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Groundedness
embodiment
self-love/power
personal authority
truth-seeking/speaking
breaking down hierarchies
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Introductory Videos
7 Harmful Lies Society Tells Women About Menopause
“Menopause isn’t a disease to cure or a problem to fix. It’s a sacred rite of passage we’ve forgotten how to honor—and the consequences are everywhere.”
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7 Harmful Lies Society Tells Women About Menopause
Secretly, many women hope they’ll be the exception to menopause. Perhaps if we don’t talk about it or pay it any mind, the menopause fairy will pass us by. But eventually, it comes — and we soon learn that this...
Standing Your Ground in the Shifting Middle
holding ground An old friend reached out to me recently after nearly two decades of no communication. He wrote to comment on one of my articles, specifically, this one, an in-depth article about our addiction to duality...
The Myth of the Linear Path
I’m writing this fresh off a trip to Boston, where I visited my youngest daughter. She is a senior year at Boston University, pursuing astrophysics and mechanical engineering (tell me about it). She is currently in the process of applying...
Seeking the True Source of Your Motivation
Photo by Public Domain Pictures: https://www.pexels.com/photo/lighted-burning-match-66267/ The idea of a lifetime? motivation “This is what I’ll do for the rest of my life!” I’ve exclaimed the above to my husband on more than one occasion, my...
The Limitations of Beliefs and Morals
Photo by İbrahim Can Dayıoğlu : https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunglasses-on-stack-of-books-16941547/ Here’s a theory: What if we spent less time arguing on behalf of our beliefs and morals and more time ridding ourselves of them? What if the time we...
The Myth of Scarcity and the Root of Othering
Scarcity Money doesn’t grow on trees. scarcity Time is money. A penny saved is a penny earned. Since we were children, we were steeped in the idea of scarcity. There was never enough money, we were told, and so, most...
An Alternative to the Same Old Stale Hero
Photo by Gabriel Bassino on Unsplash Our concept of what and who a hero is arises primarily through our (mostly unconscious) internalization of the Hero’s Journey, which Joseph Campbell popularized in his book, The Hero with a...
