Month: February 2021

Every month the moon gets full. And because it gets full, and big, and bright again we know that another month just happened. In the old days women would gather together at full moon to sit with each other in mutuality and in peace. They would take down any armours and worries and they would sit as equal parts of the same circle. They would call upon the Spirits, of the land and the waters, the air and the fire, the animals and the plants, and they would look to all directions, above and below, right and left, back and front, and mostly unto, within. And they would stay in silence and in waiting of the moon’s soft light to arrive as wisdom, soon to be expressed through the talks…

Looking at my body I see a body that has been through every food experiment I could discover and trust through books, wellness programmes, dieticians and doctors. Most of them were restricting some part of what was available for me to eat. Most of them had a purification period, a grace period and a collapse period. They all worked for a while, some years at best.   But I never fell for any of them. I never fully endorsed or followed them. Each time, at each attempt something in me was always resisting to conform. Not out of weakness or laziness, not based on a metabolic or health issue but simply because I did not want to do it. Still, I have self-blamed myself for not trying enough, for not…