Own Your Darkness 🖤✨

After striving for so long to stay in the Light

Exhaustedly and instinctively I descend into the dark
deep
Feminine

And I find relief in the honesty and realness of this primal place

The humility of this ground

This home of the deep Feminine
Is
earthy
instinctual
feeling

This place requires
Courage on a level not known by the head

For this is the realm of the heart ♥️

She is the space of
pain and uncertainty
And surrender of the deepest kind

This is the place of letting the Shadow out
Out to be seen and claimed

This shadow is the complement to the Light
And in owning both we are made whole

For only worshiping the light brings unbalance and chaos

You have experienced this
Have you not?

We are taught to obsessively and exclusively pursue the light

Has that ever worked out for long?

Hasn’t your dark just come in anyway
Stronger and fiercer?

Making your mind shrink in failure
Unable to live up to the unreasonable standards set up
By a one-sided culture

The deep Feminine
however
knows how to Be
How to be with it all

Especially the dark
And most ardently your shadow

Her cold objectivity was made to reveal it to
You
To highlight it
And mirror it back to you
If you have the courage and groundedness and Trust to See
~

And so
Here I can be with those wounds I learned to stuff down

Actively avoid
And that I told myself to “get over”

The failures
The disappointments
The betrayals
The endings
The deaths

And what my mind told me these things mean about me as a person

And the emotions that are born like fruit of those thoughts and vivid memories

Yes
I have been known to be kind and light-filled and compassionate and open

And this Yin place lets me know the other side of my humanity

The sadness
Irritation
Pettiness
Closed-off-ness
Straight-up bitchiness

The Dark side of my Light

Yearning to be seen
Honored
Taken in and
Merged with its lighter side

And in this real-place
This mirror-world

The deep Feminine nourishes as she reveals this dark
Shows us that it is complement to the light
just as precious as the light
As it’s acknowledged and integrated 

This is underworld mud which
Gives birth to the aboveground lotus

Brighter and more beautiful still for having nestled ever deeper into the dark

In Her we can trust
In her we no longer need to run away from any part of ourselves

In her ground she holds all
~

Her earthy sensuality
Her empowering objectivity
Her awe-inspiring strength
Her crone-like wisdom

Cradle us
Incubate us
Rejuvenate us
Reconfigure us

Until it’s time to come back
To Be
and create
and Live
On a whole new plane 🖤💫🙏🏻☯️✨🔮

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And so
Dear friend,

Are you like me?

Do you strive to only live in the Light,
While living the restrictive values of our time and culture

Of
perfectionism
inflexibility
Seriousness in purpose and life
Always looking to a goal-directed future

And never being Here,
in each creative
Feminine moment

Getting thrown off when your natural, Human
darkness emerges

Do you wait in limbo for the time when you will be only Light?

All the while wasting precious energy in thinking that you’re doing it all wrong

And that everybody else—especially those who portray themselves as perfect—is doing it better than you?

Isn’t disowning the darkness in you really strengthening it?

Not honoring those energies can harden into underlying moods that can last for days or months or years

Distracting you from what wants to be created by your deepest self
~

Beautifully, the Dark holds a key to a passionate, full Life

And this particular season of darkness
And this whole year of darkness(!)
Is offering it’s energy to you for growth and regeneration ✨
~

Feeling works both ways

The more I limit my dark feelings
The more I put a cap on my light feelings

The deeper I go
The higher I can go

In rapture I can feel in the full range of emotions
And be present and embodied in it all

As I unite dark and light
Underworld and above world
~

In order to delve into this realm of Wholeness

I’m inviting you to have a free unearthing session with me called Own Your Darkness—and the Deep Feminine

In this session we will uncover the qualities of the deep Feminine (as energy, not gender)

Which means that you will discover Feminine energetic qualities to help live a deep, passionate life

Instead of one that is concerned with striving and comparison and future goals and banishment of the helpful Dark
~

And so you will also encounter your darkness or shadow

Which means that you get a powerful experience of your full humanity that can lead to energy and power on your Life’s journey
~

You will also discover a path to merge these two parts of yourself—Light and Dark

Which means you will learn about self-empowerment skills to
Let Life lead as you live the qualities of the deep Feminine

While learning to integrate the Dark

And about taking action to create with Life, using darkness as well as light
~

In this session you will be held energetically by me
and in going into the dark you will experience the self-empowerment skills that I live and teach that will keep you from getting hooked by your darkness

If it feels energetically right, I’ll ask if you’d like to hear about how we could work together in a coaching relationship to create your life with your Whole self, as you integrate your Darkness and Light

If your answer is no at any point, it will be respected

I will not guilt you into anything because you experienced a free session with me 🙏🏻
~

I am offering this experience
And my energy and presence

So that I can live a deeply Feminine value of mine

Self-empowerment
~

Going into the dark empowers us
Because it frees up energy that was spent in keeping it stuffed down

The dark is also one half of the light
It’s already part of us!
And we are whole as we honor both

Going into the dark can also reveal more of our Light
And it can give us energy for our journey once we begin to integrate it

In a session of Own Your Darkness—and the Deep Feminine a client experienced waves of primal gratitude, seeing the helpfulness and power in her Darkness,
as she woke up to her deep, feeling, Feminine energy
and the ways she wants to live in this world,
while committing to the deepening development of her self-empowerment skills 🙌🏻✨
~

And so

Would you like to have an Own Your Darkness—and the Deep Feminine session with me?

If your answer is yes, please email me saying that you’re interested in having the free, hour-long Own Your Darkness—and the Deep Feminine session over Zoom with me and I’ll reply back so that we can set up time to have it

I have space in my Life to work with just three new people, so if your answer is yes to the session, reply back to me as soon as you can

May you continue to grow in the deep, passionate Feminine (whether you are a man or woman)
in courage to descend to your Darkness and
in persistence in living as a Whole human,
Creating anew and on a whole new level, with both darkness and light 🙏🏻☯️♥️

Much love,
Lauren