreams, and more
✨ Move from silence into authentic expression
✨ Transform isolation into meaningful connection
✨ Reclaim grief as praise for what you most deeply love

This is not a comfortable journey…but it is a profoundly healing one. Grief is not something to “get over.” It is love itself, seeking to be expressed.

Inside the 14 Modules:
• Reclaiming the Forgotten Art of Grieving
• Stages & Needs of Mourning (Dr. Alan Wolfelt’s model)
• Loss in All Its Forms…beyond death
• Anticipatory & Perinatal Grief
• The Sound & Expression of Grief
• Companioning the Bereaved
• Grief in Addiction & Su***de
• Integration: Living Fully Again

“Grief has a sound, a sound that embarrasses the repressed and offends the oppressive; grief is the sound of being alive.”
~ Martin Prechtel

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If you are ready to surrender into love, honour your losses, and reclaim grief as praise…this program is your invitation.

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08/27/2025

The Blood Transformed: The Power of Crones and the Cycles Beyond Bleeding

Opening Blessing
To the women entering the time of deep ripening…
To the mothers of mothers, the grandmothers of memory…
To the Crones who walk between worlds with steady feet…
This is for you. May you remember: your power has not ended. It has multiplied.

The Myth of Loss

In patriarchal culture, menopause (or the loss of one’s womb) is spoken of as an ending. Women are told they are “dry,” “barren,” or “past their prime.” This narrative is a lie. It is one of the most damaging distortions ever cast upon women, designed to sever us from our truest power just as we are stepping into it.

The blood does not disappear…it transforms. The cycle does not end…it shifts into subtler, deeper tides. The womb does not lose her magic…she becomes the cauldron of wisdom, the vessel of vision, the hearth-fire of the lineage.

The Perimenopausal Passage

Perimenopause is the crossing. Hormones fluctuate, emotions surge, and the body changes. It is a time of initiation, of shedding not only eggs but old identities. What served the Maiden no longer fits. What sustained the Mother no longer defines.

In this liminal space, the body may ache and sweat, the mind may burn with restlessness, the soul may howl for freedom. This is not pathology…it is purification. The body is recalibrating, stripping away what is false, preparing a woman for her emergence as Crone.

The Crone: Keeper of the Eternal Cycle

When bleeding ceases, women do not fall out of rhythm with the Moon. They remain cyclical, attuned to the waxing and waning of energy, the tides of intuition, the pull of the Earth’s magnetic song. Their cycles simply move beyond the physical shedding of blood into subtler currents of life force.

The Crone embodies:
• Vision: Her inner sight sharpens; dreams and intuitions speak louder.
• Authority: Freed from the monthly descent, she stands rooted in steady power, unshaken by others’ expectations.
• Transmission: She becomes a living library, carrying the teachings of her blood years into the collective.
• Presence: Her value is not in doing or producing, but in being…holding space, bearing witness, weaving wisdom.

The blood may no longer flow, but the wisdom of the blood now saturates every cell of her body. It is no longer poured out monthly; it is distilled into essence.

The Sacred Role of Middle-Aged and Elder Women

In cultures that remain connected to the Earth, elder women are revered. They are the council, the oracles, the guardians of ritual, the ones who remember. In the absence of bleeding, they are freed from the demands of fertility and mothering, and are thus able to serve the community in new ways.

Middle-aged and elder women carry the medicine of discernment. They see through illusions. They know the cost of compromise. They speak truth without apology. Their bodies may slow, but their spirits blaze.

It is no coincidence that patriarchal systems diminished this phase of life, shaming older women as “useless” or “invisible.” A society disconnected from its elders is a society disconnected from its roots. But in truth, elder women are the roots. They are the ones who hold us to the Earth when the winds of chaos blow.

The Earth and the Crone

The cycles of peri- and post-menopause are not personal alone…they mirror the Earth’s wisdom. The Crone phase is winter: a time of stillness, clarity, and distilled knowing. It is also the soil…dark, rich, containing all that has died and all that will grow again.

Elder women, like the Earth, hold paradox: they embody endings, but they also guard the seeds of beginnings. They show us how to die gracefully and how to live deeply. They remind us that life is not linear but cyclical, spiraling ever inward and outward.

When a woman in her Crone years sits upon the Earth, her body hums with a resonance different from her bleeding years. It is not the monthly tide but the great river of memory, the songline of ancestry, the heartbeat of the Mother herself.

Reclaiming the Crone in Our Time

To restore balance, we must bring back reverence for our elders. We must remember that:
• Perimenopause is initiation, not illness.
• Menopause is transformation, not decline.
• Cronehood is ascension into a new form of power, not disappearance.

