Women
Redefining ourselves
Somewhere between rage, outrage and silence is the opportunity for us to redefine ourselves! ... Continue Reading >>
Step 1: Notice Yourself
In this place and time, women are the key. Women who are both willing and able. Women who are willing to dare… to stand alone… to be seen and heard as the voice of a different truth. Be it alone or in community, the challenge is one desperate to be met by the gathering Force of new creators. Although fraught with the uncertainty of a world in chaos, when ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Women and Sovereignty
"Every time a woman consciously chooses to embody her sovereignty, the energy field transforms. In that, more women are given permission to tap into that and become more themSelves. Nourish yourself in Sisterhood and simply relax into the cues of your body, listen with your whole being, and express only if it’s meaningful for you to express… in this small ... Continue Reading >>
New Post: from Stela Shakti
New Post – Naomi Irons: Inner Wild
"Not surprisingly, after week 3 (activating the power center) of our Living Fully Through Conscious Choice experience, I woke this morning to an inner roar. That Elemental part of myself became a visceral surge from the depths of my Being rising to the surface, transforming all that was in its path in the most life giving way. It became immediately clear to ... Continue Reading >>
Being ‘done’
No amount of understanding or explaining will ever give you permission to be fully alive. Your body knows - long before your intellect - when you’re ‘done’. Life explodes with potential the moment you simply trust your body to lead. ... Continue Reading >>
Women and the Future of the World
Line in the sand…..
I've been working with women for close to 30 years. Two things that have always stood out in my ever-deepening conversations with them: they are often shocked and terrified by the depth of their own rage; and they are pissed to discover that their well-honed and practised 'appropriate-ness' will not take them where they want to go. They are ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Edge of Potential
Strong (think: power), intense (think: passion) and definite (think: purpose) - when directed at creating what we want in our lives rather than fending off or pressing away what we do not want in our lives - take on a flow that supports the creation of Life rather than its destruction; awakens others to that potential in themselves; and leaves behind a trail ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Designing Your Life
I remember well, those days when I believed that I had to plan my life; to carefully map out the trajectory of my evolution rather than simply trust the process of my own evolving. I remember well the degree of detachment that was required in order for me to be able to do what was required; to stay the course of my own intention; and to make the sacrifices ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Violence and Silence
In my world of engaging with women who are seeking to regain their footing in their own lives, I have become mindful of two critical components that contribute immensely to keeping women in check: the first is silence and the second is isolation. One side of these is the need that women have to become silent, in an attempt to avoid reaction and diminish ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Women and Leadership
Over my 25+ years of working with others, I’ve come to conclude that expressions of, interpretations of and experiences of ‘leadership’ are deeply intimate and personal. For those with whom I engage in a more protracted exploration, they inevitably come to this simple observation: what is common to their definition of leadership is not the words they use or ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Line in the Sand
Consider how many times in your life you have stopped yourself from saying out loud what moves inside you; how many times you have said 'yes' to something when you wanted to say ‘no’; how frequently you have pulled back from the edge of your own thinking to, yet again, comply with the thoughts of those around you. Stop for a moment and allow yourself to ... Continue Reading >>
Climate Change: 4th Level Collapse
From a CODE Model™ perspective, I look at the world I share with more than 7,000,000,000 other humans (not to mention all of the other expressions of Life, in its many, varied and mesmerizing forms) and I know that we, as a species, are at the precipice of 'evolve or die'. What I also see is that we are in the throes of a 4th level collapse, with 2nd ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Finding Your Voice
In my close-to 30 years of working with women, far fewer women actually don’t know what they want than there are women who know… and just won’t tell. That’s a tough one: when you think that others don’t want you to have what you want or that others would turn away from you if they really knew the truth of who you are. And yet, in all those years of working ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 4/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 3/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 1/6
One of the fun parts of exploring ‘retirement’ is that as I wander through long-untouched audio files, I have discovered many, many hours of unpublished recordings. Due to constraints of available time and effort, these sound files are just now re-entering my consciousness. Given that a WEL-Systems® approach is process and context driven, the ’shelf life’ of ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 10
Good morning! Here I am on Day 10: The first day of the rest of my life. I think of the completion of this cycle of enquiry as the end of a long, steady and deep inhalation… of my Self. Now, I pause… and in this continuing cycle… I enter into the long, slow and deep exhalation as I choose to live my life as an expression of the integration that now ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 9
Good morning! Day 9: the penultimate, in this journey of inner exploration. We are almost complete, ever mindful that we can begin anew anytime we choose. There is never an end - only pauses along the way to live out discoveries and re-awaken the desire for yet another deep dive into the unclaimed possibilities. How does it go? The purported Chinese ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 7
Good morning! In my own life and with others, I became aware of patterns and how these patterns, themselves, become the very fabric of our existence; aware that they come to shape our very lives into what we come to call ‘reality’. These patterns come to be relied upon as not only the right thing and the appropriate thing, but the essential thing for our ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 6
Good morning! It has been the longest 5 days of my life! :) Great surges of insight! Deep undulations, reminiscent of those from so long ago. Churning and swirling and twisting….. constant movement of the Soul, as is to be expected when a Great Journey is undertaken. And in this moment, calm. This is what it must be to enter into the eye of a ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 5
Good morning, All! Today, I feel the wrenching. And the truth is: sometimes, when something has been fixed for so long, the wrenching is required for it to be dislodged. A very, very old wave activates as I notice an inner voice speaking to me, in the timbre and cadence of a much younger me, chastising that I have gone too far. That I have asked too ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Retreat with Louise: Nov. 22, 23 & 24, 2016
It’s that time of year, again! With the rapid approach of Fall, my thoughts turn to the annual Emerging Futures retreat for women; at the Fairmont Chateau Montebello. The Sharp Edge of Your Own Evolution: Contouring the Curve of Creation November 22, 23 & 24, 2016 Such an odd way to define this event! How do we make sense of recognizing that our own ... Continue Reading >>
The Seeds of Potential: Living In the Inclusive ‘Or’
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” (Aristotle) From one day to the next, we are pressed into considering so many diverging and often conflicting thoughts. For most of us, what we have been taught to do is to shut out that which neither reflects what we already know nor builds incrementally on ... Continue Reading >>
Timelessness….
