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se você escolher amar uma mulher desperta, saiba que isso não tem nada a ver com jogar seguro. este poema de sophie bashford é um convite cru para uma conexão profunda que mexe com a alma. ela nos lembra que amar uma mulher que está desperta—espiritualmente, emocionalmente, energeticamente—vai te sacudir, não te embalar. não se trata de conforto, mas de evolução. é para quem está pronto para se elevar, se expandir e encontrar o amor como uma força de transformação.
você pode ler o poema completo no site dela: https://www.sophiebashford.com/if-you-choose-to-love-an-awakened-woman/
this is me reading something i wrote back in november 2001 when i was probably living in oklahoma. now i'm in brazil and sharing this because it feels more important than ever.
it's about how i went from charging less than $20 for readings because i didn't know my own power, to over $190 an hour once i realized what i could actually do. the shift happened when i stopped listening to people who treated this work as just a hobby, studied myself like any other transformational project, and stopped caring what regular people or other spiritualists thought about my methods.
the piece is about finding your real self - not the conditioned version shaped by fear or other people's expectations. my gift is feeling past what people hide in shadows, smelling fear, and tapping into essence beyond the surface. it takes courage because most aren't ready to be seen that deeply, and there will always be "who does she think she is" people. but i'm here to hold space for those ready to transmute. mystics see uniqueness in others because we see it in ourselves - you can't give what you don't have.
this is me reading something i wrote back on june 9th, 2017 - a piece i called "spellbound." it came after one of the craziest life upheavals i'd ever experienced, followed by three months of sitting in almost complete silence, which led to a major awakening and what i can only describe as a major download or upload.
the piece is about wholeness - about traveling through time to collect all the scattered pieces of myself that i'd left behind. the good, the bad, the happy, the sad. it was painful and blissful and absolutely necessary because i needed all of me to begin whatever journey was coming next.
it's about being present - not being my past or my future, but being now. about magnifying the universe and embodying all aspects of existence. about being an archer who never misses her mark because my story is written with stars, a galactic farmer turning shit into fertilizer, an alchemist growing stars.
this writing captures that moment of complete integration - when you realize you're everything and nothing, whole and sovereign, magic incarnate. it's about being the energy farmer, the wayshower, the rainmaker who transforms whatever comes into something that can nourish new growth.
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Courtney, also known as Sisi in Brasil, is a psychic, catalyst, speaker, podcast host, and multipotentialite living in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She has spent over 20 years…
Her path has moved through Brooklyn, Detroit, rural Oklahoma, a church in Florida, and now a curved glass balcony overlooking the Atlantic in Bahia. She didn't move around because she couldn't settle. She followed what was alive.
Courtney is the granddaughter of Manley Ray "Bubba" Bell of Weatherford, Oklahoma, and the great-great-granddaughter of Buck Colbert Franklin --- the attorney who set up a law office in a canvas tent in the rubble of Greenwood after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, sued the city, and won. Her cousin is John Hope Franklin, one of America's most important historians and author of From Slavery to Freedom. Her documented family tree spans 500 years and six continents of ancestry --- Powhatan, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Yoruba, Acadian, and Scottish lineage, DNA confirmed.
She now lives in Salvador --- the largest African-descended city outside of Africa --- where her Yoruba ancestors' cousins were brought on a different ship 230 years ago. She didn't plan it. The blood found its way home.
As a catalyst, Courtney does not operate from the assumption that anyone is broken. She translates energy into language, names what sits just under the surface, and gives people enough of a spark to set everything else in motion. Her clients have launched businesses, booked out their calendars, left relationships that were killing them slowly, and finally stopped circling their lives and started living them.
She is the creator of faafo.app, the founder of Lingua by Sisi (a music-based language learning method), the host of Move to Bahia Brasil with Sisi, and the architect behind a seven-show podcast network, a relocation service for Americans moving to Bahia, and the Vanguard Mystery School. She is currently writing her first book and building toward a speaking tour.
Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, broadcast news coverage, and professional stages across the United States. She has received a President's Administrative Award from the Community Healing Network for over 15 years of service as webmaster, community organizer, and summit coordinator.
Courtney speaks to audiences about ancestry, sovereignty, identity, relocation, and what becomes possible when you stop performing your life and start living it. She delivers the truth with warmth, dry humor, and the kind of directness that only someone with 500 years of documented audacity in her bloodline can carry.
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