The Crone is not less…she is more. She no longer spends her life force in monthly outpouring, but instead radiates it in every glance, word, and act of presence.

Closing Blessing
To the women who bleed no more:
Your womb is still holy.
Your cycles are still turning.
Your wisdom is still ripening.
You are not past your power…you are its embodiment.
You are the fire in the hearth, the voice of the ancestors,
the hands that bless the young, the feet rooted in the Mother.
Your blood has not ended. It has become eternal within you.

From my work in progress, ‘The Sacred Rebellion: Reclaiming Pleasure as a Path to the Divine’ © 2025

08/26/2025

Blood, Power, and Control: How Men Have Tried to Co-opt the Sacred Feminine

Blood is the first covenant with life. It flows at birth, at death, in wounds, and in the monthly tide of those who carry wombs. In ancient times, menstrual blood was revered as sacred…a sign of fertility, a symbol of life force, a direct expression of the cycles of the Earth and Moon. It was seen as power.

But over centuries, that power was feared. Instead of honoring blood as holy, patriarchal systems sought to control, weaponize, and redefine it. Where women’s blood spoke of life, ritual, and renewal, men turned blood into the language of war, conquest, and dominance.

From Power With… to Power Over

In matrilineal societies, blood mysteries were woven into ritual and community. The blood of menstruation and childbirth was linked to the turning of the seasons, to planting and harvest, to prophecy and healing. Womb-bearers were seen as keepers of cosmic rhythms.

As patriarchy rose, this balance shifted. Blood no longer belonged to the sacred circle of women; it was dragged onto the battlefield. War became the male ritual of blood…not life-giving, but life-taking. The spilling of blood in violence became the sanctioned way to access power.

What was once a shared reverence…a power with…was distorted into a hierarchy of power over. Instead of honoring women’s cycles, patriarchal structures demonized them: menstruation was called “unclean,” women were excluded from sacred spaces, and the very act of bleeding…once holy…was turned into shame.

War, Oppression, and the Theft of the Sacred

By redefining blood as the currency of violence rather than life, men placed themselves as gatekeepers of power. The sword replaced the womb as the source of legitimacy. Kingdoms, empires, and even religions rose on this inversion:
• Warfare became a blood ritual that exalted the spilling of others’ life force.
• Religious institutions declared menstrual blood impure while glorifying the blood of male sacrifice and martyrdom.
• Colonial systems spread this distortion globally, severing indigenous cultures from their menstrual rites and moon lodges.
• Medicine and science, rooted in patriarchal frameworks, pathologized menstruation, calling it weakness or “hysteria.”

This was not accidental. It was a deliberate co-opting of the feminine mystery…a way to control not only women’s bodies, but the very source of creation and renewal they represent.

The Sacred Blood Reclaimed

To heal this wound, we must remember: menstrual blood is not weakness, it is wisdom. It is not something to be hidden, but something to be honored.

When we reclaim ritual around our moon cycles, we undo centuries of conditioning. We sit with our blood as our ancestors did…as prophecy, as offering, as medicine. We refuse to measure ourselves by the standards of constant productivity, and instead align with the sacred ebb and flow of energy.

To say “Your blood is your power” is a radical act of reclamation in a culture that glorifies spilled blood in violence while silencing the blood that brings forth life.

Ways Forward: Returning to Power With
• Ritual: Create ceremonies around your bleed…light a candle, rest intentionally, offer prayers to the Earth.
• Embodiment: Practice womb breathing, pelvic awareness, and movement that honors your cycle.
• Community: Gather with others in circle during menstruation…restoring the moon lodge, the red tent, the place where womb wisdom is shared.
• Reframing Blood: Speak of your blood as life force, not inconvenience. Share this language with your daughters, your sisters, your communities.
• Challenging Systems: Refuse narratives that glorify war while diminishing women’s cycles. Remember that cycles of creation and renewal are truer measures of strength than conquest.

Closing Invocation

For every drop of blood shed in war, may there be a river of womb-blood remembered as holy.
For every system that called us impure, may we stand taller in our sacredness.
For every act of power over, may we return to power with.
And may we never forget: our blood is not shame, it is sovereignty. Our blood is not weakness, it is wisdom. Our blood is not a curse… it is our power.

~ Freyja Inanna - From my work in progress, ‘The Sacred Rebellion: Reclaiming Pleasure as a Path to the Divine’ © 2025

References

Buckley, T., & Gottlieb, A. (Eds.). (1988). Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. University of California Press.
(Provides anthropological insights into menstruation’s cultural and sacred aspects, and how those have shifted over time.)

Johnson, A. G. (2014). The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy (3rd ed.). Temple University Press.
(Analyzes how patriarchal systems co-opt feminist frameworks and structure power hierarchies.)

