Blogs & Musings
Welcome to Anne-Marie’s musings and articles
What Is Embodied Leadership?
Table of Contents What is embodied leadership? Why embodied leadership matters now A heroic journey of re-wilding Understanding embodied power Power and life force energy Personal power and boundaries Power in relationships Understanding cultural conditioning The…
The Superhuman Compulsion: Busyness, Striving & Consuming
Table of Contents Each One of Us Has Superpowers What Is the Superhuman Compulsion? A Modern-Day Superhuman Idealization The Superhuman Archetype Drying Up the Well of Passion and Resiliency Understanding Our Collective Inheritance Seeking External Validation The…
The Hero/Heroine’s Journey: Reclaiming Our True Power and Heart Wisdom
Table of Contents Initiations as a path of evolution From disempowerment to empowerment Understanding the hero’s journey Punishment or initiation? Reclaiming power through adversity The stages of the hero’s journey The cave and the dark night of the soul Seizing the…
This Time Calls for Our Feminine Power Which Is Not a Gender-Based Power
Table of Contents: Our Feminine Power A Collective Dark Night of the Soul Surrendering Into the Unknown Feminine Power Exists in All Genders Our Feminine Wisdom Holds Fertile Ground Power-OVER vs Power-WITH A Collective Movement of Transformation Questions for…
The Repression of Feminine Power & the Systemic Imbalance of Masculine Power
What is feminine power? Is feminine power a gender-specific energy? Absolutely not. Feminine power exists in all genders and all of life. Let’s explore feminine power through the ancient Taoist teachings on the polarizing energies of yin and yang. …
Reclaiming Our Feminine Power: 8 Feminine Principles to Cultivate
How do we reclaim our feminine power? Feminine power exists in all genders and all of life. This power is universal — often referred to as lunar or yin energy — while masculine power is known as solar or yang energy. Feminine ways of being and leading are often…
Three Equalizing Ingredients of Power Dynamics: Self-awareness, Consent & Boundary-Setting
Table of Contents Power is a form of energy Power-over and power-with Questions to investigate our patterns related to power: Two polarities of power: dominance and submission What’s the difference between submission and surrender? Submission Surrender The reality of…
What Is Domestication?
As a young woman in the late 90’s, I was expected to fall in love, get married, have children, buy a home, finish graduate school, identify a successful career and establish my worth in the world by checking off a specific list of milestones established by my social…
How Do You Innocently Reinforce Domestication Upon Yourself and Others?
How is domestication reinforced through our relationships? We’ve explored how the matrix moves in our culture in my article What Is Domestication?. Now let’s focus how we reinforce the matrix and domestication from the inside-out. This is the medicine we need — as…
Awakening to the Matrix of Social and Cultural Conditioning
Table of Contents What is the matrix of social and cultural conditioning? What is the result of the matrix? Exposing how the matrix influences our reality Who is the wizard behind the curtain of the matrix? Tracking internalized voices and conditioned behaviors of the…