Re-membering
Women, we need to put back together the pieces of ourselves we have lost.
In Clarissa Pinkola Estes book "Women Who Run With the Wolves" she tells the story of Skeleton Woman, a woman who is killed by her father, thrown over a cliff, and left on the rocks in a broken pile of bones, soon washed away by the sea. A fisherman accidentally catches her, runs away terrified and drags her home behind him as they are both tangled in the net. Once home he takes pity on Skeleton Woman and reassembles her. She then becomes an alive woman once more. "Re-member"
Members are limbs and when we remember we are putting together our pieces again.
You were born whole and perfect. Which is amazing news because it means we have all the answers within ourselves already.
Which parts of you have you lost in order to survive in the world? Your softness, your gentleness, your loving heart? Or maybe your assertiveness and fierceness which you learned was unacceptable? Have you lost that pride in your body which is capable of so many wonderful things, that enables you to experience all the sensual pleasures of human life?
Which parts are calling you to bring them back to life?
For me, I learned to live in a state of anger and fear because I felt that it was not safe to live in this world as a woman. I began to remember what it was like to be playful, to laugh, to dance, to go with the flow instead of bracing myself for the next attack.
What would the little girl you were want you to remember?
Re-earthing for Women
Re-earthing for women.
When I give my blood
To the earth
I join a web
Of sisters
Around the world.
Invisible threads
Connect us
The pull of the
Sacred flow.
As we give back
Going ever deeper
Heal.
Jenny Wren
Use Your Voice
Who made you feel that it was unsafe to use your voice? What happened to you that made you realise it was safer to shut up and play dumb than it was to speak your truth?
This goes deep. Even now before I hit send on something I know will make some people uncomfortable I feel a wave of fear. Of women turning on me, badmouthing me, punishing me with their words. It's trauma held in our bodies from lifetimes ago.
We need to remember that we are safe. Any vows of silence you have made in a past life you can relinquish now. Say it aloud. "I end any vows of silence I have made in any other life. It is safe for me to use my voice."
Your unique, precious voice is like a muscle. Once you start using it, it will become easier and easier to say what you are thinking and feeling. And you will be surprised about who was waiting for you to do just that and make them feel they can use their voice, too.
Women, we need to give up this idea we have to agree on everything. You can disagree with a woman without writing her off completely. This is how we allow ourselves to come into our complex, beautiful natures. It is a very clever trap that we have fallen into that keeps us separate and powerless.
How can you use your voice today?
