Mensimah's Round Table: Conversations for Women of Power and Grace

This episode carries over from our last conversation that God is in Everything . This thought/belief creates a premise and question about why we go through certain challenges if God is omnipresent. How do we try everything we know but sometimes nothing moves in any direction even with our best efforts? It is true that life is full of ups and downs. The ebb and flow guide us through our transformat...

Today, I invite you to embark on a journey of exploration as we delve into the intriguing concept that "God is in Everything." This idea challenges us to expand our understanding of spirituality and recognize the divine presence in all aspects of life. So, let's dive in and discover the profound implications of this statement. The belief that God is in everything invites us to embrace the mystery...

We live in the part of the world where our work schedules, and or stressful lifestyles have impact on how much and how well we sleep at night. This week’s topic is using The Power of Gratitude for sleep. One of the reasons why it can be so hard to fall asleep at night is because we often have these feelings of agitation or worry or planning. Have you noticed this? Sometimes we're laying in bed, re...

We know that having a meditation and/or mindfulness practice is essential to cultivating inner peace, joy, happiness and consequently, abundance. We are offering meditations that would harness divine feminine energies in and around you. Visualize what your life would feel like when you heighten your awareness, presence, and wisdom. Claim your place on this planet as a woman of power and grace! Ple...

The topic for this episode is “The Freedom to Be! We celebrate independence as a country (as in many other countries) from imperialism, colonialism, and down to apartheid systems and invasions. The common denominator in all these systems is oppression. There is always a country, or another entity that holds power over something, someone, or groups of people. And “power over” is the keyword here. W...

Happy Friday, beautiful members of my tribe! Who are members of my tribe? We are all women of power and grace. And who is a woman of Power & Grace? Here’s my definition… She is unapologetically herself. She feels beautiful and fully present in her own reality. She understands love and speaks her truth. She acknowledges her strength, intuition and faith. Best of all, she sees her place in this...

This past week- the Tina Turner-an idol, an icon, a legend, a mother, a woman of power and grace left this mortal arena to claim her place in the spiritual realm.  In this week’s podcast I would like to spend some time talking about her and how she exemplified being a woman of grace and power.  In her 2020 book, Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good, she writes:&n...

My goal is to share some personal experiences with you in this episode. I have, in almost every episode, underscored the importance of having a spiritual practice and I feel it is pertinent to share a personal journey I experienced with you because it showcases how our world could expand when we open ourselves up to spiritual intelligence. It guides us to some awesome places. My goodness! What a t...

I have talked about distractions in the past and the many different ways that we get distracted from our paths and journeys of love. If you think about it, and all the people you know in your life, destructive criticisms come from just a handful of people, yet they seem so “loud,” it can make you feel like everyone else is against you. After a while, you become sensitized to their noises, and you...

This episode is a meditation for self-love. It is important to allow the natural love for ourselves to be expressed, and we must make a concerted effort to reveal it’s beauty very often throughout each day of our lives. Our ability to breathe at will, in all different kinds of ways, is a gift. Our breath changes, as needed to the demand of exciting circumstances in our lives and flowing effortless...

In my readings recently, I came across simple wisdom for women desiring greatness and I find it pertinent to share. We all desire greatness in some shape or form. Knowing some of these simple steps can clear the path to achieving our ultimate goals. I talk about being unpredictable as one of the steps so I urge you to listen to the end and pull all the steps together.. I express the sentiment alwa...

I was just up Santa Fe New Mexico and we were surrounded by snow capped mountains and it was just spectacular! And the beauty of all around just made me gasp. Just made me say ah! And then I thought we are always surrounded by such beauty and how many times do we stop and notice? Or stop and look, or to take it all in; give it some thought or love for having the opportunity to experience something...

We can all agree that we can have multiple personalities that are a direct result of our life experiences and the roles we play. We may have experienced some woundedness on this journey we call life. Oftentimes, we are not able to give a step by step detail of how we got through some of those experiences. The fact that we are alive today is proof that we experienced miracles by grace. Some of thes...

I am immensely grateful because our tribe of women of power and grace, will always be open to reaching a hand to someone else who needs our insight so they may step fully into the goddess energy in and around us. In working with reflective questions, we must remember that every question takes us on a quest—a quest for truth, for authenticity, and finding our unique ways of expression. In Part...

This week, our conversation is about reflection and developing a reflective routine to enhance our inner work and growth. I integrate the first two of four archetypal ways that support our true nature-- the way of the warrior , the way of the healer . You will find reflective processes in all spiritual traditions, and they are intended to be a means of preparation, help us remember our life’s drea...

We have all heard about the importance of forgiveness and the role it plays in our healing, spiritual development and growth. This is a topic you will encounter in every spiritual practice or avenue you embark on. When we feel wronged by another, we tend to hold the pain, disappointment or wounded- ness in our bodies, hearts and minds for a long, long time. We even often cycle through this pain, t...

Our conversation on keeping life simple in 2023 continues, and our first focus is on how to curb distractions in our lives--people and things that interfere with our peace of mind, and move us away from our inner perspectives and quietude. We are all on a spiritual journey, whether we acknowledge it, know it or not. We all are presented equal opportunities by grace to formulate the lives that we d...

We just entered a new year, and our cultural or societal tradition is to come up with goals, and a long list of things we want to accomplish or change in this year. Creating a vision for ourselves requires an inward look, and as a practical experience unfolds, we may have to embrace ourselves in the midst of uncertainty and find our truth. We women have been conditioned to be strong and most of us...

We are heading into the new year and I want to share some thoughts on doing the inner work and how it leads to new journeys and paths. I use the number 7 (seven) to demonstrate the universal themes in our reality that shapes our spiritual and material growth. We live in a universe that is in a continuous creation mode, and we are in vibration mode constantly. We must therefore attune to the 7 port...

Our topic this week is about universal healing principles. There are several universal healing principles and processes that are easily recognized across cultures, and I want to discuss how we can integrate a few of them to sustain health and well-being. I share thoughts on recognizing Humor, Music, Self Esteem, Nature, and the Supernatural as forming parts of our inner and outer healing. When we...

Hello my dear Friends, This episode's focus is on the Seven Rites of Passage or the Seven Universal Rites of Passage, which is taking place all the time in our lives. They occur in both inner and outer levels and we have to manage the changes occurring, letting go as new self emerges. The seven rites are: Birth - entering into a new life, born out of inner prodding. Entry - reaching out and connec...

Acknowledging the Feminine Face of the Divine This episode is about facilitating women’s empowerment groups with the sole goal of bringing women together to share our experiences and find the commonalities in our stories, as well as support each other in the challenges we face. As a facilitator, I can attest to the growth we all experience at the end of the seven-week conversations. We bonded, wit...

We have a saying in many communities in Africa that says that "if you can talk, you can sing; and if you can walk, you can dance." This episode's focus in on Embodying Praise through dancing, and movement. It is one of my favorite sayings because it tells us that we have been gifted with an instrument of great Spirit to experience life. When we lose body wisdom, we lose the opportunity to dance an...

In this episode, I talk about celebrating life in the moment. When you listen to the news, especially these days, you can’t help but feel gloomy. You are told the world is coming to an end and everything in our experience is atrocious. But then you look again, and there are beautiful moments all day long that we can celebrate, with our families, friends and even acquaintances. We still have sunris...

Spiritual Practice connects us to our Source and sustains us through our challenges. Let us Journey on, putting one foot in front of the other!  I love poetry! So I chose love and poetry for the theme to reflect on the various transformations we on or may still be on. It seems some of us are still going through some type of transformation, and there may be a myriad of changes that we have to...