The Mother Cloak is part of an Irish ecofeminist community arts project called The Brat Bríde Cloaks Project, with over 300 women from across Ireland and the world having contributed Divine Feminine art, nature-themed embroidery and profound Goddess energy to the creation of this community cloak of power.
It started as a wild impulsive notion on April 8th 2024, the day we watched the dark moon totally eclipse the sun here in Texas: “Let’s have a Menstrual Art Exhibit!” It was a suggestion that seemed to emerge from nowhere, yet I hollered it over to Katie in the campgrounds after watching this celestial phenomenon, and it was met with a very enthusiastic, “Let’s!” At the time, Katie was only one of two women (hello Clare, my Red Temple Podcast co-host!) that I knew who painted with their menstrual blood as a profoundly beautiful ritual and womb healing practice. …
Becoming a Wild Daughter of the Great Mother It was under the new moon in April many moons ago that I truly saw my menstrual blood for the first time. Even though I was about to turn 42, I’d never given my menstruation much attention – navigating it each month like most of us have for generations – as an inconvenience, a taboo and part of “the curse”. But when I consciously connected with my moon blood for the first time – held it, painted with it, and returned it back to the earth – it felt like my womb, …
This Summer on my visit home to Ireland, my husband and I hired a camper van and headed out onto the small and windy roads of the beautiful Emerald Isle, for a 10-day pilgrimage to the sacred sites. Wondering about the best way to share this amazing experience with you, it felt most powerful to align the sites we visited during our trip to my Celtic Wheel of Life, taking you on an archetypal journey of birth, death and rebirth in relationship with the ancient sacred sites of Ireland.
Practicing self-compassion might just change your life in ways you never anticipated. I heard about Dr. Kristin Neff’s pioneering research on self-compassion soon after I moved here to the USA, in 2012. However it wasn’t until 2015 that I took her online self-compassion test. Let me tell you how that changed my life …