For many of us women, we thought we were done with the fight against inequality, the fight against repression and the overpowering of women, but we're not done. Perhaps this is the final fight, the final unearthing of the patriarchal shadow rearing its ugly head, revealing to us the unfinished business of our times. The threads of unconsciousness that continue to hold us back or in the very least, create obstacles for us to truly flourishing as human beings. When I was a teenager, I experienced boys, several years older than me, openly commenting on my developing body. It was humiliating and at the same time, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to like this attention. I struggled as a young
I've been thinking a lot about leadership lately. It's not because of the political campaigning that 's going on, this is something I've been thinking about for a long time. Although, this year's campaigning does provide a perfect example for what I've been thinking about. As many of you know, I spent 20 years traveling to sacred sites and studying at the ancient mystery schools. The training I went through provided me with a completely different type of leadership skills. It involved going through initiations where rather than being taught knowledge, you "come" to the knowledge through your own evolving and it's knowledge the mystery schools have preserved for thousands of years solely for
I was talking to a young woman a few weeks ago regarding a very challenging situation of a friend of hers who had too much to drink one night and having a man sexually assault her. The young woman said, "well, she needs to take responsibility for the fact that she was drunk." Time stood still for me in that moment as though the Divine was asking me to take notice with complete awareness, to listen, to see the bigger picture, and to open my heart and dive deep. This was all while my jaw was hitting the floor. In that moment, I saw how women have worked so hard to overcome obstacles of inequality, build up their strength to say no, to fight back, to reclaim their power as women and not
