Day 11
Today I feel my body and being at the peak of it's manifestation mode, as I tip into ovulation and wonder woman mode It's the time when I wake up full of energy, purpose and the feeling of being able to Get Shit Done. The most basic way I use my cycle awareness is...
Day 12
Yesterday I wrote about the challenges I feel around ovulation, but I was reminded that that’s not the full picture during my experience of today... I like to explore different archetypes that I feel relate to different parts of my cycle. Other than PMS, ovulation is...
Day 14
Day 13 or 14 is usually the most challenging day of my entire cycle. I can go to sleep with a 'yes' for life and wake up with a unsettled, irritable, the-glass-is-distinctly-half-empty 'no' for life. What a relief it was over a period of several months of cycle...
Day 16
Today I feel the surge of my internal summer ride me, like the swell of the tide... Around this time it feels like I am riding the last wave of creative energy before slowing down and heading into Autumn. One way of looking at our menstrual cycle is that it contains...
Happiness is not an inside job
I often wish I had never been exposed to 'spiritual' literature and philosophies. Especially the maxim 'happiness is an inside job'. Sure, there is truth in that. But our 'spirituality' emanates from the paradigm we are embedded in... and we end up using spirituality...
I am my own permission-granter
When combined with our heart and our awareness we can use our sexuality for its highest purpose: embracing, feeling deeply connected to and riding the very crest of life's creative expression through us. Allowing our lust for and communion with life. But how to allow...
The world doesn’t need more power
Women who say yes to themselves as sovereign, sexual beings are powerful creatures. And that is a scary thing for us in a world with a paradigm of scarcity and 'power over', in which someone having power, generally means it's both taken away from someone else and also...
Empathy is my super power
The deeper I go into my menstrual cycle awareness, the more I sense that those last few days before bleeding are such an important and precious time for feeling. Whether it's emotions that I've managed to gloss over or suppress the month before, or whether it's...
Eros & Earth
What if you paused for a moment... and remembered the soft animal of your body as an extension of the earth. What if you took a breath and sensed your capacity for the exquisite: the simple, sensual communing with life. Is there a pleasure in belonging to her? Of...
Why befriend our sexuality?
Why bother making friends with our sexuality? Why lift the lid on pandoras box when it can make us feel such discomfort or fear? Perhaps we feel like we'd rather keep the lid on: after all it's only sex. My extensive personal enquiry around sexuality has...