Why “Women Heal”?

Those if you who follow my work in the community are aware that I am offering new “Women Heal” events. I want to take some time in this column to explain how and why these events came about. A few months ago I spent a few days alone in nature listening to the wind and lying on the ground for guidance directly from the earth. I kept hearing “women heal”, “women heal” over and over again. I have felt the urgency of this need for quite some time now and it is getting stronger and stronger in me. The earth destructive events that have been occurring with increasing frequency are probably propelling me forward. Maybe I am reading this wrong and simply need to focus on myself, but I know in my bones that I am not a separate being, and that when many work together with healing intentions great power is available for that healing. So I have stepped forward to act as a guide for women who want to gather and heal together, and as we heal the earth has opportunities to heal too. What we are experiencing is what the earth is experiencing. What the earth is experiencing is what we are experiencing.

Did you know that tears can be a way to our power? Did you know that letting tears flow down your cheeks without brushing them away is a powerful act of healing? I am not going to wait for the scientists to catch up to this one and prove that it is true, I have experienced it and been witness to it many times. Even without those references I just know that it is true.

As a species human beings have been around for about 4 million years. We have changed and evolved since that time. Who we are today is indeed affected by what has happened in the past. Our ancestors have passed a myriad of experiences, hereditary patterns and traits to us. Some of these gifts are easier to live with than others. Intense traumatic events of the past tend to become etched in our nervous system and can play a part in our present day experience as feelings of depression, unexplained fear, panic and anxiety. We wear them like invisible heavy burdens, often thinking there is something inherently wrong with us that prevents us from experiencing joy and balance in life. There are masses of unexpressed emotions waiting to be released and healed.

Here is what the Irish Poet William Butler Yeats had to say about it many years ago:
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”

Today, after the ages of industrialization and information, we are entering the age of healing. Energetic opportunities, not available before, exist for us to access our ancient lineage, let go of burdens and old traumas, and remember who we truly are. Ancient wounds are bubbling up to the surface in everyone to be healed, but many do not understand what is happening and head for pharmaceutical bandaids, hyperactive schedules, or self medicating addictions to keep the voice of the pain subdued and suppressed. Ancient healing arts are also resurfacing as the need for soul work expands.

This past summer the extreme heat and transformative energies propelled me to develop even deeper relationships with the elements of nature and resources close to home. I spent many hours lying on the ground receiving nurturing earth energy, listening to the wind to download my latest awareness updates, and consuming and listening to some of the healing plants growing right in my backyard. Now I am being pushed from within to create experiences to help others find their ways to healing and wholeness. And as a result of more than 25 years of questing and recent new awarenesses I have co-created these one day healing experiences for women. “Women Heal” is an opportunity for women to gather together to experience ancient and contemporary healing ways. Using drums, sacred healing plants, storytelling, burden releases, empowered prayers and other ways of power, ancient wounds can be shed allowing for clarity and direction to shine through. We are all being called to our truths and our power so that we can invent new ways to live cooperatively and harmoniously on this planet. The time for healing time is here.

For more information about “Women Heal” opportunities see this link: http://www.facebook.com/sally.joyce3?v=app_2344061033