She Gathers Beauty | Living Your Wildly Naked Truth

I’m delighted to announce two upcoming virtual workshops in July & August!

AROUSE: Ecstasy in Writing; Casting a Spell with Pleasure

Saturday, July 17th, 1:00-4:00

ORGASM: Crafting An Altar of Love & Wild Reclamation

Saturday, August 21st, 1:00-4:00

To register and learn more visit www.shegathersbeauty.com or follow me on Instagram & Facebook @shegathersbeauty.

Today Wendy dives into the freedom that comes through expression, trusting and using the passionate voice from within.

Ecstasy comes in many forms. It is a rising of truth energy. It’s a wildness that isn’t meant to be contained.

Within you, lives a yes space. It’s the place where your wild originates and knows just what to do and how to be.

Desire is a (com)passionate freedom. 

Desire invites us to choose ourselves—our sacred yes space. This is what self-care is. So much wisdom and joy—healing and empowerment lives inside this choice.

Massage, candles, sacred baths, exquisite oils and beautiful external environments are invitations to internal, deep, loving care of you and your life. Self-care fills us, fuels us, when we caretake ourselves in both ways.

What is pulling you now, asking for your attention? 

Will you let your desire want you?

I share the poems “all this time” and “love enters.”

Perhaps your yes space wants to be written. Take some time today or over the next week and see what wants to move through your hand onto paper. A word. A sentence. A story. A wish. Let this be a compassionate practice of self-care. Set a beautiful environment for yourself. Then let yourself move deeper into the lush landscape within.

May you remember that you are sacred.

This moment is ceremony—and you get to live your wildly naked truth—

unapologetically.

I was called to channel a message for you today. I hope that it lifts your spirits, brings great relief and remembering.

This message invites us to understand the ways in which we have moved through great challenge and that it is time to honor our fortitude, resilience, and step into a new life. This is a “portal,” if you will, carrying us into not just the coming days and weeks but a message that will serve us and cultivate great support and knowing for the remainder of the year. 

Take some time to settle in, make some tea, and create sacred space for yourself. Ceremony is waiting.

It is my honor to bring forth messages like this one. No matter when you listen, it will be the aligned time for you. 

This particular message came through for the listeners of this podcast. Being a channel brings me great hope and connection to what matters most in this life—I’m here to share this gift with you. If you would like to work with me in this way, visit my website at www.shegathersbeauty.com.

Thank you for this exchange of abundance—your time and attention is deeply valuable to me.

What does it mean to altAr your life?

What would it be like to live your life now? To experience yourself free, curious, and luscious—exactly as you are?

The ways we abandon ourselves and give our power away. 

Don’t wait to “use the good dishes.”

Body image & self-worth. 

The truth about your (w)holiness.

Leaving a life of heterosexual privilege and meeting myself at the door of my Truth.

Huge life transitions, wearing new skin, rites of passage.

What your soul wants you to know. 

You get to take up space and enjoy your life. Now. There’s really no need to wait.

There is no “perfect” time. This moment is ceremony.

Trusting that you know what feels like pleasure and finding ways to abandon pressure and choose yourself—your wants, your nourishment, your joy—instead.

The role punishment plays: over-culture might tell us that we aren’t worthy of experiencing pleasure and goodness until we are something different than what we are. In whatever ways this message is still encoded within us, it’s time to liberate the truth and start a revolution of love.

How can you altar your life right now? How can you honor and celebrate all that you have experienced and lived (and long to) so far?

Perimenopause and the importance of taking up space.

You are a gift and worthy of living the life you love and long for.

Choose your power, not the external messages about belonging and fitting in.

Beauty in contrast.

Feel and experience the grace holding you together.

Pleasure is available now—choose lusciousness. 

A very sacred question: does what I am choosing now feel like pressure or pleasure?

Altaring your life impacts the collective in a very expansive, liberating, joy-filled way.

I share the poem “Sacred Gesture” from my first book, The Reach is (W)holy, as well as the “Butterlamp” poem from my second book, The Mistress of Longing. 

You can find both of my books and ways to work with me at www.shegathersbeauty.com.

Finding relief, ease, and softness during times of challenge, endings, and new beginnings.

We can remember that we do have choice. We can shake off the heaviness and make a nest of something that brings more gentleness. We are renegotiating our inner and outer worlds—it can be so helpful to choose daily rituals that help increase our sense of safety and calm and decrease the stress response and helplessness.

How might even a few deep breaths bring some possibility to this moment? Some gentle stretches for the body can help, too. Pulling an oracle card for guidance or writing in your journal. Taking a break and making a cup of tea. Enjoying a piece of dark chocolate mindfully, slowly. What things work for you? If you aren’t sure, experiment. Make a mental list of the things that can transport you efficiently to a sense of more calm and balance. One way might be finding someone who can hold space for you—a friend, therapist, or guide can be a tremendous support. 

What does devotion look like for you today? Where will you choose to place your gaze? What feels in alignment for you in this fresh new moment?

Taking a moment for ourselves can help us return more fully to the possibility and purpose of why we are here. 

The power of blessing and creating sacred space.

I share a blessing poem I wrote several years ago and have posted it below so that you can use it if you like. I only ask that if you share it with someone, you credit me.

The power of play, innocence, and curiosity can open up a space for wild joy. 

Here is the blessing poem. I devote it to you and your gifted life.

 

Blessing for Becoming

 

Mark this day as (w)holy

may you know you are exactly where you are meant to be—

you are in the beauty of becoming

may you walk with blessings on your feet

may you plant the seeds for a life you love

may you know this love is worthy and patiently longs for you

may you water the exquisite opportunity of this wild, feathery moment and

fall madly in devotion

with your biggest dreams

the time is now, dear one

to live inside the juicy potential

of your heart's new moon.

