You do not always need to be in bloom (reclaiming the internal winter of the feminine soul)

The internal winter is an inner space that weaves in and out of our beings- sometimes for a moment, sometimes a day, a week, a season. Sometimes for a longer stretch of time that seems never ending. The internal winter is a descent and a dying to the old self. It is the darkened space that teaches us to trust in what is unseen and unmanifest.

It is the feminine, the yin, the subtle, the soft, the still.

Yet in our culture, the internal winter is a place that we resist and feel shame for. We want to push through it, fight it, resist it, pretend it is not necessary.

I have had much experience with this state of internal winter. Like many of you who are drawn to my writings, the path to reclaiming our feminine nature is often accompanied by a natural desire to retreat into the centre of our beings, away from the rush of the world, away from the masculinised norms and striving pace that we have become so entangled within.

What I have come to see is that we have an inherent intelligence within us that seeks to restore our organic nature…

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This full piece of writing now lives in the ‘Soften & Bloom ebook’ if you would like to read more.

Belinda x