My @girlgodbooks workbook depathologises and normalises meeting our spiritual needs in an inclusive, creative and grounded way.

In helping us recognise our interdependence and interconnectedness with all living beings and the earth that supports them, it fosters the creation of a humane and humanitarian humanity.

Excerpts of the workbook can be read on @girlgodbooks' Patreon page & it is available to purchase now from @girlgodbooks’ website and online stores.

Art pic 1 Lauren Raine and Pic 2 Kat Shaw via Girl God Books.

​Visioning beyond the horizon,
as the Tree of Life. 🌿
Knowledge through the senses.
Lone walking between worlds --
retrieving, bridging, returning, re-membering.
No one would choose this path voluntarily.
There’s no option but to blaze — ❤️‍🔥
to become the fire that lights your own way.
 
#educateevolveembody #bodymind #diversity #spirituality #depathologise #rehumanise #thinksystemically
 
📸 taken in Glastonbury in October🌳🔥

"The season of Samhain is a time when the veils between the mundane and sacred are thinner and we can ‘see’ through illusion and dysfunction, and filter through distortion to our own authentic truth.

The festival of Samhain falls on the wheel of the year halfway between Mabon and Yule, the Winter Solstice. Many associate Samhain with calendared Halloween but the two are in fact different festivals.

At Samhain there is a recognition of – and the visible connectivity with – death, but it is framed within the trust and faith that through giving death to the old we transform and regenerate and give birth to something new."

Extract from my workbook Mentorship with Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood available now from @girlgodbooks & online stores.

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Making Love with the Divine

"Making Love with the Divine invites us to explore our experiences of the erotic current that animates our bodies and our lives. A current whose natural flow and vitality is often stifled, distorted and shamed within patriarchal culture.

This book seeks to open up the conversation by asking us how we experience our own sexuality and eroticism, and how this flow of aliveness can be a portal to feeling the divinity inside of us, and beyond us.

Based on her research and clear devotion to this path, Kay Louise Aldred has created a supportive year-long workbook that provides a practical framework for anyone who feels a call towards liberating their body and deepening relationship with their sacred erotic aliveness."

-Carly Mountain, Sex and Relationship Therapist and author of Descent & Rising.



I published this book in January 2023 with @girlgodbooks (available via their website or all major online retailers). In writing it, I came face-to-face with just how deeply disconnected — and even phobic — we are, as a society, from our bodies. Across all settings.



Now, another of my works is coming of age. I can feel it. It's ready to support the vision and building of a new era — new culture, new systems, new norms.

I'm deeply grateful to @carly_mountain for her beautiful endorsement and the powerful work she herself brings into the world.



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Somatic Shamanism

“Where our minds are vexed by modernity, with even our wilder hopes limited by reason and logic, our creaturely bodies house and animate our strangest imaginations. We live all possibilities out loud through our bodies. We speak through our skin. We wield the intelligence of the flesh, our “fleshy knowings” as Kay Louise Aldred describes them. Move through this workbook like a prayer; it’s a beautiful and timely achievement.”

-Danielle Dulsky, Founder of The Hag School



I feel like the content of this workbook, which I authored and published (via @girlgodbooks, which is available from their website or online stores) in June 2023, is finally coming of age.

Grateful for this beautiful endorsement that the book received: 'we speak through our skin ... we wield the intelligence of our flesh"

#IfeelthereforeIam

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"I am Priestess of the Mysteries of the Dark:

I walk with you into and through your shadow lands offering you a cloak of protection for the journey

I retrieve your blazing heart from the entombment of despair, pain and shame

I am Holy hell raiser

I am the one who watches and waits whilst you put on the armour of procrastination, bypassing, denial, gossip, projection, gossip, competition, neglect, and criticism until you realise it's too heavy to wear

I am protector of your maiden, mentor of your mother, fuel of your lover and trainer of your huntress

I am hermit and oracle, lone wolf, and guide of the pack

I am receiver and transmitter, reflective and invisible

I have no interest in small talk. I am she who sees. I am she who places the mirror in front of you until you see your truth and power. And own them. Fully. And embody them. Fully.