Yesterday, was a really lovely day! In my cozy sanctuary, my Ohana gathered to be in the good company of each other. My always-funny, sometimes-outrageous and ever-loving sons; their wisely-chosen and equally-compelling partners; and long-time, close friends gathered for good food, great conversation and side-splitting stories of long-ago mishaps and ... Continue Reading >>
One of My (Many!) Moments of Truth…
The Women Gathering retreat - at the recent Fairmont Chateau Montebello in November - has left me increasingly curious about my/your/our future. (Stay tuned: Blog post to come re the discovery of a 'Free Fall' exploration and its impact.) Much has stayed with me from that experience, not the least of which is the thought, below: We are rapidly ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Awakened Ownership (Part 3/3)
Through those decades of my own evolution, as well as more than 25 years of working with others, I hold this to be the most challenging and difficult part of this exploration, around our illusions: With ownership, we take hold of mindful and meaningful creation. Without ownership, we cannot let go of the frantic hope that some ‘other’ will create it for ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Ground Zero (Part 2/3)
We can talk about it… ponder it… even anticipate it…. but once we’re in it, our bodies pack a powerful punch in awakening us to a new reality. When our illusions collapse, beyond the internal voices that seek to capture our attention, the effect is most potent in its visceral cues as life as we've known it, begins to fracture and separate; causing the body ... Continue Reading >>
Women and Rage: From Silence to Creation
Episode 83 ~ with Nancy Hanlon and Jaime Lowe-Roach Guest Host: Nancy Hanlon - WEL-Systems Institute Affiliate and Certified CODE Model Coach™ For many women, their inner passion and wisdom have long been forgotten to the demands of partners, children, work and taking care of extended family and community. As life fast forwards day by day, the ... Continue Reading >>
Awakening Matriarchal Consciousness
Episode 73 ~ with Naomi Irons "The future of the world is in the hands of women." Kofi Annan Great change is occurring all around us. We can find ourselves at its edges; or we can choose to place ourself at its core. Women awakening to their own potential... to the power of their presence and capacity to shape their reality... is a force that goes ... Continue Reading >>
Sexual, Sensual and Spiritual Beings: Penetrating Coma
The pervasive and relentless sexualization of women and children has created a downward spiral for us all. There is no power in judging this or railing against it. The power lies in knowing that this is not the world I want to leave as my legacy for my children... and then, act accordingly. This exploration was seeded more than three years ago. I would ... Continue Reading >>
Women in Collective: Redefining Networking
Now in business for more than 20 years , I’ve lost count of how many early mornings and evenings I’ve spent in the presence of other women in business. Over those many years, I've also had the opportunity to speak to many groups of women (professional groups, corporate groups, personal growth conferences, wellness conferences, etc.) and engage with them, ... Continue Reading >>
Speaking/Listening: The Power of Flow
Strange... I don't seem to notice anymore where one year ends and the next, begins! For me, it is an endless flow - with fewer and fewer distinctions throughout that flow to distract me from the flow, itself, as the force of change. I noticed long ago that moments of passage - like birthdays, anniversaries, etc. - held no meaning for me, despite the value ... Continue Reading >>
Catching Up to MySelf
I just realized that my last posting here was July 5th. Four days later, my 86YO mother fell and broke her hip... and my life changed. Exactly one week later, my teenage step-daughter was taken to the hospital in a coma, where she remained so for 12 days. An extensive stay in intensive care led to what now, may likely be a long and slow recovery. And ... Continue Reading >>
Women, Breast Cancer, Food and Men
The entangled threads of my own thoughts tug at notions of women and leadership; women and breast cancer; the need women seem to have to apologize when not agreeing or when finding something lacking; food and its stranglehold on women and their bodies; and last, but most definitely not least, women and men. Were these neatly laid out in some pattern or ... Continue Reading >>
Women and Business
I've noticed that my interests are all over the map! It is less knowing what moves me and more about discovering 'what else' might move me, into action or the desire to engage in some way. Recently, Anne Day, Founder of the Company of Women, posted her opening remarks in the latest Newsletter... which led me to discover something about myself, as a ... Continue Reading >>
A Meaningfully Sustainable Life/World
It's been an incredible few weeks. Lots of 'stuff' going on; so much creativity and innovation; so many new ideas, projects, conversations, programs, experiences, etc. coming into expression, leaving me breathless with the potential revealed... ready and waiting for me to engage the next wave! Does it get any better than this? Last week, I spent two days ... Continue Reading >>
Half measures = Whole Life ?
