Let's broaden the narrative around women's empowerment from the thinking, logic and strategic capacity of the brain, to the multidimensional ways of knowing through the senses of our body and the field of the whole being. But why? And what would the benefit be…?

The Artist's Way is one of those encounters that can circle your life a while before you are even aware, or perhaps ready, to commit to the process.  Women come to my Circles with stories of having started the book, only to abandon it in the third chapter. Some were lead by a friend, or it popping up on their radar by way of an acquaintance. Others come, having never heard of the book, hardly knowing me or my work, but an instinct - or what I would call 'body knowing'- compels them to join…

It’s likely that instinct will kick in during crisis, and I know I can often default to ‘fix-it' mode where my body goes into auto-pilot. This is when the idea of 'wellbeing' seems to slip away - nothing more than a distant memory as I work fast to satisfy the demands of my whirring mind. What I now know to be the best, and most sustainable course of 'action' in crisis times, is to get out of my head and resist my ego's (insatiable) hunger for control. 

The past seems to have a bad rep. It's low vibe. It's old fashioned. It seems somehow to suggest that admission or reflection on what 'was', is weak, fragile or reflects your inability to be a fully formed human. Which by the way is all #BS.  For women that seek to feel empowered in their lives, and transform challenges into possibility - the remedy is to allow the unresolvedness (sense, feeling or memory) to finally have its day in the sun.

Occasionally your awareness of the Moon might be sparked because of an unusual event like the Strawberry Moon or an Eclipse season. But what about the eve-to-eve goings on; the waxing, the waning and the significance of the phases in between? What might we begin to observe by being conscious of the moon’s cycle and what, if any, power could it hold for us, personally, in our lives…?

Often influenced by arising demands of our life, what we want and need is usually affected by any number of things: the time of the month (menstrually), cosmic activity (yes this is a thing, and I discuss further in the coming weeks), what season it is and, more simply, how we feel. Sensitivity and awareness to these considerations provide us the data we need to for future planning and expanding into that which will nourish and ‘fuel’ our unique desires.