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Re-Power Yourself, Your Sisters, Your World

  • July 5, 2022
  • Lis Williams

Women and girls are half of the world’s population and yet in 2022 we are still overlooked and... Continue Reading

Women and girls are half of the world’s population and yet in 2022 we are still overlooked and undervalued in most parts of the world.

And despite attempts to direct funding to organizations that serve women and girls, support is surprisingly deficient when compared with philanthropic giving as a whole.

With the knowledge that making investments in women and girls promotes a ripple effect of change throughout families, communities, and even entire countries – why aren’t more of us supporting causes that lift up women and girls? And what can we do to change that?

We can start by coming together to identify and support real Soul-utions. And that’s why we’ve created a powerful new global conference bringing together a diverse and visionary collective of women leaders who are radically transforming the lives of women and children and compassionately healing humanity and our planet!

You are invited to attend:

✨ Creatrix Convergence 2022 ✨

Re-Power Yourself, Your Sisters, Your World!

Live Global Conference from July 11-15, 2022

There is terrific work being done on the ground to address the issues that keep women and children disempowered. But is it enough? Are we moving women from a life of suppression and oppression quickly enough and at scale? What might we be missing?

Can we really make an impact on the re-powerment of women and girls if we’re living under the old constructs and beliefs of a patriarchal, hierarchical society? Constructs and beliefs around culture, religion, politics, business, education, and healthcare that we have accepted as truth. Until now.

All of the upheaval on the planet is shifting the way we look at women and men, the roles we play, the privileges we have, where the power is held, and ultimately the imbalance that is prevalent in all sectors.

Women’s voices are needed now more than ever! Your voice!

The feminine naturally leads not from a place of competition, scarcity, and power over – but rather from a place of cooperation, abundance, and power within. From a place of love and compassion. But for thousands of years our voices have been suppressed and silenced. No more!

✨ It’s time to shout a collective “No More” ✨

  • No more to destroying our planet
  • No more to healthcare that doesn’t respect our knowing of what we need to thrive
  • No more to education systems that don’t permit girls to go to school
  • No more to economic systems that put greed above the common good
  • No more to cultural systems that permit violence against women and children
  • No more to political systems that believe leaders must be men
  • No more to religious systems that fail to recognize our inherent sovereignty

We’re all connected and the social issues that challenge us are inter-connected as well. When we come together in community to learn, grow, and serve, we strengthen our commitment and increase our impact ensuring that we effect the change we want to see in the world.

Regardless of our race, religion, age, or culture – we are all women. We are sisters. We are strong, courageous, and determined. And together we will co-create a better world!

You can attend Creatrix Convergence 2022 completely FREE.

I can’t wait to see you there!

Be bold. Be Daring. Be AWE-dacious!

 


Creatrix Convergence 2022

  • June 27, 2022
  • Lis Williams

In this 5-day online global event we are spotlighting 30+ female environmentalists, healers, educators, business owners, activists, humanitarians,... Continue Reading

Are you ready to hear some good news for a change?

Hoping that someone will find solutions to our global challenges?

Think we need more women leading the way forward?

Your wait is over! Welcome to:

Creatrix Convergence 2022

Re-Power Yourself, Your Sisters, Your World!

Live Global Conference from July 11-15, 2022

 

In this 5-day online global event we are spotlighting 30+ female environmentalists, healers, educators, business owners, activists, humanitarians, social entrepreneurs, indigenous elders, spiritual leaders, and evolutionaries.

Each will be sharing a Soul-ution or philosophy they are exploring or bringing forth to radically transform the lives of women and children and compassionately heal humanity and our planet!

The pandemic and associated shutdowns have had a disproportionate effect on women. And the war in Ukraine has likewise impacted women and children profoundly. As a result of these tragedies, along with many other global challenges, we are being called to step up and into our leadership potential to lift up women and girls around the globe.

For although we are half the world’s population, we are still undervalued and overlooked. But not for long!

“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.”

– Chinese Proverb

Despite the personal and collective challenges of the past two years, it’s heartening and empowering to see so many coming together with a common focus on co-creating a new way forward. One way of life may be over, but a new way of being and doing will be birthed from the turbulence. And it’s up to us to make that happen!!

We see this as an incredible opportunity to bring together women from around the globe who share the common mission of lifting up women, girls, and our Mother Earth at this pivotal time on the planet. The feminine voice as well as her compassion, conviction, and power are needed now more than ever. We hope you will join us!

