6 Steps to Reinvention.
Hey there, I am the middle of an overhaul. An oil change.* A reinvention. Necessity, she is my mother. My girl is in 11th grade, and she doesn’t need me in the same ways she used to. We are actually...
View ArticleWhen your desire isn’t here yet – focus on this.
Driftwood. Heard of it? At the School, driftwood is what we look for whenever a woman is in the process of conjuring or creating a desire, but the desire isn’t exactly here yet. And – as far as I can...
View ArticleIt’s worth the risk to FEEL.
Hi. How ya feeling? How many times a day do we get asked that question? And how many times a day do we actually sink into the question, sense, discern and become conscious of the actual way we feel –...
View ArticleThe world was created for this.
You know that feeling. You can feel it right now if you choose. It is a sensation that feels very good inside, like you are sunshine; you are the ripple of wind across the water. It feels sacred. It...
View Article7 Tips to Turn On your Work Life
Darling, “How am I supposed to feel turned on and in love with my life, when I spend so much time at a job I hate?” I received this question from a reader recently, and wanted to address it today...
View ArticleDesire is a verb – go on and wallow, darling.
There’s one thing I teach women from all over the planet that is probably the biggest game changer of all: TRUST. YOUR. DESIRES. Let me say that one again. t r u s t . y o u r . d e s i r e s...
View ArticleMiami magic.
Do you know that feeling when every drop of you is spent, washed, wiped and savored — like the last bit of gravy soaked into a crust of the bread at the end of the most extraordinary meal — ever? My...
View ArticleThanksgiving 2014
I am up to my 15th thank you note. And maybe I would have done it anyway. But not to this extent. It’s this week. And the spell that gets cast with this, my favorite holiday. When Thanksgiving...
View ArticleWhen you want the impossible, keep going.
Women. We are all the same in this regard. We all secretly want what we think is impossible. And almost before we even can imagine the desire – we cross it off our desire list. Sometimes it seems...
View ArticleYou + me, Live in NYC?
Did you ever have a thought, that became an idea, that turned into a reality, that was so much better than you could have ever imagined that it knocked your socks off before you even pulled them out of...
View ArticleDesire: The Get Up Off Your Ass Game
I have been playing creation games with my daughter, Maggie. She’s in high school and I think it’s time that she understood the power she, and all women, have. It’s time she apprehends the visceral...
View ArticleGiving Back to Our Sisters Worldwide
One of the first things that happens for a woman when she engages in sisterhood is a sense of connection with women, everywhere. Do you feel it? I am so grateful, daily, for the support and love we...
View ArticleOur Favorite Frames from 2014! (Then, your turn.)
Ok, ok, ok. Enough already with the resolutions and goals and intentions and desires. I, personally, have no urge to improve or change, or upgrade myself. I just want to take a moment and celebrate....
View ArticleDitch your resolutions for the Discipline of Yearning
You may or may not know this yet, but one of the reasons you joined this community is that you wanted to get really, really good at the Art of Yearning. Yearning is a way for a woman to spend her life...
View ArticleHave you hit your moment yet?
So, last Sunday I finally finished the first draft of the second chapter of my new book. I was right on deadline, even a few days early. (Quick brag: This book has been writing itself. I am so happy...
View ArticleDo you get as good as you give?
After watching the Golden Globes the other night, I just had to check out the film BOYHOOD. I especially loved Patricia Arquette’s acceptance speech, where she said: “You placed in my hands the part of...
View ArticleHow the hell is this my life?
Sister Goddess Leslie, Age 41 When I walked through the doors of the School of Womanly Arts, I was getting a divorce at the age of 37. I was beyond devastated. On the other side of this journey, I am a...
View ArticleShacking up in Stuck-town?
So you’re stuck, huh? Have you tied yourself into a big fat twisted stuck-knot? Ugh. It’s the worst. Stuck is everywhere. And there are so many ways for it to show up . . . Stuck in a 26 year marriage,...
View ArticleSelf-hatred is the New Smoking
It’s February. I hate February. Actually, it’s bigger than that. It’s winter I hate. Winter pisses me off. Cold. Grey skies, short days. Losing gloves. Black ice. February descends and my easy good...
View ArticleInside, I knew something was missing.
Sister Goddess Patty, Age 54 I was born in a car in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on my way to the hospital. In those days (1960), since my mother gave birth before arriving at the hospital, I was considered...
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