’Lamentation names what is wrong, what is out of order in God’s world, what keeps human beings from thriving in all their creative potential. Simple acts of lament expose these conditions, name them, open them to grief and anger and make them visible for remedy.

In its complaint and anger and grief, lamentation protests conditions that prevent human thriving and this resistance may finally prepare the way for healing.’

— Kathleen O’Connor

This winter I felt the urge to put the deep feelings of hurt and desperateness of modernity into a lament. I invite you to be witness of it.

Restoring the Mother-Daughter Relationship: A Personal Journey Through the Myth of Demeter. In a society built on dominant masculine values, the mother-daughter relationship has often become disrupted; this was also the case in my personal life. The myth of Demeter leads the way in how we can recognize and heal this disruption. In this essay, I share my personal journey through this myth.

Every winter, I offer a 6-week course in which we once again invite the wisdom of these goddesses to shine a light on our path of inner growth and liberation. We invite them to kiss awake forgotten parts of ourselves and weave them back to life through our own dreams.