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Women Who Future with Sande Hart
Episode 9816th December 2024 • Home to Her • Liz Kelly
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On the latest episode, I'm joined by Sande Hart, a mother, grandmother and founder of The Global Woman's Village woman's organization, formally known as S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual and Religious Alliance for Hope) now in its 23rd year. She is also the Author of The Liminal Odyssey, The Alchemical Power of The Spaces In-Between, (also a Nautilus Book Awardee)

Sande is actively engaged in leadership in the peace, compassion, community building, and women’s re- and in-powerment sectors. Her most recent work is in service to the role of women in this evolutionary impulse we are in during these transitional times. She served on the Women's Task Force for The Parliament of The World's Religions and developed and produced the first-ever Women's Village at the 2023 international conference. She founded and served as Director for the international organization The Charter For Compassion’s Women and Girls sector as creator and director of the 9th sector of the international organization focused on compassion. And she is the Founder of Compassionate California, which recently became established into law by the governor’s office as the first Compassionate State in the world.

During our conversation, we explore:

  • Sande's multi-decade journey toward recognizing the presence of the Sacred Feminine in her life, including the flickers of Her presence along the way
  • How Sande came to fully recognize Her through her work shepherding the Women's Village at the Parliament of the World's Religions.
  • The evolution of her non-profit organization S.A.R.A.H., including her more recent focus on "women who future," and what this language means to her
  • The powerful message that she received while visiting Auschwitz, which brought us both to tears during the culmination of this inspiring episode

Notes related to this episode:

  • You can learn more about the Global Woman's Village at https://www.sarah4hope.org/
  • You can also learn more about Sande and her book at her website: https://www.sandehart.com/
  • We discussed the work of Carol Lee Flinders during this episode, including her books "Enduring Grace" and "At the Root of This Longing."
  • Sande mentioned the song by George Harrison "My Sweet Lord"
  • I also mentioned the beautiful Adrienne Rich Poem, poem 13 in her collection of 21 love poems: https://allpoetry.com/poem/10381457-Twenty-One-Love-Poems-XIII-by-Adrienne-Rich
  • We also discussed the Parliament of the World's Religions
  • Finally, Sande mentioned the following quote by Henry David Thoreau: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”


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Liz Childs Kelly: Hello, and welcome

to Home to Her, the podcast that's

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dedicated to reclaiming the lost and

stolen wisdom of the sacred feminine.

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I'm your host, Liz Kelley, and on

each episode, we explore her stories

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and myths, her spiritual principles,

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wisdom has to offer us right now.

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Hey, everybody.

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And welcome to the show.

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This is Liz joining you as usual

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Who was there before you.

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So please always feel free to reach out.

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And with that, let's get on with the show.

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So I am so honored to call my guest

today my friend, and also just a

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wonderful, wonderful inspiration to me.

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We first had the opportunity to

meet in person at the parliament

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of the world's religions in

Chicago back in August of:

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Although I had heard of

her, she was in my circle.

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You know, I knew, I knew about her.

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She was in my sphere for

years before we connected.

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But she was stewarding

the Women's Village there.

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I'll say more about that in a second.

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And I was just so moved by her

passion and her presence and all

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the ways that she's been showing

up in the world so powerfully.

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Over the last couple of decades.

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And yeah, I've kind of been in that

space of awe ever since so I feel like

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this conversation is long overdue.

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I'm so excited.

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We're having it and I can't

wait for you to hear from her.

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So let me go ahead and tell you about her.

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Sande Hart is a mother, grandmother, and

the founder of the global woman's village.

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Women's organization formerly known

as Sarah stood, which stands for the

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spiritual and religious alliance for

hope, which is now in its 23rd year.

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She is the author of the liminal odyssey,

the alchemical power of the spaces

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in between a, I can't think of a more

sacred feminine inspired title than that.

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Also a Nautilus book award winner, and

she is actively engaged in leadership in

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the peace, compassion, community building

and women's re and empowerment sectors.

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Thank you Her most recent work is

in service to the role of women in

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this evolutionary impulse we are

in during these transitional times.

