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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...

Hello Empowered Wayers: There comes a moment in every woman's life when the noise of the world no longer satisfies the hunger in her soul. She has followed the rules. She has performed the roles. She has contorted herself into shapes that pleased others, even as it fractured her spirit. But more than this—she has been living a lie that cuts deeper than performance. She has been told she must choos...

Hello Empowered Wayers! When I was a new lawyer preparing for my very first trial, I believed John, my mentor, would be sitting beside me in the courtroom. He had guided me through the stages of litigation, helped me think through strategy, and answered my questions. On the morning of trial, I stopped by his office to confirm he would be sitting next to me at counsel table. I was so nervous that I...

Dearest Empowered Wayers, I was standing in my bathroom last week, rushing through my morning routine, when I caught a glimpse of my reflection. Not my hair, not the lines around my eyes. Something deeper. Something that made me stop. In that moment, the words from the Sufi poet, Rumi, surfaced like a prayer: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” I had been irritat...

Hello Empowered Wayers: More than thirty years ago, I rode my motorcycle through a Texas rainstorm that stripped me down to fear, faith, and forward motion. I didn’t write about it then. I lived it. It wasn’t until last year that I finally put the experience into words, believing I was telling a story about surrender and survival. But something kept working on me after I published it. With time an...

Hello Empowered Wayers. There are moments in life when certainty stops working. Not in a dramatic way and not all at once. But slowly—like a familiar structure that once held you begins to creak under the weight of lived experience. What once felt solid no longer answers the questions you’re carrying. What once felt righteous feels brittle. And somewhere beneath the noise of opinions, expectations...

Hello Empowered Wayers! We are still at the beginning of the year (even though it feels as if it is flying by). Recently, on the Mystic Misfits Podcast , I spoke about the importance of being aware of your identity. Not your name, occupation, sexual orientation, or family origins, but who you are being in each moment. Identity springs from authority. Who or what do you accept as your authority? Wh...

Hello Empowered Wayers! You know when you find your people, the ones who resonate with your beliefs and love your stories? I discovered that level of compatibility on the Mystic Misfits Society Show. Of course, I was their guest (so they had to be nice to me), but there was something deeper going on. A shared desire to know yourself as you move in the world. See if you don’t agree. The link to the...

Dear Empowered Wayers: The world feels unstable right now. Invasions, recriminations, incessant fraud dominating the headlines. Everyone has an opinion about who’s right and who’s to blame, while the planet continues its ancient spin around the sun. I woke up this morning caught in a vortex of fear. My mind was cataloging every threat, every uncertainty, every reason to brace against what might co...

Happy New Year! I love the excitement and expectation of a new year beginning. It’s when we turn the calendar over that we begin again. But why wait for the year to change? We have been conditioned to tie our lives and identity to time and space. We are humans living in a material world. To keep that world orderly and predictable, time was invented and natural rhythms subsumed into a mechanical pr...