Here is a just a sampling of the speaker topics we’ll explore during Creatrix Convergence 2022:

Barbara Marx Hubbard: Becoming a New Human

Anne Baring: The Old Story or The New Story – Which is it?

Jean Houson and Anneloes Smitsman: Future Human for a Thrivable World

Jyoti Ma: Mother Earth is Calling Us

Dr. Shamini Jain: Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health

Anna Vanickova & Petra van der Linden-Brussen: Mary Magdalene’s Great Passage

Gail Straub: IMAGINE Initiative – The Missing Piece in the Empowerment Equation

Lisa Garr: Making Your Message Your Mission

Deborah Anderson: Women Of The White Buffalo Documentary

Devin Hibbard: Confidence + Cash: How Women Will Change the World

And much more.  You definitely don’t want to miss this!

The event begins July 11th, 2022. I can’t wait to see you there! Until then…

Be bold. Be Daring. Be AWE-DACIOUS!

Transforming a Culture of Violence

  • June 2, 2022
  • Lis Williams

Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Jean Houston and Anneloes Smitsman, co-authors of the Future Humans... Continue Reading

Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Jean Houston and Anneloes Smitsman, co-authors of the Future Humans Trilogy, as featured speakers in our upcoming summit entitled, Creatrix Convergence 2022:  Re-Power Yourself, Your Sisters, Your WorldIn the conversation, we addressed the culture of violence we have been living in for eons – a pattern of domination and oppression that has plagued the world for far too long.

It was not until later that evening that I realized we were holding this conversation at exactly the time of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. An incident that has become far too common in recent years and for which we seem unable to come to a consensus on how to ensure it NEVER happens again.

As violence erupts in our schools, our cities, our world, we feel powerless to effect change – victims of a world gone mad.  But we are not powerless!  We are not victims!

We’ve been duped into a case of mistaken identity. Participants in the grandest scheme of “imposter syndrome”!

Deceptions are now being revealed as more and more of us are waking up to the truth of who we are. We are not just our ego – our false self – conditioned to play small. Trapped in a world of needless anxiety, unnecessary suffering, and cultural separation, competition and violence.

No, we are so much more!

Our True Self is a manifestation of Source.

Powerful beyond measure if we  choose to believe it. Emissaries of peace, compassion, and justice. Messengers of unity and love. Called to lead the way forth to a New Future.

Since January, a group of Soul Sisters have been gathering once a month to prepare ourselves to step up and into our magnificence and onto the path of leadership.  We have journeyed through a progression of themes to nurture, support, and strengthen our resolve in Awakening the Sovereign Feminine to…

  • Realize our Individual & Collective Sovereignty
  • Release what no longer serves
  • Remember our Connection to Soul-Source-Sister
  • Renew our Being
  • Reimagine Sacred Impact

We will meet for our final session this month for the Coronation of the Sovereign Feminine. A chance to embrace all we have learned, shared, and claimed as our own. A chance to celebrate ourselves and each other.

For we are no longer meant to go it alone.

The Divine Feminine path forward is one of partnership and collaboration.  Of empathy and forgiveness.  Of compassion and love.

All are welcome!

And stay tuned for more information about Creatrix Convergence 2022, airing July 11-15.  We have an extraordinary line-up of women who have heard the call and answered it. If you’re tired of hearing all the bad news, we have an abundance of good news, wisdom, and inspiration to share.  

I know sometimes it feels like we just want to curl up in a ball, hide under the covers, and wait until the chaos ends.  But, alas, there is no superhero coming to save us.  We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

It takes courage, it takes stamina, it takes heart. But we’ve got this!

Be bold. Be Daring. Be AWE-dacious!

Re-Imagine Sacred Impact

  • May 11, 2022
  • Lis Williams

As we move forward to address the myriad issues presenting themselves at this time, what if as the... Continue Reading

Just when you thought we couldn’t handle anymore intensity, this past week saw the battle around Roe v. Wade take center stage in the U.S.  As a result, half of our country has erupted into a state of anger, grief, and disbelief.  While the other half is rejoicing.

As in the past, the two sides have gone to their respective corners to plot how to respond to what is seen as injustice on both sides.  The wound is re-opened. The blaming ensues.  The divide widens.

Those who would wish for women to carry on under the illusion of separation have achieved their goal. For if we remain divided, then we shall not rise.  And this is a victory for some.

We live in a world of division.  Where our greatest challenges are viewed as black or white – not gray. You’re either with us or against us – can’t be both.  You’re on the left or on the right – not the middle.

