Lissa's Natural Skin Care Salon

09/10/2025

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

( ✍️ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )

Art : Svetlana

09/10/2025

“Your new life is going to cost you your old one.

It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction.

It’s going to cost you relationships and friends.

It’s going to cost you being liked and understood.

It doesn’t matter.

The people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward.

Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved.

Instead of being understood, you’re going to be seen.

All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.”

( ✍️ Brianna Wiest )

Art : Avi Sori

09/10/2025

What if one day
you come to the realization
that you never again have to explain
yourself away to anyone anymore,
or that you no longer must carry
the burden of another’s false perception of you
or your own perceived inadequacies
and you could relax, finally,
in knowing you’re incredible
in the light you are standing in
at this moment.
And what if you go on to not care
about the judgments someone
else might have ; that your life is
not full or amazing enough
or that
you no longer feel the need to endlessly
apologize for being human?
That day
has been graciously
waiting for you
to begin swimming in
its warm waters of love
and acceptance ..

( ✍️ Susan Frybort )

Art : Denis Bogapin

09/10/2025

Do not pity me for the shadows you see in my eyes my love,
for I have come through fires to be able to hold that darkness
and not be scared by it.

Do not feel sorry for me that my tapestry of life is woven with many black threads,
for those dark parts of the picture highlight the gold
that also runs through the weave.

Do not despair that my soul is made up of so many rips and holes.
For they have been sewn together with self love;
I have developed the heart of a medicine woman from tending them.

Do not feel pity for what I have seen my darling,
for it has made me see more life,
more beauty and more gold than anything else.

Do not worry about the shadows that seeped into my heart,
it is these shadows that led me to my most rebellious act;
the one of true, deep self love.

Do not fear that my spine will break with what it has had to carry,
for my spine is no longer a wish bone or a distorted compass,
it has developed true guidance and strength from lessons learned.

It has taken me years of courage, bravery and truth
to be able to stand straight and use this darkness as a tool to embrace life,
it has taken me fire and guts to hold both my light and my dark as the friends they have become.

Do not fear for me my love,
for I am both wolf and maiden, witch and queen
and I hold my black and my white with threads of gold.

( ✍️ Brigit Anna McNeill )

09/10/2025

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they told me
to smile more
so I sharpened my teeth
and grinned

they told me
to make myself smaller
so I grew wings
and took up the whole sky

they said
you’ll never survive
without us
so I learned to build
my own fire
and howl
under my own moon

they call it rebellion
I call it remembering

remembering that my voice
is not a sin
that my body
is not a battleground
that my soul
was never theirs
to tame

resistance
doesn’t always look like
shouting

sometimes it looks like
choosing yourself
over and over again
without fear guilt or shame

they wanted my silence
I gave them my song
************
Poem © Angi Sullins - from my new book "Unmasking a Myth" AVAILABLE HERE: https://angisullins.com/shop-3-2/

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art by Deusa

09/07/2025

I am crone. I have now joined the elder expanse of women no longer buffeted by every wind of change that blows; and cultivating the wisdom of unity and presence. Birds in an infinite sky with a language all our own., we who now gaze into the darkness , whose blood remembers that we are stars.

I am crone. And after a long while of gathering together the thoughts of what that now means, I created this as a constant reminder of what I must embody in this new role. It began with “She who contains, and is, the spark”. She who sees the entirety of the life/death cycle. She whose power is the ability to transcend *and* transform. Contained in the darkness and winter of her life, she is the fire within, through which all things glow and burn.

This is the image I use as a reminder of who I am, and who I am becoming.

She who lights the spark of life. She who extinguishes it. And she who lights it again.
One hand receiving, one hand blessing. A heart that is always open.
A madwoman unapologetic.
Love and love and love..

It is my reminder when to surrender and when to rage.
When to hurt and when to be love..

It is the totem that I must carry, the light that has been palmed to us by pythonesses, mystics, ancestresses and abbesses that have now awakened in our blood.
It is a promise to all other women that you are my sister, that I will rise up and celebrate or fight for you. A vow that I will let the veil fall and celebrate anew what it is to be truly naked. I will give the soft animal of my flesh a home and no longer deny the things that I know that I know.
That I know.

(And still, there are no words or apologies
for how much I love the storm.)

“The Power of the Crone”
Mixed Media
2023

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09/07/2025

Truly. 🧘🏿‍♀️

09/07/2025

"Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere."
— Paulo Coelho

Letting go is an act of wisdom, not weakness. Coelho reframes closure: not as rejection, but as redirection. Some paths are meant to be traveled only once—and honor lies in recognizing when the road has ended.