Introducing She Who Flows 🌸

Welcome to the new season of the Divine Flow Podcast! ✨

We're kicking things off with a new regular series featuring stories of surrendering to the divine feminine as told by women from around the world, with new episodes coming every Friday.

Order your copy of our new book, She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine and Witnessing the Miracles of Self-Love here: https://divineflow.co/shop

Transcript

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Welcome to Divine Club, a podcast for exploring the divine calculation and intuitive and decided to speak and receive one more priority. I'm Natalie Calling the Falendor Divine Club Publishing Code, and I'll be your host as we rise above the noise of the rest of the world and slow down to find our flow. Let's tap in. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Divine Flow Podcast. I'm really excited to be kicking off this new season with a new series of stories of surrendering to the Divine Feminine from women all around the world who have been embracing the flow state in their lives and are opening their hearts to share the benefits and the miracles it has brought them. This is all in celebration of our new book, She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine and Witnessing the Miracles of Self-Love. Today I'm going to kick things off, but every week we'll be sharing some words of wisdom from another author of this beautiful book. The more we embrace the fluid cyclical nature of life, the more peace we will find.

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There is no separation from source. The more you slow down, the faster the right things fall into play.

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Trust that everything will come together, the more you are in alignment with yourself. We all need these reminders to slow down, prioritize rest, and allow ourselves to make decisions in our lives that make us feel more deeply connected to ourselves and our true needs. People always talk about manifesting, but how about allowing what you want to reach you? The book partly arose because I've kept seeing and also creating quotes on Instagram saying things like, hurrying comes from fear, slowing down comes from trust, or you're not creating a path, you're creating an atmosphere. So the path shows itself to you from Abraham Hicks. And these kinds of quotes are indeed inspiring reminders. They do make you stop in your tracks for a moment and alleviate whatever forceful rhythm you had going on. But we need more than fleeting reminders. We need to witness others living in this way and modeling for us what it actually looks like to prioritize your energetic alignment, to trust the universe, even when it seems like everything is so, so dark. And to follow the path that calls to our hearts, even when it doesn't make any sense to anyone else around us, and it maybe doesn't even make practical sense to us sometimes. We remember stories and we remember how they feel in our bodies more than we remember random quotes. And this book does have lots of beautiful quotes, but if quotes are like candy, then stories like the full story and the full experience are like a big hearty meal that settles deep in your stomach and feeds your very cells. It becomes part of you. So that is what She Who Flows is about. Women sharing their stories of imperfectly learning to slow down and surrender to what is moving inside of them. This courage that we can really only notice when we quiet down the rest of the noise in our lives, the fearful thoughts, that rushing feeling, that stress and that worry and that fear that tends to take over and run us. When we can put a pause on all of that, we can start to hear what is really true for us. We can hear our intuition speaking through us and helping us zoom out and realize that we can give up control and we really can just let life flow. So that is what She Who Flows is about, and that is what our new series on the podcast is about. The beginning chapter in the book was written by me as the introduction, and I actually wrote it in my mind while I was commuting around Australia on buses. I wasn't sitting at my computer pushing for something to come out. I really trusted that the right words would come to me in Divine Timing. And I ended up writing most of it in my notes app when I was on the go and then bringing it over into a Google Doc later and fine-tuning it and getting it edited and things like that. But I'd really like to read a little bit of my introduction for you now so you can hear my story and what has been flowing through me to help you flow more too. Living in alignment with the divine feminine is not about attaining perfection. It's about following what feels good, opening your heart to receive love, beauty, blessings, and abundance, slowing down and creating spaciousness in your life to hear your intuition so it can guide you towards your highest possible timeline. It all sounds so wonderful, doesn't it? So why is this so hard for us? Because our days are filled with rushing to-dos and endless tasks, all vying for our attention, while we knowingly drain our energy scrolling through screens. Because we're endlessly indoctrinated to fear the world more than we're encouraged to trust ourselves or the universe. It's no wonder we've become so disconnected from each other, from our bodies and our souls, and from our ability to simply remain present with how we feel and what we really need in each moment. There's too much to do and achieve just to keep up, right? That was my story too, until I had a huge wake-up call. It wasn't overly dramatic at first. It was incredibly subtle, so nearly imperceptible, I would have missed it completely had I not decided to start a meditation practice to slow down and simply be with myself. One afternoon I was feeling overwhelmed between client sessions and a nonstop onslaught of emails, tasks, and to-dos when I felt called to sit cross-legged in the middle of my living room with the sweet smoky smell of Palo Santo wafting up from a pearlescent abalone shell. Deep breath in, deep breath out. I sat simply listening to my breath as the minutes slowly passed by. My body finally softened, my jaw unclenched, my shoulders dropped, and I let go as I listened to palm trees rustling in the wind outside my window. A single tarot card lay in front of me, reflecting the Ten of Swords again. A sure sign I'd been working far too hard for far too long. I was perpetually busy. I'd spent all day working through a to-do list 15 items long, only to go to bed each night feeling like I was hopelessly behind. My only reward for these achievements was getting more stuff to do, more people to help, and even bigger projects I got to take on. I had more than enough money, but I still never felt secure because I was always chasing something. If a friend wanted to connect for