The dualistic consciousness that pervades our society can only see the “either/or” approach.  It refuses to believe in the possibility of “both/and”.

But women, in particular, have the innate ability to see another way forward

– a “Third Way”

Richard Rohr describes this as, “…the place of grace out of which genuine newness can come. This is where creativity and new forms of life and healing emerge.”

As we move forward to address the myriad issues presenting themselves at this time, what if as the changemakers, wayshowers, and lightworkers that we are – we consciously and intentionally choose a new path forward.  One that stops judging and pointing fingers, and instead chooses to listen from the heart.

What if we were to listen to a sister whose views appear to be radically different than our own?  Listen to her story, how she grew up, what challenges she faced, what led her to the decisions she has made and the beliefs she clings to so tightly.

What if we were to put ourselves in another’s heels?  Imagine what life might be like if we didn’t have the resources we do, the education we’ve received, the support system of our family and friends.

How might that change us?  Might we soften a bit? Might we stop demonizing a sister who thinks differently but cares as deeply as we do?

Might we begin to ask ourselves how to stop fighting each other and truly begin to work together for the good of ALL women and ALL children?  To look at the reasons a woman feels so vehemently that the right to an abortion is a human right.

Perhaps it’s because we haven’t adequately addressed the culture of violence we have created.  One that still permits – and no one is marching in the streets or protesting to end…

  • Rape
  • Incest
  • Pornography
  • Domestic Violence
  • Human Trafficking
  • Child Marriage
  • Female Genital Mutilation

Instead, we focus on one issue – and one issue only.  We manipulate it.  We politicize it.  And when the dust settles, we go back to our separate lives with a warped sense of accomplishment.

Anyone else had enough of this?  If so, I invite you to join myself and many other Soul SiStars who are committed to midwifing a new path forward.  A “third way” that sees the inherent worth and dignity of each and every woman, and the creative and life-giving power of each and every womb.

Let’s Re-Imagine this “third way” together. Let’s Re-Imagine the world we’re stewarding. Let’s Re-Imagine our Sacred Impact and co-create Soul-utions that are life-affirming for all humanity and our beautiful Mother Earth.

7 Pillars of Re-Powerment

  • February 21, 2022
  • Lis Williams

Repowerment is a practice of "reminding" women and girls of the power we inherently hold simply because we... Continue Reading

Women and girls are half of the world’s population and yet in 2022 we are still overlooked and undervalued in most parts of the world.


And despite attempts to direct funding to organizations that serve women and girls, support is surprisingly deficient when compared with philanthropic giving as a whole.

With the knowledge that making investments in women and girls promotes a ripple effect of change throughout families, communities, and even entire countries – why aren’t more of us supporting causes that lift up women and girls?  And what can we do to change that?

Perhaps the answer lies in the confusion over how we can effectively support our sisters around the globe.  Of the philanthropic giving directed toward women and girls, 90 cents of each dollar is focused on reproductive health, leaving inadequate funding for a range of other issues.  Although reproductive health is of critical importance, the factors that will lead to women rising into co-equal partnership with men are varied and go beyond our ovaries.

So what does this mean for those of us who desire to lift women and girls out of oppression?  It means we need to focus on multiple issues at the same time.  We can’t devote resources in one area and expect it to be enough.

But it can be a daunting task to sift through data and information and identify those efforts that have the greatest potential for effecting real and lasting change.  Many different frameworks exist, but no single framework that is commonly used across the field.  For example, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are not specific to women, do not organize the topics that improve women’s lives holistically in one place, and can be overwhelming given there are a total of 19 goals.

But what can feel overwhelming doesn’t have to be.  In an effort to simplify the approach I’ve created the:

7 Pillars of Re-Powerment


Let me first explain why I use the term “Re-Powerment”.  Most of us are more familiar with the concept of empowerment when speaking of women and girls.  However, empowerment doesn’t accurately describe what we hope to achieve.  The definition of empowerment states that one person or group of people are bestowing power on another.  This implies a hierarchy where those wielding power choose with whom to share it.

“Repower = to provide again or anew with power; 

to rebuild the power source”


Repowerment, on the other hand, is a practice of “reminding” women and girls of the power we inherently hold simply because we are alive.  It’s a power given to all by Source, the greatest power in the Universe, and from which we are all equally created.  Re-powerment is ultimately a reminder of our inherent worth and dignity as Divine beings.

