She Gathers Beauty | Living Your Wildly Naked Truth

Join me as I share my own behind-the-scenes process about betrayal and the path back to sovereignty.

This is a story about my body and what she's trying to show me when I choose external validation and reject the most sacred love story of my life--choosing to be the poet of my own heart. I live for poetry and often the subject is about love and longing. Recently, I've been able to see how every poem I write is a love letter to my soul. 

Explore the ways your body will tell you when you've strayed from true self and true home--and the myriad ways we have grown to diminish ourselves when we place our love and power in someone else's hands. 

Knowing the feeling sense of "diminishment" can be a potent signal to step back into ourselves.  

I wonder if you know all the miracles waiting for you on this day and all the days to come when you choose to fully occupy the wild country of yourself?

I wonder if you're open to the vast potential living within you? What will it take to walk love's wild edge and choose yourself again and again?

What if every prayer, poem, and love song was written for you?

Life mirrors the possibility for homecoming in each moment. Especially when we abandon ourselves.

Cancel culture and self-abandonment.

Daily preventative practices that summon our sovereignty and restore soul are so important. Perhaps now more than ever. If you haven't already listened to episode 64, "Be Coated With Love," now is the time. This is an Akashic reading for our community that provides powerful instruction for heart tending, protection, and feeling love(d).

At the end of this episode, I share a short, guided heart ritual for homecoming. 

Special Offering: Let's summon the power of this time of year and feel deep connection to self & others. Join us for a very special storytelling series as we approach the threshold of releasing this year and all that has come, and enter into a new year and all we are becoming in sacred community. Be seen. Be sovereign. We begin this Sunday, November 21st with the story of The Ugly Duckling. It's not too late to sign up and gather round the hearth fire with us. https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/group-offerings

Tell me, what is your yes? What is alive within you? What is life asking you to release? To fully embody?

The way you feel, it matters.

The way the moon is moving inside you, it matters. 

How are you meeting the wild edges of yourself?

What will you give yourself permission to be, feel, do, receive, believe, give?

There’s always a threshold opportunity to help us embody our yes.

This life is a constant ceremony—and everything is a love story.

The power in believing in your love—and leaning into the unknown.

I beg you, don’t let go of your hallelujah.

If you’d like to receive a love note from my heart to yours and be supported while you’re living at your edges, you can sign up for my newsletter here: https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/

Poems shared in this episode: She Is Mine, Lion’s Moon, The Curve of Yes, and An Unplanned Gathering of Love.

Be coated with love is the theme for this week’s episode, channeled from the Great Akasha.

Make your favorite cup of tea and listen in. Let yourself get cozy and comfy and see how the message translates to what you’re experiencing. 

We are being invited to trust where we are, let go of any ideas about right and wrong and let life surprise us.

We’re offered a daily practice for the month of November to help us “grow into ourselves.”

There’s a lot of medicine packed into this little episode—I hope it brings some comfort and blessings to you.

What if the tenderness living wild and alive inside you is a prayer?

How is it being answered?

What if our tenderness and vulnerability are a prayer?

How are you praying? Even in the silence, your heart is asking for something.

One of the miracles available is our ability to see how the answer arrives. Especially when it doesn’t arrive the way we think it will. 

Your desire is a prayer, even when you won’t let yourself feel it. 

Answers arrive when we liberate our longing—when we give it free speech to take up space. 

How are you living wide and taking up space? 

There’s a community of revolutionaries rising and I share more about that and #longingproject in this episode. You can learn more at https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/longing-project

You get to live your wildly naked truth.

May it be so.

Today I open the Akashic Records, revealing a potent message for the listeners of this podcast. I briefly describe the Akasha and share what often happens for those who are the recipients of these messages. 

The Records are a sacred space for us to access Truth from the great Storehouse of all that is, remember our sovereignty, life purpose, and provide myriad expressions and opportunities to receive healing, upliftment, and ceremony.

The ritual of and ways to receive an Akashic Records Reading. 

A guided relaxation and deepening into the presence of being held.

