our sisters' voices

I feel entirely changed and yet absolutely the same. It was like being in a space with these women, getting to show up as my full self, getting to witness these other beautiful souls show up as their full selves, and really trusting in the love and connection that is in this container. It was like getting to chip off so many different layers and masks of things that were me-shaped but not actually me. ~ River, RN, Wise Woman & Potter

I felt like there’s so much space to take our time. A fully titrated experience. There was no rush. There was no rushing, or forcing or pushing. Specifically for women who had big ‘othering’ trauma… Like foundational, fundamental, societal, ancestral, othering trauma. I watched an unfolding that was… it literally makes me emotional just thinking about it. You just see the perfect timing of it. And even in my brain of facilitation that’s like, it would quiver and oscillate, “Maybe we should move this along?!” And your trust in that and the positive results of that… unbelievable. ~ Jenny Ray, M.Ed., Dance and Nutrition Therapy Practitioner & Family Systems and Constellation Facilitator

It’s really helped me to step forward with my work now. Where I’ve always felt so afraid to come forward… to step forward and really just bring my gifts of who I am. To be able to walk through that in this counsel has given me this place of confidence… but it’s beyond confidence. My ability to stay connected to my own sovereignty, in amongst all that could trigger us. For me, particularly around my past. To be able to stay connected to my sovereign experience without being diminished by that, is quite profound. ~ Bonita, , Mystic Feminine Soul Guide @ https://www.thehealingwomb.life

I notice being in this healing sisterhood, that it's making me go slower in friendships, in sisterhood and with blood sisters. I’m feeling enmeshment and codependency with friendships and sisters that I don’t have in this. This is opening me to want to pause and slow down in other relationships... to not feel over responsibility outside of this healing sisterhood. I really feel that I am being held by speaking and receiving in a totally new way, opening me up to view my entire life in a different way. It's rewiring everything constantly, making me question every other relationship in life and how I want to show up differently elsewhere.
~ Jennifer M., Mom, Wife & Soul Sister

What is wonderful is that it’s motivated me even more... I have a much stronger motivation to create this kind of space for myself as a format… this way of connecting and level of depth of connecting with the people in my community. I’m living in this persona of the respectable music teacher and performer… there’s something different about my willingness to show up even more authentically, and get pretty clear about the types of connections I do desire and want with people, and create more of those. I feel softer about connecting in general… ~ Madeline, Music Educator, Singer & Return of the Empress Initiate @ https://www.belezamusic.com/madeline

I’m just me. In here. And yet… the elder is the part of me that’s been me in here for a long number of years. And I don’t have to do anything with it. It’s just about being it. Just be in the breadth and depth of your experience. All of it. The good, the bad, the crazy, the profound. The whatever. And be open to be of service. Not like, “I’m going to go out and find something to do.” But just, if I’m called upon, I’m here. I’m just here holding space, paying attention, and loving… ~ Jenny P, Wise Elder, Artist, Mentor & Return of the Empress Initiate