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

Visakan Veerasamy

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“Patriarchy, with its unrealistic faith in the goals of this life, is built upon the denial of transformation and death."

Marion Woodman

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honour and self-respect we can require no less... See more

Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power

A feminine-centric recovery paradigm assumes that you are already whole and perfect; it is not you who is broken but the system; you are the expert on your own life, and therefore you make the template, and you make the rules.

Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman

women have qualities of heart and mind that we need more of in public and private spheres of life; those qualities are not just about multitasking but the disposition to view social, emotional and administrative responsibility as part of the main curriculum of life, rather than things to get out of the way before getting back to work or play. It is... See more

Jonathan Rowson • What chess taught me about the differences between men and women

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What we’re mostly doing at this time in our lives, then, is looking for a story to draw together the messy fragments of everything that’s happened to us and defined us up until now. We need to transform the story we tell about ourselves, to find a story in which we have more agency – and more purpose. The problem is that, in the culture we... See more

Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman

Jonathan Rowson • What chess taught me about the differences between men and women

Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife