Awakening Woman Archives - Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher https://shannoncrossman.com/tag/awakening-woman/ Poet, Fabulist, Memoir Writer Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:39:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://shannoncrossman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-Site-Favicon-Transp-32x32.png Awakening Woman Archives - Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher https://shannoncrossman.com/tag/awakening-woman/ 32 32 Residing at the Intersection of Love & Anger https://shannoncrossman.com/residing-intersection-love-anger/ https://shannoncrossman.com/residing-intersection-love-anger/#respond Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:00:06 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1861 Lately, I’ve been waking up with the fire of Kali-ma in my belly. Hell-bent on rage and destruction. Rattling her necklace of skulls. Howling across the face of the earth. The sacred feminine response to ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/residing-intersection-love-anger/feed/ 0 When a Wild Heart Calls You Home https://shannoncrossman.com/wild-heart-calls-home/ https://shannoncrossman.com/wild-heart-calls-home/#respond Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:09:03 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1854 Heart. Heartbeat. Beat. Beat heart. Small God of my chest. You keep time better than any clock. Mark the moments of a being in soft thrum through veins and organs. Yet, you are more than ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/wild-heart-calls-home/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 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 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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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/practicing-the-art-of-i-dont-give-a-fck/feed/ 0 Make Yourself a Divine Bonfire of Light https://shannoncrossman.com/make-yourself-a-divine-bonfire-of-light/ https://shannoncrossman.com/make-yourself-a-divine-bonfire-of-light/#comments Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:07:57 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=865 Burn up. Burn away. Burn higher. Burn on. Whatever you do, do not extinguish your light. It serves as a marker on the trail of awareness. Hide it or put it out and we are ...

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