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

With this stage comes a deep yearning for wholeness—bringing together the ego and the deeper parts of the self; integrating mind, body, and soul; cultivating both the feminine and masculine parts within; being whole in relation to others; and repairing our broken relationship with life and nature.

Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

“Remember the Simone de Beauvoir quote,” she said, “ ‘You can’t have everything you want but you can want everything you want.’

Miranda July • All Fours: A Novel

How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone But Especially Elizabeth Gilbert

Kirsten Powers open.substack.com

Envy is a sign

We must see that spirituality is a continual movement away from compartmentalization and separation and toward embracing all of life. We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. When we do, we will face the patterns from personal history, the conditioning that shields us from the pains of the past.

Jack Kornfield • A Path With Heart

Perhaps the greatest kindness of Tara is how she reminds me that in order to be free, I must embrace my own suffering and allow it to teach me about the nature of how things really are. In my experience, the practice of Tara is an invitation to experience the divine feminine and to contact a sense of sacred masculinity that transcends racism and... See more

Rod Owens • ‘Woman Hold My Hand’

Refuse to be irrelevant. You have a voice and you have the right to use it.

Dr Sharon Blackie • A manifesto for thriving at midlife

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds. When women are close to this nature, the fact

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

“What you need to do, Byron, is know who you are, and where you are, at all times. This is about you, finding and keeping your center. This is how you take on a wave. Then you might find that you need to practice more, or there’s a storm swell coming in, or the wave is simply too much for you. You might even decide that you’re just not cut out for

Charmaine Wilkerson • Black Cake

To pursue as a woman is to instigate. The word “agency” gets thrown around, but it feels wrung of any glamour or excitement. The woman is chasing. She asks, “What do I want?” Sometimes the answer doesn’t come right away or maybe the destination is far off—like scenes of dinners al fresco, or a life of leisure filled with curb-to-car shoes. The