She Gathers Beauty | Living Your Wildly Naked Truth

This episode of She Gathers Beauty marks one year for the podcast! Thank you, beautiful listener, for your grace and presence here at this hearth fire where we meet each other each week.

Let’s consider that surrender is a rite of passage, an awakening to all of who you are.

What wants to be released from your tight grasp? How can the breath in your belly move more freely?

What would it be like to try letting go and stop holding on so very tightly to how things are supposed to look, feel, and be?

I share a story about my own rite of passage and what ceremony really wanted to happen once I let go of trying to control every detail and let myself be free instead.

What longs to be free inside of you? 

What refuses to be silenced anymore?

”whatever you feel, it’s a blessing. claim it.”

How chaos and confusion can be a great navigational tool and prompt to surrender.

I want all of me.

What would it be like to want ALL of yourself? Not just parts. Not just the “good” parts. Every little bit of you.

The offering of two poems for you: May the Butterflies Be Freed & I Want You to Show Me.

May you remember that you are sacred. This moment is ceremony. You do get to live your wildly naked truth.

Thank you for joining me at the hearthfire. Have a beautiful week!

September invites us to slow down, root down, release.

Let the change happen. 

Open, trust, receive.

Strength & wisdom is right here.

Working with the “and” space and all that we are holding.

I share the poem “Being Safe Space.”

Being radically redirected by even the smallest gesture can bring reverence and generous expansion for all of us.

”The lightest touch changing everything.”

Anything is possible now.

A few ways to practice being a safe space for ourselves.

What gesture can you make to receive what is wanting you now?

What “parts” inside of you want to be free to be “who they are” so they can be seen, heard, known?

What choices can you make from that place of reclamation?

What feelings can be felt now so that you can say yes to the momentum of lifeforce that is happening right now?

Grace happens in the “empty” space between the exhale and the inhale. In the in-between place.

Why this moment is ceremony.

Crossroads as rite of passage and bringing reverence to the past, present, and what has yet to come.

A story about a moth and a gesture of offering choice.

Practicing the release of mental critiquing.

I share the poem “Crossroads” dedicated to my dear friend, Marion.

”All of everything” is helping us move forward.

While this message feels deeply important to share, the recording level is a bit low. I invite you to crank up the volume!

We explore being with the domain of our heart—and with the tender and wobbly vulnerable parts of life. 

Permission to show up exactly as you are—no matter what’s happening and no matter what messaging might be occurring that says you need to be different than you are.

I channel a message from the Akasha for all of us. Some glimpses into what we are shown in this guided journey:

move through the threshold presenting itself to you now. there are leagues of angelic ones standing with each of us. stand at the precipice you’ve been led to. they’re asking us to remove the blindfolds to truth when we’re  ready. open your eyes and see what you see. there will be glimpses of what’s available now. our eyes are adjusting while we are digesting the new content and reality of life now. we are integrating what is deeply good. we are remembering what has been forgotten. we are being asked to trust at the precipice. we are being asked to be willing to take the next step and know that we will be met by something soft and divine.

The messages continue and deepen. Listen in and see what nourishment arrives for you. We are given helpful instructions for ways to be supported and grounded at this time.

There is the promise of a new legacy.

We are invited to be the fire keepers of our own Hearthfire. 

I share a poignant and powerful poem, a favorite of mine, by the great Mary Oliver. 

May you know great comfort and boundless blessings.

Hummingbird makes a visit and shares a message about gathering nectar and being a part of something beautiful and true.

The invitation to locate the ways you are being held while you are holding so much. 

Practicing presence in the midst of despair, fear, and challenge to access the sacred breath of peace that Life has to offer.

Your breath is a prayer.

Cultivating calm and increasing the relaxation response with mindfulness.

What is alive and true for you in this moment?

What brings sweetness into your life? How can you be nourished with what is available now?

There’s nothing right or wrong about how you’re breathing right now. You are so much more than the limitation of right or wrong.

Something elegant is occurring in this moment. 

You are being supported in this moment.

Practical ways to make contact with the Mystery and altar your life.

Let yourself remember you are being held. Give your weight to what’s holding you.

Be supported.

Stay.

I read the poem “the soft curved bowl of you.”