lunch, I'd tell them I had an hour free on a Thursday in three weeks. Not because I didn't want to see them, but because my schedule was already booked solid, every hour already time blocked and accounted for. Meanwhile, I guzzled coffee, topped with sugary soy whipped cream, ate vegan junk food, and absorbed the roar of police sirens all day from my high-rise downtown apartment. I'd force myself into a dark, hot closet that I not so lovingly referred to as the chokey, to record podcast episodes without the loud noises of the city in the background, my mouth dry and my head pounding from being unable to breathe. All of this so that I wouldn't break my consistent weekly schedule, which would surely let everyone down. And I just kept creating more and more for myself to do. My creative ideas were no longer a blessing. They became a curse. I somehow felt it was up to me to save the world. I felt personally responsible for everyone's spiritual awakening, everyone's transformation, and everyone finding their sense of alignment. And yet, I was getting more and more out of touch with my own, with every full day of tasks that passed. After I sat in meditation long enough to calm my nervous system and release the burdens of my endless list of urgent tasks, I eventually heard a voice whisper deep inside me, I think I'm ready to evolve past this. It was so quiet, yet so clear, and I couldn't unhear it. But I didn't know how to make a change. I didn't know how to slow down and keep moving forward at the same time. So I asked for help, praying for the universe to break it down for me. And oh did she. This is the same problem most of us have. We know deep in our bones that life has got to be better than this, but we don't know how to make a change. We think we need to figure out a plan for world domination that will make us feel completely secure, and only then can we relax, feel good, and get in tune with what's inside our souls. Only once we finish all our work and reach some imaginary finish line can we be kinder, sweeter, and more loving to ourselves, not realizing that embracing slowness is a choice we can make right now, right here, in each present moment. Soon after my meditative experience, everything did indeed break down. I lost my fancy apartment when my landlord called, suddenly telling me they decided to sell it. I eventually moved into a tiny house up in the damp, misty mountains that I could barely fit all my things into. And there I contracted toxic mold illness, an illness I still have as I'm reading these words for you today, years later. An illness that forces me to listen intently to my body while she rages and roars, making up for all the times I ventured to ignore the inconvenient truth that I even had a body that needed to be taken care of in the first place. Now I no longer have a choice. I have to put myself first, above other people, above work, above money, and above everything that doesn't directly contribute to my well-being. I have to love myself more than I've loved anything else, because how I feel in my body and my own spiritual healing finally takes first priority. Now I must always pay attention to how I feel. I no longer plan out weeks of work for myself to do and then get bummed out when I'm not up to accomplishing it. I let how I feel dictate what I do and check in with myself all throughout the day to tune into what I need. Some days I get nothing done, but I've learned to accept that somehow my bills always magically get paid, with no fancy plan for world domination in sight. Somehow, life flows beautifully on its own, even when it's not being clenched and controlled. So I'll let you read the rest inside the book She Who Flows, which is now available wherever books are sold: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indigo Chapters, Bookshop.org, all the places, all the ebook directories as well. But essentially, in the rest of my story, I go on to share about the woman who showed me what the divine feminine was really about, who modeled it for me. She didn't say it with her words, she showed it to me through the way she moved through the world in a way that actually really triggered me at first because I was like, hey, aren't we supposed to be working really hard here and really stressing ourselves out, trying to keep up with each other and compete and force and control and come out on top and all of those things that we've been taught that do not actually feel good to us if we really stop and pause and think about it. And eventually I realized what was happening inside of me, the storm that was blowing was because of my own outworn thoughts and beliefs. Over time, over the years, I have softened to it and I have absorbed it into who I am. That's why I think these conversations are so important. And these stories are so important because they create an energetic effect we carry with us into the way we carry ourselves into the world. We learn to slow down by watching others slow down. We learn to prioritize our own self-care and set boundaries that keep us from falling into burnout by seeing others do the same. And it's not something we get to see that often, because most of us are indoctrinated into the fear model of like not letting people see your weaknesses, not pausing to take a break, even though you really need one, because you have this made-up deadline that you set with somebody. And isn't this the same way we learned to push and force and hustle by seeing others do it, right? But we were being rewarded for straight A's and following the set path that society has created for us because of what we have been shown. But what if we could create a different path simply through the way we show up in the world and share our energy from an overflowing cup where we've already given to ourselves what we need, and then we share from the overflow.

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We need the calm in the eye of the storm, not just storm. She honored her emotions and liked the way she let them flow. And when they crashed, that was okay too. My higher self isn't settling for another lifetime of obeying the will of others.

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Stay tuned for more stories on this topic in future episodes. And welcome back to the new season of Divine Flow. It's been a busy start to the year already, and this new book has been a big part of that. So I am so honored to finally be able to share it with you now and feature the beautiful women authors from around the world who have made it possible. I'm sure I'll have other types of episodes sprinkled in here and there as well, but I'm not going to plan ahead. I'm just going to let it flow whenever it feels good to me. Thank you so much for listening and coming back and pressing play on this episode, even though it's been a long time, I know. And I'll talk to you next time on the next episode of Divine Flow.