Feminine Leadership

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Sing Your Water Songs

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I’ve been taught that women+ everywhere are supposed to pick up their Water Songs and sing to the waters to heal the earth and humanity. In an attempt to make this call from the Elders easier… I’ve written a giveaway Water Song so the Lifegivers everywhere can sing their songs. That means this song has been given to you.

You may not know your people’s water songs or you feel like you don’t have one.

Sing this one. You are welcome.

Just sing with a prayerful heart. Please sing this song and if you desire, translate it into your own language.


You can sing this song to a glass of water (renew.)

You can sing this song to honour a person who may be drowning in sorrow (retreat.)

You can sing this to a dry river bed that hasn’t seen water for several seasons (return.)

You can sing this song to a place where flooding is happening (retreat.)

You can sing this to an ocean full of plastic (renew.)

Just sing it!


Here are the lyrics in English:

“May the waters of me…. Hiy hiy

Sing for the waters of you. Hiy hiy

I offer this prayer and this honouring song.

So the waters right here “retreat” (or “renew” or “return.”)

Retreat. Retreat. Retreat. Retreat. So the waters right here retreat.


To download Water Prayer Song or listen to various translations, please go to:

Water Prayer Song written by Andrea Menard, 2021

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Why Self-Care is Becoming the New Normal

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At 35 years old, I got my first wake-up call about the need for Self-Care. I don’t mean the self-care with a small letter “s” and “c.” I mean the Self-Care with big, fat capital letters that scream at you from the four winds. I mean the kind of Self-Care that requires a total re-evaluation of how you operate in life and work. This was the kind of wake-up call that stopped me in my tracks.

Like most healthy 30-somethings, I felt pretty invincible. I was driven, determined, and successful in my acting and singing career. When I was exhausted, I pushed through it. When I was stressed, I drank, or slept in, or went for a massage. There was a frivolity and disassociation with pain in my body, because I was filled with passion and a drive to succeed.

This is what I saw in the women around me too. I was surrounded by driven, passionate, successful women who managed to secure positions of leadership by developing valuable management skills, work habits, and attitudes for success. All of these attributes were masculine in nature. In order for women to be successful within the masculine systems and structures of government, industry, law, academia, medicine, and entertainment, we had to fit in to the well-oiled machine.

You Are a Witness

You are living in a critical time in our history.  

A time that our Indigenous Elders are calling the Rise of the Sacred Feminine. A time of great rebalancing. When the masses awaken from a centuries old slumber. A time when the genocide and ecocide, that has been occurring for hundreds and hundreds of years, is no longer happening in the shadows.

You are alive during this time. And you are feeling that something is wrong.

You may or not be a victim of genocide, but you are most certainly a witness to the imbalance of power in this world. You have seen the violence, disempowerment, discrimination, and poverty that plagues the vulnerable in your own community. You are alive to witness it.


Play in Your Womb of Creation

Feeling uninspired in your work? Feeling a little shy of your financial goals? Unable to find peace in your relationship?

I have a little game I would like to share with you. It’s called “Playing in your Womb of Creation.”  Before we get to the game, I need to lay down some truths that the Patchwork Grandmothers have passed on. We must remember these simple truths:

 -      Human Beings are the masters (and caretakers) of the Earth Realm.

-      The Earth Realm is a creative realm, where all things originate in the Womb of Creation. 

-      The Womb of Creation is the dreaming place before things can be manifested in the Physical world. 

-      Human Beings are the Dreamers of the world. 

-      Know it or not, you are planting your dreams in the Womb of Creation every moment of your life. 

 Everything begins in the realm of the Sacred Feminine. In the silence, in the dreaming, through receptivity, through deep listening, and through allowance.

 

Why is Feminism a Bad Word

Why is Feminism a Bad Word?

 
Even though the world is experiencing this Rise of the Sacred Feminine, which means we are creating a world where all human beings are valued equally, there is still a fear of the word Feminism and a judgement towards women who declare themselves to be Feminists. 

This meme of the Dalai Lama, posted by SheKnows, conveys a very important message for our times. That it is okay to be both a feminist and a peacemaker. In fact, the Dalai Lama suggests it is necessary. That some things, like women’s rights, must be fought for. Equality is a human right worth fighting for.

But I understand the backlash. I get it.

Feminism came into being with a burst of rage. And rage can be scary.

Rage can also be Sacred.

The Year of the "Rise of the Sacred Feminine"

The Year of the "Rise of the Sacred Feminine"

I have named 2019 to be, “The Year of the Rise of the Sacred Feminine.” In truth, the rise of the Sacred Feminine has been going on for decades. I just think we should put words on paper about this shift from a Masculine-aligned world to one where both the Feminine and the Masculine principals are revered. The more we record our observations of a shifting paradigm, the more evidence will appear.

What is Feminine Leadership

As an expert in Feminine Leadership, I’ve been asked what exactly Feminine Leadership means. Of course, on first glance it seems to mean women in leadership, which of course it can mean. But that is not the full meaning.

Feminine leadership is another one of the 21st century leadership models emerging out of the old, hierarchical, top-down, control leadership model. Just like service leadership, Indigenous leadership, team, collaborative or mission-oriented leadership, Feminine leadership focuses on a well-rounded, healthier approach to business and community.