Feminine Power Time: Keeping the Wisdom Lines Alive, Guidance from Wise Women on the Other Side: Gloria, Ann, Joanna & Barbara
There are wise women who have walked before us – and their wisdom is still here, even if their body isn’t. It lives in the words they wrote, the choices they made, the lives they shaped, and the ways they helped us see what might be possible.
We cannot let these wisdom threads drop between generations – keeping the wisdom thread alive is how we keep creating from momentum vs. lose momentum … focus on what makes a real lasting difference vs spend effort and energy in places not needed or valuable … ensuring we keep our wits about us vs. get lost in the distractions.
When we actively choose to stay in connection to the energy and the wisdom gained from the wise women who have walked before us we …benefit from their experience and gain insights, direction and conviction that can guide our actions, our thinking & understanding, and illuminate a path to navigate the uncertainty and unknown ahead.
Consider this: Wisdom, and the women who embodied it, doesn’t age out – it evolves. Rooted in what is timeless, there is wisdom here that is so relevant for our now and for the years and era to come … if we choose to slow down, take it in, and embody it through our actions and presence.
In this episode, I’m keeping the wisdom lines alive with the words and work of four wise women who have passed over to the other side, but whose spirit and wisdom is still very much alive and relevant: Gloria Steinem, Ann Richards, Joanna Macy, and Barbara Marx Hubbard.
Some of What We will explore:
Choice, connection, protecting the power of your energy, valuing your part, staying with the long game even when the path brings frustration, failure, or not knowing, and embracing our power to write the next narrative — including how women gain more power and wisdom for good as we age.
- Gloria on Choice. The message was never you can do, be, and have it all. The message was that you can be anything – and you have to make choices. Our power comes from linking together. Turn toward each other.
- Ann on Protecting & Directing the Power of Your Energy. Don’t waste your chi. And don’t let them steal your chi.
- Joanna on Keeping the Spark Alive in the Long Game of Change. “Thanks to the people who kept alive the spark of their convictions through periods of ridicule and persecution, changes that were laughed at, actively suppressed, or dismissed as hopeless dreams have now become accepted as normal parts of our reality.”
- Barbara on Regenopause & Our Power Increasing as We Age. “As women experience menopause, anticipating decades of fruitful years ahead, the realization dawns that they are entering the greatest period of freedom and creativity in their lives. We call this new phase of life Regenopause – a pause in the life cycle of the older woman when the possibility of remaking herself by choosing from her deepest impulse becomes evident. As our bodies age, creativity and spirituality awaken.”
👉 Would you Like the Wisdom Inquiries from this episode? Scroll to the bottom of this post.
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Christine
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Feminine Power Time 284:
Keeping the Wisdom Lines Alive, Guidance from Wise Women on the Other Side: Gloria, Ann, Joanna & Barbara
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Resources Mentioned
Podcasts:
- Ep. 108: Fierce Grace: Things I Learned from Gloria – tune in.
- Ep. 263: Are Your Wise Eyes Watching? The Power of Intuition + Insight – tune in.
- Ep. 280: The Advocate 0 Feminine Leadership Archetypes Series – tune in.
Books:
- My Life on the Road – Gloria Steinem — learn more.
- Active Hope – Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone — learn more.
- Conscious Evolution – Barbara Marx Hubbard — learn more.
- Overwhelmed and Over It -Christine Arylo — learn more.
Practice:
- Fall Power Pause: Reset. Release Pressure. Refocus – FallPowerPause.com.
Ways to Connect
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Wisdom Inquiries
Take these with you into your journal, a walk, or a conversation with someone you trust. Not questions to get right, inquiries to open your insight, inner wisdom and possibility up.
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- Which wise woman – in your life or whose work you’ve admired – comes to mind for you? What thread of wisdom would you carry forward from her?
- Where might you be leaking or wasting your chi / power / energy ? What could you pull your energy back from – and where could you redirect it?
- What has been your part to play up until now? What is your part now and next? And why does it matter – to you, to people and to the planet?
- What do you need in this next cycle – think next 3 months – to keep your light bright and your heart, spirit, mind, and body well?