Now on to the 7 Pillars. Using research from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania, we begin with the five core areas with the most promising solutions for women and girls globally.  These five dimensions are inextricably linked and provide a holistic view of how to create the greatest impact:

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Education
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Freedom from Violence
  • Equality


There is terrific work being done on the ground to address the issues that keep women and children disempowered.  But is it enough?  Are we moving women from a life of suppression and oppression quickly enough and at scale?  What might we be missing?

Can we really make an impact on the re-powerment of women and girls if we’re living under the old constructs and beliefs of a patriarchal, hierarchical society? Constructs and beliefs around culture, religion, politics, business, education, and healthcare that we have accepted as truth.  Until now.

The rise of the Divine Feminine on the planet is shifting the way we look at women and men, the roles we play, the privileges we have, where the power is held, and ultimately the imbalance that is prevalent in all sectors. It’s time to incorporate two long forgotten pillars into the women’s re-powerment movement and all sectors of society:

  • Re-connecting to Mother Earth
  • Restoring the Sacred


I believe these two anchor pillars merged with the five core pillars are the missing links to ending oppression, restoring equality for all, and ultimately saving our planet.

It’s time, SiStars, to shift the paradigm that has allowed the pandemic of “-isms”: sexism, racism, classism, etc…to fester and infect the health of our planet and all humanity. Over the next couple of months I’ll share more about how we do this together.
 

Be bold.  Be Daring.  Be AWE-DACIOUS!

 

 

What will it take for Women to Come Together to End Oppression and Patriarchy?

  • February 22, 2021
  • Lis Williams

Our February Film Festival concludes this Wednesday, February 24th @ 7:00 p.m. CST.  Our screening this week is... Continue Reading

Our February Film Festival concludes this Wednesday, February 24th @ 7:00 p.m. CST.  Our screening this week is “Rising Power:  Building an intersectional justice movement in the United States.”  

In an increasingly polarized and racially segregated United States, we see the impact of patriarchy through the eyes of Black and Southeast Asian activists living in Madison, Wisconsin. Against a backdrop of anti-Blackness, violence against women, and increasing social and political polarization, we meet M Adams and Kabzuag Vaj, community organizers and co-directors of Freedom, Inc.

What began as a sexual assault support group has grown into a community organization at the forefront of battles over education reform, police brutality, land access and ownership, women’s safety and security, and mental health. In this Fundamental episode, Kabzuag says “Freedom, Inc. exists because there were no organizations serving women like me.”

With Freedom, Inc. Kabzuag and M have cultivated a movement that invites women of color—in particular, Black, Hmong, and Khmer women, girls, queer, and trans people—to tie their own rights to one another. Freedom, Inc. works to equip the communities they serve with the tools and resources they need to uproot our broken system and ultimately build a roadmap toward shared liberation.


Most Americans say it’s now more common for people to express racist or racially insensitive views. Additionally, 2019 saw the most deaths of transgender or gender non-conforming people in the U.S. due to fatal violence, the majority of whom were Black transgender women.

In this Fundamental episode, we learn about grassroots movements led by women and gender non-conforming people of color who confront oppression and patriarchy in the U.S. It highlights the ways people from different backgrounds experience discrimination and focuses our attention on the importance of not placing issues in silos, but instead recognizing how systems of oppression intersect and overlap.

Movements addressing one form of oppression must take others into account. For example, efforts to fight racism must include addressing homophobia, classism, and anti-Semitism, and work to eliminate gender disparities must acknowledge how women of color experience inequality and prejudice differently from white women.

INTERSECTIONALITY: The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. The term “intersectionality” was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights activist and legal scholar.

Nothing changes if we don’t talk about it.  

Be bold.  Be Daring.  Be AWE-dacious!

What’s the legal age of marriage where you live?

  • February 4, 2021
  • Lis Williams

What’s the legal age of marriage where you live?  Have you ever considered that question?  In most states in... Continue Reading

What’s the legal age of marriage where you live?  Have you ever considered that question?  

In most states in the U.S. it’s eighteen.  However, in many states it’s legal to get married if you’re younger than eighteen and your parents consent.  For example, with parental consent a girl can be married in…

Massachusetts at twelve!
New Hampshire at thirteen!
Mississippi at fifteen!


Almost every other state in the nation permits children to be married at the age of sixteen if their parent consents.

What century are we living in???

How many of you would like to see your daughter or son married at sixteen? Like they don’t have enough challenges just navigating the teen years.

Although in the United States child marriage is less common, sadly, in many parts of the world it’s accepted as normal.  And in most cases the child being married off has no say in the matter.  Anyone else think it’s time to change that?

