One of my many quirks I’ve realized about myself these last years is that I do not want to do what ever everyone else is doing just to be doing it. Within the Church this took the form of...
MoreLOOKING ANEW @ CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE: Who has the Authority to Interpret?
Last week we looked at my own experience with the church and why I believed the commonly held Dogma about the Scriptures…what it did for me. While you might be eager to jump ahead or have already jumped...
MoreWHERE DOES WOMAN'S AUTHORITY COME FROM: A QUICK HISTORY LESSON
Just to give a little framework, here are a few facts for the masculine side in us+: * The human race has been around for an estimated 200,000 years – but maybe even longer. * What researchers believe was...
MoreREALITY OF DUALITY: Never give up, but do surrender…
I have lived. I have died. I have been resurrected. I have laughed. I have cried. I have been remade. I have loved. I have lost. I have been tongue-tied. I have seen the light. I have seen...
MoreDIVORCING GENDER: MY PERSONAL STRUGGLE TO LET GO 1 of 2
My days are spent trying to get my thoughts clear about how to run my life now that I’m a working mom. Something I never thought I would be…which now as I write is interesting since I was constantly...
MoreWHERE DOE'S WOMEN'S AUTHORITY COME FROM? a new series looking into womanhood & gender roles
Yesterday I opened my phone’s web browser to look for some tickets to an upcoming Storyteller’s performance I wanted to share with my kiddos…only to be utterly shocked at the page that came up. I have absolutely NO IDEA...
MoreWHAT IT MEANS TO BE A WOMAN…
I am thrown right into the fiery furnace of Daniel and his friends once again (gosh it actually causes me physical discomfort to use Bible stories that are all about men..let’s rename him to a her, shall we?). Take...
MoreEMBODIED COACHING: Dancing the Structured Chaos
Yesterday when I started to type I ran into a word that I wanted to explore more: chaos. Here is what I ended up typing yesterday as I followed my own Embodied Coaching practices. It is a bit rough...
MoreRADICAL SELF-ACCEPTANCE THRU DIVORCING ABUSE, PRACTICING JOY & DANCING WITH LIFE
I’m back from my writing intensive last week and full of new ideas, direction and….chaos. Yes, you read that right…chaos. As I just typed that, my creative side desperately wants to investigate that word “chaos” and all that is...
MoreSPOTTING ABUSE AND RESPONDING
AN EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE In order to give you a glimpse of how common this type of behavior is in our society – especially (and this is in no means a slight against men, for both women and men have...
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