On January 1st, this year, I made my New Year’s resolution – this year I want to step into my feminine power. I didn’t have the slightest clue how this would happen, I didn’t even know what it meant. It just felt as true as true can feel. When I said it to myself “my feminine power”, it surged like an electric current in my veins, the inner ‘yes’ was so loud, I felt fortified by steel, well, more like bamboo. I felt held, seen, certain, alive, joyful, terrified.

I want to write something about neglect. About women's tendencies to put everyone else first, and not even recognize the deep inner neglect that goes on quietly in the back ground. I don't think I'm alone in this...nor do I think its just the domain of women, but it is in the domain of women because we've been boxed into a particular role for so long we're identified in many ways.

I just told my fifteen-year-old daughter Rowyn that I was going to go and write my first Blog for Island TreeSisters.  Her response was:  “You gotta be committed!”  She of course was referring to blogging and I had to laugh out loud because commitment is all I have been thinking about since I first discovered TreeSisters on You Tube and was immediately birthed like a baby elephant, fast and furious and with a lot of passion.  It was kind of like Birth first Breath later.

Dear treesister,

Apologies for a late Feb update, and welcome to March!

Feb was the month of illness for the team so nothing has gone quite according to plan, but despite us, the network is growing and glorious things are happening! This initiative increasingly feels like its very own waterfall of creativity and togetherness and a list of events and upcoming phone-ins are listed below