Celebrating From the Feminine's First Anniversary!
I can hardly believe that it has been 12 months since I sat down at my laptop and wrote the email that "launched" From the Feminine out of my heart and into the world! I still remember pressing the send button - at about 2 o'clock in the morning feeling so amazingly on purpose after having poured out something that had been waiting to come out of my soul for so long! And then ... once the button was sent, feeling the most incredible dread about what it was that I had actually just done! I suddenly felt desperately exposed, vulnerable, and well, to be honest, a tad crazy! I would have done anything at that moment to take back that email!
After taking a few breaths, (and not getting much sleep that night!), I calmed down long enough to realise that what I had actually done in finally sending that email, was to completely expose myself - my true self - in all its vulnerabilities - I was declaring who I really am, what my greatest passion really is - and I was doing it very publicly! I was, as one gorgeous friend reflected, coming out of the "broom closet". More profound than this public declaration however, was the fact that I was also declaring it to myself. For the first time in my life, I was really embracing who I am and what my life purpose is. This was both amazingly exhilarating and totally terrifying!
It took me a further two or three months to realise another layer of the emotion which had overwhelmed me that September night ... not only was I declaring my journey to myself, my friends, family and acquaintances ... that email, symbolically, was a declaration to the UNIVERSE - that I was finally ready to be who I was put here to be and serve in the way I had come here to serve. Fully present and engaged with my life purpose ... it was basically a crazy, flying blind, leap of faith on to my destiny path.
And I truly had no idea at the time, what I was really doing!
A couple of months after launching From the Feminine, I came across a beautiful trailer for a short film, "Occupy Love", and it’s opening line was “You can’t evict an idea whose time has come”, and it was at that moment that I realised what From the Feminine was about in my life - it was quite simply, finally time to get on with what I was put on this planet to do. It quite simply could no longer stay inside me.
That idea, in those early days was simply a vision and a commitment to give with all my heart in service to inspiring women to create their most authentic, loving, magnificent, awakened, fun and fulfilling lives, by guiding them on to their destiny paths. This vision which was persistently occupying my heart, was finally relevant to the world - we are at a place and time where more than ever, each individual needs to take responsibility for being on their destiny path - whatever that may mean to them. For me it simply means taking responsibility for living your most authentic, loving, joy filled lives.
And so From the Feminine has evolved ... and before each circle i am still filled with dread that I don’t really have anything of real substance to give, but then each time I am stunned at each of these beautiful circle, the depths of emotions, connection, new vision, outpouring of authentic commitment to self and other which flows from each of these women … and which is magnified so vastly as they share a sacred space and hold each of these ideas gently, with awe and great strength for each other.
What is most exciting for me, is that, in every single man and women who have attended my circles, I can feel this same bubbling of being on the precipice of fully engaging with the person you came here to be - and it has been so very inspiring! Every single person in the Circles has an idea in their heart which just can’t be evicted - and that is why they keep coming back - to lean into this more and more, reconnect with this ever more deeply, be seen, heard and received in this space, and bear witness to the same in others.
So thank you all so very much for sharing the last year with me - the members of my circles and those who have been so supportive and embracing of me and my ideas and the crazy experiences I have shared with you over the last year. You are truly my inspiration and it has been through journeying with you in the Circles, and the feedback you have given me about your experiences in Circle, that I have come to understand a little more, what I am here to do and have grown so much. I'm looking to many. many more years of discovery, travelling this beautiful adventure!
