Tale of the Lost Daughter: Awake

Posted on:  Jul 13, 2016 @ 10:00 Posted in:  From the Tale

Walking the Path of She: A Personal Story

Posted on:  Jun 24, 2016 @ 10:00 Posted in:  Goddess

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A circle of candlelit faces gather around the center altar at a community ritual. We each speak our vows to the Goddess. I say simply, “I vow to be myself; to show up naked and unafraid.”

The path that led me to this vow began after a wake-up call many years ago. I was in my mid-twenties, totally lost in the mainstream culture, with a business education and a corporate career, living a material, achievement-driven life that neither fed my soul nor gave me joy.

After years of travels with the Goddess, I’ve come home to the vast depth and power of my Self, and it’s a quiet, simple place where I know that I am beautiful and worthy as I am.

My wake-up call was not gentle: a collision on a ski hill that fractured my skull and cracked my world open. I woke up four days later with a facial palsy that severely disfigured the right side of my face. For the next eight months, I found myself on the fringe, exposed to the ugly underbelly of our social order reserved for those deemed unworthy and undesirable; a place where strangers felt at liberty to cruelly ridicule, harass and repulse me.

As odd as this may seem, the experience was tremendously freeing and empowering. I had been roughly pushed out of the safe world that I knew into a harsh and abusive one, and I found that I was unafraid and undiminished. The stripping away of my outer beauty made me consciously aware of my inner beauty and strength, and of the profound circle of love and support of my family and friends.

My travels with the Goddess had begun. Like the tales of Inanna and Persephone, my awakening soul led me inward and downward, into the mysteries that underlie everyday reality and the shadowy recesses of my psyche. Layer by layer, I was stripped bare of my waking world masks, conditioning and wounding. Change came, constant and unrelenting. Anything that stood between me and my soul-based essence, what I came to know as my Deep Self, had to go.

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Tale of the Lost Daughter: Radically Alive

Posted on:  Jun 8, 2016 @ 10:00 Posted in:  From the Tale

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Tale of the Lost Daughter: A Little Bit Messy, a Little Bit Wild

Posted on:  Jun 1, 2016 @ 10:00 Posted in:  From the Tale

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Tale of the Lost Daughter: The Green World

Posted on:  May 25, 2016 @ 10:00 Posted in:  From the Tale

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