I woke up this morning to this thought: half measures will never get me a whole life. Half a marathon will never get me across the finish line. Half a recipe will never get me a pan of brownies. Half way will never get me to Hawaii! Half of my attention will never get me a whole understanding. How many times in my life have I longed for... strived ... Continue Reading >>
CODE Model Coaching™: Midwifery for the Soul?
I've never been a big fan of the notion of 'coaching'. Way too guy-like... sports-like... and far too reminiscent of the guy standing on the sidelines, running it all while observing the players on the field - the ones engaging life! Guiding, directing; chastising, praising... and all the rest of it that goes with it. Short conversations with clear ... Continue Reading >>
When does virtue become a vice?
I am so mindful of reactions to and language around those moments when women are perceived to be less than 'patient' and 'understanding' and 'caring'. What exactly does that mean? In a recent chat with a friend and colleague, the thought that kept coming into my awareness was about 'patience is a virtue'... leading me to wonder: when does a virtue become ... Continue Reading >>
“My people…”
November has been an incredible month for me - not just because of its intensity but because of the acceleration of my own evolution, as a result of it! November began with the first of two Engaging and Awakening Others women's intensives, offered in Halifax. A small group of women gathered, talking about their lives and the potential that awaited... if ... Continue Reading >>
Sleeping to awaken
I am feeling the urge to reveal myself, to myself. I know of no better way to do this than to allow the words to flow out the ends of my fingers onto the screen, ultimately allowing me to discover who I have become. Last week, in the good company of a loving and ferocious friend, I created space for myself to stop... let all of it go... and rediscover who ... Continue Reading >>
Noticing my life
It's been a busy day in the discovery department! Reading blog postings by three amazing young women - Naomi and Lisa and Amy - and marveling at who they have discovered themselves to be! Wow... in such a short period of time, their lives have exploded with their own genius. Does it get any better than that? Watching a great tv show as a world-renowned ... Continue Reading >>
The pause that refreshes
Tomorrow, I head for Toronto for a matinee, dinner with wonderful friends, a stay in a 5-star hotel.... and the pause that will allow me to leave my existing thoughts behind. It's not that they're not good thoughts or useful thoughts or even greatly beneficial thoughts, it's that they are thoughts of a kind that have shaped my world and yet have, in some ... Continue Reading >>
Bubbling up from the turmoil
Wow... has it been that long? As much as I could tell the story of it all, the story now seems completely irrelevant. What feels so much more potent is the place where I continue to stand, not always easy or comfortable and yet knowing that it is exactly where I need to be. So many thoughts continue to come into my awareness, some with great ease - ... Continue Reading >>
The Audacity of Being Present
I've been reading the blogs and emails of some of the women I spend time with. I've been chatting and listening to the direction their lives have taken since our last time together. There is a theme emerging and I believe it is greatly important to pay attention to it. The theme is this: the audacity of daring to claim our own lives! The audacity of ... Continue Reading >>
Hints of things to come
I'm in the middle of a retreat or program experience, and I find myself observing myself saying something. A small voice inside me (somewhere) says: "Pay attention to that - that's important. " And in the blink of an eye, it's gone. Hours will go by, possibly even days, and it happens again. I'm saying something and notice a sentence or a new word in ... Continue Reading >>
Restlessness….
I am aware of the degree to which I am restless... agitated... ready to move! I am also mindful of the speed at which change can occur (from my Manifesting 6-day of last week) and the alternative state of paralysis that is a reflection of the attempt to manifest from the intellect. Slooooowwwwwwwing down to re-enter what is considered 'normal' is creating ... Continue Reading >>
Invitations to greatness
There are always bumps in the road. Just how dull would it be if the road were always smooth, without any twists or turns to test our attention and our skill.... to test our willingness and ability... to own both the destination and the journey? I'm one of the lucky ones. In my life, I cross paths with more genius women than likely my fair share. ... Continue Reading >>