Sisterhood

This survey is about you. It’s about your longings and your heart as it has opened and closed in relationship with other women. It’s about moving towards what’s possible and it is offered as a journey of personal reflection and self discovery.

We want to understand the common hopes, dreams, fears and wounds that we all carry so that we can create ever more relevant and supportive materials to bring us into our fullness. Your willingness to share with radical honesty helps us serve both you, and all other women like you.

This is entirely anonymous. The results will be periodically posted on the Grow page of the web site, so that we can all read each other’s truths as a way to understand each other more completely.

Give yourself to this journey of self enquiry as much as you are able.

Thank you!

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* 1. Without thinking too hard or censoring yourself, in this moment - what does the word ‘sisterhood’ mean to you? (max 3 sentences)
Examples: "Uncertainty, longing, deep water, not sure how to step forward." 
"It means circle, deep seeing, transparency, tribe, hope, belonging and intimacy, but also betrayal and heartbreak."

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* 2. If you were to choose only 5 words to describe how you would want to feel within a sisterhood, what would they be?
Example: "Relief, safety, mutual support, upliftment, sacredness."

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* 3. In your ultimate version of conscious sisterhood what are the three most important attributes or ways of being that underpin its uniqueness?
Examples: "We are a stand for each others highest expression in the world rather than critics or competitors of each other’s failings or strengths."
"We tell each other the truth and we show up for each other as unconditionally and authentically as we’re able."

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* 4. If you have experienced wounding in relationship to other women in your life, or that you carry without understanding its origin what are the core words that describe its themes?
Example: "Quite a few for me...bullied, scapegoat, outcast, betrayed, sacrificed, excluded, torn down, made wrong."

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* 5. In brief, what are the most overt self limiting ways in which these themes play out in your current life experience? (As in - ‘I put others first and diminish myself…’ or ‘I hide my light..’etc)
Examples: "I get physically frightened to bring my gifts forwards around other women, which makes me more reactive and sensitive, and also misjudge and misread others."
"I have an autopilot expectation of rejection which makes me stand offish."
"I will seek to lift others up whilst keeping myself down, which is a terrible strategy!"

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* 6. If you could distill that all down into one core pattern that you would like to resolve and transform - what would it be - and how would you be different on the other side? (max 2 sentences)
Example: "Fear of rejection and competition - having to self diminish to feel safe and I would become liberated, joyful, easy going, generous, inclusive."

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* 7. When you consider all that you have been through, what are the core strengths and gifts that have arisen out of these experiences?
Example: "Huge compassion, refusal to tolerate shaming, fierce loyalty, fearlessness around the roots of our shadow, I’m loving, honest, trustworthy, and caring. I like myself ."

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* 8. When you feel into all your growth, can you tap into the truth of your essence and the expression of yourself that you long for true sisterhood to call out of you? Without censor - how would you describe the true most precious texture of your being?
Example: "Incandescent joy and radiance, love without end, profoundly delicate and yet immensely strong."

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* 9. If that essence could take the steering wheel of your life, who do you want to be on behalf of the emerging feminine and all women?
Example: "A source of profound love, encouragement, compassion and inclusivity. A source of hope, inspiration, courage and willingness to shine."

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* 10. What actions or steps could you take in your life now to help you step ever more completely into embodying that essential expression of yourself?
Example: "I could write no.9 on my mirror and let myself feel my response to that every day as I look at myself - and then I could speak to myself as all women and express my commitment to them and to myself. If - when - I am doing that every day, I know that my life will change."

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* 11. May we have your permission to share your answers on the website, newsletter and our facebook groups to inspire and inform other women who may benefit from this self-inquiry - and also to add to the momentum of the rise in sisterhood that's currently taking place globally?

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