Soul Care | Spiritual Health After Religion

Are you getting to listen for the birds singing the Sun awake some mornings? Like a slow down to listen to the sounds around you. There is a deafening to silence that is hard to describe. Take a long walk with just the sound of creation in your ears. Let it teach you its wisdom.

I musta already took a leap of faith since I thought it was Feb 24th! HA!

Hi there yall! Are you taking some extra time for yourself? When you do remember some self compassion too. Winter is the perfect time to rest, which is extremely productive too. Give yourself permission to hang out all day in your pajamas.

Tonight's dinner looks like comfort food for the win since I am staying in my pajamas all day too. Gonna take a soak and put on clean pajamas, so it still counts. lol

Namaste`

We get up close and personal into the topic of not being seen nor heard as a woman individually and collectively. Do you ever feel unseen or unheard by those closest to you ? How do you feel about women collectively being unheard and unseen ?

What if you are talking an audience that can't hear you? So, what to do about that? Well, I can't answer that for you but, I can say this is one reason why I do podcast. It helps to put it out there. I'm practicing here how to speak about such topics that are very painful. My hope is that we can have more open space to do so.

So the woman who I referred to during the bit about not going to men any longer for spirituality advice nor wisdom name is Brittany Hartley. Click HERE for her amazing website or go to nononsensespirituality.com

Keep shining lovely souls. Namaste`

www.alifepractice.com

You know that love hate relationship? Some call it Winter. Ha! A quiet time of reflection and personal hibernation these past two years proves it is necessary to prepare for Spring's emerging cycle of life. There is a lot to digest or assimilate. Being still with myself has been challenging while worth it.

Can ya hear me when I say I love Winter? I really do. Maybe it is because I kinda crush on Jack Frost a teeny bit. Hmmm. Living on our little farmstead for a full resolution around the Sun this Winter we are more settled into our living space. So, moving slow is the name of the game.

My husband and I both may be slight pyromaniacs. Any excuse to make a fire and chill around it awhile is good for the soul. This Winter one focus for me spiritually is bringing the Sun on inside. My gut and solar plexus need some good medicine and rest.

Our fireplace is forreal a focal point in our home. Bringing the fire or Sun inside your home during the Winter grounds me down. Learning in a tangible practical way that the slow burn is what makes it last. Even the chores around having a fire on the inside gives back to the garden with the ashes from the transformation.

On the Yoga scene, bringing in the Sun as a practice feels like stoking your own fire. Do you know what I am talking about? The fire that is on the inside. Like it fuels your drives and passions, that part of the belly that feels primal. From that place your blood pumps quicker?

Well, the concept of bringing in the fire is a kind of practice to stoke your inner fire or agni. Winter gives you the space to stoke a slow burn simultaneously acting as a purification process.

Since purification is more like an inside thing. We have experienced a change of behavior, lifestyle, circles, you name it, while not changing much on the inside.

While that is an inside job, for me it has been the hardest work to do. Making amends with my own shame, and feelings of unworthiness. Trust me when I say I haven't arrived anywhere quite yet in my process. Slowing down to the quiet trickle I am paying attention to what stokes my fire. and I hope you are too.

Happy Wintering. Give yourself compassion and grace as we Winter over this season, then cover over that with a whole bunch of patience. Namaste` lovely souls.

www.alifepractice.com

"Resolve" is the flavor we are serving up at Mama Rish's Kitchen prepping for the darkest night of the year, the Winter Solstice. Listen to storytelling about how our ancestors may have referred to this time of the year as the "Death of the Sun."

Originally when recorded the podcast had another name in place of Woman for the title was the terminology used for this valuable woman when I was fundamentally taught about the Samaritan woman who meets Jesus at Jacob's Well. Her name is Photina, the whore at the Well.

Fun Fact : She is the FIRST recorded account of the revelation to the culture that Jesus is the Messiah! Have you ever heard of her? She was the Samaritan woman that Jesus met at Jacob's well in Sychar, you remember those stories in church?

What is so interesting for me personally is how she is referred to as a "whore" by the laypeople. You know the place and very thing that Jesus died for... the church.

It seems antithetical to call this outcasted woman a whore when Jesus was compelled to share his big reveal with her first Jesus, the Face of God in this story is at Jacob's well offering living to a woman whose vessel spiritually and physically was unclean according to Jewish law.

For him to accept anything from her hands would be considered super taboo and a no-no for this cultural setting and time period. The question begs, is Photina now filled with the living water upon revelation of God before her very eyes in her everyday circumstance as truth?

Nowhere biblically is this woman noted for receiving compensation for sexual favors. So. lemme set this up. So the connotation in the language of Scripture in John 4 states that Jesus "had to pass," pointing to a compelling sense to go through Samaria which was extremely dangerous due to cultural differences not to mention racial tensions.

The Jews (God's "chosen" people mind you), believed that she was unclean at birth being a Samaritan woman, not to mention having multiple sexual partners.

