Reading Time: 6 minutes This is a tale about a witch called Doreen Valiente a researcher, a poet, and an author who is still revered as the ‘mother of witchcraft’. I moved to Brighton in 1987 and as a young woman, I was enamoured by the number of esoteric shops that existed in the North Laine. There were crystal […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is about change, personal change, the desire for it, the need for it, the context of it, the possibility of it, and the experience of it. I don’t want to come across as preachy, self-obsessed, needy, screechy, and so on, (as if!) and I am NOT a therapist, medical practitioner, psychoanalyst or expert in […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes At my own rather grand 50th birthday party, I found myself in a total physical and spiritual breakdown, culminating in being rushed into hospital with a kidney stone. Not what I had expected. This was the gateway to my initiation into menopause. Since my early 20s, I had been running headlong on ‘superwoman’ energy, bringing […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Please Introduce Yourself My name is Emma Meadows and I am 46 years of age. I am a Shamanic Womb Wyse Practitioner, Healer and Teacher and I work closely with women both individually and in groups. I heal, teach and facilitate women to enable and empower them to self heal and reconnect with the truth […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes I have a confession to make, until last weekend I was a virgin in the realm of workshops. Despite being an intuitive life coach and healer, the word ‘workshop’ and the thought of all that navel-gazing with a load of strangers has always made me want to run for the hills. Maybe because I am […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes I’m talking personal development here, not a coffin or a chutney-making one. These emotion-evoking workshops are all about transforming oneself in order to go out and transform the world. It starts with the self and expands out into the world. That’s the idea – love, love, love. And I have done a fair few in […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘Go you, sweep out the dwelling room of your heart; prepare it to be the home of the Beloved; when you go out He will come in. Within you, when you are free from self, He will show His Beauty.’ Sufi I notice I have never been good at bowing. It usually takes a large […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes I could feel my heart beginning to swell as I approached the brow of the hill, and I freewheeled down, until there she was before me – my beloved river: My place of sanctuary and delight. At that moment, my tears started falling. I had discovered her by accident, one beautiful summer’s day, when friends […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lynne Franks, 69, is a mover and shaker. A sower of seeds, a women’s empowerment expert, author, broadcaster and more, she also has a passion for 5 Rhythms dancing and the sacred feminine. She shows no sign of slowing down in her energy to develop programmes aimed at women and empowerment, she has just developed […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fifteen years ago, I was in the depths of despair. The one I thought was the greatest love of my life dumped me and I was a total wreck, beyond suicide, beyond life, beyond hope. These were the days of MSN Messenger and I had an online buddy who I’ve still never met, and he […]
