This week’s Sovereign Standard is about coming face to face with overcommitment and over-functioning in the midst of this corona quarantine.
Dear Normal, I Miss You, But I’m Heading on the (S)Hero’s Journey
We’ve all left “Normal” and have set off on the Hero’s Journey, entering the great unknown with hopes of coming through on the other side with a sense of renewal and hope.
This post includes a Sovereign Writers Circle writing prompts and ideas for how to meet this move out of the ordinary world we knew before the global pandemic.
The Tension Between Keeping It Light and Keeping it REAL
As a creative hoping to bring your art into the world there’s always a tension between keeping it light and keeping it real. Do you want to be palatable and easy to digest or do you want to explore the tough, necessary truths?
My online book launch event, Sovereignty When the World Is In Knots: Personal Power & Collective Magic In a Time of Uncertainty promises both. Here’s why that’s so important…
How to Access Your Inner Sisterhood of Sovereignty
As so many of us attempt to adjust to staying apart from one another to stop the spread of Covid-19, we need Sovereignty more than ever. We need the kind of Sovereignty that supports the strength & resilience of the collective.
The Sovereignty Knot’s three archetypes- the princess, queen, and wise woman - are more essential that ever.
Be a Swan: How to Float & Fly When the World Turns Upside Down
In this issue of The Sovereign Standard, we explore Spring Equinox that is like no other. And we talk about Irish swans. All of this has me thinking about what we have the power to do right now… Including shifting my spring book events to online formats and sharing colleagues amazing digital offerings.
An Alternative Story for 2020's Very Strange St. Patrick's Day
Storytelling in the Time of Pandemic: Words Heal, Community Heals
Storytelling and the Art of Life-Changing Magic
When you uncover, craft, and tell your story, you’re performing an act of magic. Of time magic.
While writing or speaking a story out loud, you are able to anchor fully into the present moment. You reflect back on events of the past, crafting the story of who you were and you who are so that you can transform the future.
The Sovereign Standard: I’ll Tell You My Sovereign Stories So You Can Tell Yours
How to Stand Sovereign When Waves of Fear Crash Against Your Shores
I Never Knew Writing My Story Could Heal This Hurt
Liminal Spaces For Celts and Creatives
A Wise Woman's 2020
Blessings from a Goddess in Peach
Rest, Heal, Rearrange
My well - of energy, of words, of vision - has been running dry for weeks. I've tried to fake it, and from time to time, I pulled it off. Inside, I have been feeling parched, barren, and exhausted.
This week, I started over.
I've been living in the in-between place that comes after a great big project is completed and before the next push really begins. It's a hard place to be, all full of self-recrimination about how I "should" be planning more, earning more, speaking more.
Ultimately, I knew I needed this trough after the huge wave of energy and creativity that was the final sprint to finish my book, but it was hard to settle into that truth. I'm too well programmed to equate the push with success. I'm too accustomed to beating myself up for being lazy and playing small.
I finally got the physical and spiritual support I needed to figure out why I've been feeling so drained and depressed. (Thank you, Eleanora Amendolara of the Sacred Center Mystery School for your healing wisdom! Thank you for seeing that the problem was my thyroid and my adrenals as well as a struggle to step through the portal into a new phase of spiritual expansion.)
With that wisdom (and some powerful herbs and nutritional supplements), I gave myself permission to stay quiet for a few more days. I watched those phenomenally impressive Americans speak truth to Congress. I read Meggan Watterson’s book about Mary Magdalene and reconnected with one of the most powerful spiritual foremothers.
And then, I started moving all the furniture around.
I needed my space to reflect that my spiritual furniture has been completely rearranged by the writing of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman's Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. I needed this room where I do my work to look like an author's study rather than a mompreneur's cluttered office.
It's still in process, but there's a new flow to this space. This room feels like it wants to hold the mystery, the growth, and the new connections I'll be making in this next phase of personal, professional, creative, spiritual becoming.
Where are you right now?
Are you riding the wave, doing the work, and making it happen?
Are you sliding down into the doldrums because you need to give into gravity for a little while?
Are you struggling, thinking you should be riding or resting in a different way?
Are you ready to rearrange the furniture on the inside and do the healing work?
Are you ready to rearrange the furniture in the office because you're ready for a new phase?
Wherever you are, I invite you to pause, to look around, and to take some notes. Capture this moment on the page so you know what it's like to feel wildly free or in gentle recovery or in the dark place in between.
And if you need help along the way as you try to sort out just where you are and what to do next, call on me.
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On Book Writing, Tarot Reading, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Insights for Healers Who Write and for Writers Who Heal
Writing Prompts for Creative Warriors
Here’s a special sneak peek into this week’s Sovereign Writers Circle prompts!
One prompt invites you to think what it means to be a warrior - particularly when it comes to defending your creative sovereignty. And the other is about unsatisfying endings (if your have Game of Thrones finale feelings to process, this one is for you!)
Sovereignty In the Midst of the Chaos
Forget Your Deadlines, We're On Sovereign Time
Time. It is what it is, right? Relentless and uncaring. Immutable and inevitable.
And yet… Is this all there is? Could there be an alternative? What if we didn’t need to buy into the relentless progression of time and those killer deadlines we live (and die) by?
Let’s reconsider our life-and-death relationship with time.