Daring to Feel.
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“…Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of.” ~ Audre Lorde
There is much talk these days of the Feminine awakening and rising on the planet. That is all well and good, but the above quotation provided me with a beautiful reminder:
Before the Feminine can rise on the planet, she needs space to breathe life back into each one of us.
One of the superpowers of the Feminine is that of feeling deeply.
Thousands of years of patriarchy have taught us that feeling is equated to weakness, but that is not true. Being courageous and daring enough to feel is a strength.
There is a reason that we were sold the lie that to feel is to be weak. When we are disconnected from our feeling centers — our bodies, hearts, and souls — we are much easier to manipulate and control.
We swallow what we are told is good for us without second-guessing it.
We believe someone else knows better.
But when we come back into our bodies, we begin to instinctively feel what is nourishing and what isn’t. What is true and what isn’t.
Digging into and unearthing your feelings isn’t always an easy process. It involves lifting up the patchwork rug that is our day-to-day lives. You know, the one that has been stitched together for convenience, efficiency, and meeting other’s expectations.
Underneath it is what remains of our soul life. The parts of our lives that have been ravaged.
The parts where we have ravaged ourselves.
The impetus will be to quickly lay the rug back down and pretend that we didn’t see. Pretend that we can go on living our lives on the surface, working mediocre jobs, stressing over things that truly do not matter to us, and neglecting that which truly does.
But feeling and looking and daring to see are the invitation. The initiation into the Wild Feminine.
She asks us to look at everything we have swept underneath the rug — our hopes and dreams and deepest soul desires — that have begun to rot and become fetid, and not turn away.
Instead, she asks us to gently begin picking through the wreckage and allow ourselves to feel the hurt of each and every neglect…
… every time we didn’t honor our own worth.
… every time we chose comfort and convenience over truth.
… every time we heard the whisper of our soul voice and turned our back to it because we weren’t ready. It was too hard. Now wasn’t the right time.
We rummage through the wreckage and we grieve.
Then, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, we begin again. We put our lives back together, but this time in a way that honors our feelings. A life built on valuing our feminine intuition and knowing, instead of crushing it.
We use the hurt and pain that we uncovered as a way to re-align our inner compass towards joy, love, and truth.
When that compass is in place, we know and trust that we will not be fooled again. We may stray from our path on occasion, but we will know it almost immediately because of how it feels.
Because of how we become smaller; how our hearts contract and our throats constrict.
This. This is the power of the Feminine rising. It begins within each and every one of us, and it ripples out into the world.
Because when you have the courage to confront the wreckage in your own life and not run for the hills, you will be able to stand outside of yourself as well. You will be able to look out at the wreckage of the world, feel it, grieve it, and then rise to give birth to something better.
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Linda Katz is a writer, artist, Wild Feminine Life Coach and founder of Singing Bird Coaching. For the last several years, Linda has been on a journey of unearthing her own feminine soul, and now she helps guide others on their paths of becoming. By reclaiming the connection with your body, tapping into your true soul desires, and sharing your voice from a place of fullness, you will unleash your own Sovereign Feminine, your inner Queen. You can connect with Linda via her website, Facebook, or Instagram.
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