Self-Care
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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…
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Petitioning the Selkies – A Proposal
16 years ago this summer, I moved to the far north of Scotland with my tiny daughter and a very pregnant belly. My beloved had found a job working in a rural high school, as we needed to bring in more money to support our growing family. I should add at this point, that I have always been a city girl. I was born in the Scottish central belt, and have lived most of my life in Edinburgh. Now, if you’ve ever been to Edinburgh, you’ll know it’s not exactly a big city. But, a city nonetheless. Our move up north was like nothing I have ever experienced – before…
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Why Launching While On Holiday Has Turned Out To Be A Grand Idea
Last week, I flew out to France to spend a few weeks at my parents’ place in a wee village just outside Cognac in the beautiful Charentaise countryside. The past 6 months have been really full on in my business – go go go!! Goddess readings, Practical Magic sessions, Goddess Guidance group tending and of course the launching and holding of the Practical Magic Business Circle. I’ve created a website to host the My Word Goddess Readings, I’ve published a book of poetry, and I’ve survived Christmas – just. You might know all this already. You might have seen the offerings as they were each made available. You might have…
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My Word Goddess – A Guest Post From Dionne Ruff-Sloan
This guest post by Dionne Ruff-Sloan is the final post in a series celebrating the My Word Goddess Readings by honouring the gifts of the goddesses that stepped forward in 2014…. I’m Dionne Ruff-Sloan and as a Tea Priestess I celebrate the magic of connecting with the elements and your inner divinity through the ritual of tea. I’ve been trained as a Natural Rhythms Creation Coach with Lisa Michaels, featured in Leonie Dawson’s Business Goddess Ecourse and I offer one on one Elemental Forces of Creation Oracle and Coaching Sessions. When I’m not coaching clients, you can find me homeschooling my son, knitting or playing with new makeup looks! You…
