Debra Brown Gordy, MS MRET & The Sophia Women's Institute

02/02/2025

Beginning (or Continuing) Healing Your Mother Wound Well - https://mailchi.mp/thesophiawomensinstitute.com/beginning-or-continuing-healing-your-mother-wound-well

26/08/2024

There is one week left in August/Av. How are you living with openness and trust, and letting the light of your True Self shine this month?

21/08/2024

20/08/2024

REBIRTHING JOY

I write and teach a lot about healing – specifically healing the Mother Wound, healing childhood trauma and healing relationships. As important and crucial as the phase of healing is for our Heroine’s Journeys, healing alone is not the ultimate destination. Transformation alone is not even the ultimate destination. Important and crucial as they are, they are steps and developmental markers we seek to realize on our Journeys.

More than healing, more than transformation, more than transcendence, we seek remembering wholeness. We seek living in wholeness, in our bodies, our 3-D world and in our relationships. We seek to know and be ourselves as whole and complete and fully developed, perfectly ripe as the unique Beings we are created to become. And we seek to realize this in our physical bodies – the physical raw material of the stuff of creation.

This is our full Heroine’s Journeys across the grand arc of transmigration of our Souls. So, healing is an important phase in this lifetime, but not the ultimate destination. Wholeness and becoming fully developed are.

This is why I love the Jewish women’s holiday of Tu b’Av. The 15 of the Hebrew month Av arrives in the Wheel of the Year at the end of summer, as summer is turning to autumn. We’ve come through the hot, hard months of Tammuz and early Av when the season is hot with the sun physically and energetically. It’s been a season of ripening and early harvest, also a season of remembering sorrows and losses, and feeling losses once again; these months are a season of mourning and also motivation for seeking change and healing within ourselves, in our relationships, our communities and collective, generational memories. In July/Tammuz, when the Sun is in Cancer the sign of the Mother, we are invited to see our loved ones through the eyes of love, and while supported by Divine Love, to also clearly see the pain that is not yet healed.

Then in August/Av, as the Sun enters Leo, the sign of the lion, we are invited to courageously step further into our journey of healing, including collective generational healing of world traumas.

In the middle of Av, the lion of Av shows us how. We move from “grieving … to claiming our own lion selves.” (1). We do this by remembering who we really are. We remember our wholeness, our holiness, and our divinity. We tune in deep within and connect with the Truth of who we Really Are so we can connect with the courage of our inner lioness. Leo is also the sign of the playful child, who enters this life with wonder, openness and trust. The lion guides us to live from our hearts with courage, openness and trust, and to let the light of our True Selves shine in the world.

On the Full Moon, Tu b’Av is the day we are energetically and spiritually supported by the Divine to turn from the past to the future, and embrace our freedom to courageously discover it and playfully co-create it. So from time immemorial, women dressed in white, have gathered together on Tu b’Av to turn to the future and sing and dance in the light of the Full Moon. We move forward on our Journeys of remembering wholeness. We courageously and playfully choose love. We choose life and we rebirth joy, because we know that from the ashes of grief, stepping beyond healing, love, reconnection and joy can be reborn.

So as you move through the seasons of healing in your life, remember the Truth of Who You Really Are, connect with your inner lioness and choose life and love and joy once again.

If you feel drawn to a healing journey in this season of your life, and would like to know how I can assist you in healing your Mother Wound, reach out to learn more Healing Your Mother Wound, Healing Your Heart.

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22/07/2024

Is there a link between healing the Mother Wound and your marriage? Yes!

If you have an unhealed Mother Wound, it is very likely that this will be expressed in your marriage.

In this post I share 4 Wisdom Lessons my Beloved and I have learned through 30 years of loving connection in our marriage. These insights and lessons go beyond conventional self-help books, or professional knowledge.

They are Wisdom that show clearly why healing the Mother Wound is the healing that changes everything, and the doorway to soul-satisfying love and partnership in your marriage.

Link in the comments.

24/02/2024

The Healing That Changed Everything - https://mailchi.mp/thesophiawomensinstitute.com/the-healing-that-changed-everything-13946798

In the winter of 2014, I began having a series of dreams. They led to the deepest, most comprehensive healing I have ever experienced. This was the healing of my own Mother Wound.

This is the true story of that healing, and the transformation that opened as a result.

06/02/2024

Learn how this Season of early spring can support you on your Heroine's Journey of healing your Mother Wound, and fully thriving in your life, relationships and work in the world in 2024.

The Return of the Light - https://mailchi.mp/thesophiawomensinstitute.com/ocufzeelh1

06/02/2024

After a deep winter cold snap, early spring is arriving in our area. There is nothing colder than humid cold, so I welcome these lengthening days, and the first signs of spring. I love attuning to the changing of the seasons, on the Wheel of the Year.

Attuning to the Wheel of the Year is a beautiful, natural way to live in sync and harmony with nature’s rhythms, and to draw down the seasonal energies that are meant to support you in living well through out your life. There are seasons in the annual turning of the Wheel that are especially potent for new beginnings, especially when you hunger for healing and renewal.

Imbolc was last week, opening one of those seasons. As winter is beginning to end, and the earliest signs of spring are beginning to show, we can use this season prior to the Spring Equinox for self-reflection and preparation, to begin a season of healing your Mother Wound, well.

In this recent blog post, you can learn about this time-honored season, and how you can use it well. Learn also about the Celtic goddess who can be a powerful archetypal source of inspiration, support and strength, championing you on, on your Heroine’s Journey.

Link in the comments below.