“I met so many reflections of myself that weekend during eclipse season when I stepped into a retreat of 60 healing women from the internet that I had never met before. Some would call it courage, strange, a “bold move” or a “calling” but if I’m being honest, I have never felt anything more natural and organic and easy in my life. I don’t even know how I ended up there, I was just suddenly… going. On a plane. In a van. In the desert. In the mountains. When I say I met reflections of myself, I say this because that’s how we perceive others, people, and things: as projections of ourselves. I chose to go forward with an open solar plexus (core being, light source, authentic self, personality, sun, Leo energy) to shine my light outward. I held no shame in smiling at every stranger I walked by, hugging and calling them “friend”. Things I would usually receive judgement for, get called weird or “out there” for saying or acting on, I was doing with ease around these women - and it was reciprocated back to me in beautiful, authentic connections. There were a few moments, though, where I had the opportunity to see a part of myself that scared me. A part that was intimidating, intimidated and low vibrational. Shameful. I quickly was able to notice what shifted: I started to stuff myself back down into expectation… It’s easy to make ourselves smaller for the comfortability of others, when that’s how you’ve been taught to love. But that’s not how you love your sister, That’s not how you love your best friend. You don’t make her smaller. You love her like she is a big fucking deal, not just behind closed doors because you’re actually too ashamed to be proud of her publicly, but you love her loudly for the world to see. You love her like she takes up all the space she WANTS TO because she deserves it. I’m reminded there is space for me. There is space for all of my sisters. Every wonderful womb gifted on this planet. There is space for all of her too. And each of us are needed differently, for the same cause. Return to your mother, return to your sisters. The feminine wound is healing, and we need you now."