What I love about Jesus is that he consistently speaks truth in spirit to the religious cultural norms and legalism. And gets this, in many stories recorded we can honestly admit that Jesus esteems women! So, lets take it all the way to the fact then that God must esteem women too!

This is the underlying story right here! That we can meet ourselves at the well of revelation to drink in self compassionate grace, especially for those of us who needs some right about now.

So the story goes, Jesus was hot and tired from the journey so he goes to the well in the heat of the day to rest while the crew goes in town to get food.

So when Photina shows up to have the longest recorded conversation in the Holy Bible with Jesus. Not only does he speak with her longer than any other person, but it points to opening act of his ministry with this conversation. Then he takes her down to the bottom of her well to draw up respectful worthiness by revealing himself as the Messiah to her FIRST!

Proof that God esteems women, epecially women that society and religious communities shun, God as the face of Jesus in this story, says that he was compelled to tell her FIRST!

UPDATED NOTES FOR LIVE RECORDING

BTW it is Proverbs 4:23. I transpose numbers sometimes :) I say in this episode "proverbs 4:32," when I was referring to 4:23 instead. I caught it before publishing but...you know I am human getting my words wrong sometimes. Especially when I am practicing speaking my innerstanding on a public platform.

Check out the full excerpt ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠ I refer to in part one and two that is such a useful and loving full picture of God's love for us. Being raised Southern Baptist, coming back home to that here for Photina's story has been so healing for my soul.

Anyway, ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ is more information about the time of day breakdown from another source. My preference to reference for Scripture with easy flow on translations when studying is :

⁠⁠www.bible.com ⁠⁠

⁠⁠www.blueletterbible.org⁠⁠

⁠⁠www.etymonline.com⁠⁠

⁠⁠www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org⁠⁠

Namaste`

Mama Rish

⁠alifepractice.com⁠

Originally when recorded the podcast had another name in place of Woman for the title was the terminology used for this valuable woman when I was fundamentally taught about the Samaritan woman who meets Jesus at Jacob's Well. Her name is Photina, the whore at the Well.

Fun Fact : She is the FIRST recorded account of the revelation to the culture that Jesus is the Messiah! Have you ever heard of her? She was the Samaritan woman that Jesus met at Jacob's well in Sychar, you remember those stories in church?

What is so interesting for me personally is how she is referred to as a "whore" by the laypeople. You know the place and very thing that Jesus died for... the church.

It seems antithetical to call this outcasted woman a whore when Jesus was compelled to share his big reveal with her first Jesus, the Face of God in this story is at Jacob's well offering living to a woman whose vessel spiritually and physically was unclean according to Jewish law.

For him to accept anything from her hands would be considered super taboo and a no-no for this cultural setting and time period. The question begs, is Photina now filled with the living water upon revelation of God before her very eyes in her everyday circumstance as truth?

Nowhere biblically is this woman noted for receiving compensation for sexual favors. So. lemme set this up. So the connotation in the language of Scripture in John 4 states that Jesus "had to pass," pointing to a compelling sense to go through Samaria which was extremely dangerous due to cultural differences not to mention racial tensions.

The Jews (God's "chosen" people mind you), believed that she was unclean at birth being a Samaritan woman, not to mention having multiple sexual partners.

What I love about Jesus is that he consistently speaks truth in spirit to the religious cultural norms and legalism. And gets this, in many stories recorded we can honestly admit that Jesus esteems women! So, lets take it all the way to the fact then that God must esteem women too!

This is the underlying story right here! That we can meet ourselves at the well of revelation to drink in self compassionate grace, especially for those of us who needs some right about now.

So the story goes, Jesus was hot and tired from the journey so he goes to the well in the heat of the day to rest while the crew goes in town to get food.

So when Photina shows up to have the longest recorded conversation in the Holy Bible with Jesus. Not only does he speak with her longer than any other person, but it points to opening act of his ministry with this conversation. Then he takes her down to the bottom of her well to draw up respectful worthiness by revealing himself as the Messiah to her FIRST!

Proof that God esteems women, epecially women that society and religious communities shun, God as the face of Jesus in this story, says that he was compelled to tell her FIRST!

UPDATED NOTES FOR LIVE RECORDING

BTW it is Proverbs 4:23. I transpose numbers sometimes :) I say in this episode "proverbs 4:32," when I was referring to 4:23 instead. I caught it before publishing but...you know I am human getting my words wrong sometimes. Especially when I am practicing speaking my innerstanding on a public platform.

Check out the full excerpt ⁠HERE⁠ I refer to in part one and two that is such a useful and loving full picture of God's love for us. Being raised Southern Baptist, coming back home to that here for Photina's story has been so healing for my soul.

Anyway, ⁠here⁠ is more information about the time of day breakdown from another source. My preference to reference for Scripture with easy flow on translations when studying is :

⁠www.bible.com ⁠

⁠www.blueletterbible.org⁠

⁠www.etymonline.com⁠

⁠www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org⁠

Namaste`

Mama Rish

alifepractice.com