Lovisa's Blog

This poem or short writing comes from the belated and beloved Irish John O'Donaue, author and former priest, who writes beautifully about holy sensuality and sacred embodiment:

The body is a sacrament. The traditional definition of sacrament captures this beautifully. A sacrament is a visible sign of invisible grace. In that definition there is a fine acknowledgment of how the unseen world comes to expression in the visible world. This desire for expression lies deep in the heart of the invisible...

This morning, I was at a meeting that turned into a liberation. Together we realized we shared similar viewpoints in an arena where most people silence themselves. The meeting turned into a two-hours open, non-censored discussion, which felt like a slice of heaven; a recalibration of what's possible.

One of the main reasons we self-censor is that we perceive the environment around us won't accept our truth, so we hold back. Which might be factually true, and there might be repercussions for spea...

Seth Godin, maybe the world's most known marketing guru, shared his theory of burn-out on a podcast with Marie Forleo today. He said: "We burn out when we have conflicting wants, and are not prepared to choose". He took the example of wanting to clean out a drawer, and on the one hand, we want to have more space. But on the other hand, we are emotionally attached to what's in the drawer and don't know exactly what is worth keeping or not, so we get stuck between these two desires. I  believe thi...

Recently, I'm getting a bit obsessive about the crone, or the matriarch. Maybe because I'm moving more into that stage age-wise, and can own my crone more, but more so, I think, is because I realize how much she's needed - and I find her sexy. Here's a quote from one of my biggest wisdom teachers; Marilyn Woodman, the Jungian psychoanalyst who worked with women and the feminine for 40 years. 

"The Crone has been missing from our culture for so long that many women, particularly young girls, know ...

I'm not an natural flirter. By any stretch of the imagination. I remember my first boy-girl humiliation when I asked a boy, one of my older brother's best friends, if he wanted to dance with me. He screamed out loudly, across the room so everyone could hear: "WITH YOU? NEVER!" I felt so brave beforehand and absolutely humiliated afterwards. I never tried that again. I shut down that part of me. Add to that, I was never a girl's girl. I debated politics with my brothers and at the dinner table in...

“It is not that you want too much, it is that you do not want enough”. Ram Dass

I used that quote in my newsletter Saturday. I explored the notion that we need both; being able to be with what is, and to dare to become it all. In one of my spiritual practices, which is beyond non-duality, I often end up with my partner in becoming all of reality, past, present and future, and becoming 'pregnant' with existence itself. You become G-d, through your body, and it's all inside you, and you are everyth...