You won’t want to miss the kick-off of our February Film Festival tomorrow at Noon CST with our first screening entitled, “Rights Not Roses:  Ending child, early, and forced marriage in Pakistan.

In this episode we meet Rukhshanda Naz, a dynamic human rights attorney and passionate advocate for ending child, early, and forced marriage. Rukhshanda shares how growing up with a mother who experienced early marriage and an elder sister who was forced to marry early informed her own experiences and continues to fuel her activism and professional life today. Rukhshanda and other activists in Pakistan are working together to challenge longstanding cultural norms, push back against religious fundamentalists, and end child, early, and forced marriage in Pakistan.

We also meet Zarmina, who experienced early marriage and safely escaped with support from Noor Education Trust, a grassroots organization that runs shelters for girls while providing legal, medical, and psychosocial services; workshops on gender-based violence and women’s rights; educational classes; and more. Zarmina’s parents arranged for her marriage at age 13 to an older man. He then physically abused her, until her parents discovered the abuse and helped remove her from the marriage.


Child, early, and forced marriage is a truly global problem that cuts across countries, cultures, religions, and ethnicities. Girls experience early marriage in every region in the world, from the Middle East to Latin America, South Asia to the US. One in five girls in the world are said to be married before 18. Over 650 million women alive today were married as children.

Child, early, and forced marriage robs girls of their freedom, education, and dreams and is a deeply entrenched practice due in part to the combination of religious fundamentalism, patriarchy, and cultural and traditional practices. There is a growing awareness among researchers and activists that control of adolescent girls’ sexuality is a driving force behind child, early, and forced marriage and unions. Controlling women’s and girls’ life choices is how the system of patriarchy is sustained.

Don’t miss this eye-opening documentary and discussion.  You are needed and Now is our time!

Be bold.  Be Daring.  Be AWE-dacious!!

P.S.  We will be hosting the Fundamental film series on Wednesdays in February.  It is a joint production from Academy Award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and the non-profit Global Fund for Women. At a time of unprecedented political uprisings around the globe, Fundamental introduces global audiences to grassroots movements and community leaders who are standing up for our fundamental human rights and working to hold governments accountable for healthier and more just societies for all.

Jumpstart 2021 With Collective Impact!

  • January 21, 2021
  • Lis Williams

Happy 2021!! OMG – I know we’re all praying that better days are ahead.  So we can either... Continue Reading

Happy 2021!!

OMG – I know we’re all praying that better days are ahead.  So we can either wait it out and hope for the best.  Or…make sure it’s a better year through focusing on positive intentions and raising our vibration by embracing elevated emotions such as love, joy, peace, and compassion.

 

There is so much good happening on the planet, sometimes it’s just hard to see it.  Especially, if all we know is what mainstream media wants us to see.

 

One of the things I love most about what I do is I am constantly in touch with AWE-mazing individuals implementing inspiring Soul-utions.  And my goal this year is to bring more of that to you so you, too, can be uplifted and empowered.

 

Are you ready to leave 2020 behind and Jumpstart 2021 in service to the better world you imagine?

 

Then you won’t want to miss this free, on-line workshop I’m co-hosting on Wednesday, January 27th, @ 10 a.m. Eastern.  Here’s what you’ll learn…

  • The power of women working together as philanthropists and investors
  • What makes women’s giving and investing unique
  • How you can join a Circle of Giving, Investing, or Impact

 

Your Presenters…

Sondra Shaw-Hardy and Carmen Stevens from Women’s Giving Circles International (wgci.online)

  • What is a giving circle?
  • Definition
  • Format(s)
  • How do I start a circle?
  • Purpose
  • Participants
  • Gifting
  • Growing

Ellen Remmer from Invest For Better (investforbetter.org)

  • What is an Invest for Better Circle?
  • Purpose
  • Format
  • Community
  • How do I start or join a Circle?

Elisabeth Williams from AWE Partners (awepartners.com)

  • What is an AWE-thentic Impact Circle?
  • How is it similar to/different from a giving circle?
  • Deeper dive into each participant’s passion project
  • Introduction to social enterprises and the opportunity to give, shop & invest for impact

You are Needed and it’s Our Time!  Let’s jumpstart 2021 with a higher energy and greater vision together!!

 

Don’t miss this kick-off event!  Register here…

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/jumpstart-2021-with-collective-impact-registration-133354672415

 

Be bold.  Be Daring.  Be AWE-dacious!!

