Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me on conversations shaping energy work spaces this week - capital-P Purpose, what happens when teachers think they know best & what we can do if it feels like there's something more to intuition. Women who refused I'm thinking about Elsie Inglis. Born in 1864, Elsie was a Scottish doctor, surgeon and suffragist who challenged the idea of what women were and weren't allowed to do. When she offered her medical services to the War Office in 1914, she was...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me on some conversations I notice shaping energy work spaces this week - conditional belonging, our own answers vs someone else's, and why many of us keep searching for what's missing.. Women who refused I'm thinking about Margaret Cavendish. Born in 1623 in England, Margaret was a writer and natural philosopher who published Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, questioning aspects of the experimental approach of the newly formed Royal Society -...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me this week on some of the conversations I notice are shaping energy work spaces right now - borrowed wisdom, inherited authority, displaced belonging - from a slightly different vantage point.. Women who refused I'm thinking about Mary MacPherson (or Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, "Big Mary of the Songs"). Born on the Isle of Skye in 1821, she became one of Scotland's best-known Gaelic poets and one of the most powerful voices during the Highland Land League...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me this week on the ways we've come to measure our worth against progress, productivity and readiness. And what becomes possible when we stop measuring ourselves against standards that were never ours to begin with. Women who refused I'm thinking about Hilma af Klint. She began creating abstract paintings inspired by her spiritual practice in 1906. Convinced the world wasn't yet ready for them, she requested that much of her work remain unseen until...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me this week on whether authenticity has become another ideal to strive for. And what becomes possible when self-trust replaces the need to be "acceptable". Women who refused I'm thinking about Emily Brontë. She wrote Wuthering Heights - it puzzled critics, broke convention, and defied many of the expectations placed on novels written by women in the mid 1800s. What strikes me isn't that she was misunderstood, but that she never seemed interested in...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me this week on ways we often reshape ourselves in a bid to belong, & what becomes possible when we stop measuring our experience, medicine, and path against anyone else's... Women who refused This week, I'm thinking about Emily Dickinson. Around 150 years ago, she wrote nearly 1800 poems, yet only a handful were published during her lifetime - many of them altered to fit the literary conventions of the day. She continued writing anyway. What strikes...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader, This week a member of our free community reached out to me - they're an energy worker of around 15 years: "I love the work... but the sessions wipe me out." She'd tried grounding. Protection. Cord cutting. White light. Salt baths. Clearing rituals. More Reiki. Less Reiki. She'd become convinced she was simply "too empathic" to work with people without paying the price. And I hear versions of this every week. Somewhere along the way, many of us accepted that depletion is just part...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me this week on some of the conversations I notice are shaping spiritual spaces right now - spiritual ego, self-trust, and reclamation - through a slightly different lense... Women who refused This week, I'm thinking about Sophie Scholl. At just 21 years old, she helped distribute leaflets challenging one of history's most oppressive regimes. She knew the risks. She acted anyway. What strikes me isn't her courage alone - it's that she chose her...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, I invite you to reflect with me this week on discernment, self-trust, and the stories we've inherited about authority.. Women who refused Some people know Joan of Arc as the teenage girl who helped lead French forces during the Hundred Years' War after claiming to receive guidance from saints. What stays with me is the conviction: to continue speaking of something she believed to be true, even when it was challenged, scrutinised, and doubted. History remembers the victories, the...
4 months ago • 3 min read