Knight, C. (1991). Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture. Yale University Press.
(Outlines theories about menstruation’s role in early ritual, kinship, myth, and the emergence of male-dominated structures.)

Eisler, R. (1987). The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. Harper & Row.
(Contrasts the partnership model of early societies with the dominator model, providing a framework for understanding patriarchal oppression.)

Daly, M. (1978). Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Beacon Press.
(Critiques how patriarchy has co-opted sacred female functions and framed them within oppressive structures.)

Helen, C. (1971). The First S*x. Putnam.
(Explores the theory of matriarchal societies and how patriarchal revolutions supplanted female-centered power.)

Williams, K. (2017). The Menstrual Taboo and Modern Indian Identity (Honors thesis). Western Kentucky University.
(Examines how cultural taboos around menstruation in India serve as mechanisms of control over women’s bodies.)

Clue. (2017, September. How did menstruation become taboo? Clue. https://helloclue.com/articles/culture/how-did-menstruation-become-taboo
(Explores the roots of menstrual stigma, highlighting how menstrual secrecy and shame reinforce patriarchal norms.)

08/24/2025

For my birthday, I would be deeply honored if you would join me in a space beyond social media…
Inanna Sanctuary: The Rewoven Circle.

This is more than a group.
It is a soul-led community for grief alchemy, holistic healing, and the sacred return to self.

Here, we honor grief as sacred, remember that healing is rooted in wholeness, and reclaim desire as divine.
Together, we descend into the depths, rising with greater truth, softness, and strength.
We reweave what was broken, forgotten, or silenced into embodied wisdom, radiant love, and sovereign expression.

Come as you are. Your becoming is holy.
Step into the circle and walk this path of remembrance with me.

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With love,
Freyja 🙏🏼❤️🎂🎁

We bring together soul-led individuals who long to reclaim wholeness through grief alchemy, holistic healing, and sacred sexuality, so that we can remember our innate wisdom, restore our vitality, and live from a place of embodied truth and connection.

08/24/2025

The Sacred Balance: Reclaiming the Womb as the Source of Power

From my work in progress, ‘The Sacred Rebellion: Reclaiming Pleasure as a Path to the Divine’ © 2025

Opening Blessing
Beloved womb-bearer…
Daughter of the Moon… Keeper of the tides within…
May these words be a remembering.
A loosening of the knots that have bound you away from your own rhythm.
A calling back to the temple that lives beneath your heart.
Here, in the soft darkness of your womb,
the old songs still hum, waiting for your breath, your blood, your presence.

For too long, those of us with wombs have been living in a system that does not honor our rhythms. We are told to push through, to keep pace with the world as though our bodies are machines rather than sacred temples. The messages are clear: productivity is valued over presence, and rest is treated as weakness. This is the lie that has pulled us away from the deep wisdom of our wombs.

Our menstrual cycles…once honored as a time of retreat, reflection, and communion with the unseen…have become something to hide, something inconvenient, something to be pushed through. We ignore the whispers of fatigue, the ache of cramps, the signs of depletion… until our bodies scream in imbalance.

The truth is this: when our hormones are in balance and our nourishment supports our cyclical nature, our moon cycles are not meant to be painful or excessively heavy. In a healthy, balanced body, total menstrual blood loss averages 2–3 tablespoons (about 30–40 mL) over the entire cycle. This is the natural ebb of life force, a cleansing and renewal…not a hemorrhage of vitality.

When we bleed far beyond that, we are bleeding out our life force. Heavy bleeding is not just an inconvenience; it is a sign of depletion. It tells us that our hormones, our nourishment, and our nervous systems are out of alignment. It tells us that we are carrying too much, doing too much, and resting too little. And it asks us to remember…your blood is your power, not something to be drained away by imbalance.

Signs Your Hormones Are Out of Balance
• Excessive bleeding: more than 6 tablespoons (80 mL) total per cycle.
• Cycles shorter than 24 days or longer than 35 days.
• Severe cramps that require regular pain medication.
• Extreme mood swings or anxiety before menstruation.
• PMS symptoms that disrupt daily life (migraines, severe bloating, rage, depression).
• Fatigue or dizziness during or after menstruation.
• Mid-cycle spotting or irregular bleeding.

If you notice these signs, it is your body calling you back into connection…to slow down, listen, and restore balance.

