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Movie Night

  Tonight we watched the Red Tent, a movie made after Anita Diamant's best selling novel. It is the story of Dinah the only daughter of Jacob. It talks about her life and also touches on what it was like within the warmth of the Red Tent. Stories past down from Mother to Daughter about our lives, falling in love, our pain, and forgiveness. It talks about how the stories of our mothers were lost and in time forgotten.

  We witness her love for her family, the adoration of her father, and the betrayal of her brothers. It shows of the magic within the Red Tent and the strength it gives women.

  It is so important that we make space in our lives for ourselves. We serve others so relentlessly that it is easy to forget ourselves. At the end of the movie she is looking down onto her fathers tribe and she see's the red tent where the story of her mothers lived. You could see the relief and comfort she felt seeing it stand in the desert. I can relate to that, as I often find myself needing a place for just me to relax, meditate, and heal.

  I highly recommend reading The Red Tent, but if you can't spare that time (which you really should learn to give back to yourself) then watch the movie and see her story for yourself. 

   Sometimes, all you need to make your world right is a good movie/book and a sister to share it with. 

Painting and Sisterhood

  One of my personal favorite get together are the painting classes from Shiloh Sophia. It is a process of soul searching, intention, then painting and repeat until you make your own master piece.

Painting by: Shelia C.

  It is a great experience and fun way to spend the afternoon. We decided that we are going to try to do this again. Only this time over the course of a month. It blows my mind how you transform your painting and you begin to see new aspects of the solution emerge. It is your personal journey, painted.

Painting by: Rita U

  If you haven't already picked up a paint brush, TRY IT! Painting takes time, but it is well worth the journey.

Letting Go Ceremony

  This was a very fun, yet a moving event. Where we "let go" of those things that no longer serves us.  During the ceremony we select experiences or thoughts that have held us back and write them down on a paper.

 

   We select a stone and decorate it with how things can be, or how we wish them to be and then wrap the paper around the stone. 

  Once this package is created we state our intentions and place the stone package in the fire.

   We gather and watch the paper burn away into nothing. Sometimes the paper burns quickly, and other times the paper takes up to an hour to burn away.

We celebrate this moment with each other, as sisters. We take time to share with each other our lives, and create community. It is a rewarding experience. 


  After "what no longer serve us" has burnt away we are left with our stone decorated in our truth.   

  We watched my paper slowly burn. It was a very long apology letter sent to me full of blame and hate, I choose to write my own words of truth over it. It took an hour to finally release its hold on my stone. We affectionately called my stone the "Potato of Truth". 

  We all have something we can let go of. I look forward to our next event. <3