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Your Body Never Lies

Your Body Never Lies: How to Tap Into the Feminine Wisdom of Embodiment for Confidence, Healing & Clarity There’s a truth most women feel deep in their bones but are rarely taught to trust:Your body is your wisest ally.She doesn’t lie. She doesn’t sugarcoat.She whispers through your gut, your skin, your heartbeat—and sometimes she screams through anxiety, chronic pain, or burnout.Your body holds…

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Letting Go

Today I have a special surprise for you. I’m gifting you a tool to help you let go of anything that doesn’t support you. All you have to do is click onto the link and follow the prompts to get your hands in it. It’s offered to you completely free: https://jan-deelstra.kit.com/products/exercise-for-letting-go-pdf-audio This is a set that guides you through the process of letting go of anything…

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Wounds

In Loving Memory… It’s Memorial Day weekend in the States—a day to honor fallen soldiers. But for most Americans, it’s a day that launches summer. Picnics and water skiing and camping and backyard barbeques are happening all around. Traffic is at staggering numbers as travelers flock to the fun, and the thermometer rises in the Northern Hemesphere…As I began my day with a morning meditation, a…

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From Longing to Liberation

From Longing to Liberation: Alchemizing Dis-Ease into Power What if the dis-ease you’ve been tolerating is actually your soul’s sacred signal that it’s time for radical realignment?In my last post, I asked you to pause and consider:What do you truly want? Not what others expect. Not what your job title suggests. Not what your well-curated life seems to reflect on the outside.But you—in your…

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When Success Isn’t Enough

So…what if “success” isn’t enough? What if you’re considered successful by cultural standards, yet inside, you feel a deeply hidden longing?Today’s post is about how to find fulfillment—completely. And what to do with the feelings of guilt you have, when you think that you “should” be happier, more content with your current situation, as you see others around the globe who are not as fortunate as…

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Unapologetically Rest and Rejuvenate

May is a month bursting with reminders to pause and take care. It’s both Mental Health Awareness Month and Women’s Health Awareness Month—a beautiful invitation for women to remember that our wellness matters. Not just in service to others. But for the sanctity of ourselves.And yet, how often do we truly give ourselves permission to pause?As women, we’ve been culturally conditioned—sometimes even…

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May Is Mental Health Month

May Is Mental Health Month — But This Is a Daily Devotion to Your Whole Self Let’s get deeply honest for a moment, woman to woman… You’ve conquered multiple obstacles, nurtured families, held space for others, and kept on rising—even when life felt like quicksand beneath your well-polished heels. But despite all your accomplishments… something still feels off. A little out of sync. Like you’re…

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Cinco de Mayo and the Confident Woman

Cinco de Mayo & the Confident Woman: Celebrate Your Quiet Victories A Reflection on the Sacred Risers, Confidence, and the Strength No One Sees Coming Cinco de Mayo…To some, it’s a day of margaritas and mariachi. Most people don’t know what Cinco de Mayo really stands for… But for those who know the deeper truth, it’s a celebration of undaunted courage in the face of overwhelming odds. It…

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Magic

“Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes…” My great friend and mentor, the late Dr. Mack Gift, often quipped that, “Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t.” Mack and I go back many decades—long before there was AI or the Internet, the Algorythm, or WIFI to blame when things went awry. So when something didn’t go as planned, we would just blame the “magic” for not working…. Ahh…

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Shame-Based Living

Shame: The Silent Saboteur of a Woman’s Worth Today, I’m going to be ultra-frank, and share with you that over the decades of coaching women, I’ve noticed that there is one pervasive, sticky emotion that keeps far too many women quietly suffering, hiding behind smiles, accomplishments, and designer lipstick. It’s shame. And it’s time we call it out. SHAME: Shame is not just an emotion—it’s a…

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She Who Remembers

There comes a transformational moment—often quiet, sometimes seismic—when a woman begins to remember who she is.—Not the version of herself shaped by societal expectations.—Not the filtered, muted, “appropriate” self she presented to be acceptable.But the real woman. The one who once danced barefoot in her joy. The one who spoke without apologizing. The one who cried openly, laughed loudly, and…

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Beltane Fire

May theme: Own Your Authenticity… …and today’s post asks you to step into your divine feminine power this May Day with the ancient magic of Beltane… What is Beltane—And what does it have to do with “authenticity”? Beltane, celebrated on May 1st, is an ancient Celtic fire festival that marks the midpoint between the spring equinox (Ostara) and the summer solstice (Litha). It’s the season when…

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Divine Feminine Goddess Energy: Lilith

Lilith Spotlight: First Woman, Forever Free Before Eve, there was Lilith. The first wife of Adam. And because I am known to be “brutally honest” I will admit that Lilith is truly my favorite of all the divine feminine energies we have highlighted over the past 30 days; her feminine traits are closely aligned with my own…Lilith was born not from Adam’s rib—but from the same earth—Lilith was…

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Divine Feminine Goddess Energy: Rhiannon

Rhiannon: Sovereign Queen of Patience & Power Rhiannon deserves a radiant spotlight in our Divine Feminine Goddess Series. Her grace, strength, and patient sovereignty embody a feminine power that is deeply needed in our fast-paced, hustle-driven world. Tomorrow is our last divine feminine goddess showcase, and there are so many fabulous choices to highlight. With that said, it would be an…

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Divine Feminine Goddess Energy: Morrigan

Morrigan (Celtic) – Shape-shifter, goddess of prophecy. Today’s goddess is rich with mystique and intensity. Morrigan is not here to comfort—she’s here to awaken. Her energy is wild, prophetic, and profoundly transformational. Morrigan represents the shape-shifting oracle of your soul…She comes cloaked in ravens and mystery, walking between realms, whispering truth into the void.Morrigan, the…

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Divine Feminine Goddess Energy: Aphrodite

Aphrodite: Radiance of Self-Love and Sacred Beauty Today, we bask in the golden, sea-splashed aura of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, beauty, sensuality, and desire.She is the embodiment of the divine feminine in her fully expressed glory.Not the dimmed-down, domesticated version of womanhood. No, Aphrodite is unapologetically radiant, magnetic, sensual, and sovereign.She doesn’t shrink.She…

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Divine Feminine Goddess Energy: Amaterasu

Amaterasu (Japanese) – Sun goddess, light in darkness As we enter the final week of our Divine Feminine series for April, we step into the golden radiance of Amaterasu, the Shinto sun goddess of Japan. She is the bringer of light, the ruler of the heavens, and the celestial mirror of divine feminine sovereignty.Amaterasu’s myth is as symbolic as it is powerful. Offended by chaos and cruelty, she…