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Brian's avatar

Hi, Isabel. It's very encouraging knowing that someone such as yourself exists in our crazy world. Thank you for shining in the midst of the darkness and sharing your journey with your followers.

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Isabel's avatar

thank you for this beautiful comment!

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Brandi Collignon's avatar

I love the way you speak of archetypes. If you haven't already thought about it, I'd love to see a guide of the 4 main archetypes for femininity like you did for the masculine. Just an idea!

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Isabel's avatar

Thank you! I’d like to do that - there unfortunately isn’t as great of an encapsulation of the feminine archetypes as King, Warrior, Magician, Lover does for the masculine ones. Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman is pretty good as a substitute, though!

I actually wrote an essay about what that book evoked for me, focusing on two of the key goddesses she explores: Athena and Hestia. Link here: https://read.isabelunraveled.com/p/goddess

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surya yalamanchili's avatar

Needed this reminder. 🙏🏾

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Prakash ⚡ பிரகாஷ்'s avatar

Hmm....looks like we are getting closer to abstract your writings with a new noun Isabelism!

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Isabel's avatar

where did this come from!

my mom used to call my musings as a child ‘Izzyisms’ :)

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Prakash ⚡ பிரகாஷ்'s avatar

can't beat your mom....she knew where izzy is headed and ofcourse had insider information that others not privy to!

as for me...I'm reading your musings for sometime...and the eloborate explanation you put for "mindmine" and my......intuition :-)

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Kim le Conte's avatar

This was very inspiring! I’ve been called ‘naive’ many times and always saw it as something negative. But your essay gave me a new perspective — and it excites me to keep being a little foolish from time to time. Thank you.

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Isabel's avatar

you’re welcome 🃏

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Cris's avatar

Love this. We take ourselves too serious all the time, trapped ourselves in narratives and concepts that let us unable to experience curiosity and wonder. To be a fool, we have to be willing to be present and play in the sandbox, just because 💜

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