Ep 35 - How to Unlock the Healing Gifts of Sacred Cyclical Living

With Stella Tomlinson

My guest today is the healing author, Stella Tomlinson. Stella is a Priestess and author of three books, including 'Cycles of Belonging: Honouring ourselves through the sacred cycles of life', published by Womancraft Publishing. Her offerings are based on over 20 years' experience in personal and spiritual healing and development through meditation, yoga, mindfulness, energy healing and Goddess and nature spirituality and she's been teaching and writing in these fields since 2011.

In this episode we explored the relevance of the various cycles of life - including breath, circadian, sacred blood, the moon, the life cycles and goddess archetypes.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

Often our first experience of feminine cyclical living can be that of shame, when we experience our first bleed - connecting to our cycles in adulthood as we learn more about them can be very healing
Life is not linear, it operates in spirals - yet often we can fear the spiral path because it is messy and we long for control. Yet, a life of magic isn’t linear, so we have to choose to unlock cyclical living to fully embrace soul
There’s often a beauty found in the darkness of the winter of each cycle - an initiation into death and rebirth that is so powerful
The temptation in the spiritual path is to ascend beyond the darkness, and this is the beauty of working with both the Witch archetype and the winter of our cycles; they show us the beauty to be found in facing our truth and the possibility there is to be reborn.
In each of our cycles, we have a liminal space - that phase between where we are and where we are going, or the phase between wake and sleep - and it is in this liminal space where the magic occurs.
The various stages in the lifecycles of the goddess archetypes of Maiden, Lover, Mother, Queen and Crone offer us a chance to choose to reinitiate ourselves into

Resources and things that we spoke about:

The Highly Sensitive Person - Elaine Aron
Code Red - Lisa Lister
Red School - Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope - (We highly recommend reading ‘Wild Power’ by them, too)
Cycles of Belonging - Stella Tomlinson
Stella’s Official Website: stellatomlinson.com
Stella’s Instagram: @stellatomlinson.priestess

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