Blossoming Feminine Wisdom: Sisterhood

This journey into self, into allowing ourselves to be who we are, with unconditional love, acceptance and encouragement is one that brings many challenges, constantly pushing us to stretch beyond what we know to be true. This stretching first requires Love, and then Courage. Love opens the door and Courage assists us to walk through.

Thank you my Sisters for being examples of Love that I sometimes cannot allow within myself. Thank you for the reminders, the time spent, the conversations, the messages, the blog posts, the videos, the sharing in forums and emails, text messages, phone calls and walks in the woods.

Thank you for the reminders that Love blooms everywhere, we are simply required to allow it space to grow.

Thank you my Sisters, for being shining examples of Courage that I sometimes cannot allow within myself. Thank you for the examples of overcoming the ‘impossibility of dreams’, with Love and inspired action, of feeling the fear and doing it anyway, of dedication to being in service, in sisterhood.

Thank you for examples of living in purpose with passion, reminders that although individual journeys may be quite different there is a common driving force, an undercurrent that carries many things, among them, the essence of Courage. Each separate and individual action is connected through this undercurrent into something much greater than the sum of the individual parts. Each action is a petal on the flower, a portion of the definition of sisterhood which when unwrapped and allowed as a gift is revealed to me today as Courage.

Thank you for having the Courage to listen to your own personal callings, to honor them, nurture them, for allowing them to be in service as true examples of the freedom in following your hearts voice. I aspire to follow your examples and live in the freedom of my hearts true voice.

Thank you, my sisters. No matter what our relationship; past, present or future, there is one thing that remains true.

You are all my sisters.

I love you.

Lisa

I have been feeling strongly that some gifts come with red ‘warning flags’ attached that read, “The attached gift will enhance your life in a way that you cannot imagine yet it also carries things that will ‘stir up’ some deep, emotional bullshit. It’s all good! Trust in the process and receive the gift.”

I acknowledge and accept the challenge and I choose to receive and fully accept the gift.

Today I feel vulnerable yet incredible. I participated in the BraveHeart Women “Core Call” last night with Ellie Drake and my BraveHeart Sisters. It was a difficult thing for me to do. I often feel things so deeply and although I do not seem to have a challenge expressing those feelings in writing, when it comes to speaking about them I feel vulnerable and unsure of myself.

I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude. I am thankful for the BraveHeart Sisters that were on the call with me. I am grateful that they too have heard the true voice of their heart and are dedicated to taking the steps necessary to follow that voice. I am honored to be both participating in and witness to this blossoming. We all, collectively, as sisters bonded together by a choice to be inspiration in action, share in the experiences and the gifts of the blossoming of each individual flower.

As we unfold ourselves … petal by petal … not only are we all each becoming a beautiful flower in an incredible garden, but the essence of that flower, the fragrance, the beauty, is shared among the garden and becomes something much greater than each of us alone.

I love you, my Sisters! Thank you for your love, support and inspiration.

Lisa

My purpose is to heal.

In gratitude and with love for ALL in my life that assists me to heal. I am grateful for the faces that the energies of healing choose to manifest in my life. I am humbled before the many forms that the energy of healing chooses to take. I am in the moment with the essence of healing.

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!

Being Inspiration in Action,
Lisa

My Dear Sisters,

Please accept my apologies. I am reposting one of my blog entries below and and making sure comments are enabled. I must have somehow ticked the box to not allow comments on this post and I can't find a way to un-tick it, so I am reposting it.

I have received several emails and messages on this subject through which I realized that some of you have a lot of your own personal wisdom to share about your own awakening to the power of your feminine energy.

Please feel free to share here as you shared with me privately. Again, I apologize for inadvertently disallowing comments.

"See" you on the Core Inner Circle call tonight!

Ahhhhhhhh!!!

with love and gratitude for my incredible BraveHeart Sisters!
Lisa


Funny how life works ...

I am a woman. I am a woman yet I have been surrounded by SO much masculine energy in my life. I am beginning to understand that there are many ways this has affected me. There are many layers of belief that are interconnected over many interconnecting layers of my life and how I live it AND more importantly that this masculine way of doing things, this masculine energy, has been the foundation of the tools I use and the methods I automatically implement when making choices in my every day life. This would be great if I were a man - men's tools seem to work well for men. Yet I am a woman.

I attended the Core Inner Circle call last night where Ellie shared more wonderful tools for tapping into our feminine wisdom. It's always amazing to me how the information on these calls affirms where I am, gives me a deeper understanding of how I have been operating on auto-pilot and then assists me to stretch and to grow to know mySelf better. With these new tools ... tools that honor my feminine energy, I am slowly, consistently and lovingly learning more and more about mySelf each day. I am learning how to be Me.

I love, admire and respect the men in my life and I appreciate masculine energy in many, many ways ... yet I do not wish to embody it mySelf. I am a woman and my life's purpose is to be as God created me, to heal and nurture my own feminine energy, embodying the full essence of what it means to be Me - to blossom into my own divine feminine wisdom - and through this awakening be in service to women who choose to heal and blossom into their own divine feminine wisdom.

Today, in assessing my To-Do List and what I am giving my attention to I feel a deep sense of peace ... "It is what it is" and "I am what I am." as Ellie says it and as my son Jeff used to say, "It's all good! Enjoy the ride!"

with love and gratitude,
Lisa

It’s been nearly a year since my Blue Moon Affirmations where I set my intentions for the year … wow, time certainly flies … I am grateful for all of the gifts in my life that are assisting me to let go of who I currently know my Self to be and remember who I am. Like the dragonfly, I am transforming.



There are so many things to be grateful for that sometimes become so difficult to see in going about my daily life wrapped up in the many layers of who I think I am. Some days I observe that I am grateful for the hot water in the shower, which is always there on demand when I need it … I take my time and I allow my Self to really feel how nice it is to stand under it. Some days I barely recall the shower as I get caught up in following my mind doing what it does best - thinking.

When I am able to Be, I am not traveling on some past/future mind-trip yet I am allowing my Self to fully experience life in the moment for what it is. I become aware of just how much there is to be grateful for and of how everything … every person and every living thing … is connected. I begin to hear the voice of my soul just a bit stronger. It is the energy of gratitude that assists me to know me.

The more I allow my Self to let go of doing and simply be, the more me is revealed. It’s as though the experience of consciousness, however small a moment in time, unwraps a layer of paper revealing more and more of the gift that is my life.

From day to day, this unwrapping of the gift of my life sometimes happens so slowly that to me, it isn’t noticeable. Yet when I allow the energy of gratitude and change my perspective a bit, looking back over the past year reveals a blossoming that is measurable.

Although a very personal and solitary process, this blossoming does not occur in isolation from the world. I am filled with gratitude for the relationships that I have and the people who are and who will be a part my life. Every relationship, every interaction with another human being assists me to Be. Allowing the gifts in some relationships is effortless and in others a bit more challenging, yet no matter what the wrapping, they are all gifts.

It is truly wonderful to Be on this journey of life walking beside so many incredible giving, loving and affirming people. I am grateful for YOU! Thank you.

With love and Thanks-giving,
Lisa