Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic and Erotic Experiences
The body – particularly the body of woman – remains firmly in the grip of the Patriarchy. Controlled, blamed, and ensnared in the narrative of The Fall, the fleshy encounter is deemed unholy and entirely separate from divinity. Making Love with the Divine starts the process of unravelling and undoing this insidious and false programming, showcasing and story-telling the sacred, erotic, and ecstatic experiences of today’s ‘ordinary’ women, narrating and reflecting upon their accounts of day-to-day communion and union with the Divine. Inspired by their sharing, practises are offered in each section of the book for the reader to begin to forge their own unique and direct pathway of lovemaking with the Divine. This book sanctifies the human mammal – our animal journey of ‘in and through’ and is an antidote to the poisonous lie that the Divine is ‘out and up’ and accessible only through religious or spiritual instruction. Making Love with the Divine bridges the schism of sacred and mundane and reinstates the extra-ordinary nature of everyday living and existence. Written and Edited by Kay Louise Aldred. "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.
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Pain Perspectives is an anthology that tells the stories of women’s bodies and their experiences of chronic pain and illness. It also reveals the deep wisdom held within the suffering.
The art, writing, and poetry from women around the world showcased in this book offers three clear messages. The first is that women are sick both metaphorically and physically. Lots of women. The second is that it is the patriarchal systems and structures in society are the origin of the sickness. Patriarchy hurts. The third is that the path of Goddess is both the medicine and the cure. Pleasure liberates. Read how Goddess and Goddess spirituality supports women to heal and find their voice, so that others may too. "Once again, Girl God books - and the courageous women who share what has been banished to the shadows, silenced, disparaged, and demonized - is a profoundly valuable gift to everyone who is being called to reintegrate our feminine receptive nature. Pain Perspectives is a beautiful sharing of how the pain of existing in a heart-and-soul deprived patriarchal paradigm has been endured - and has contributed to women’s wisdom, gifts, and soul’s evolution. A must read for anyone who has lived with pain, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. Pretty much everyone. The women who traveled to the depths, transmuted their pain, garnered the wisdom, and rose to inspire others is an authentic depiction of the energy of the Goddess returning through each and every one of us. I recommend taking your time to receive each story in this book, as deeply as it was shared." -Mary Lane, author of Divine Nourishment & Meena “When first approached to write an endorsement for this book I felt quietly confident. I have been a practitioner of Classical Chinese medicine and somatic therapies for forty years, and pain is my compassion language. I know pain in all its forms both professionally and personally. So, all good, right? But the collection of essays, poems and art in this anthology is so visceral and on point that there was nothing easy about the read or the analysis. Chronic pain, institutionalized pain, cultural pain, all washing over us mentally, physically, and spiritually. All is beautifully explored and poignantly written here. And while we are neurologically wired to retract from pain, I do believe we need to feel it, name it, and stare it down in order to move past it. This important anthology will help us all to do that. Read it and cherish the awakened sensations as you would with your tongue playing with a loose tooth. And then we get up tomorrow and do what needs to be done.” -Gina Martin, author of the When She Wakes series (Sisters of the Solstice Moon, Walking the Threads of Time, She is Here), the Daughters of the Goddess series (Kiyia-Daughter of the Horse), and WomEnchanting, a compendium of sacred songs and chants "A powerful collection of women speaking their truths, sharing openly, honestly and with raw vulnerability on the pain of the world manifesting in their own bodies. Women’s pain is not an isolated problem or issue. It is a reflection of the world we live in - a world built on a foundation of fear, greed and hierarchical power where every major institution miserably fails both women and children. The authors’ personal stories shed new and necessary perspectives on women’s pain that I’m sure any reader will find both inspiring and empowering." -Trista Haggerty, Author of When the Dark Mother Calls A Sacred Woman knows that she is the embodiment of the Sacred Feminine. She remembers that Goddess already exists within her: Goddess is her DNA. Indeed, a Sacred Woman reclaims herself as Goddess – a unique strand, frequency and incarnation of her – essential for the completion and wholeness of the spectrum of the collective Feminine.
