Please Introduce Yourself!

Blessings on your journey to healing.

Amen, from another mama of two boys searching for sisterhood!

Hello...I'm a 30 year old married, mama of 3 (and five months pregnant with #4). I'm currently in a space where I am finding myself completely focused on my children, home and family. While this is wonderful and a blessing in many regards, I feel as if I have lost a vital part of myself in this imbalance. Because I have taken on so much, I have trouble seeing how to shift the balance again to sometimes favor my own needs, even my own thoughts and aspirations often get lost in the mundania of caring for so many others. So I'm here in the hopes that I can gain some insight from other women who are also living mindfully and with their own healing, as well as that of others in mind.

Trin

Hi,

I'm Firekitty aka Kara. I'm a 30 graduate student in CA near the Bay, married to my soulmate, enjoying being childless, but seeing the time for children peak its head over the horizon. I'm finishing up my dissertation in ecology, hoping to start my own consulting business eventually, probably with a transition through some other kind of experience with ecological work. Dancing with fire on poi and hoops fuels me. My home and garden ground me. Transitions in my life and thinking (and a trip to India) have shifted my focus more mindfully towards my health. In particular, my mother died of ovarian cancer, and I am working on healing my own pyschological relationship with my ovaries and fears of cancer. I also have been working on my relationship to the air element, balancing my fire, breathing deeply and openly. I've been delving into traditional chinese medicine and shedding chemical medicines that I've been on for years and years, especially the pill:)

Nice to meet you ladies! We are in good company with one another. I'm loving sharing our stories from around the world.

Hi Trisha:
And all. I am Annie-a 53 year old in a few days, mother of three, and psychedelic minister. Through our holy sacrament peyote individuals experience spiritual and physical healing. Hope I haven't said too much -- I have discovered there is so much truth to the body-mind-spirit-Earth connection and am pleased with the new movies like "What the Bleep. . ." and "The Secret" that encourage the same kind of self healing one learns and experiences from the sacrament. Music also provides that body mind spirit connection--which was the first place where I got it--singing in church choirs and playing in school orchestra. Hurray for music.

Wow, what a great group of women! Nuru, I was thinking we might have some similiarities as well!

Trin

so nice to meet everyone!
i am the mother of 2 sons, 21 & 17. I am a doula specializing in postpartum care, i love supporting women in this most sacred time, and also help them process their birth experience and facilitate healing. i love my work.....i am also a sacred artist and have studied vedic astrology and numerology for many years. i am here to learn from others, share from my own experiences and and lend a caring ear and heart.

HI everyone, I'm Beth a sober alcoholic, and recovering co-dependant mom of 2 grown son (24 and 21) , "grew up" with them.........had my 1st at 16. Lost my dad at age 2, and finally came to terms with that working the 12 steps.........issues of abandonment, etc. Getting married in less than 2 weeks, and actually in a HEALTHY relationship. Currently living in and a native of Panama City Beach , FL, but moving to Jacksonville after the wedding where my finacee's job took him. A lil nervous about the "big city thing" but excited as well.

I also love to garden and hope to be able to pursue a degree in landscape architecture in Jacksonville, my mom and step dad own a HUGE nursery where I worked for 10+ yrs, but due to arthritis in my neck, had to stop, but has NOT stopped my passion for plants, flowers, NATURE in general............and happy to find this tribe, thank you for letting me be a part of it!.

Hello women's healing circle tribe, I agree that there are some wonderful people here in circle with us. Thank you for writing everyone as it gives us more clarity to see you.

I think over time I have written of who I am and shared my work with you. On a personal level, I am 47 and have two children, many friends and many communities. I live in Massachusetts. We just finished building a 24 foot yurt at our home so that we can have healing circles. I love being on the land and taking in the beauty of life. I've been working really hard and with great passion for the healing of women. Sometimes I write things here that get challenged because there seems to me confusion around wanting women to know what I am doing and people unsure if I am spam. I am not spam. This I know for sure. The truth is however that my programs are already usually full with waitlists and I don't need to advertise. My work travels through the circles and those that know me trust me and my intentions. I hold a belief that it is good to hear about what is going on for women so that it may perhaps inspire us to believe in what is possible in our healing. I will continue to hope that I can bring my voice and my work to you in knowing what we are doing as women.

In saying the above it is really my introduction if women's healing and circles is our connection to share my work life. I have been in women's healing circles and rituals for 22 years. That is a long time! As a bodyworker, breathworker, ShadowWorker, facilitator, ritualist, dancer, storyteller, healer, women's empowerment trainer woman, I am the founder of a women's mystery school, Priestess Path, the Women's Belly and Womb Conferences, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings and co-founder of Women in Power; Initiating Ourselves to the Predator Within. I have a few CD's of chants that I've written and recorded for women's circles. Presently I am organizing my 8th Belly Conference for November. Life is amazingly rich and my greatest passion is helping women to be free, to believe in ourselves, to dream big, to take risks, to know the deep gifts inside and bring them out, to be connected with the earth and come forward in our leadership. What I seek here is to listen deeply, to share, to network, and ultimately to be trusted that I am always for us and live my every breath with our upliftment and our future in mind. many, many blessings to each and every one. Thank you for all that you are.

This is, by far, the most beautiful, inspirational, awesome and enriching thread I've ever read.

Wow Tammie, this is an amazing mother journey that you have been on. I am good friends with Shawna Carol who is the musician and creator of a wonderful CD called Goddess Chant from Ladyslipper. I am thinking of a chant that she wrote for this stage of life. The words as I remember them are, .... okay after some minutes of recall I am having a perimenopausal moment myself and don't remember. I'll call her and ask. Thanks for sharing with us. I'll write them later.