Have You Met Your Goddess Self Yet?

So, yesterday, I launched a new 4 week course called The Goddess Self – an online sacred selfie experience. Let me tell you a little bit about it and how it came about – the inside scoop, as such…..

This year has been hard for me. Big issues around my health have kept me immobile and, at times, fairly wretched. And last month I lost my beloved Grandpa. Coming to the end of this month, I finally feel better in myself health-wise, and last week, with the family gathering to say a final farewell to my Grandpa, I feel like I’ve come to a place of closure and with the energy to pick myself up and engage with some big questions. Questions of legacy. Questions of devotion. Questions of what I’m investing in, what I’m building, and what I’ll leave behind.

All these questions led me to read Pam Slim’s Body of Work and Gail Larson’s Transformational Speaking. These two books have really helped me to look back at my life, my creative offerings, my experiences, my values, my beliefs and my work – the ways in which I feel most called to serve – and I began to see some of the links, connections, interweavings of my life and work.

One of these connections I saw incredibly clearly was that between my Goddess Guidance work and my self-photography work.

I suppose for me the two have always been connected. It felt obvious to me. And yet, I began to see that I had not articulated the connection as explicitly as I could have. Nor had I created anything that would serve as an alchemical container for an experience of the two.

And so…. I began to work up an idea for a 4 week course that would bring together the goddesses with a sacred selfie practice. I found that I have a *lot* to say about the two and the ways in which they support one another. My thinking was that I would create the course over the next couple of weeks and then launch it. But then, yesterday morning….

Yesterday morning I felt myself overcome with the energy of birth. Kind of like that point in labour when you realise that all these months have been leading up to this moment, and this isn’t just some “idea” of a baby but an “actual” baby you are bringing into the world. In other words, shit got real.

I was standing in the shower after finishing all my admin for the week – I like to get it all out of the way at the start of the week as it frees up my mind for the more interesting work of running a business(!) – and I found myself thinking about the very first selfie I took. I remembered being so surprised by it – by myself! And I remembered too the compulsion to create more. And more. And more. (you can see my first selfie here!)

I credit this practice with some truly profound realisations about myself and how I want to experience the world.

And I saw all the ways in which this practice has so beautifully dovetailed with my Goddess Guidance work. Just so deeply. The kind of insight that comes with awe rather than with words.

The work of the Goddess Guidance has been one and the same as my sacred selfie practice. It’s all been about identifying the parts of self that I haven’t fully been claiming, honouring, celebrating, integrating, living. And welcoming them all back home so that I can experience the fullness of my life.

As Diane Ackerman said: “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

For me, the goddess work, the self-photography work… they both combine to help me to live the width of my life.

So, I had one of those moments where I’m standing in the shower, my hair covered in the suds of my shampoo, having one of the greatest epiphanies of my life, and no pen or paper to capture the moment.

Needless to say, as soon as I could, I sat down at my computer and began to write out, what became, the invitation to The Goddess Self.

You can read that in its fullness in the link below, but honestly, what I really want you to know is that it would be such an honour to sit in circle with you and to support you to explore this practice for yourself, and to show you the ways in which it will give you an experience of the goddess like you’ve never experienced before.

The Goddess Self

If you have any questions at all, please do just ask in the comments. This online experience is for anyone who wants to connect with the goddess in themselves. We start on May 11th, so you have until the 10th to claim your space in the circle. All you need is a camera (a front-facing phone camera is ideal, but I have used a straight forward point-and-click in the past) and access to some editing apps – these are available for smartphones, but they’re also available online and as desktop clients.

Truly, if you’re drawn to explore this practice and learn more about your Goddess Self, then I would love to help you do so.