Join us in a sacred collective, “Writing & Ecstasy,” a virtual retreat experience Saturday, September 4th—we’ll enjoy a luscious afternoon filled with spacious inner self-care. Receive a message from Spirit uniquely for the collective that gathers that day. Find (w)holy ecstasy in the ordinary rounds of daily life.

https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/group-offerings

Anger has incredible healing power and it wants to lead us back to something sacred within. 

We can learn how to be with the wild edges and unknown force of our own anger, even when it feels scary, we can learn how to titrate our experience.

Rage and anger are different. Rage is anger that has gone unseen and untended to. Learning how to BE WITH our anger when it arrives can be a profound healing story and can be a preventative measure that brings about greater intimacy, love, and connection with our whole selves.

Messages about anger and the real wisdom of its essence.

Anger wants expression—it wants to move through us.

The body has a world of intelligence about this. Being mad is a fierce storm that when given permission to pass through, a clear realization and fresh beginning becomes available. 

After working with children and adults over the years as a psychotherapist and mindfulness instructor, I’ve gathered a few helpful tools for how to move and express the energy of our anger. I share a few practical ways to be with anger when it visits.

All of our feelings want us. They all have a sacred message and it’s up to us to be with, care for, and discern what is needed in the moment.

This helps us learn how to trust ourselves with our biggest feelings and challenges and create a safe and loving environment within us and around us in which we can truly and fully express ourselves.

I share the poems “Chispa” and “Great Dark Wing” from my first book, The Reach Is (W)holy. www.shegathersbeauty.com/books

Welcome to August! Enjoy this special Akashic Records Reading for our beautiful, expanding community.

The doors are open wide now and we are invited into the place of possibility.

There are all kinds of openings, including doorways that lead to the past. This is a portal to review past dreams, aspirations, and visions to better understand and be with what is current for you now. 

The sacred role of fear. It is the energy that can help us move in the direction of our true life path.

It can feel scary to leave the past—the invitation is to trust that you have the sovereign right to review and rewrite, feel and reclaim what continues to be true and what does not—what has been shed and is ready to be released? Feeling the truth of this, the depth of what you are being shown, including the loss, will enable you to actually move more freely and into the presence of now with increased confidence and embodied discernment.

There is much to be gained. 

The New Moon in Leo and the Lion’s Gate August 8, 2021.

Trusting ourselves and the heart of expansion.

That which you are drawn to is drawn to you. Opening the heart space creates a mirror for you to see the truth of this reflection. Working with the body to see, know, and feel.

Your light is a mirror of the One Great Light.

We belong to great expansion.

Creative and insightful ways to work with the guidance of this Akashic Records reading.

Three Divine Doors begins tomorrow and is perfect timing to weave in this message from the Akasha! Join us—it’s not too late! https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking/three-divine-doors

It is time to take up space, receive, be drenched in delight. 

You are meant to experience being honored, celebrated, and receive all that is meant for your rooted, sweet, expansion.

You are possibility wanted by Possibility.

Why ritual and rites of passage are so very necessary and why your soul wants them.

Welcome to the Signature Soul Bath Experience! This is my new one-on-one offering—a rite of passage, created for the celebration of you and the honoring of where you are along the winding path of your life. I discuss what these soul retreats are, what you will receive, and the empowering blessings and tools you will walk away with at the end of our journey together.

Current offerings will be phased out soon—please do take advantage of these! Special bundles and exquisite rates are currently available. Stock up while you can!

 

Visit my website https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking to learn more.

Diving into the poem “Be Wide.” Belonging, expansion, replenishment.

A guided meditation.

A ritual suggestion for the upcoming New Moon in Aries.

As always, thank you for being here. Your presence means everything! May you know every boundless blessing this New Moon is ready to offer you. May it be so.

Enjoy one of our most popular episodes released many moons ago. 

I share a new poem gifted to me by the Mistress of Longing entitled “Cover Her With the Scent of Trees.” I also share and unpack the following ideas:

“Longing is the practice of love.”

You are so much more than you know. You are.

The reclamation of who we already are and who we have always been. 

Taking it all off and soaking in the sacredness of our truth. Creating ritual.

The Great Call Back—a practice of devotion—summoning all of our parts—any parts of us that we have lost along the way—they long for and belong to us. This is our sovereign right and will cover us in blessing and infuse us with radiant restoration and empowerment.

