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I’ve been thinking about how quickly we decide that anything we want to release must have been bad. A bad habit. A bad decision. A bad version of ourselves. Something to overcome, eliminate or firmly escort from the building. 😄 But perhaps not everything we release needs to become an enemy. Some things simply complete their purpose. The fear that once kept us safe. The people-pleasing that helped us feel accepted. The procrastination that protected us from the possibility of

How do you prepare to spend nine days with the Goddesses? Let’s begin with what you do not need. You do not need to redecorate your house. You do not need to understand Sanskrit. You do not need an impressive meditation practice. And you certainly do not need to purchase an entirely new wardrobe of white linen. Unless, of course, you have been looking for an excuse. 😄 The practical preparation can be very simple. Choose a little place in your home where you can be undisturbe

Last week, a friend and I were walking one of our favourite tracks. It's in suburbia, but you'd hardly know it. The path winds through beautiful natural forest, lush and green and just wild enough to make you forget there are houses backing onto it. And spilling out from one of those gardens, over the rocks and onto the path, was the most glorious mass of nasturtiums. Completely unruly. Red and orange flowers everywhere. We stopped to admire them, picked a couple and commente

One hour. That's it. Not nine days removed from ordinary life. Not a spiritual boot camp. And definitely not another worthy commitment that leaves you wondering how on earth you're going to fit it in. 😄 One hour a day for nine days. We meet on Zoom. We chant the names of the Goddess together. We meet one of the Nine Faces of Durga Ma. We will share her myth. We talk a little about what this particular face of the Goddess shows up in our own lives. There'll be a short medita

There is something rather delicious about a group of intelligent, capable women deciding to spend one hour a day for nine days invoking and honouring the Goddess in her many forms.. Women who run businesses. Manage families. Meet deadlines. Pay mortgages. Make difficult decisions. Know how to get things done. And yet, somewhere underneath all that competence, perhaps there is another knowing. A quiet sense that we are more mysterious than our CVs would suggest. That undernea