Our bodies are the gateway to recalling this truth. Mentorship with Goddess is a workbook – a year-long programme – a rite of passage – especially useful for the transition into autonomous adulthood – and also for the menopause journey. The programme can be undertaken solo or as a group. The specific aim is growing Sacred Womanhood. Mentorship with Goddess is an embodied education and evolution, which combines metacognition, intuition, and instinct. It is principally about discovering, accepting, and loving yourself, and simultaneously protecting and vulnerably showing up as your whole Self in the world. The concrete reality of fully embodying the Sacred Feminine will become clear as you learn and evolve through the mentorship Goddess offers. No one can tell you what it will look or feel like – you discover it for yourself. Self-leadership, self-management, and self-direction, via internal wisdom, courage, and truth, are the gifts of Goddess. ''I am so excited by Kay Louise Aldred’s groundbreaking and liberating curriculum for exploring sacred womanhood and developing Goddess mentorship. She offers a powerful sacred process of deep holding, learning and growth for women at any stage of life. It is a compelling read containing important female wisdom, beautiful illustrations, detailed exercises and exquisite ceremony. It also offers invaluable information on understanding and working with trauma and our nervous system. Journeying through Kay’s book is life-changing and enhancing. I will be recommending this important work to my Goddess Luminary students and every woman I know.'' - Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE, Founder and author of the Goddess Luminary Leadership Wheel, Priestess of Avalon and Poetess. Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity
Rainbow Goddess lives within the full spectrum of the human mind. There is not one way of thinking, learning, or behaving that she does not inhabit fully and sanctify. This carnival and inclusive Goddess celebrates the gifts of those whose minds exist and operate outside the box of society’s ‘norms’ – and she trumpets the creativity, visions, and uniqueness of these humans. Rainbow Goddess protectively arcs around those who encounter the struggles of patriarchal expectation and judgement of neurodiverse women. This Girl God anthology showcases the voices and art of women as they express their experiences of neurodiversity. It is a thanksgiving for the creativity, imagination, self-awareness, super-power sensitivity, problem-solving, planning abilities, resilience, and new ways of seeing the world that these women offer. It is a reclamation, call for change, and ‘outing’ of systemic and insidious sexism. With art and writing contributions from: Arlene Bailey, Arna Baartz, Barbara O’Meara, Beth Rees, Claire Dorey, Deborah A. Meyerriecks, Geneviève Labonté, Helen Langdon, Holin Kennen, Jen Wallace, Jenny Beech, Jessica Huff, Jessica Penot, Kat Shaw, Kathy Barenskie, Katie Bee, Kay Crowder, Kay Louise Aldred, Kim Crowder, Lucy H. Pearce, Lucy Pierce, Lynn McIntosh, Molly Remer, MSW, D.Min, Schuyler Witman, Dr. Stephanie Mines, Sylvia Hatzl, Tamara Albanna, Trinity Shea Thomas, Trista Hendren and Wakanda Rose "This vital book addresses neurodiversity, the creative coping skills women have developed to survive, and a call to normalize difference. This broad spectrum of responses is itself a refraction of the light, the illumination possible through understanding after deconstructing phallacies (patriarchal fallacies) of impossible standards and celebrating lived experiences. Full of fierce and feisty voices, this is not your standard anthology; Rainbow Goddess is a compendium of creative testimony begging your attention." -April Heaslip, PhD "How refreshing and liberating to hear from the voices of the neurodivergent as they also delve into the nature of the human spirit! Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity gives an empowering space for those who have felt exiled or othered by their own divinity, and sheds a light on how we may embrace and lift up their gifts instead." -Ora North, Author of I Don't Want to Be an Empath Anymore: How to Reclaim Your Power Over Emotional Overload, Maintain Boundaries, and Live Your Best Life and Mood Magick: Wellness Spells and Rituals to Find Balance in an Uncertain World ''The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change. Without love our lives are without meaning. Love is the heart of the matter. When all else has fallen away, love sustains.” -bell hooks The body – particularly the body of woman – remains firmly in the grip of the Patriarchy. Controlled, blamed, and ensnared in the narrative of The Fall, the fleshy encounter is deemed unholy and entirely separate from divinity.
Making Love with the Divine starts the process of unravelling and undoing this insidious and false programming, showcasing and story-telling the sacred, erotic, and ecstatic experiences of today’s ‘ordinary’ women, narrating and reflecting upon their accounts of day-to-day communion and union with the Divine. Inspired by their sharing, practises are offered in each section of the book for the reader to begin to forge their own unique and direct pathway of lovemaking with the Divine. This book sanctifies the human mammal – our animal journey of ‘in and through’ and is an antidote to the poisonous lie that the Divine is ‘out and up’ and accessible only through religious or spiritual instruction. Making Love with the Divine bridges the schism of sacred and mundane and reinstates the extra-ordinary nature of everyday living and existence. "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. This book is free on Kindle today as our (Girl God Books) Valentine's Day gift to you! Understanding trauma is liberating. Healing trauma is revolutionary. Speaking about trauma is political. Women and their bodies are no longer willing to be silent to or be the secret store of patriarchal abuse, control, and power. Goddess is showing the way, cell-by-cell, emotion-by-emotion, sensation-by-sensation. Healing trauma is a portal for freedom and a gateway to societal and collective change.
