A Personal Invitation

Dear Soul Sister,

What does it mean to be a woman in the 21st century?

This is a question that has sent me on a wild ride of self-discovery, healing, and systemic change. It has impacted me on a deep a level as well as my family and now an ever-growing community of women.

I’m 54 years old and for most of my life I had absolutely no idea what it meant to be a woman. The messages I received from my mother were that I was to be very afraid of my body, that the world was a scary place for a woman, and that I had better stay small and quiet if I wanted to survive. For so long I felt unworthy and unlovable for simply being who I am.

Then several years ago, the shame that I’d been running from my whole life caught up with me and I spiraled into a suicidal depression. It was being in connection with other women that saved me and helped me transform my limiting beliefs into self love and acceptance.

I feel that we are in an incredible time of systemic change with women stepping back into our wholeness and sacredness. I believe that it is time for us to heal our lineage and stand on the shoulders of the women who came before us. And I believe that healing ourselves individually and as a collective of sisters will help heal the world.

It’s time for us to stop simply surviving and begin thriving… to take responsibility for ourselves in new heart-opening ways… and to remember just how sacred and sovereign we really are.

This is a process and a journey, one that I hope you will embark on with me in this podcast series with my friend and colleague Kenya Brading.

With love,