Begin.

Begin.

Begin.

Mark this day, and all your days,

as (w)holy.

 

-Wendy Candida Havlir Cherry

 

May you know swift ease and delight. May it be so.

There is nothing wrong with you. You can breathe and let yourself be held. In the fear and depths of letting go, something new is coming to life from deep inside you. How are you building sanctuary for your fear? How can this moment be a legacy of fierce self-care?

Exploring and staying with the exquisite risks of life, love, and vulnerability.

A prescription for a passionate life—soft openings.

Letting go. Being seen. The imperfection of trust.

Staying with the embrace of freedom.

The fragility that lives underneath what we show the world.

The courage it takes to be who you are can also be an unbound relief—this is reclamation.

I share the poem “the warmth of her.”

”You must have chaos within to give birth to a dancing star.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche.

A circle of mystics wants to lift the veils for you, between this and that, revealing something sacred in the space between.

You have always been poetry.

It’s okay to want to know what sacred messengers have to share. Ask. Say you are ready to receive. Let the songlines under your feet become light codes from something vast and whole. Be bathed in something new underneath the generosity of the full moon. Go out into the night and find what is waiting for you. Create ritual and practice gratitude.

Write down the clues showing up around you. Tuck them into pockets so they can be found treasure exactly when you need them. There are ways, so many ways, to be with the truth that is wanting you.

May you know every blessing. May your heart feel clear and true. Even if you are on your knees in wave after wave of grief or despair or feel stuck and cannot move—may you feel the warmth of something Greater holding ALL of you. You are wanted and all of you, sacred.

How do rest and a sense of safety come to you? In times of despair and traversing the unknown, how can you feel grounded and free right here exactly as you are? And if things are ramping up around you and all you want to do is rest, how do you bring balance to your day? How do you choose what you belong to? How do you choose a moment of kindness for you?

 

Find a way. There’s something within your reach. Choose what feels good and right for you. Let your gaze move inward while you root down and spread your roots. Choose warm bread and honey daily. These are ways you can be free. When darkness comes, and it does because it is a calling out to something that desperately wants your attention, let it sit next to the light and be comforted. Darkness isn’t a bad thing. It is a gathering place for light. 

 

Remember the truth of sanctuary. Let it rest in your arms. Love is not an extravagant pursuit. It is poetry and the safe roof over your head. It is water. And a vision for something beautiful in your life. It is the joy found when you give yourself to grace. And gratitude.

 

Love is soul. It is the rootedness of trees and the clouds moving across the sky. It is the stars showing themselves to us on a dark winter night. It is embodiment while we are here. It is the taking in and receiving of beauty as an essential elixir that soothes and restores, reminds us we don’t have as much time as we think we do. Feel more, actually...think a bit less. Lead with the heart.

 

Slow down, love. Take the walk. Let the ancient ones whisper your true name over you. Feel your feet on the earth. Honey on your tongue. Your lovers heartbeat beneath your palm. Laugh and play. Blow bubbles. Rest in the sun. 

 

May you unwrap a morsel of joy today. May you be armed with love.

A few moments of mindfulness can gently refocus your inner gaze and be “an uprising of softness.” Mindful awareness can be practiced at anytime. Remember what matters most to you—let yourself rest for a moment or two of calm centering.

You have a choice about the pace and focus of your day. Let this be your reminder. Taking a few moments for yourself as a daily practice can “reset” the sacred space within you. You are worthy of being on your “to-do” list.

“I have seen warriorship like this.”

It’s okay to loosen the grip for a moment. Return to your needs. You and your sense of peace matters. Everything else will wait. 

Taking time for ourselves helps us clear the way, breathe a little slower and deeper, and show up for those we care about today with more compassion and presence. This creates more possibility  for us all.

This is a practice of love.

It doesn’t have to be hard. Let it be soft. Dropping into the truth of the moment—it’s your time to shine, be seen, share your gifts AND you don’t have to burn the candle at both ends to light the world (or yourself) up! What do you really need for body, heart, mind nourishment?

The paradigm of go, go, go, is no longer relevant. We don’t have to buy into that anymore. We get to bring pleasure and rest into our daily experience. We get to choose softness. We get to choose balance. We get to choose an embodied heart revolution.

Pleasure matters. 

“Your love is poised to hold it all” because your love is being held by the one great wild heart. You in your human divinity—you are made of stardust and real emotions, needs, desires—you get to altar it all.

All of you belongs. There is nothing you need to do or be for that to be true. You came that way.

I lead you through a guided meditation to increase your capacity to receive by way of relaxing into presence and a special gift from a sacred messenger.

Thank you for listening. May you know more and more ease, joy, and relaxation today.

A sacred question to consider—how are miracles present in your daily life? How can your perceptions shift and open, creating a wider lens for the truth of you that brings forth more radiance in your daily experience?

Messages coming through the Dreamtime. Receiving soul and gathering grace.

Poems: Soul’s Heart & Wild Grace

An invitation to be with what’s happening in your life right now; build an altar, exhale.

I reference Marianne Williamson, A Course In Miracles, and Osho.

The process of recognizing—and the miracle of it.

Looking for clues—life is showing you all the time.

Giving yourself permission to open up and let go now.

What questions do you have that you would like me to speak about on the podcast? Topics of interest that feel related to this gathering space are welcome, too!  My desire is to keep building this community for the benefit of all beings everywhere. 

The Longing Project and how you can get involved. #longingproject #shegathersbeauty

https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/longing-project

Experience a softer way inside the story of you.

Thank you for listening.