The Blue Lotus shares Her message with us:

it is dark and yet there is so much light; the message is about remembering hope; even in darkness, Great light and beauty is happening; darkness is the mystery of all life; life happens with death; the Blue Lotus is a great healing light reaching for us, inviting us home; this time is the Great Gathering Sacred; breathe now, She says; Open and rest, open and rest; what moves away from you is meant to, it will return your Truth back to you, with noble wisdom; You are Noble Wisdom; lower your gaze to the center of yourself, to the center of everything, where we all are, held in the center of Her; She holds the vast and luminous great mystery; the stars are Her heartbeats, Her eyes, and I’s, the multiple perspectives of Her, which is us; we must forget and re-member ourselves again; release and let go, strength and clarity is returning now; re-chord your dreams, your vision, your hopes, and aspirations, belong to this homecoming now.

The Blue Lotus offers a nighttime practice and ritual for deep rest, healing, and homecoming.

Thank you for listening. If you’d like to receive your own Akashic Reading, you can book yours here https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking/akashic-records-intuitive-reading.

Many Blessings and All Love.

What are you growing into? 

What do you long to embody?

What if something you experienced was the last time you’d experience it? What if the last kiss you had was the last one? And what if it wasn’t but you let yourself remember that everything will change—how would you bring your whole self into the next kiss? Into grief and sadness? Into this moment? Into whatever you love?

Appreciating being here. What can you find home in right now?

Being rearranged, knowing the sacredness of it, even when it doesn’t feel that way. Inviting the breath in, letting it show you the way with its elegant rhythm, moving in and out. 

If you pick one thing to wear today that would represent how you want to live into this moment like it’s the last moment, what would it be? Your favorite shirt? A piece of jewelry? An essential oil? Choose comfort and ceremony. How will you wear your love?

Slowing down and growing into the journey of this life. Letting longing be birthed as a spark from within. 

Getting acquainted with the fire of our soul. 

The practice of living your wildly naked truth.

Remembering to trust. And the trust in remembering.

I share the poem Deep Violets, Wild Pines.

Where can you let go of being so careful and live your you-ness now. Seek it out. What would living more wildly look like?

Begin a new alchemy. “Wear your love like perfume.”

Saturday, October 23rd, join me for Permission, a luscious and sacred virtual retreat. https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking/three-divine-doors

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How do we hold our intentions, longings, dreams, and desires while simultaneously not holding too tightly to any particular outcome?

Explore the immensity of how so many of us are being asked to let go, be redirected, and move into the center of our lives.

I share a personal story about being rear-ended and all the ways I gained clarity that sometimes we need to be rerouted. *Trigger Alert: this is a fairly mild, or “gentle” story about a car accident I was in. It comes at the beginning of the episode. If in any way that feels like too much, you might fast forward to the middle of the episode or skip this one. 

When we experience trauma, it’s so important to let someone help us move through it. Please reach out to someone who is a trauma-informed practitioner, a therapist, a friend, a shamanic healer—someone you can trust to help you find peace, comfort, safety, and healing.

Letting go of practicing learned self-abandonment and choosing our whole selves instead.

Taking up space and having full permission to claim that which has been unclaimed within us.

Working with embodiment and presence practices in order to locate who and where we are and where we might be being nudged to go. 

When we’re re-directed or rerouted, we are ready. 

I share the poems “The Song” and “The Dream” by Naomi Shihab Nye.

An invitation to my upcoming offering, Permission: Moving Through Sacred Thresholds, October 23rd, from 1:00-4:00 pm EST. This is an experiential virtual retreat, designed as a sacred container to come home to yourself, and uncover and say yes to your deepest truths. During our time together we will merge the practical with the mystical. You will experience what it’s like to live your yes and be supported by and deeply connected to your soul’s longings. For more information visit https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking/three-divine-doors.

You are not broken. You are wounded. And inside the wound, is your remedy. 

The world might be broken. Systems and infrastructures certainly are. But we aren’t. We’ve forgotten the truth of who we are.

Your remedy involves your soul’s dream. And your soul’s dream is part of the collective dream. Lingering for a while in curiosity widens our capacity to dream again. We suffer when we forget this.

