Call it burnout, overstimulation, overwhelm - or the chrysalis stage of metamorphosis. Anything you call it - it sucks.

Is this a bottomless lake of tears inside of me that will never dry up? Am I singularly clearing out all of the trauma from my bloodline and the collective? Will this ever be complete?

I don't want to be a warrior anymore.

Shamanic Mediums in the modern world (where our communities are not educated on the processes of activation and development) are crying out to be accepted, fostered and empowered.

There are going to be many conflicting circumstances between countries, between communities, but mostly between You and Yourself.

The Modern ShaWoman is a 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃, a 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, an 𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑒𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓊𝓇, an 𝒾𝓃𝓋𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇 and a woman deeply steeped in the upliftment and evolvement of her community. She has harmonized her spirituality with the material world and is comfortable in her abundance.

One defeated and self-deprecating afternoon 18 years ago (with 55 “extra” lbs on my body) I found myself imagining, with my hyper-creative skills, “ways that I could lose the weight:” The idea popped into my head that I would surely get skinny if I had cancer…

Finding myself annoyed and triggered in a room full of wailing, pain-ridden bodies turned out to be the ultimate gift in my 24-hour Bwiti ceremony…