Step Up & Take Charge
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. - Erica Jong The story of our lives is ours to create. We can design our own roles and ideals, compose the scripts, and author the sagas of our own futures and that of the environment around us. While w

posted 6:00:07am Apr. 12, 2013 | read full post »

Let Your Power Out!
    Many of you have, I am sure, come across this fabulous writing many times. It speaks to the heart of the matter of women’s dysfunctional relationship to our own power. In my spiritual counseling as a Midlife Midwife™ I dispense this powerful inspiration as a prescription

posted 6:00:48am Apr. 10, 2013 | read full post »

Balanced Empowerment
Empowerment Several time ago I asked the question “What does power mean to you?” This piece about the empowerment of women was sent to me by Kali Fyre, a sister Queen and reader of The Queen of My Self. It is from her blog, “Awakening the Iris.”   For me, women’s empowerment

posted 6:00:24am Apr. 08, 2013 | read full post »

Coming Home to the Self
Speaking of  Self-Sovereignty, here is a piece by Sister Joan Chittister, the popular Catholic spiritual writer. It landed propitiously in my mailbox whilst I was in the midst of working on these recent posts on the Self. Good timing, Sister Queen!   Coming Home to the Self By Sr,

posted 6:00:22am Apr. 05, 2013 | read full post »

Sovereignty is Hard!
Coming from the tough love school of spiritual counseling as I do, I feel that it is only fair to warn you — There are no 10 Easy Steps to Sovereignty. The roads leading to Queendom are diverse and many. The way to Self-esteem can be complicated and long. Each woman must take her own path, make

posted 6:00:48am Apr. 03, 2013 | read full post »