And how about the topics we'll be covering and the HerStory keepers we'll be working with during our time together?
We'll be loosely structuring our journey around Maureen Murdock's Heroine's Journey, meaning that the map to Re-Weaving Your Story will look like this:
Separation from the Feminine
The idea of having been separated from ourselves and from our own power and wisdom is nothing new. But in many ways, it's where this work begins, and so that's where we'll start.
We'll look at all the ways we've been told to play small, to be compliant and the cages - metaphorical and literal - we've found ourselves trapped in as a result.
The guides for this first stage of our journey? Lilith, the first woman and ultimate rebel against patriarchy, and Metis - the swallowed voice of our deepest feminine wisdom.
Gathering our allies
To be a woman in a patriarchal society isn't easy, and often requires a great deal of shapeshifting and appeasing to keep ourselves safe. Yet it's something that can bring up great feelings of shame as we move into a deeper state of self-connection.
Our second step will look at what Maureen Murdock called "the gathering of allies" to consider what we're ready to forgive and release. Meanwhile we'll also consider the powerful core of your own energy that survived throughout it all.
Throughout this journey we'll work with Athena, a Goddess known as the daughter of patriarchy; and with the Great Mother - a figure who has shapeshifted to survive across every age of humanity.
The road of trials
If our world has taught us anything, it's that wise and powerful women will always be at risk of vilification and persecution.
From the witch trials of old to the slut shaming of the modern day and so much more besides, this section of our journey will look deeply at "the road of trials" that each of us walks and ask us to consider again what the monsters we've been painted as - and the persecutors who have told those tales about us - were really trying to cover up as we make peace with the ogres and dragons within us.
Along the way we'll work with Salome - the dancing priestess recorded in history as a murderess - and Medusa, the ultimate vilified woman to understand how they and their stories can support our own reclaimation.
Claiming our treasures
In every life there are moments of success, but in the re-weavling of our own stories those can at times feel difficult to connect with.
From the successes we've been told to hide or dim, the triumphs soured by later events, those in which we won despite ourselves, and those that feel like empty victories when viewed from a deeper perspective. This is the point in which we'll reclaim them all - and the many other successes that we may not have even stopped to consider before - and to revel in our own glory.
At every turn we'll be supported by Elen of the Ways, a woman who changed the shape of her land; and by Brigid - a woman whose successes were too wide and far-reaching to ever be ignored.
Recognising our hunger
Haven't we all felt it? That point in the path where we know there is something more, where we long for something deeper? And yet we feel the wisdom, power and sheer magic such a thing might entail will forever be out of our reach?
We'll work with the parts of our story that have taken us to the brink of knowing we need more, and of asking what that more might be.
Holding the elixir that is waiting to be claimed will be Cerridwen and her alchemical cauldron of wisdom.
Descent and initiation
The great power of the feminine is so often found deep in the Underworld, accessible only to those with the courage and grace to venture into the darkness.
As we pass the middle point of our journey together we will honour our own descent into the darkness, shine a light on what we find there and consider the many ways we're illuminated back into the world.
Along the way, we'll consider the story of Persephone, while our Guides in the darkness will be The Morrigan and her fellow Primal Mothers of the Earth.
Reclaiming our feminine power
We emerge from the Underworld forever changed, and knowing only too well that we cannot live the rest of our lives in anything but the fullness of our own power and wisdom.
We'll journey deeply with the idea of "feminine power" in all of its forms, with how those call to us and with what they mean within our own lives.
We'll work with The Cailleach, a shape-shifting Crone Goddess who controls the weather, and with the sorceresses and seers whose power was feared beyond all others.
Crowning our inner Queen
When we re-weave our own stories, we reclaim the power of our deep matrilineal energy, of the energy of connection that takes us all the way back to the great cosmic womb and all that it holds.
In this session we will journey with the Queens within ourselves and claim the crowns that were always meant to be ours.
Working with the Great Mother Gaia and the Lady Freyja, we'll ask what it truly means to be a Queen embodied upon the Earth and how that energy can be suffused into every moment of the lives we live.
Healing the wounded King
When we speak of the "masculine", what do we mean? Particularly for those of us who identify as women in this world? As we move towards the end of our journey, we will come home to the King that has been waiting within each of us, and work with those archetypal energies we have so often been led to fear or steer clear of.
The energy who will hols us all through this process? Arthur, the ultimate King of mythology who, it's said, still lies sleeping beneath the soil of his land waiting for the time when he is awoken.
Returning to self-sovreignty
In her writings on the Heroine's Journey, Maureen Murdock spoke of us becoming "spiritual warriors" who can continually integrate the many parts of ourselves. And in this final chapter of our time together, we will work on exactly that as we step into a place of our true power and wisdom.
Working under the guidance of Mary Magdalene, one of the most prominent teachers of self-sovereignty in this epoch, we will wrap up our journey by taking our place as the heroines that we were always meant to be.
Together we will make the commitments and vows that feel important to us as we turn a page into the next chapter of our newly re-woven stories.
Please note that the HerStory Guides for our journey are very much shaped by my own heritage and culture, however I am forever honoured and excited to work with any other energies who make themselves known to you during our time together!
Why choose me as your guide for this journey?
When you make the decision to embark upon a journey like this one, it's important to know that the guide is someone you can trust; someone who not only knows their stuff but can also hold you, your story, and everything those entail.
I come to this work as a qualified Counsellor and Coach, who has practiced with hundreds of clients across the world for over a decade. That experience has taught me that everyone has a deep and powerful story to work with, and I'm yet to meet anyone that I couldn't help to remember and reclaim that story in the most potent of ways.
Having studied all things personal development and feminine spirituality for over ten years, I've worked closely with some of the best-known teachers int he worlds of feminine magic and transpersonal psychology. My most recent qualification, an MSc (Master's in Science) in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology, included a thesis presentation on the integration of inner masculine and feminine in women.
In short, I am an absolute geek for this subject and everything related to it!
Alongside all of that is the more spiritual side of what I do. I've been connecting with spirit my whole life, and consciously with the Goddess energies of this programme for almost two decades. In recent years I've become passionate about turning my talent as a storyteller to their stories, and at putting a new lens on the tales we've been told to share more about those who have been buried, burned, vilified and forgotten throughout the ages simply because they were powerful women.
The author of two books including 2021's The Divine Feminist, and host of a podcast of the same name, I'm passionate about supporting those who identify as women to return to a place of empowered balance and flow within themselves and their lives, in the hope that one day that can support our whole world to make the same, much-needed journey.
For me, this course is the next step. And I could not be more honoured, nor more excited to get going with it! Are you in?
