When Sally Brockway was approached to write How to Awaken Your Inner Goddess by publisher Summersdale, she jumped at the chance as the theme resonated with her own spiritual journey.
In fact, just a few weeks before, Sally had experienced a life-changing spiritual experience at a silent retreat when she felt a connection to divine feminine energy.
It’s a term you may have seen on social media and perhaps haven’t fully understood.
How exactly can we embrace it practically in our daily lives?
The magic has been demystified by Sally, who helps us connect to our “source energy”, a higher state within us all that can be drawn on with practice.
Sally, an author, journalist and boss of WOW PR, started her spiritual journey in 2019, in her 50s, after feeling like something was missing in her life. “I was a woman who had everything, a husband, kids, but something in me was asking ‘is this it?’”
Sally’s husband then bought her a year of sessions with a spiritual mentor called Marion Young, chosen because she “had a lovely energy”.
“Before I started this journey to discover my divine feminine energy, I found myself to be quite angry and snappy. It’s very easy to dull our emotions with things like TV box sets, sugar and a glass of wine, but really all we are doing is finding a distraction so we don’t need to face our emotions.”
“When I was younger I knew the notion of Goddess was important, particularly when dating the wrong types of men, when one day I finally decided ‘unless this person treats me like a goddess, I won’t go out with them’, and then I met my husband.”
“During my work with Marion I attended a five day silent retreat. On the penultimate day, I was doing a lot of painting. I loved art as a child and hadn’t picked up a paintbrush as an adult, and I was studying a nasturtium flower, loving being in nature and observing how this flower was a work of art.”
Suddenly, a spoken thought, that felt outside of my own, said “you have spent this time looking at my creations, why don’t you trust me?”
“I can’t explain what I felt after this but it was as if all the love in the universe was within me. I wanted to hug everyone at the retreat, and I had this intuitive sense that this feeling – that I have only experienced a few times since – was the bedrock of everything.”
“My book, How to Awaken Your Inner Goddess, is about ways you can access this state, and ways that have helped me, that remind me to remember that feeling and get back to this powerful source energy.”
“if we only embraced this notion in life, I believe it gets easier. This book is about how to get there.”
“Working with my spiritual mentor has helped me put rituals into my daily life that have helped me connect to something greater than myself. That resource is there and it will help you if you ask it to.”
“Whether it’s spending more time in nature – I can’t go a day without being outdoors and am particularly drawn to trees – or embracing your creativity by writing a short story, finding something that suits you is important. It will be different for every woman.”
“I’ve also just started cold water swimming as I’ve moved to live by the sea, but you’ll have to ask me again in a few months if I’ve embedded it as a daily ritual!.”
How to Awaken Your Inner Goddess: Empowering Rituals and Affirmations to Help You Radiate Divine Feminine Energy is available in Waterstones in hardback edition priced at £8.99. To order a copy visit https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-awaken-your-inner-goddess/sally-brockway/9781837997091
