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Alive and Well Women

A movement of transformed women who create a more loving and empowering world for all women!

Community support for healing women's shame-based relationships with our bodies so we can meet the real needs of our bodies, minds and spirits. We provide resources and inspiration for authentic self-care to help women navigate toxic cultural messages about health, beauty and sexuality.

07/05/2022

Hi Friends. It's Moira-Cecily (Cissy) here. I'm just checking in to acknowledge it's been over a year since we posted anything here. Thanks to our dearly beloved Staci Kennelly for keeping our social media alive prior to that. We've been on pause since COVID began. I never envisioned a world where our "embody, empower, in love" work would have to be done virtually. So, we haven't been offering programs since March 2020. We may be back...We're not gone, just on pause and listening for next steps. Please pray with us as we seek what Love may be inviting us to offer as we continue to wonder and listen. Holding you all in much Love and Gratitude, from me on behalf of the board and core community.

06/18/2021

"You, my friend, are flawed and perfect. You are a creation of spectacular, scarred, and weary flesh, with God inside. You can't help it. You are both."
Suzanne DeWitt Hall
Author of Where True Love Is.

06/11/2021

Lost
David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

05/21/2021

Lost by David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

05/14/2021

A Blessing for Traveling in the Dark (by Jan Richardson)

Go slow if you can. Slower. More slowly still. Friendly dark or fearsome, this is no place to break your neck by rushing, by running, by crashing into what you cannot see.

Then again, it is true: different darks have different tasks, and if you have arrived here unawares, if you have come in peril or in pain, this might be no place you should dawdle.

I do not know what these shadows ask of you, what they might hold that means you good or ill. It is not for me to reckon whether you should linger or you should leave.

But this is what I can ask for you:
That in the darkness there be a blessing. That in the shadows there be a welcome. That in the night you be encompassed by the Love that knows your name.

05/07/2021

Every day
     I see or hear
          something
               that more or less
kills me
     with delight,
          that leaves me
               like a needle
in the haystack
     of light.

- Mary Oliver

04/16/2021

Above all, trust in the slow work of God…
We are impatient of being on the way
to something unknown, something new.

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

03/12/2021

Rest in your God-breathed worth. Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the lesser things of this world.
- Sarah Bessey

02/19/2021

A Prayer for Lent
O Great Love,
Heart of my heart.
Lead me into this Lenten Season.
Lead me into You,
into the Silence.
And in that silence
Help me to deconstruct,
To face the brokenness, the woundedness, the shame
all that keeps me from you.
May I learn to embrace it in Your Love,
To embrace all that I am,
all that You created me to be.
Falling into Your Mercy, Your Love, Your Grace,
Falling into You,
Into Wholeness.
Then send me out into the world
bearing Your Light more clearly,
bearing Your Love more deeply,
bringing Your Love and Your Light into a hungry and hurting world.
Amen.
- Mary Sue Babb.

02/12/2021

Every single moment you chose to be kind to yourself, you experienced the love of God.
-Kevin Miguel Garcia

How are you going to show yourself Divine love today?

02/05/2021

A Walk

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

01/29/2021

“The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.”
-- Thomas Merton

Maybe the most spiritual thing we can do today is the thing that gives us energy, light, and life. What makes you feel most alive?

01/15/2021

Do not expect
to return
by the same road.
Home is always
by another way,
and you will know it
not by the light
that waits for you
but by the star
that blazes inside you, telling you
where you are
is holy

- Jan Richardson

12/11/2020

In this gateway into what has never been before
Let our soul breathe hope
For the earth
For the creatures
For the human family

- John Phillip Newell

12/04/2020

Come stand over here, just a step or two beyond the place you have occupied for so long, where you have worn the earth smooth with your pacing, where you have spent so many hours fighting the problem you cannot seem to solve. Take a break. Catch your breath. Come stand here, where you can catch a freshening breeze and see far into the valley below. Let the distant clouds carry your worry for a while; see how the sun empties the world of shadow. The answer you seek may be just a step beyond, a higher place where the view is clear of all obstructions.
~Steve Charleston
Thinking about this quote today.
What movements in your heart do you need to make? What changes can be made in how you are thinking and taking care of your mind? How can you create space to take a breath and renew yourself?

11/20/2020

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart...live in the question.

― Rainer Maria Rilke

11/06/2020

To choose hope is to step firmly into the howling wind, baring one’s chest to the elements, knowing that, in time, the storm will pass.

-Desmond Tutu

10/23/2020

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend
of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the
moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
—Teresa of Calcutta

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