Reading · The Whole Woman

Dear wonderful women,

You might remember me mentioning in my last letter that I’m currently working my way through The Whole Woman guided journey, the course I’ve been crafting as a companion to the oracle for the better part of two years.

Over the past six weeks I’ve spent hours refining the self-reflection prompts, curating playlists featuring songs that harmonise with each theme, designing a gorgeous, limited edition guided journal for the dozen women who will fill the spaces when I open for sign-ups come springtime, reaching out to women who I’m hoping to collaborate with in some capacity and of course partaking in the practices I’ve chosen to aid in the integration process.

This week, the theme was move. After weeks of stagnation the timing felt truly divine. I’ve been devoting twenty minutes a day to an intuitive movement practice, and it has been so incredibly enriching. With each session I’ve been edging closer to the peak of my cycle, and I’m pleased to reveal that I’ve ripened into inner summer feeling more relaxed and radiant than I have in a long time.

It's been a pleasant surprise to me, especially since my life circumstances have been complicated as of late on many levels. My children and I are still no closer to finding a new home, time is ticking away, and I seem to have more to fit into each day than ever before. Between working, home educating, home making, studying, and showing up here to write and at An Ode to Devotion I’ve been struggling to keep my head above water for the past couple of months.

You see, those precious twenty minutes are providing something I hadn’t realised I needed: time to transcend the mind. I believe that to spread one’s consciousness throughout the entire body is an ode to wholeness. Movement is a way to attend to what’s there, it is a physical expression of self-love and care, but beyond this it is a powerful act of liberation.

The mind might be able intellectualise an experience, to find and assign a deeper meaning for the difficulties we face, but the body is an oracle.

And it’s ready and waiting to be told, only not in the traditional sense. To live and breathe liberation we must allow the body its moment as mouthpiece. When words fail to communicate the weight of our thoughts and emotions the body can become an entire ocean: a warm, liquid world where we can find flow once more.

Create a sense of solace and sisterhood by sharing these words with the women you love most…

As I’m sure you’ll know by now The Whole Woman oracle deck and guidebook are available to purchase over on my website and I’m currently trying to spread the news far and wide without the reach of traditional social media platforms.

Over the past year I have become far more intimately acquainted with my own body, as well as more attuned to her responses. After venturing back onto Instagram at the beginning of the month – and then promptly deleting my account once again – I’m feeling surer than ever that it simply isn’t the right platform for me or this work.

I know that perhaps this might seem a strange way of phrasing it but this creation really is that precious to me. Right now, I’m loving the idea of affiliate links which would offer the set at a discounted rate while also rewarding each affiliate with £5 per sale.

It feels like a beautiful, reciprocal way for them to make their way out into the wider world. And as I know that many of you who receive these letters work with women, in circle and one to one, and that those of you who’ve purchased a deck already are loving the cards, I wanted to extend this invitation to you first.

If you’re on Substack I’d really love to hear your thoughts or suggestions in the comments below. And if not, do feel free to reply directly if this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of. I’m also currently on the lookout for potential stockists so if there are any shops or studios locally to you who you think would be a good fit, I’d be so grateful to hear of them.

Finding Flow

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