"You're too emotional" Have you ever been told you were 'too sensitive', 'too emotional', 'too loud', 'too serious', 'too playful', 'too sexy', or 'too [fill in the blank]'? Have you ever been told you were TOO MUCH of yourself?When did we ever start to believe that fully expressing yourself, with your voice, your creativity and your energy, was a BAD thing?I can't wrap my head around it, and yet, I've been there. As a child I was too loud, too sensitive and too, well, weird.I[...]
Strong Roots & Wide Wings As many of you know through the podcast, I am currently on a journey of reconnecting to my own menstrual cycle again - after 10 years of birth control. This process has taught me so much already. My body lovingly guided me to slow down the first few weeks, and now she's slowly settling into a natural rhythm again of rising, peak, decreasing and low energy.This has made me reflect on something.We cannot expect ourselves to peak when we don't allow[...]
A Few Words on Safety, Sadness and Sanity With this week's news on Sarah Everard, a few days after International Women's Day no less, I was reminded once again how important feminism and sisterhood are. Not just that, even Meghan Markle's interview got me thinking about how women are objectified, shamed and silenced in our society (of course, taking into consideration race, class and other intersections as well).I cried for most of the week whenever I put on the news. Even now[...]
Speaking my truth, sharing my story, taking you on my personal journey as I move through life… it’s what I’ve been doing for almost two years now. And if there’s one thing (and trust me, there’s so many more!) I learned within those two years, is that it always pays off to be vulnerable.It may feel like you want to curl up in a little ball or crawl into a cave during the process of opening your heart and mind for the world (or a few good friends) to see and hear, but that[...]
“I suppose why stillness is so very moving to me is because much of my identity pours from the ongoing movement of time” I’ve been reflecting on my sense of Self within stillness, and what stillness in effect actually means in a world which is continuously moving. Not just manmade movement with 24hr time slots to check somebody’s social updates, but the sacred cycles of Mother Earth and the Moon as well.It’s been a year since I packed my bag and headed to Bali. These[...]
“when the obstacles pass, where do you want your new wings to take you?” The last three days of the year are here - how are you feeling into it? Are you happy to close off this year, or is there a part of you hanging onto 2020? There is no right or wrong way to approach the change of the year and in that light it is important to me to note that there can be an immense pressure to ‘get your life on track’ before the new year is welcomed in. There can also be a narrative around how much[...]
I recently followed a virtual course on the Witch archetype and it was exciting and eye-opening. We often think it were the healers and oracles of the communities which got burned at the stake all those years ago - but those ‘midwives’ of society weren’t necessarily the ones affected. The woman who was truly seen as the ‘Witch’ was believed to communicate with the Other world (and making love with the devil…) and often lived at the fringe of the community. To me, the knowl[...]
I am a bit baffled to write that we’re nearing the end of 2020, but it’s true! How are you feeling about it? I’m somewhere in the middle of relief and mild panic. There’s a part of me who wishes I had ‘achieved more’, and there’s a part of me who is pretty damn proud of how I handled all the change that unexpectedly happened this year. I guess you can’t satisfy both your ego and your soul at the same time. Upon further reflection, I also don’t think[...]
A feather and a butterfly. Pretty generic signs - but that never makes them any less meaningful to me. This may sound very strange and a little unexpected from a spiritual and female empowerment platform, but this is still a one-woman-show, and this woman had to bury her favourite chicken the other day. When I moved back in with my parents a few months ago (bye Bali, hello pandemic!), I took up some chores around their countryside home, including taking care of our family dog and the chicken[...]
As my hair dances with the wind, the weaving of the world takes my breath away, once again ‘Leneth, not so loud please’, is a sentence I used to hear at least once a day when I was younger. Ever since I could speak, I have had a loud voice - from a screeching, high-pitch to (now, I’d like to think) strong and out-there. And from a young age, I have learnt that that was a bad thing. I wasn’t the only one - my dad’s side of the family was known for their volume. And what my 10-year-old[...]