Womens-Spirit.com is a place to awaken and engage us in our spiritual birthright. This is my first blog and with it comes the delightful opportunity to do something new, and to meet women from all over the world.  This is a place to share our stories and the mysteries and openings that they bring. This is a place to share the challenges and joys of living a spiritual life. I’m certain there will be surprises and gifts as we get to know each other.

We need resources to live well through the intense changes in our lives. We live in a time where we are aware that we are a global community and the better we understand, enjoy, and learn from each other, the better life we make for all people. We come from diverse faiths and backgrounds and we don’t need to agree with each other to share respect, compassion, laughter, peace, creativity, courage and wisdom. Living spirit is in all things and all peoples.

Let’s tell stories. Stories heal us and inspire us from the inside out. They deepen, soften and nourish our inner spirits.  They work on us until we begin to live their truths and shape our lives. Let’s pass on the goodness and the greatness in the world.

I have met many women who changed my life while listening to their stories.  I’d like to hear yours.  What is the theme of the story you would tell to help make a difference in the world?

Terry Laszlo-Gopadze

Wisdom lives within us, we have only to connect with it. But, how? In the 1980s, when I lived in New Mexico, I studied Psychosynthesis Professional Training with the Intermountain Associates of Psychosynthesis, co-directed by Molly Young Brown and Walter Polt. Walter collaborated with me on training programs for my consulting firm Clear Communication and I coached him as he first put his “From Anger to Power” process into words and then into print.

Whenever Walter was in a situation with a client or group that required him to dip into his well of intuitive wisdom, he wrote these words on the page: “Write, pen!” and then proceeded to find out, from thus beseeching and invoking his pen what the heart of the matter was. What really needed to be done or said in this situation? Where did the truth lie?

It’s a wonderful tool and every time the work went to a deeper and truer place because Walter checked in with his wisdom self. Try it yourself next time you could use some words of wisdom末from your own storehouse.

Janet Grace Riehl explores the human hunger for connection in every direction. Upward into the world of spirit. Inward and downward in a search for greater cultivation of self. Horizontally and outward into relationships with romantic and married partners, family, friends, community, and casually encountered strangers. Visit www.riehlife.com to read more of Janet’s work to connect through the arts and across cultures.