This is the fourth in a series of conversations with women in transition and forms part of the Woman, reWilded series on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in the season of inner winter. With every bleeding story shared on a public platform we get closer to normalising menstruation and dissolving the cultural stigma around perimenopause […]
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The third of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in winter season. We need the fallow season of Winter. It’s a time for turning inward for rest, slow replenishment and repair so we can great spring and summer with renewed energy. Doing these deeply unfashionable things – letting go
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Coriander – the leafy herb – you either love or hate. I love this recipe for its taste, cleansing and healing properties, having more potent benefits than regular basil pesto. When you combine pesto with black foods like olives and black pepper the blackness indicate high levels of the beneficial minerals selenium and chromium which
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The second of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in autumn season. Autumn is in full swing in the valley. As light fades, pecan and persimmon trees let go of their luminous gold orange leaves, rust coloured Welcome Swallows search for places to build their mud nests in preparation
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The first of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom. -poiesis 1. n. meaning “making, formation,” esp haematopoiesis the formation of blood [< Greek -poiēsis] Whether we feel it or not, we are in constant flow with wild nature through daily, lunar, seasonal and life cycles. Our inner nature, felt through
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The poor choko has a bad reputation as a depression era food in Australia, when it became part of the staple diet. But when my friends were talking about growing them and a Filipina described how she made pancakes with 4 ingredients, I bought some from her at the farmers market and got inspired.. I’ve
Wild nature gives me a safe container to be myself, to feel and move what’s inside me. A deep sense of holding and being held. When I walk into the bush in awe and wonder and drop into a soft way of being, the forest does me. There is a sense of other beingness that
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Feminine fire is rising and we don’t need to apologise. The fire ball finds anger and alchemises it into a clarifying, cleansing, skillful energy; a truth bomb. Burning woman sits in the fire of her own creation and lets herself be cooked. Claiming our rage in perimenopause and menopause is natural, says Dr Christiane Northrup,
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Qigong dignifies the menopause and aging process, the inner autumn of our life cycle, breathing into and making space and peace with what’s here. It’s ancient spiritual wisdom in action for how we can move the body through life with presence, calm and deep connection with all beings. I could be in the mountains of
What if in 2021, we gave ourselves permission to do, be, think and feel what we never have before.? To author a new story is the beginning of our becoming; we integrate all that has come before, align with our present and evolve into the future. Last year, Caroline Myss, renowned author and medical intuitive,
