Dec 11, 2018 | Awakening, Relationships, Sacred Femininity, Tantra
I must admit I spent a while being quite sceptical about romantic relationships. I kept seeing people entering relationships to fill up holes within their own hearts, and believing that the other person could make them feel complete. I’ve witnessed the way couples...
Dec 7, 2018 | Awakening, Relationships, Sacred Femininity, Self confidence, Self Improvement, Tantra
About this time three years ago I was in a tiny dark ground floor apartment in Lisbon: I hadn’t eaten for a few days, I was dealing with an infection, I was purging a lot of guilt and grief that my breakup had brought to the surface, I hardly left the house, I was...
Dec 6, 2018 | Awakening, Self confidence, Tantra
I don’t have a lot of interest in knowing what people out there say about me. I still hear things of course. One thing that keeps coming back is that people make a near equivalence between me and self confidence. Like, Sofia = self confidence. It took me a moment to...
Dec 5, 2018 | Awakening, Relationships, Sacred Femininity, Tantra
In relationships I have at times been avoidant AF. I would withdraw in the face of discomfort, incapable of communicating. I have also been anxious AF. I would demand attention and suffer because I’d never get it through my subtle or direct demands. I also have been...
Dec 4, 2018 | Awakening, Relationships, Sacred Femininity, Tantra
For a long time, I couldn’t trust women. I was even scared of them. They felt so unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe… Then, about ten years ago I gathered my first women’s circle. Women of different ages, different backgrounds, different cultures came together and...