This week, Linda Orsini shares a deeply personal solo episode, diving into the transformative journey of awakening inspired by Dr. Shefali’s powerful poem, The Awakened Woman. This episode celebrates the courage to let go, the beauty of rebirth, and the power of stepping fully into our light as we awaken to our most authentic selves.
Key Takeaways:
Awakening begins with noticing where we are, honouring who we are, and letting go of societal “shoulds.”
Self-compassion is the foundation for healing, setting boundaries, and living authentically.
Shifting from ego to heart opens the door to a more aligned, loving, and empathetic way of living.
Breathwork and mindfulness help release emotional weight and guide us into renewal.
Awakening is not a solitary journey—it thrives in connection and sisterhood.
This episode is an invitation to reflect on your own path to awakening. Are you ready to step into your renaissance? To live authentically, fearlessly, and with compassion for yourself and others?
Listen now and embrace the time of the awakened woman.
Have you ever battled overwhelming anxiety, fear, self-limiting beliefs, soul fatigue or stress? It can leave you feeling so lonely and helpless. We’ve all been taught how to be courageous when we face physical threats but when it comes to matters of the heart and soul we are often left to learn, "the hard way."
As a school teacher for over 30+ years, struggling with these very issues, my doctor suggested anti-anxiety medication but that didn't resonate with me so I sought the healing arts. I expanding my teaching skills and became a yoga, meditation, mindfulness, reiki and sound healer to step into my power and own my impact.
A Call for Love will teach you how to find the courage to hold space for your fears and tears. To learn how to love and respect yourself and others more deeply.
My mission is to guide you on your journey. I believe we can help transform the world around us by choosing love. If you don’t love yourself, how can you love anyone else? Join a call for love.
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Transcripts
Linda Orsini:
Welcome to a call for love, and welcome to the time of the awakened woman. You know, I believe we come into this material world to let go, to surrender, to step into our Renaissance, and we are constantly rebirthing and awakening ourselves, and that's what this episode is about. Today, today, I would like to share with you a very powerful poem called the awakened woman, and I have used this poem in my retreats, and just recently, I hosted a private breath work session for a client who has become a friend. Actually, my clients do become my friends. So I can call her my friend. And she was celebrating her birthday, and we went to this beautiful place up north, and after the breath work session, this is the poem that I read to the woman, which I will share with you here today, but I want to bring this up because, you know, we're all on this journey, and that's what a call for love is. It's about awakening, and so many of the wisdom masters talk about this awakening. What does awakening mean? You know, the other day, I could not remember if I had unplugged the kettle, I just could not remember. And it went to show me, and it showed me, really, that I wasn't paying attention. I really wasn't mindful. Now that is such a small, little, simple example, but the point is, is that we are living our life, and sometimes just in routine, just sometimes by habit. And to be awakened is to be mindful and really present in your life. And this is the Renaissance. This is the time to step into a deeper awakening of who we really are. And I feel that this phrase, which my sister had shared with me so long ago, and I once saw this at a store, and I wish I had bought it, because I just love it, she has says to me, don't. Shoulda, woulda, coulda me. It's so true, right? Because we need to be free to step into who we are if it feels aligned with our spirit and for the welfare and the good of others. But that means that sometimes we have to let go of what we think we should be doing, like shoulda, woulda, coulda, and really to release that weight of impossible expectations that society puts on us and really honor who and what we truly are. And that is the gem today's podcast is really sharing is about awakening to who we are when we let go of all the external stuff. So without a do, I would like to share with you this very powerful poem, and it is several minutes long, so settle in and let us begin. It's from the book a radical awakening. Turn pain into power, embrace your truth, live free. By Dr Shefali. This is a book that I purchased quite a while ago. It is a really great book, but the best part of the book is really this poem, which I will share with you right in this moment, the time of the awakened woman, there comes a time in the life of a woman when she discards her old ways like tossed shoes in the garbage, when she sheds her list of shoulds and obligations, and when impossible expectations are burned in an incinerator, there comes a time in the life of a woman when the approval of others once jewels now turns to pennies in her socks, when the hunt for another is now replaced by a hunt for herself, and when parental tentacles of tradition no longer define her truth, there comes a time in the life of a woman when her desire to fit in with the crowd dissolves, when her manic compulsion To be perfect vaporizes, and when her obsession to be voted popular eviscerates. There comes a time in the life of a woman when she simply says no more, when facade, artifice and guile Lee. Her nauseated and when righteousness, dogma and superiority repulsor, there comes a time in the life of a woman when she no longer fears conflict, but faces it boldly, like a lioness, when she guards her authenticity as fearlessly as she guards her babies, and when she drops the role of savior, knowing she can only save herself, there comes a time in the life of a woman when she no longer cowers in the shadows of her unworthiness, when she no longer plays small so others can feel big, and when she swaps the role of victim for the role of CO creator, there comes a time in the life of a woman when she unabashedly and boldly occupies her ultimate sovereignty, when she finally feels ready to claim her