04/14/2023
I didn't live what I have lived to show up as a tidy, neat, politically correct, domesticated, bite-sized, meek, and delicate soul.
I am a ship builder.
I am a wave maker.
I am a torch bearer.
I am messy, I am wild, I am passionate.
Bursting out of cocoons isn’t an instant process. Rebirth is messy, healing isn’t linear and doesn’t conform to timelines.
We can't walk on eggshells, say, "pretty please"and expect to see our wildest dreams fulfilled. We are the wild ones.
Soft, powerful, radiant, vibrant, strong, confident, and taking up space.
All of this is yours, and always accessible.
(And the key is within you.)
And not just in the moments of aligned bliss.
In the moments that truly matter:
when you're facing failure,
when you're faced with a life changing decision or diagnosis,
when you're tempted to hold back your shine and dim your spark,
when you feel that the fullness of who you are isn't welcome or embraced…
I'm here to help women shift away from striving, performing, hustling, running on emotional auto-pilot and towards spaciousness, ease, calm, and reverence.
Supporting you to create a meaningful life of ritual, dance, integrated wholeness and deep worthiness.
To inspire you to reclaim your birthright to wonder, confidence and power.
To rediscover a sense of awe in your beauty, and unique expression of self.
To provoke you to joy even in the midst of crappy situations, reminding you that it doesn't have to suck to be healing.
I am a soulful woman, yet a wild one.
…
When I wrote the above words, I had no idea that cancer would put to the test all of my beliefs, and teachings.
Today, I read back over my writings and feel the tears prick my eyes because
IT STILL STANDS.
The journey of meeting yourself deeply, embodying your fullness and wholeness, valuing pleasure and bliss, and choosing to let yourself out of all the cages they built for you IS ONLY MORE RELEVANT and worth it when faced with adversity.
Is thriving possible in the midst of a 4th stage cancer diagnosis?
It’s not only possible, it’s appropriate.
And it fits like slipping into an oversized T-shirt, or a well worn pair of jeans, or your favorite silk slippers.
The reason I can walk this path with confidence and serenity is because of the journey I have taken, the the tools I have learned to wield, the TRUST I have forged within myself.
I bring all of this to my containers I hold for women. This is *not* a magic pill, this is *not* a run of the mill plant medicine ceremony.
This is my blood, sweat, tears, LOVE and PASSION channeled into a container that allows women to unfold into their own self-embodiment.
Real life brings unexpected things like divorce, like cancer, like bankruptcy.
You need an inner liberation, an inner awakening, an inner TRUST, and an inner grace for those moments.
This is what we are cultivating space for at Stripped: The Retreat.
I never do retreats half hearted. This retreat will not be offered this way at this price point again. It’s the first time Lindsey Flora and I are collaborating together, and we are offering this amazing price point along with the opportunity to be among the first women to attend Stripped (which we hope to be able to host again together in the future.)
If your soul wants to be there, trust YOURSELF and and claim your spot around the fire.
We gather next weekend beneath the dark moon.
Apply here:
https://www.theselfembodiedwoman.com/strippedretreat