 

Business Women Giving Back

  • August 25, 2020
  • Lis Williams

Are you a successful business woman or entrepreneur, but feel like there’s more you’re here to do? Do... Continue Reading

Are you a successful business woman or entrepreneur, but feel like there’s more you’re here to do?

Do you look around at the state of the world and wonder how you can make a difference?

Are you ready to share your time, talent, and/or treasure but don’t want to do it alone?

You’re in the right place!

Times are challenging, no doubt.  And if you’re like me, you’re tired of feeling cooped up at home with limited interaction with friends and colleagues.

But I also see this as a time of great opportunity.  A time to clarify what really matters to us.  A time to imagine how we can come out of this mess better off both personally and collectively.  A time to begin putting in place the pieces that will allow us to soar once the world opens up again.  And it will!

So I decided to do something I’ve resisted for a long time.  Get more active on social media.  Because honestly I am not a fan of it.  It kind of makes me crazy. 

But social media can be used as a tool for good to connect and spread positive messages around the globe.  And now we have the opportunity to come together in a safe and intimate way through a Facebook Group.  So I’ve created…

“Business Women Giving Back”

Here you’ll find a non-partisan, inter-faith, divisive-free, safe space where you can relax, escape the madness, and be authentically who you are.

But we’re also a community of women who want to do more than just talk about the problems – we find and support solutions. Through posts, conversation, and live videos we’ll encourage you to follow your soul’s purpose and embrace your passion for change.

Women will lead us to the new future we imagine.  And now more than ever we need you stepping up and into the fullness of who you are and what you have to offer the world. It’s our time. Let’s do this sister!

Just follow this link to step into your next chapter as a powerful change-maker!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/businesswomengivingback/about

Be bold.  Be daring.  Be AWE-dacious!

 

scarcity mentality, scarcity, financially independent, financially independent woman

7 Pillars of Women’s Empowerment and Divine Feminine Rising

  • June 30, 2020
  • Lis Williams

Next week, I will travel to Florida for the purpose of taking over my 92-year old mom’s finances. ... Continue Reading

Next week, I will travel to Florida for the purpose of taking over my 92-year old mom’s finances.  Not because she really wants me to or that she’s not capable of continuing to handle them on her own.  But with the realities of Covid-19, it seems the prudent thing to do.

Sadly, while there I won’t be able to be with her face to face.  She lives in a retirement center that is under quarantine, with increased restrictions being implemented as cases in Florida are on the rise.  I’ll get all of her paperwork and then stay in a nearby hotel.

In truth, she could leave her home and stay at my sister’s house where would be able to be together taking precautions by wearing masks and maintaining social distancing.  But even with precautions there are no guarantees, and when she returns to her home she would be in quarantine for 14 days.

There are no easy answers anymore it seems.  We all have to make the best decisions we can with the information we’ve been given.

But, despite the uncertainty, I am hopeful that this time of upheaval and chaos, this collective dark night of the soul, is an opening to vast possibilities we may have only imagined.  One way of life may be over, but a new way of being and doing will be birthed from the turbulence.  And it’s up to us to make that happen.

Women’s voices are needed now more than ever!  Your voice!

The feminine naturally leads not from a place of competition, scarcity, and power over – but rather from a place of cooperation, abundance, and power with.  From a place of love and compassion.  But for centuries our voices have been suppressed and silenced.  No more.  The Divine Feminine is Rising and it’s time to speak our truth!   

As Barbara Marx Hubbard said, “For the first time in thousands of years, women now have the opportunity to give birth to their authentic feminine “Self”, and to actively participate in the workings of the evolutionary process.  The modern and postmodern rise of women into the role of evolutionary agents is an event of the highest significance.”

So how will you answer the call?  What will you do?  Where will you serve?

During the shutdown, I completed my research on Women’s Empowerment and the Divine Feminine.  If you’d like to learn more, here’s a link to a short PowerPoint presentation…https://youtu.be/sygifA0i5eY

We’re all connected and the social issues that challenge us are inter-connected as well.  When we come together in community to learn, grow, and serve, we strengthen our commitment and increase our impact ensuring that we effect the change we want to see in the world.

It doesn’t matter which pillar you choose to focus on…environmental sustainability, health & well-being, education, economic empowerment, freedom from violence, equality…it all matters!  Choose a pillar and join with others to shift the paradigm from patriarchy and privilege to new systems that support the common good.

Regardless of our race, religion, age, or culture – we are all women.  We are sisters.  We are strong, courageous, and determined.  And together, as Fierce Warrior Goddesses of Light, we will change the world!

Be bold.  Be daring.  Be AWE-dacious!