Wild Bliss Rising

Wild Bliss Rising

It didn’t happen all at once. One day, I woke up and realized I couldn’t breathe. It wasn’t an unfamiliar feeling, this weight on my chest and legs and arms and hips. But overnight, it had doubled in size. I was frozen. Afraid. Drowning in grief. It swallowed me...
Invoking Aphrodite

Invoking Aphrodite

P L E A S U R E. Upon mention of the word, our minds may throw up barriers. “I can’t feel that” “my pleasure isn’t enough” “my pleasure is too much” “it should be this way or that way” etc… The truth is, we are MADE for pleasure: lusty, gentle, loving, primal,...
Sabbatical

Sabbatical

The great pause is at our doorstep, the Winter Solstice is here. The night stands still in its deepest darkness for three days before climbing towards the light again, slowly. Three days, we get to drink at the deep well. Three days, we turn inward and listen. Three...
Stars

Stars

Feeling these luminous dark nights like honey in my bones. Shining the shapes of stars onto the already blanketed sky. I glow from the inside. And that light you see is only the light of stars that are already dead. There is so, so much more. I mix it in the dark,...
Safety

Safety

Safety. To lose sight of shore. To let ourselves be drawn out into an unknown dawn. To be pulled under and learn we can breathe underwater. We must know we are safe. I hear so many women craving surrender. And what beauty that is! And to feel that we can split open...