How can you give yourself permission to be present with your sense of woundedness while also being open to finding the remedy there, as well?

The (w)holiness of Eve and her longing.

How gifts become wounds and wounds, gifts.

Thank you for listening!

If this episode or previous episodes inspire or resonate with you, I invite you to join me for Permission: Stepping Through Sacred Thresholds, an afternoon virtual retreat on Saturday, October 23rd.  We’ll explore the topic of lingering inside the gift of you, the dream of you, and the moving toward knowing and living the truth of you.

In this spacious and sacred experiential retreat, I will provide a safe and grounded container to explore your yes and the healing and expansion you’re ready for.

This virtual retreat is for women who feel as though they are standing at a crossroads and sense or know it’s time to step forward and be who they are in a new way and are ready to be guided by their own inner wisdom keeper and the support of a beautiful and intimate collective, my shamanic practices and helping spirits, and the elegant nature of soulfulness. Participants will walk away with a much clearer picture of what’s truly calling them and how to take the next steps forward, while feeling aligned with their authentic truth, desire, and sense of belonging. Here’s the link to learn more and save your seat for Permission: Stepping Through Sacred Thresholds https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/group-offerings

Embracing the harvest: gratitude, reflection, and calling in. Join Wendy to explore the deeper call of what it means to honor grace in your life right now. How are you being invited into an experience of expanding joy, meaning, passion, creativity, and love?

What would it be like to hold the intention of just being you? 

What are you harvesting and celebrating now? What are you still hungry for?

I share from personal experience what it means to follow soul’s call, how I devote myself to love, divinity, and my path, through change, challenge, and uprooting my entire life. 

Permission to be terrified, ask for help, live supported, and make your life sacred.

Longing is the embodiment of sovereignty when we are willing to know and trust our truth.

Longing goes deep into the roots of us. It is why we are here. It is a generous expression of soul. It is your divinity whispering into you the way to get home. It’s not a “beach read,” it’s the book of your life.

There is a gorgeous seed of light living inside each of us. Now is the time to let the layers fall away so that the light can grow. Our desire is that light.

Claiming what is unclaimed within us is how we come home. 

You are allowed to change, to move your life in a new direction. You are allowed to rest. Reflect. To let things fall away. To begin again. To create. To love whatever you love. 

“There is no such thing as one way liberation.” —Glennon Doyle

You are here to be you. And you are so much more than you know.

“Accept the nudge, be moved by love.”

Home is a deeper expression of who you really are—and home will always show you this.

I share the poems See-saw & All This Time.

”I want to know what you ache for but do not say.”

Create your own map so that you can freely explore the home of you in your fullest expression.

To join our revolution of desire, visit https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/longing-project.

and to treat yourself to a luscious afternoon virtual retreat, join us on October 16th for Permission: A Sacred Threshold to Your Desire https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking/three-divine-doors.

In this popular replay, Wendy shares a love story. Three of them, actually.

The Mistress of Longing Poem; words chanted over me during the Dreamtime and the bones of the book that came as a result.

Sending postcards to ourselves. Having a love affair with yourself and your life exactly as it. “You are already the entire ocean.” Reminders to carry on with grace and hope, truth and trust.

Falling in love with a numinous presence.

Our deepest longings and values and how our lives depend upon them. Trusting the truth of this moment, impermanence, and letting longing lead the way to the life we want to live.

The path to living my wildly, naked truth and what I value.

Falling in love with a woman and our path of beauty. Intimacy, sensuality, creativity, and connection.

Giving and receiving.

Cultivating our love affair and some of the ways we tend our hearth-fire.

Personal growth, healing, and the expansion available through relationship and co-creation.

Tending the flame. Cultivating courage. Leaping into the great unknown—what can you hold onto?

How do you wish to be more intimate with your life?

Walking through the last 4 months of the year. Making contact with what you value and living in love.

”Longing brought you here—births you again and again.” ~The Mistress of Longing.

Remember, you are sacred. This moment is ceremony. You get to live your wildly, naked truth.