Shamanic journeying and the “call back.”

We get to live from a place of deep commitment to our wholeness.

You are worth investing in.

Reaching for a guide in the darkness is a practice of great strength, love, and confidence.

All of you is whole, holy, and good. All of you. 

Love is a longing for union, communion, and bearing witness to our totality. We are expansive beings and each moment is an opportunity for us to choose the elegant edge of lifting ourselves into softness, wholeness, and belonging.

A love story within a love story within a love story. The poem “Cover Her With the Scent of Trees” is a love story about the woman I love being held within the love story of my own completeness, held by something far greater—Her.

Individual reclamation leads to collective reclamation, integrity, healing, compassion, and more love.

Honoring the seasons of change as a pivot point to gathering what is rightfully ours.

Relationship and community are touchstones to the Great Call Back. Your heart space is a sacred gathering place.

The importance of knowing and feeling our own individual calling and how longing can lead us to, strengthen, and support that.

Being nourished by all of the love stories that we are.

What are you deeply longing for? It matters. For all of us. It matters.

How are you or would you like to practice the Great Call Back? I’d love to know. Comment below or send me a private message at shegathersbeauty.com or @shegathersbeauty on Instagram or Facebook. 

May you remember that you are sacred. This moment is ceremony. And you get to live your wildly naked truth.

Acknowledging where we’ve been, where we are now, and floating in the sacred river of being that is moving us forward. 

The role of reverence.

How marking big transitions heals, soothes, nourishes, and informs us.

Working with loss and joy.

Embracing the unknown and the “brilliant sanity” when we don’t. I gratefully acknowledge my teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and the teachings I received from Naropa University. It is from these Shambhala teachings of this lineage that the term brilliant sanity originates. 

I share the poems “Be,” & “Float,” from my book, The Reach is (W)holy. https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/books

In the river of life, we are worthy of receiving, of floating, of going with the current, shift our gaze and allegiance to truth, trust, choice, and joy.

I share a practice for the coming days to nourish and ground you and help you be current with the beauty of your life.

I also share a short meditation at the end for your pleasure, truth, and empowerment. 

“As the river moves you, may you remember to trust yourself.”

 

Announcing three new sacred virtual retreat experiences + The School of Wild & Holy

August 7: Writing As Kintsugi: Using Words for Mending (Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art form and practice of mending broken pieces of pottery with gold.)

September 11: Writing & Ecstasy: Bringing the Ecstatic into Your Daily Experience 

October 16: Permission: Stepping Through the Sacred Threshold of Soul

November 8: The School of Wild & Holy: Sisterhood of the Sacred

https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/work-with-me

 

Thank you for listening. 

xo

Returning to the center of things and the things that truly matter. Removing our attention from the static and distraction and coming back to the heart compass.

Reflecting upon impermanence to choose what is possible and alive in this moment.

What do you belong to in this wild, fresh moment? 

What do you want to invest yourself in and how do you wish to be invested in?

What feels like gentle homecoming? What does that feel like in your body? 

Let harmony guide you—your body knows what this means. When are you choosing yourself, your current needs—when does your internal experience feel aligned and harmonious with whatever might be happening around you? And when do you notice feeling disharmony and a sense of leaving yourself behind?

It’s normal to get distracted and taken away. Even in the most beautiful place we can get lost in thoughts, beliefs, and old patterns and choose “disharmony.” Underneath it all is clear, calm, constant harmony. We get to continue to come back to that space over and over again. It’s a practice.

Going “off course” doesn’t mean we’ve done anything wrong. It means we’re human. 

How do you come back to yourself and this fresh, awake, now moment?

Let’s explore the steady foundation of practicing presence, which can include choosing memories that help us come back to the truth of us—much like the poem I share— “emergence.”

Are you willing to believe in the miracles available inside this moment?

Watching and witnessing your breathing is a way to make direct contact with the revelation that belongs to you.

Emergence can be found in my first book, The Reach Is (W)holy. https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/books.

To learn more about ways to spend time at the hearthfire with me, visit my website https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/. I’m currently booking individual sessions September - December. I have some exciting announcements coming soon about The School of Wild & Holy; an intimate 6 month program to move deeply with life and receive the sacred mystery teachings you’ve been called to live and share.

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