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

In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us. (A duty may numb us out, turn us off, tune us ou... See more

Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've ... See more

I am reminded of the closing remarks in Richard Tarnas’s epilogue to his classic text, The Passion of the Western Mind .

“I believe that the West's restless inner development and incessantly innovative masculine ordering of reality has been gradually leading, in an immensely long dialectical movement, toward a reconciliation with the lost feminine ... See more

Jonathan Rowson • Witch Envy

When I comes to receiving what I want from life, I’ve learned that if I’m able to accept the feeling of insufficiency without taking it personally or seeing it as an attack on who I am, I can clearly access my beliefs around value and often create even better work as a result. One of the exercises this week in Accelerate was designed to diffuse the drama around worthiness, and it felt important because I myself get caught up in it until I become bored of making a story longer than I care for it to be and remember to choose something else.

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The extent of violation of women and violence to the earth perpetrated by men does not mean that all men are perpetrators. It is important to acknowledge that there are many forward-thinking males around the world who recognize these same problems and are working in collaboration with women to change them. While I am focusing on the need for the em

Tsultrim Allione • Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine

I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you’ve lost.

Tana French • The Likeness

Of course the thing about beginning again — about starting over midway through is that you have to be willing to watch yourself die.

I learned that from writing this newsletter.

Next week, it will be three years since I launched the cereal aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other sid... See more

Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Jonathan Rowson • Witch Envy

Tsultrim Allione • Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine

Tana French • The Likeness

Leandra Medine Cohen • Three years of cereal