space in the world, and then she redefines compassion. And then she redefines compassion as unequivocal self love. There comes a time in the life of a woman when she finally releases her child like dependency on others when she dares to rewrite a new mandate of living for herself, one that says, I release unworthiness and fear. I divorce servility and passivity. I divest in authenticity and enmeshment. I end the pretense of being someone I am not, and from now on, I declare I will ascend into my highest power. I will embrace my greatest autonomy. I will celebrate my deepest worth. I will embody my fiercest courage and manifest the most authentic me. The time is now. I am ready to awaken into my Renaissance. Those last words, especially are so powerful saying what we want to do and how we're declaring it. These words might ring true for you, but in essence, it's asking us to notice, notice who we have been, who we are in the present, and how we want to unfold, how we can rebirth. You know, it's a matter of letting go, surrendering into who people expect us to be and who we wanted to imagine ourselves to be, and really hold space for our highest self. What is really speaking to us in this moment, in this moment of our life. And you know, I talk about a lot about letting go in podcast episode 28 the power of letting go, which has a bonus meditation to go along with it letting go. I really invite you to also turn back to that episode, because I share another poem. She let go. These poems really speak to women, and of course, they can speak to all peoples, but in this time and with Dr Shefali deep sharing, it's really calling us to notice. And so you can ask yourself, What are you noticing in your life right now? I
Linda Orsini:
talk a lot about self compassion, and I really believe that redefining compassion as self love is a powerful message here, because when we notice where we are and how we're living, it calls for self compassion to turn inward, to set healthy boundaries, to step into a more authentic Life, because when we do that we heal the edges of societal expectations in order to really feel and notice who we are at our deepest level. And that's what a call for love is about. It's about noticing who we are at the deepest level. And I always say love is the highest vibration and joy I want in my life, peace, love, joy for myself, for all beings and the planet. It just doesn't stop at us. And so we want to awaken together in sisterhood and. That's why I created the circles of love, and it really brings together like minded woman to connect and uplift each other and embrace self love to inspire change, because sisterhood or the like minded oneness of all that join together empowers us to step into authentic life, to rebirth into the person who we know we are, which, as A Course in Miracles, says perfect, whole and complete. And a lot of people can't grasp perfect, because what is perfect, but it's perfectly aligned. This is how I think of it, perfectly aligned for who we are at our truest source. And so I invite you to use this inspiration to shine your light stronger. That's the call. It's awakening by stepping fully into our light, our rebirth as people as common spiritual beings on this path to support and strengthen each other, because when we heal ourselves, we heal others, we do not heal alone, and we are the catalyst for healing our own life. One of the most powerful ways to do this is with presence, of course, meditation, mindfulness, and I've been diving deeper and offering more in terms of breath work, breath work for rebirth, with my breathe to heal, series that I often offer during circles of love. But what breath work does is it physiologically helps us shed layers, layers of big or small trauma, of guilt, resentment, hurt, jealousy, all those feelings that are very heavy and dark in energy, and it brings them to the surface so that we can let them go, because each breath is a renewal. In fact, from yesterday to today, we are not the same people. And so we want to continuously renew, renew with a deeper purpose, with a deeper passion. And that's what rebirth is. You know, you don't have to wait for your birthday. You don't have to wait to the new year. You can step into it anytime you choose. And that's the power of an awakened person, and in this case, an awakened woman. It's the real attention and intention to shine our light brighter, to return who we are underneath the world's demands. Because shifting from the ego to heart takes some courage. It takes some heart centered living. Dr Wayne Dyer always talked about this. He is one of my leading inspirations, because Living from the heart means releasing control and embracing the kindness and empathy that we have within us to offer and give to others. When we surrender and trust to life's flow, then life seems to just flow more graciously. It flows in a direction for our highest good and not for the egoic mind of where we think we need to go, because surrendering is letting go of the rigid control of what we think to trust the path of who we truly are and allowing life's wisdom to lead us towards our true ourselves. You know, David Hawkins shares in power versus force, and I created a free document that really details all of the emotions and feelings as vibrations, and we want to notice where we are living. Love and joy are the highest, one of the highest, for sure, but we have a choice every day to let go of the need to please or for other people's approval to align with our truest selves and embody this essence of awakening, awakening to the wise woman within us. As Dr Shefali says, I will send into my highest power, I will embrace my greatest autonomy. I will celebrate my deepest worth. I will embody my fiercest courage and manifest the most authentic me. The time is now. I am ready. I. To awaken into my res, to awaken into my Renaissance. So I ask you, is your time now? Are you ready? Are you ready to awaken into your Renaissance, into your rebirth, into your strength, into your power of self compassion, which has a ripple effect of empathy for all beings, and that's definitely what our world needs in this moment, is to be the light, to shine the light. I hope this message resonates with you, always wishing you peace, joy and love. From my heart to yours. Namaste.
