She whispers from the sheets,

her voice an inner smile –

Stay in sweet surrender

and I’ll make it worth your while.

I see your selfies.

Your smiles concealed by

duck faces.

Your duck face concealed by

filters.

And despite it all,

your swan.

I see your breast milk,

secretly spattered everywhere,

like a crime scene under UV light.

I see your liquid gold

and raise you

up.

By Lian Brook-Tyler

Your arrival was

heralded in words like

sanitary, applicators, cramps.

You seemed functional,

I felt nothing much at all.

When you came,

the battle was a lonely one,

with a tampon stubbornly stuck.

You seemed like the enemy,

I felt scared and small.

To create a business, a real business – the beautiful, fantastical, edgy af, playful and love-fuelled one that your soul is inconveniently calling you to – takes time. Time to hear your soul’s call, time to find the courage to heed it and then a lot more time than you believe at the start that you can or will give it before it ‘works’.

That’s one of the things I regularly say to our clients. I’m asking how they’ll celebrate an expansion in their being, reaching a milestone in their business, or taking especially challenging aligned action.

I’ve been lying in bed looking through old photos with the children. The timing is interesting because this month in Waking The Wild Medicine we’ve been entering the crucible of Story (especially the telling of the story of our wounds and gifts… and telling them from Sovereignty), so my younger self has already been more in my awareness than usual.

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

~ Carl Rogers

For most of my life I believed that the Feminine was weak, spoilt, illogical, manipulative, selfish, inconvenient, and did I say weak? But the more I heal and integrate my relationship to the Feminine, the more I see who I really am and where my true power lies.

It’s taken a very long time to love this woman: how she moves, how she thinks, how she speaks, how she feels, how she creates, and finally… how she looks. There’s a bazillion different reasons *not* to love ourselves – Fear can make every one of them compelling, convincing and reasonable.

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Gustav Jung

For me, that privilege means becoming a vessel for the Divine Feminine, Love, Magic and Beauty to pour through into the world… even and especially when it seems unwelcome, idealistic, fantastical, impractical and as provocative as Hell (and Heaven).

I’m often told that I provoke people… to think; to feel; to open; to close; to Fear; to Love. It’s not exactly been an easy path but it’s one I’m growing to love as I see its gifts – the material for liberation it provides for me and others.

Three years ago I took a vow to serve the archetypal Feminine. It felt like a choiceless choice, I had no clear idea then why I was making it or what it would require of me.

It takes a great Sage Queen to see, feel and speak from the depths of her heart and soul… I am fortunate enough to call one such as she a client and now soul sister… Elizabeth Lovius, who opened my heart beyond measure with these gifts and words.

Seven years ago when I first became a coach I honestly didn’t have anything resembling a niche, though I suspect the delusions of grandeur baked into the copy on my website said otherwise. Really, I just “helped people” – typically they were people with anxiety, depression, OCD or stress and I helped them to have peace of mind.

‘The Knight’ so beautifully illustrates what happens when we guide people down the path of Waking The Wild… they’re liberated from compression, allowing them to stretch their limbs and hear their full voices.

Why I help magical women to make more money

When did you last love yourself?

What is the true nature of children (and us)?