To be a ‘Rising Woman’ is to understand that we exist in a perpetual state of emergence. Our very nature means that we never stop reaching, wanting, searching for ‘more’, for ‘different’, we have a curiosity about us that means we’re constantly extending towards better sensations.

And yet, somehow, many of us are so easily seduced by the illusion of completion, the moment of having ‘risen’, ‘done it’, ‘arrived’. Those moments do exist, but they exist in the now, and the next now and the next now and the next. We are always rising, doing it again and arriving once more, so this collection of reminders celebrates that. We discover with age, experience and depth that we are all always still rising.

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And when we not only accept that, but embrace it and pull it towards us, my word…the world had better prepare itself because we are far, far from decline, invisibility and quiet. We are the revolution this world needs…the elder women, the women with voices, the women with words, the women with the depth of strength and spirit that can only be forged through living a real and gloriously messy life.

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So if you have this book in your hands…you too are a rising, pulsing, ascending woman with so many more sensations, revelations, and dimensions of yourself yet to unfold. You are part of a global tribe of women who remembered that the second chapter of life is the part where we join hands, declare a cease fire on competition with each other, this is a laying down of arms. Instead, we gather together around fires, hearing each other’s stories, holding a supportive gaze as we spill our words onto earth consecrated by a counsel of wise women. This is the part where we beat our drums in unison and plan our next hack through dense forests on wild horses who canter to our holler!

Get your sword darling...you're in your Rising Woman era!