Lead Me Back to Myself
What leads you back to yourself? Forget the retreats and the books and the practices and that person and the trip and the journey. I...
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Aimee Hansen
Oct 1, 20172 min read
My Unapologetic Confession
My unapologetic confession. I am a woman that gathers women together to share in circles. I love co-creating and holding our shared and...
Aimee Hansen
Sep 23, 20173 min read
Eternity Lives in A Second
I was in San Marcos La Laguna on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala during the earthquake on the evening of September 7, 2017, when I wrote this....
Aimee Hansen
Sep 6, 20173 min read
When I say Goddess, I mean let's get real.
For a long time, I wasn't much for the word. Goddess. Not at all. I was allergic to the word, to be honest. It caught in the throat. It...
Aimee Hansen
Sep 5, 20174 min read
Come here, love. Satiate your soul.
Today is the halfway mark of my 40th year. I've picked up a couple things in this much living, so far. One, very much from the gift of...
Aimee Hansen
Aug 7, 20173 min read
Sweet Cycles, Sweeter Surrender
One full moon night about five years ago, I sat on a balcony in the forest with a friend. Beneath the stars, we shared red wine and...
Aimee Hansen
Jul 29, 20172 min read
I want to gather with you in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee
I want to gather with you in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. I want to sit around flames by night and share women's stories that...
Aimee Hansen
Jul 20, 20175 min read
Cracking Open My Piñata
When I came to Guatemala in February 2012, I had a poem in my pocket, a few words written on a loose blank page and a pulsing piñata...
Aimee Hansen
Mar 8, 20172 min read
On International Women's Day
Today is the two year anniversary of the first day of the first Sacred Expression Women's Retreat, my first time gathering with a women's...
Aimee Hansen
Feb 9, 20171 min read
Full Moon Woman
Photo from: Mystic Mamma She sways between the shadows, she's a culprit in the wind. Her eyes are casting sideways, shaking virtue...
Aimee Hansen
Dec 1, 20161 min read
If I told you something about the lives of women...
I would tell you something about the lives of women, but if I dared such a foolish task, would you remember this? Fire will not sit...
Aimee Hansen
Oct 28, 20165 min read
My Dear, It's a Playground Life.
I can promise you this dear. You will circle back on yourself. You will cycle through kinds of time. You will live a thousand lives.
Aimee Hansen
May 28, 20162 min read
Who Stands By Your Heart?
I've been tracing around my small village with a tiny folder of marked up papers and my phone as a voice recorder. Inside of that...
Aimee Hansen
Mar 25, 20162 min read
The day the streets are paved with color.
What would you spend your whole day creating, even if you knew that your artistic creation would then be utterly destroyed before...
Aimee Hansen
Mar 1, 20161 min read
Playing Small
What would you write about? Do you think you'd be the only one?
Aimee Hansen
Feb 25, 20163 min read
Retreat or Reclamation?
Every woman can ask herself: am I being called to a retreat or to a reclamation? (Sacred Expression Women's Retreat, photo by Tamia...
Aimee Hansen
Feb 23, 20164 min read
I'm Saying He's a Gold Digger. (Yep Him, Your Critic.)
Trust me, he’s a gold digger. Not the guy you’re dating now. Or the ex involved in your messy divorce. Or the prince charming or...
Aimee Hansen
Jan 28, 20161 min read
What if You Asked?
You know that moment when you want to step away? You want space, you want to reconnect with your own center, with your own voice, and...
Aimee Hansen
Jan 19, 20162 min read
How An Ant Taught Me 'Thank You'
I practice yoga outdoors so inevitably I am visited by the occasional wandering ant who has no idea what a yoga mat is, let alone that...
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