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The Goddesses of Story
This week, I launched the next round of the Practical Magic Business Circle. On the 24th of August we will be gathering in a secret FaceBook group for the next 9 weeks to collectively and individually deepen our relationship with our businesses, and we’ll be doing this with a specific focus on STORY. I cannot wait. I’ve asked 4 incredible women to be our circle sister guides, Julie Gibbons, Jen Lemen, Isabel Fatih Abbott and Ronna Detrick, and I’ve recorded two of those conversations already. I just know that you’re going to love them – so incredibly inspiring and interesting. But not only that… As always, the Practical Magic Business…
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Seeking Form
I find myself thinking about blogging a lot. Or specifically, how I don’t blog *enough*. Like there’s some magical optimum number of posts per week that I’m failing to hit publish on. Because, the thing is, I used to blog a lot. Often 2-3 posts a day. Back then it was about community and comments and conversation. Which, to be honest, is now mostly met for me through my engagement with FB. So, blogging needs to have a different function. And I haven’t figured out what that is. In fact, I’m beginning to consider that maybe I’m just not a blogger. For the last couple of years, the majority of…
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A Library for Wild Sacred Places
One of the things that I love so much about going on long trips by car is that I am not limited to what I can carry. So, for me, that means that I bring books. Lots of them. I have a very well-stocked kindle which is always in my handbag. I have a Scribd subscription with a number of books stored in my digital library. But there is just something so satisfying about bringing a large stack of paperbacks along on the journey with you. So, what books am I bringing with me on my pilgrimage to the far north? Here’s what I’ve selected so far – a broad…
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How It Feels When Your Soulskin Needs Tending
It has occurred to me as I have begun sharing my latest offering, Petitioning the Selkies, that not everyone knows what it feels like when their soulskin needs tending and mending, replenishing and restoring. The story of Sealskin Soulskin as retold and shared by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run With the Wolves has proved to be such a powerful and helpful framework for me to really connect and understand the felt experience of my soulskin, that I would now describe the selkies as some of my most important teachers throughout my adult life. So much so, that I forget that not everyone works with this framework, or these…
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Homecoming: To the Land, To the Self, To the Soul
This image is made from two photos. The first is of the shoreline of the kyle as it snakes around to the cottage where I lived when I was 20. The second photo is of me and my daughter posing in front of the cottage. As I shared yesterday, I am journeying back up north for the summer solstice to where I used to live – a wild and magical land. And when I use the word magical, I don’t mean the airy fairy kind of glitter and glamour. This landscape is marked by the most powerful of elements; it is windswept and rugged and bleak and beautiful. And there…