I am Mistress of the Goddess. The embodied expression of the gift of new beginnings through living death."



👆 This piece—Mysteries of the Dark—one of my attempts at creative writing, authored in 2021, remains one of the truest expressions of my inner world and its depths.



When it made it into the @girlgodbooks Warrior Queen Morrigan Anthology in 2021, the feeling of being able to share it publicly in a printed global publication was simultaneously exhilarating and connecting and terrifying and exposing.



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Being part of a creative community, with so many other women from all over the world, exploring & sharing our inner worlds, outwardly, is incredibly nourishing, empowering & gives perspective & a sense of commonality in struggle & resistance.

May we remember the power of collective storytelling & art in all its forms.



May we find (& if there are none, create) spaces for this.

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As always really honoured to have two featured submissions in the latest @girlgodbooks anthology Sacred Breasts.



Thank you for including me again. This is the 15th Girl God Books anthology I've had published work in, and I'm truly grateful to be part of this creative community.



This inspirational anthology features artwork by @barbaraomearaart and many others.

In a culmination of wisdom, intuition, lived experiences, and the vast knowledge of contributing women writers, we hear their energetic voices through essays, prose, poetry, prayer/song, sacred ritual, and much more.



Packed with exhilarating, insightful, and honest writing from sisters, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, goddess mothers, lovers, friends, healing practitioners, therapists, wise and wild women - as we learn to celebrate our breasts.


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he colonial tool that is theology. Devaluing & abusing bodies. Embedding male entitlement.



"Globally, it is estimated that 30% of the world's population experiences chronic pain.

I’m one of them. This is my body.



This type of pain affects more women than men.

I’m one of them.  Broken with you.



Academically I am a theologian and the reason I decided on this particular title for this article – which is a play on eucharistic and biblical phrase “Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me” – is because those of us who were raised in the Christian tradition will have heard a variation of these words and no doubt have pondered what they actually mean.



Inevitably, through these words we have been ‘programmed’, to some extent, that our body is to be ‘given away’ or ‘sacrificed’ to intense suffering, for the sake of and to ‘feed another’ and/or ‘God’, and that pain and suffering are an acceptable exchange, in God’s view, for redemption.



This ‘programme’ layers on top of other Christian conditioning we have received around the body being sinful and ‘base’"



An extract from my piece 'This is my Body. Broken with You' which was published in the @girlgodbooks Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire Anthology, and which can also be read in full now on @girlgodbooks Patreon page 👇



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The culmination of a huge & wonderful period of creativity and writing for me!

All the books I authored, co-authored, and the Girl God Books anthologies co-edited are now legally deposited in the British Library.

My writing centres on embodiment, spirituality & transformative education. 

I believe access and resources to this work and these experiences should be available to everyone and free of charge.  

Getting the books into the library was an important step towards that, and very important to me.

📚 Books I Have Authored:

Mentorship of Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood (June 2022)
A practical rite of passage guide to reconnecting with the sacred feminine and empowered womanhood.

Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic Experiences (February 2023)
An exploration of how to find the sacred & spirituality within day-to-day life & the mundane.

Somatic Shamanism: Your Fleshy Knowing as the Tree of Life (June 2023)
A workbook that invites readers to embody their own internal wisdom through somatic practices and earth-based spirituality.

Embodied Education: Creating Safe Space for Learning, Facilitating and Sharing (September 2023)
Co-authored with my husband Dan Aldred, this book offers tools for cultivating inclusive, felt-safe, and transformative learning environments.

📖 Anthologies I Have Contributed To & Co-Edited

Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma (March 2022)
A powerful collection of voices reclaiming embodied feminine wisdom and healing after trauma.

Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity (December 2022)
A celebration of Neurodivergent experiences through a sacred lens.

The Crone Initiation: Women Speak on the Menopause Journey (August 2023)
A heartfelt anthology where women share their personal journeys through menopause.

Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire (October 31, 2023)
A raw and honest exploration of pain, transformation, and resilience.

These works are deeply personal and inspired by my journey through spirituality, education, embodiment, and Neurodivergent womanhood. They are intended to support others in finding their voice, reclaiming their body, and connecting with spirituality and meaning-making in their own liberating way.