Beth Maiden

Exploring and sharing the secret parts of ourselves (an ongoing project between my friend and I rooted in Emergent Strategy and Octavia Butler’s Parables novels). Read more

My white gaze undeniably determines what I do and don’t stock. It’s time to change this. Read more

New year collage 2020 Read more

The Witch of Wands reaches up to the Moon. Her fire is her signal, an invitation to magic. She stands tall, reaching high. Read more

What does Mother
have to do with
healing? Read more

“Mooooooon!” Earth would call up into the darkness. “Gealllaaaach! Come down here and talk with me, for I long for a sister who understands me, and I feel you could be the one.” Read more

For the full moon in Pisces. Read more

Creating and supporting healthy, diverse, nourishing conditions for my business to grow in. Read more

Twenty seconds in the wave came up through my body
I was sobbing
moved through it
breathed through it

I threw the weirdest shapes
got out of my head
let my body lead Read more

This month I am experimenting with:
* Overcoming nice girl conditioning
* DESIRE / dance
* Zero fucks Read more

the space between/
balance of/
shift back and forth between
structure and freedom. commitment and spontaneity.
Doing the work, seeing it through, and still being open to what’s new and exciting. Read more

An altar to witness my commitment to self in an anxious, stuck-feeling moment. Read more

Literally, we are having our ‘selves’ sold back to us. Read more

a reminder of
constant flux, and you
a seed
a planet
an ocean
a husk
they are waymarkers on your path Read more

May I allow what is incubating within me
the time and space
to come forth slowly,
in its own way. Read more

A poster to celebrate the full and new moons of the wheel of the year in 2019. Read more

Liberation

is life
without shame.

Liberation

is knowing
in our bodies
that we are enough. Read more

Keep it spacious, grounded in intention and mystery, and led by desire. Read more

It is midwinter. The trees are bare, there is little green among the greys and the browns.
There are seeds, hidden, unseen, in the cold, damp earth. Read more

Let us be here, now, in this moment. Nothing more.

Let us be present. Read more

Nothing so scary or vulnerable as taking hold of my own life, its minutes, its days, and forging my own path. Read more

Loving my work and getting properly paid is the only way I know to run a sustainable business. Read more

In response to this, I made this. Lyrics to Joyful Girl, by Ani DiFranco (1996). Read more

I say it with a smile but I do not say it lightly. Read more

I close my eyes and take in the stillness.
Everything is so still
and everything is in flux. Read more

Can I listen?

Can I learn to listen?

“What would it look like, to centre desire?” Read more

I am so used to resting my identity on output. Read more

Part to-do list, part manifesto. Read more

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the season is shifting. Wind blowing in the trees. Windows open, cool and dark. Awakening. Autumn calls.
What have you learned this year? Read more

It’s an intangible currency that exists within communities and/or relationships, and thus an economy in itself. To a solopreneur establishing a platform, it is a source of power. Read more

Every piece I have picked up along the way, whether I have noticed, treasured, rejected, reviled, dismissed, ignored or grappled with joyfully or with fear…has made me who I am. It is a tapestry, and it is not only mine. Read more

A small art piece to honour the themes of my Capricorn moon. Read more

A 7-minute grounding practice I created to begin an online session. Read more

It is a feeling/knowing: I have enough. There is enough. I am enough. Can we apply this to business? Read more

May I let myself be enough,
exactly as I am. Read more

Two altars – to splurge it all out, then to refine and focus. Read more

What feels best to me is grounding my business in my personal values. The experiment is about the relationship between my values and my work. Read more

“She weaves individual strands into a tapestry, creating common ground and common cause.” Ellen Lorenzi-Prince. Read more

Linoprint and birthday poem for Em Read more

This altar is for my body-wisdom.
For listening.
For loving myself enough
to listen. Read more

For what might emerge from January’s darkness. This moment is a pause
before the quickening of the year. Read more

Beginning to grapple with concepts of anticapitalist, feminist business. Read more

If you need it: I see you, witch. Altar, 1st January, new year, full moon in Cancer The spell jar holds mugwort, wizened and curled, picked on new year’s eve from the Talyllyn steam train tracks, the day seven of us silently retreated together in Tywyn. Milky quartz from the… Read more

I settled down on new year’s eve to make a vision board for 2018.. but this is what came out. Read more

Last week was all about ‘productivity’. Or rather, alternative ways of thinking about getting stuff done. (Because the word ‘productivity’ makes me want to throw things, and at the same time – it’s good to get stuff done, right?) I shared a few ideas about getting stuff done on Little… Read more