Re-Membering with Goddess is an anthology of women's experiences of trauma—trauma as a result of patriarchy; trauma perpetuated by patriarchy; and how through personal healing of trauma the Goddess is re-membered, re-embodied and resurrected. As repeating loops of trauma restriction release--in the mind, body and nervous system—Goddess is re-embodied and rises... and the patriarchy falls. "Gift this precious book to your friends, family, and colleagues and particularly your young adults both female and male. This needs to be discussed in our homes, streets, schools, and courts so that as a people we address this for once and for all. Enough! When we Re-Member that we have a voice. When we call out disrespectful behaviour. When we band together in solidarity then the sea change that is required can happen globally and in the major systems of our western world spreading out like the ripples in a pond to encompass everywhere." -Dr. Karen Ward, Ph.D., Shamanic Therapist, Supervisor and Teacher. Co-founder of the Slí An Chroí School of Irish Celtic Shamanism and Author of Change a Little to Change a Lot. Crone is calling – can you hear Her? Crone is insisting on visibility – can you see Her? Crone is offering each and every single one of us an invitation to the individual and collective initiation of Wisdom Keeper, Visionary and Mentor – can you feel Her?
Crone Goddess is insisting that every woman give sound to her voice, embody her power and play their part in extricating her from the patriarchal shadow and bind. The Crone Initiation is an anthology of women's experiences of perimenopause and menopause, and the part Goddess plays in this journey. Crone's presence in the breakdowns and breakthroughs, the disintegration and rebuilding, is expressed through words and art. Meaning is reclaimed and the power of the Elder restored. Praise for The Crone Initiation "The many voices sharing from their different experiences of the menopause journey together become a much-needed tapestry of wisdom where we again are reminded that there is not any one right way. This allows me as the reader to find my very own thread in the cyclic dance that is the Great Goddess, and recognize the value and sacredness of my own initiation journey. I am grateful that this book exists in the world!" -Chameli Gad Ardagh, Founder AwakeningWomen.com "It is time for all of us women to embrace our inner Crone of wisdom and strength as our cycles end. This Anthology is surely the compass to guide us in doing so!" -Mare Cromwell, Author of The Great Mother Bible "Menopause is a time of great change in a woman's life. It can plunge you into the depths of experience -- physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Without a guide, mentor or sisterhood, it can be a rough, isolating and confusing journey. The Crone Initiation brings to light real-life stories from a cross-section of women, ages 40s-70s, who have navigated this passage. Through story, poetry and art, these women provide mentorship, comfort and guidance for this sacred initiation. Through inner wisdom and lived experience, these women bring back the honor and reverence for this return to our most essential self, sovereign and powerful. You will leave this book feeling renewed and with a new perspective and reverence for yourself and this next chapter of your life." -Tabby Biddle, Bestselling Author of Find Your Voice: A Woman's Call to Action "Shrouded in invisibility no more, the Crone's voice is heard loud and clear here: brave, outraged, truthful, fierce. Calling from the depths or from the rooftops, this choir of unique voices sings but one powerful song, that of the Wise One who will be silent no more. A trailblazing song for our present and future crones." -DeAnna L'am, Author of Becoming Peers - Mentoring Girls Into womanhood and A Diva's Guide To Getting Your Period "A feast of women's wisdom that brings into sharp and gentle focus the way we encounter crone energy in our lives and bodies. Informative, emotional, creative and enticing - this book offers a tender and fierce portal into the primordial nature of the crone." -Carly Mountain, Author of Descent & Rising: Women's Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth This is the final of four anthologies I've co-edited with Trista and Pat (Girl God Books) and our final (for the time being at least) of eight projects together - 4 co-edited anthologies and 4 of my own authored books - concluding this chapter of our prolific and fruitful nearly four year professional and creative collaboration together.
4 anthologies 🔥 4 workbooks 🔥 4 years 🔥 of finding meaning in the fire in companionship with other women Pain Perspectives is an anthology that tells the stories of women’s bodies and their experiences of chronic pain and illness. It also reveals the deep wisdom held within the suffering. The art, writing, and poetry from women around the world showcased in this book offers three clear messages. The first is that women are sick both metaphorically and physically. Lots of women. The second is that the patriarchal systems and structures in society are the origin of the sickness. Patriarchy hurts. The third is that the path of Goddess is both the medicine and the cure. Pleasure liberates. Read how Goddess and Goddess spirituality supports women to heal and find their voice, so that others may too. The anthology was published on Samhain - Oct 31st - 2023 from and is available to purchase now at Girl God Books, online stores or clicking the button below. |
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