Well, my given first name — Deirdre — definitely is.   In my family there is some dispute as to whether my great-grandfather was a Scot–or an Irish bounder pretending to be a Scot to get out of a wee bit of trouble.  I fancy the second possibility, as my name in Gaelic means “The […]

It’s a Writer’s Party Weekend–October 14-16! We’re taking our Writer’s party on the road to write, read, relax and get our energy elevated to write out our hearts and souls. A maximum of 10 writers will be selected to join us at historic Teel House for a weekend of creative, intuitive and practical knowledge to […]

Way back when I was publishing on a regular basis, people would ask me all the time what the secret to getting published was.  I would always answer–finish the damn book.  You can’t get noticed by an agent or an editor if you don’t get your book out of your head and onto the paper. […]

It’s once again that most wonderful time of the year when we celebrate, Hanukah, Christmas, Yule, Kwanzaa and the Winter Solstice.  As always I am struck with how the myths and stories we tell ourselves this time of year have been changed, co-opted, Bowdlerized and sanitized for mass consumption, leaving our true spiritual legacy on […]

At a recent holistic conference I was asked to speak about how to make 2016 your breakthrough year.  For many women, the coming year seems to be a pivotal one.  Folks who have been on the fence about their lives are suddenly ready to take action and take their futures into their own hands. That’s […]

Wouldn’t you like to access your fullest creative potential? Find out what’s blocking you from fulfilling your creative destiny? Reclaim parts of your self lost in the unconscious that contain the keys to your imaginal self? If so, you’ve come to the right place. I am about to launch my first ONLINE training workshop of […]

Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are all on the path to healing.  We all incarnate with psychic and spiritual wounds, past life issues, karmic detritus, birth and gestational issues–and then the fun begins. If you are consciously on the road to wellness, yay for you!  But you don’t need to be to appreciate […]

It’s time to state who you are, what you want and open yourself to receive it– Join us for the FREE Declare Your WOMANifesto Telecall I first hosted this Telecall a while ago. Being single and a loving, nurturing being (in a tough love dark Goddess kind of way) my friends were encouraging me to […]

I really enjoyed producing this week’s video, Creating Sacred Space.  We all need to invoke Sacred Space when we are doing our highest work–whether that is healing, creating, praying, meditating or simply be-ing.   A space becomes sacred once we invite in our guides and guardians, our higher powers and/or animal spirits to aid us […]

We humans are naturally intuitive beings.  This means we pick up messages from Spirit and connect with Spirit on a fairly regular basis.  We get a flash of inspiration or prescience, seemingly out of nowhere.  We walk into a room and get a gut (or womb/hara) feeling about what’s going on there. We get a […]