Empowered Way Podcast

Dear Sovereign: I will be out of touch for the next two weeks. It’s summer and that means it’s time for vacation! You may not know that there is an extensive library of meditations on Insight Timer . I am one of the teachers on that platform and would be honored to share my meditations. What is Insight Timer? It’s a free app you download to your phone. The beauty of setting up an account is access...

Dearest Sovereigns: The most important declaration of independence I ever made happened on an ordinary afternoon, with no fireworks and no one watching. For years I had built a life that looked like freedom from the outside, and I was still governed by something I never chose. Fear had been making my decisions for so long that I mistook its voice for my own. The day I stopped handing it that autho...

Dear Sovereigns: There is a particular quiet that arrives when certainty stops working. You know the one. The plan was clear, practical, and the answer was obvious. Everyone agreed on what you should do. And then something happened that none of it could hold, and for the first time in a long while, you did not know your next steps. Most of us are taught to fear that silence and fill it fast. To re...

Dear Sovereign: Julia Faire became a famous actress because she never grieved a terrible loss. That is not a criticism. It is the most honest thing I can say about how she built her life. Eleven years before the story of my second novel begins, something happened that should have unmade her. Instead of allowing it, she ran. She left everything behind, moved to Los Angeles, and poured herself into...

Dear Sovereigns: For years I said the same prayer and turned away before it could be answered. And then, one day I did something different. I was standing on the fly bridge of a sightseeing boat off the Na Pali Coast of Kauai, holding the metal rails with both hands while the bow rose and fell on two and three-foot waves. The mountains fell into the ocean, lush valleys falling into water. The sea...

Dear Sovereign Sisters: There are two ways to be allowed into a room, and we spend most of our lives confusing them. The first is permission. Someone with authority looks at you, weighs you, and decides you may enter. You followed the rules. You earned the seat. You proved you belonged, and the proof was accepted. The second is presence. The door is simply open. No one weighs your value. No one de...

Dearest Sovereigns: There is a voice you have been in relationship with your entire life. You have never questioned its authority. You have never asked where it came from, who installed it, or whether it has been telling you the truth. You have simply obeyed it, argued with it, tried to silence it, or performed for it the way you perform for every authority you have never thought to examine. That...

Dear Sovereigns: I was on the back of a motorcycle somewhere in West Texas, holding on to my husband and finally, after many years, letting go of everything else. The grief had been living in my chest so long I had stopped noticing its weight. Three years of IVF. Years of watching my body fail at the one thing women are supposed to do naturally. Many hours of quietly, relentlessly arguing my case...

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Dearest Sovereigns: When my husband retired, our financial life quietly rearranged itself in ways I had not fully anticipated. The income that had made a second home feel natural and sustainable was no longer there. The reality of carrying a second home with a different financial footing became something I could no longer defer thinking about. I want to be honest about what that felt like, because...

Dearest Sovereigns: I have been sharing particularly vulnerable stories about my past, so you can relate and know me. And remember that whatever you thought was the “worst” actually becomes your greatest asset. The Good Girl’s Dilemma By the time I reached college, I’d perfected the art of being what everyone else needed me to be. I was the daughter who never caused trouble, the student who follow...

Dearest Sovereigns: I never planned to make music. I’m a writer, speaker and a teacher. I help women understand the psychology of people-pleasing and the neuroscience of boundaries. I speak in paragraphs, not melodies. But one day, while creating the “How to Become a Sovereign Woman” course, I had this thought: What if women had something they could carry with them between meditation sessions? Som...

Hello Sovereigns: I have been sitting with a question lately, not the way you sit with a problem you are trying to solve, but the way you sit at the edge of something deep and still, waiting for it to speak. The question is this: why is it revolutionary for a woman to claim her sovereignty? I have been tracing the answer through five different traditions or systems, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduis...

Dearest Sovereigns: I want to tell you something about the morning after Chartres. Not the ceremony or the labyrinth walk the others took while I was quarantined in my hotel room. Not the ancient cathedral light or the centuries of pilgrims or the sacred feminine energy the tour leaders promised we would find there. The morning after. When I was still part of the “not spiritually enough” group. St...

Dearest Sovereigns: I was quarantined in a hotel room in Chartres, France. Sick with COVID. Removed from the sacred pilgrimage I had traveled thousands of miles to experience. Eating whatever was left over in the breakfast room after the others had finished. And a woman who called herself a spiritual leader had just told a room full of people, over a recording I was not present to hear in real tim...

Dearest Sovereigns: I was walking along the beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico when I finally understood something I had been circling for years. The Pacific was rough that morning. Big waves, red flags, the kind of ocean that reminds you it answers to no one. There would be no swimming. I walked instead, watching the water move with a power that had nothing to prove. And then I looked up. Several se...

Dearest Sovereigns: I have a confession to make. I recently wrote a book about sovereignty and the sacred feminine. It’s about women who know their worth and stand in it without apology. And then I published it and retreated. Not dramatically. Not in any way anyone would notice. I retreated into the next book, into recording my audio book, into the sacred creative cave where I feel safe and unseen...

Dearest Sovereigns: Tomorrow, the earth does something it has done for billions of years without apology. It balances. The Spring Equinox arrives not with fanfare or announcement, but with a quiet, planetary precision: day and night held in equal measure, the long exhale of winter finally releasing into something warmer, something green, something alive again. The earth does not rush this. It does...

Dearest Sovereigns, It was June of 2023. My mother’s birthday. We had just spent five days in Chartres, France. Five days walking sacred ground, sitting inside one of the oldest cathedrals on earth, and yes, walking the labyrinth. Privately. In silence. Each of us carrying whatever we had brought across the ocean. My mother had been gone for sixteen years. I met her inside the labyrinth. On our la...

Hello Sovereign Women! I am excited to announce the publication of my latest novel, “Sovereign Women: Love is a Revolutionary Choice.” It’s a story about a radical choice we don’t often talk about in the context of unplanned pregnancies. The book trailer attached to this article highlights the themes and the resolution the book offers. This book is the first novel in the Sovereign Women series, a...

Welcome Sovereign Sisters. The stones beneath my feet were worn smooth by a thousand years of pilgrims. I was one of them now, standing at the entrance of the labyrinth inside Chartres Cathedral, heart full of something I had carried too long. A weight I had named and unnamed a hundred times. Guilt. Regret. The particular grief that lives inside a relationship you love and have also wounded. I did...

Dearest Sovereigns, There is a moment most women can point to. Not always dramatic. Sometimes it arrives quietly, in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday. The coffee is getting cold and the house is quiet. Something inside you whispers a question you have been successfully avoiding for months. Is this actually true? Or have I just been certain for so long that I forgot to check? That moment is not a...

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Hello Sovereigners: I almost didn’t write this book. Not because the story wasn’t ready. It was. The characters had been living in me for years, speaking in the quiet hours before dawn, asking me to listen more carefully than I was comfortable with. I almost didn’t write it because I was afraid of what it would mean to tell the truth about love when everyone around me was arguing about something e...

Hello Sovereign Wayers: I didn’t expect to feel so seen by a physician’s Substack. I am a spiritual writer and teacher. My world is Divine Love, inner knowing, the quiet revolution of a woman remembering her power. Medicine and mysticism don’t normally share a seat at the same table. And yet, when I began reading The Doctor Unbound , something in me went still, in the way it does when a truth land...