Awakening Woman Archives - Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher https://shannoncrossman.com/category/awakening-woman/ Poet, Fabulist, Memoir Writer Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:39:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://shannoncrossman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-Site-Favicon-Transp-32x32.png Awakening Woman Archives - Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher https://shannoncrossman.com/category/awakening-woman/ 32 32 Diving into the Vulnerable Belly of Desire https://shannoncrossman.com/vulnerable-belly-of-desire/ https://shannoncrossman.com/vulnerable-belly-of-desire/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 23:56:10 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1850 Somewhere beyond logic and reason, beyond emotion, and past caring, resides my want. Driven by an evolutionary impulse I cannot govern. I expect I am not alone in this. Though we are only able to ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/vulnerable-belly-of-desire/feed/ 0 Both Halves Of The Sphere https://shannoncrossman.com/both-halves-of-the-sphere/ https://shannoncrossman.com/both-halves-of-the-sphere/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:32:09 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1836 I once spent many moons trapped in a nightmare from which I could not wake. Thrashing through life, fueled by resistance. Primed for flight. Each place my eyes lit some fresh, new horror eeked it’s ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/both-halves-of-the-sphere/feed/ 0 Fragility & Fierceness https://shannoncrossman.com/fragility-fierceness/ https://shannoncrossman.com/fragility-fierceness/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:14:56 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1834 Sometimes I weep from the beauty of life. How everything coalesces into one. The All-ness of it all. What the Beloved must have been thinking as She spun this world into being. Such glory and ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/fragility-fierceness/feed/ 0 Love’s Circus https://shannoncrossman.com/loves-circus/ https://shannoncrossman.com/loves-circus/#respond Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:13:06 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1805 Step right up and see Love at work here. The price of admission you ask? Only your vulnerability – the willingness to fall face first onto the pavement in front of thousands. Can you handle ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/loves-circus/feed/ 0 Show Me How You Get Back Up https://shannoncrossman.com/show-get-back/ https://shannoncrossman.com/show-get-back/#respond Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:57:03 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1802 Show me how you get back up. When life takes you down. When you’re on the cursed bathroom floor. Pressed hard against cold tiles. Desperate and clutching. How do you rise after the fall? Reveal ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/show-get-back/feed/ 0 Burn It All Down & Rise: The Magic Of An Awakening Woman https://shannoncrossman.com/burn-it-all-down-rise-the-magic-of-an-awakening-woman/ https://shannoncrossman.com/burn-it-all-down-rise-the-magic-of-an-awakening-woman/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:44:03 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1789 I am aflame. No one set the fire. This is self-immolation. The holy truth of an awakening woman. I don’t think I knew what I was signing on for when this all started. But there’s ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/burn-it-all-down-rise-the-magic-of-an-awakening-woman/feed/ 1 On Belonging & Being Broken https://shannoncrossman.com/on-belonging-being-broken/ https://shannoncrossman.com/on-belonging-being-broken/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:41:48 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1787 I am cherished. I am okay. I belong. You are cherished. You are okay. You belong. May this belonging be a litany to our hearts… An invitation: Let’s set down our stories of broken, need ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/on-belonging-being-broken/feed/ 0 The Time Has Come To Scream Myself Awake https://shannoncrossman.com/the-time-has-come-to-scream-myself-awake/ https://shannoncrossman.com/the-time-has-come-to-scream-myself-awake/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:20:05 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1756 I am not here for your approving gaze. Not here to satisfy some need of yours, visual or otherwise. No longer content to be the subject of your displaced idea of me. What you want ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/the-time-has-come-to-scream-myself-awake/feed/ 0 Dig Up Your Shadow From The Place Where You Last Buried Her https://shannoncrossman.com/dig-up-your-shadow-from-the-place-where-you-last-buried-her/ https://shannoncrossman.com/dig-up-your-shadow-from-the-place-where-you-last-buried-her/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:09:14 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1753 You forgot the ocean that pounds through your blood. Fell asleep to the powerful creator inside. Snap out of it, Sister. Wake up hard and soon, before the weedy grasses grow over your face tacking ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/dig-up-your-shadow-from-the-place-where-you-last-buried-her/feed/ 0 Practicing The Art Of I Don’t Give A F*ck https://shannoncrossman.com/practicing-the-art-of-i-dont-give-a-fck/ https://shannoncrossman.com/practicing-the-art-of-i-dont-give-a-fck/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:01:16 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1750 When all else fails, practice the art of I Don’t Give A F*ck. Pray it into your limbs with each contraction that comes with being reborn. Say it with me now: I Don’t Give A ...

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