The Hidden Thieves of Hormonal Harmony

One of the greatest contributors to modern menstrual imbalance is the constant assault of endocrine disruptors…chemicals that mimic, block, or interfere with the hormones that govern our cycles. These disruptors are everywhere:
• Foods: pesticides, herbicides, synthetic preservatives, and growth hormones in conventionally raised meat and dairy.
• Plastics: BPA, phthalates, and microplastics leaching into water and food from packaging, bottles, and cookware.
• Perfumes & Fragrances: synthetic scents in perfumes, air fresheners, candles, and cleaning products often contain phthalates, which disrupt estrogen balance.
• Personal Care Products: parabens, sulfates, and formaldehyde-releasing agents in shampoos, lotions, deodorants, and makeup.
• Household Cleaners: solvents, bleach, and ammonia-based products that impact liver detox pathways…the very pathways that help metabolize hormones.

These substances confuse the body’s endocrine system, creating estrogen dominance, irregular cycles, painful cramps, heavy bleeding, and even fertility challenges. The liver…our primary hormone-processing organ…becomes overburdened, and the delicate dance between estrogen, progesterone, and other hormones is thrown into chaos.

Eliminating these disruptors is a radical act of womb sovereignty. It means choosing organic or low-spray produce whenever possible, replacing plastic storage containers with glass or stainless steel, seeking out truly natural perfumes and body care, and learning to read labels with discernment. Every choice we make in this direction is a step toward bringing our cycles back into balance.

The Moon Cycle: Time of Rest, Power, and Deep Connection

Our bleeding time is meant to be the season of the cycle where we descend into ourselves…where we step back from the demands of the external world and drop into our inner one. It is the time to connect most deeply with the source of our power.

In ancient traditions, menstruating people would gather in sacred space…the red tent, the moon lodge…where they could rest, dream, and receive visions. This wasn’t seen as indulgent; it was understood as essential.

During menstruation, we are at our most powerfully open and connected with our womb wisdom. The veil between the seen and unseen thins, our intuitive abilities heighten, and our body’s natural impulse is to retreat inward to listen. This is not weakness…it is sacred receptivity. When we honor it, we open the channel for guidance, creativity, and deep inner healing to flow freely. This is the time to remember, with every drop of blood, your blood is your power.

Practices to Reconnect the Womb to Its Power

1. Breathe into Your Womb Space
Place both hands over your lower belly. Close your eyes and take slow, deep breaths into your womb, imagining your inhale as golden light filling this space, and your exhale as any tension or pain dissolving away.

2. Sit on the Earth, Yoni to the Mother
Find a private, quiet place in nature. Sit directly on the earth…on moss, sand, grass, or soil…and allow your yoni to connect with the great Mother below you. Feel her pull the heaviness, the grief, the depletion out of your body, and replace it with her grounded, nourishing energy.

3. Release Anger and Stuck Emotions
Many of us carry womb trauma…from birth, miscarriage, abortion, sexual violation, medical intrusion, or generational pain. This energy lodges deep in the tissues. To clear it, you can work with a trusted somatic therapist, womb healer, or begin your own ritual release through movement, sound, and self-touch that is loving and intentional.

4. Support Hormonal Balance with Plant Allies
Herbs have long been our companions in bringing the body back into harmony. Certain plants nourish the endocrine system, support the liver in processing hormones, and help regulate the delicate dance between estrogen, progesterone, and other reproductive hormones. Consider incorporating gentle but powerful allies such as vitex (chasteberry) for cycle regularity, shatavari for nourishing reproductive tissues, raspberry leaf for uterine tone, nettles for deep mineral replenishment, and maca root for balancing stress hormones and energy. Work with these herbs in teas, tinctures, or powders, and whenever possible, connect with them directly…grow them, touch them, offer gratitude before harvesting. Herbs are not just medicine for the body; they are teachers for the soul, reminding us of our interconnection with the living world.

5. Return to Ritual
Light a candle on the first day of your bleed. Offer a bowl of water or a flower to the earth in gratitude for the cycle of life and death that flows through you. Journal your dreams and visions. Rest as much as your life allows…and if the world tells you to keep going, choose rest anyway, even for an hour.

Breaking the Spell of Distraction and Productivity

The modern world thrives on our disconnection. If we are too busy, too tired, too numb to notice the signals of our bodies, we will keep giving away our energy…to jobs, to others’ needs, to a system that will never pause for us.

But we can break the spell. We can reclaim the right to move with our moon cycles instead of against them. We can refuse the conditioning that tells us our worth is measured by our output. We can remember that our wombs are not a burden; they are a source of raw, primal creation …and they must be honored if we wish to live in our full power. And in that remembrance, we reclaim the truth: your blood is your power.

Closing Blessing
Beloved…
May you rest when the blood comes.
May you soften your belly and open your heart to the tides within.
May your womb speak to you in dreams and visions,
and may you have the courage to listen.
May you release what no longer serves
and call in only what nourishes your soul.
You are not a machine. You are a moon-tide, a river, a temple.
Your blood is not a curse…it is your power.

~ Freyja Inanna