The Fire Inside

An inquiry - How are we are deconditioning from more masculine ways of being and leaning into our feminine sides? How do we cultivate the new generation of empowered and awakened women the world desperately needs to come into balance?

Sara Campbell

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry has made me very aware that this culture is sorely lacking something I am naturally able to provide in spades. Not in a way that saps me of energy or makes me feel like a martyr, but in a way that feels fulfilling and grounding in my sense of self.

Molly Mielke • Feeling seen · Molly Mielke

And so we let our hearts guide us. We let our bodies guide us. “When we align ourselves with our deepest prayer, the next right thing unfolds,” Cynthia discovered. This is the way of the feminine mystic.

Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics

Your quest is to fall in love with yourself over and over and over again.

Jungian scholar Marion Woodman:

“Women are, by nature, disposed to relationship and connectedness; yet true relationship cannot be embraced until a woman has a deep sense of her at-one-ment. Without this essential independence from all roles and bonds, she is a potential

Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mates, and their pack. They are

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

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our power is in our ability to both be fiercely centered and grounded but also infinitely reaching towards our unique sources of energy, light, and growth.

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

So we ignore it, this voice of our destiny, of our ultimate destination. And ignoring that voice will bring us nothing but discontent. But if we can listen to this voice, accept its challenges, and expand instead of contract into suffering, we will find our true selves.

Sarah Durham Wilson • Maiden to Mother

In my dream the sacred feminine that had been suppressed and forced underground since the beginning of the Christian era was emerging now, in this current age, because we women are emerging and waking up too from the nightmare of patri archy. She is the fierce Goddess of Compassion. The Earth had kept Her safe in her belly all of these years.

Roshi Ilia Shinko Perez • The Zen Priestess and the Snake