Career and Intuitive Coach
Career and Intuitive Coach
If you are like me, you have trouble finding fragranced self-care products that don’t smell overly sweet, cloying, or of vanilla and fruit. I prefer woodsy unisex scents, and wanted to share with you some of my top finds for maintaining that swamp witch woodsy-scented vibe. I love the scents of vervain, oak moss, fresh …
I’ve worked hard over the past month on some spectacularly human problems. The tendency to have an existential crisis every 1-2 years. The surprising way that my moods cycle in exactly the same way every month and every year and yet still manage to stab me from behind when I’m not paying attention. How to …
This month I spent some time in my hometown visiting with my family and helping care for my 18-month-old nephew, who is both mobile and precocious. This has been a beautiful reminder of the harried but cuddly toddler years, which are long gone for me now that my son is 13. I don’t miss diapers by …
You may have heard about toxic masculinity but have you heard about toxic femininity? Toxic masculinity has been in the news via stories about the #METOO movement, gender inequality and the glorification of the alpha male behaviors. Toxic femininity exists too. Adherence and enforcement of gender norms for masculinity and femininity can have wide-ranging negative …
People have been making moon water for at least a few hundred years. Although the precise origin is unclear, we can trace it back to at least the 1800’s. An American author by the name Felix Fontaine, published “Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Fortune Teller-Dream Book” in 1862. He had many books like this, that today would …
If you are looking to get in touch with your divine feminine qualities, you are not alone. Many women are waking up to the immense power that they naturally possess. In a world where the majority of business, government and military leaders are men, it’s important for women to reclaim their divine female power. Break …
The past few weeks have been difficult for me as I’ve felt my personal autonomy attacked and women’s hard-fought rights stripped from us. This time calls for us to feel and express our anger and call for women’s empowerment… and also to take care of ourselves, retreating inward when necessary. (i.e. grounding) Let’s process this together. It may …
The divine feminine is a philosophy or religious view that includes the belief in female deities or goddesses. While belief in the divine feminine does not exclude or refute the existence of Gods, it instead asserts that the divine can be expressed in combinations of male or female qualities.
It’s time we re-normalize the job description of Lady Poetess, matron of the Aphrodite-worshipping finishing school, band-leader for the lyric-dropping band of minstrels. Sappho was not afraid to speak her mind, and spent her time inspiring the next generation of ladies while writing poetry that would live over 2,000 years after her death.
Currently I am slowly savoring the book Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. It is a quite long and philosophical book that discusses some stories and myths about the Wild Woman archetype. Beyond the typical rescued-by-a-prince fairytales, these tales teach us through oral history how to nourish our souls and …