When women come together, incredible things happen. Things like warmth and fun, ecstasy and freedom. When women come together, we bring each other exactly what we all want… It’s uncanny. No more waiting, wondering if he’s going to get it or not. Because you’re hanging with your girls and, well, they get everything. 

Here’s what I remember. It was just a moment in time. A snowglobe-like moment where everything felt perfect and quiet. 

My head was in her lap. Her gnarled fingers gently soothed through my hair. The sun hit me right in the left eye. She was facing the picture window that overlooked a small yard. A sister on the couch opposite us was snapping pictures with her iPhone. Let’s call her my “picture sister.” Another sister was in the kitchen, cooking fried bread with olive oil and salt. The sizzle each time the dough hit the steaming oil reminded me of Easter morning. Oh, how I adore the aroma of yeast and cooking wheat.  The cook is my “foodie sister.” And one more sister was lying on the floor in front of the TV, stretching, to a generic fitness class, my “yoga sister.” 

Then there were the two sisters we didn’t talk about anymore.  We missed them sometimes. But mostly we forgot about them. Like on this day.  

I didn’t know at the time of this memory that it was going to turn out to be one of the most spectacular moments in my life. But now when I feel back, when I look back at the photo my “picture sister” snapped with my head in my mother’s lap, a bright sun splash across my face, I know. It was an epic moment.  I can still feel her fingers coming gently through my hair. 

I know now that it was a perfect gathering of women. It was a magical coming together of a sisterhood. At that moment, there was so much love. There was so much intimacy with not a word spoken. Just each of us in our space doing life. Together. 

There were no grand moments. No high drama that unfolded. It was just one moment in time captured by a camera. A moment of peace. 

The storms in your life will come. Heartbreak will happen. Drama will unfold. But if you take the time and breathe into these magical snow globe moments, these moments that feel like a refuge from a life storm, you will get through every challenging time.

There haven’t been a lot of these femme time moments lately. What with a two-year pandemic, social chaos, and political turmoil. These moments of gathering with women have taken a hiatus.  

But as we come back out into the light, I encourage you to gather with your women.  Women you feel attuned to, intimate with, held by. I will be doing that as well this May at the S Gathering. How will you create the space for your sisterhood to flourish?

EPIC BODY + EPIC LIFE = EPIC LOVE

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