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The Empath Effect

Poetic Healing

Last year, I was invited to join with 21 other empath authors to share our stories of of awakening, transformation, and recovery. The stories that emerged from this project contain beautiful poetry, vivid descriptions of how an empath sees the world, and compelling messages of change, healing, and joy.

Some of you have heard my story about how writing poetry – and one poem in particular – shifted everything for me. That story of The Poem is captured in this collection and although I’ve told the story before to live audiences, it brought up new feelings to see it in writing.

Writing a book and sharing it with others always feels like laying your heart out on a table, but this story made sharing about this book feel even more vulnerable.

I describe one of the darkest times in my life, the years after my mom passed from cancer, a time when I was about as disconnected from myself as I could possibly be.

I share how I rose up out of that period of my life through the unexpected joy and healing power of writing.

And perhaps more importantly, I connect how The Poem laid the foundation for the work I do today, working with other sensitive, empathic, and purposeful women.Powerful, healing, aligned stuff, if I do say so myself.

The Empath Effect: Powerful Stories of Love, Courage & Transformation is available now on both Amazon.com and Books-A-Million.com.

It’s for anyone who enjoys a good trial-to-triumph read, but it’s especially for the “too sensitive” people.

Those who have perhaps always felt different or were told they were “too much.”

Those who give too much and take on too much and still keep going because the drive to serve is greater than the pain it often causes.

You’ll find yourself in these vulnerable, heartfelt stories.

That’s the Empath Effect.

Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951131436/

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Posted On: February 4, 2022

2021 Bliss Cards are here!

Poetic Healing

(design by olenakycha)

Poetry and leadership? Yes, please!

Poetry inspires us to step outside our comfort zone, out of the day-to-day linear productivity mindset of goals and achievements, and into the liminal space of possibility.

What is beneath the surface of my awareness? poetry asks.

How do I find connection when I feel disconnected? poetry asks.

How do I tap into my personal power when I feel powerless? poetry asks.

What else is possible? poetry asks.

As leaders, we must ask ourselves the same questions.

Because leading isn’t about getting things done, checking tasks off the list, or being “in charge.”  Leading is the deeper, poetic dance of how we cultivate our inner world so that it aligns with the outer world in which we want to live.

That’s why I write poetry. It’s my way of connecting to that inner world of knowledge that doesn’t come from a class or a book or a mentor. It comes from within.

And this is also why I offer my annual Bliss Cards.

This year’s beautiful graphic represents the rising of feminine leadership – women who are doing the work and leading the change. On the back is an original poem from my Daily Bliss collection.

Each card invites you to go deeper and call in a new way of inspiring both your personal and leadership journey.

Open to a new path, inspire a friend, and support a small business. Keep one, share one, let it guide you into 2022.

Request your Bliss Card bundle here!

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Posted On: November 24, 2021

Be (Inner) Kind

Poetic Healing

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Posted On: January 23, 2021

Giving In

Poetic Healing

Giving up
Giving out
No one has ever abandoned her
As deeply as she’s abandoned herself
A repeating cycle of projection
And expectation
In an effort to feel safe
An easy trap for an uncertain heart
Full of love and loss

The antidote,
To ditch these confines
And stop drifting aimlessly,
Far from the shore of her womanhood
And into the arms of the one within
Who loves her unconditionally
Giving in
Giving in

©Spiritled 2020

Photo by Trevor Cole on Unsplash

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Posted On: August 5, 2020

Pulled Down

Poetic Healing

In her struggle
She fights
Gasps for air
As she feels herself
Being pulled down
To where she does not know

But her fear is real
And what she can’t see
Is that in the depths
Is her salvation

And only from the bottom
Can she rise

©SpiritLed 2020

Photo by Yannis Papanastasopoulos on Unsplash

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Posted On: May 17, 2020

Sanctuary

Poetic Healing

Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

For this feeling grows
The feeling that I am a galaxy
Embodied by the emptiness
Of a thousand dying stars
And the wholeness of one perfect life

The fulfillment of being alive
And awake to all others
While still residing at the center
Of my own celestial space

I am a Sanctuary

©SpiritLed 2020

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Posted On: May 10, 2020

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