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CND served on the Women's Task Force

for the Parliament of the World's

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Religions and developed and produced

the first ever Women's Village at

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the 2023 International Conference.

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She founded and served as director

for the international organization,

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the charter for compassion's women and

girls sector as creator and director of

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the ninth sector of the international

organization focused on compassion.

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And she's also the founder of

compassionate California, which

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recently became established into law

by the governor's office as the first

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compassionate state in the world.

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And Sande, I forgot to ask you before we

hopped on where you're joining us from,

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but I believe you're joining us from

your home in Santa Barbara, California.

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Do I have that right?

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Sande Hart: I'm actually on the the

unceded territory of the Louisiana

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Band of Mission Indians in Southern

California, which is a San Diego area.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Excellent.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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Like I said, this conversation is

long overdue and I'm so excited.

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We're having it.

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Sande Hart: I am too.

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Thank you so much for having me Liz.

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And aren't we lucky that

we're on one another?

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Aren't we lucky that we can meet one

another at this great Sort of place.

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And I just love, I love your program.

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Thank you for having me.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah.

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Oh, it's my honor.

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It's totally my honor.

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I, yes, I was telling Sande before

we hopped on, like, I think this is

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going to be one of those conversations

where the challenge will be like,

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oh, we've got so much to talk about.

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There's no way we're going to fit

it all in, but we're just going

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to flow and see where it goes.

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But you know, if you guys have been

listening for a while, you know, this,

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I always love to start with my guests

and hearing about their spiritual

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background and those experiences

that were formative and that.

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Guided them perhaps in supportive

ways, but also the ones that maybe,

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you know, We're, we're nurturing

in unsupportive ways, which then

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pointed them where they needed to go.

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So Sande, if that's okay with

you, I would love to start there.

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Sande Hart: Oh, and I love that you do

this because that's my favorite place

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to meet people at the root of who they

are and how they show up in the world.

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And what informs them and their, their,

their religion or their spirituality.

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So thank you for posing this question.

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So my roots I was born into an already.

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established family in the seaside town

in Southern California, which was the

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occupied territory of the Tongva in

a little town called Palos Verdes.

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I was one of four Jewish kids in

my entire elementary school and

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not much more in my middle school.

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So I was always, I always

felt like I was the other.

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I never felt like I fit in.

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Or for that matter, I never felt that

I was really made for this world.

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Yet I had this love affair with the ocean

who I lovingly referred to as grandmother.

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So while I didn't know

it, I was literally.

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Or at the time I should

say I was literally being

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drenched in her spirituality.

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I was gifted by her consistent

presence in my life.

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I knew that she was teeming with life and

I could talk to her and play on her and in

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her and I was gifted these amazing lessons

and treasures of sand dollars and endless

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days away from my otherwise existence.

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And she was for me.

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The definition of unconditional love and

acceptance that I wasn't getting at home.

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Both of my parents are, were first

generation Americans born in the

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early 1920s whose families escaped

Nazi Germany or Lithuania, Latvia,

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Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe.

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And and because their lives

were threatened, of course, and

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And that's so as Jews, our, you

know, fear is woven into our DNA.

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It's, and it's, My understanding,

it's always been our inherited

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mission to keep the traditions

and the religion of Judaism alive.

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So, in my household, in my life,

generational trauma is a fact.

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And while not everybody would respond that

way, what we know about gene expression

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and intergenerational behavior patterns,

Everyone is impacted in different ways,

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and those behavior patterns impacted me.

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In my household, there was no

consideration of anything outside the

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rigidity of Judaism, which was still

even very limited for me at that time.

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Anything other than that was unfathomable.

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So there was no, there was

little room for spirituality.

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It was as if if you relax into

spirituality, Then down goes your guard.

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And my folks were also not expansive

thinkers, I say, and to their credit,

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it was their, they were informed by

their very difficult upbringings.

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Yet, I thought every Jew thought this way.

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I thought this was the totality of Judaism

in every Jewish home, here at least.

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And that spirituality was as foreign

a word to the tongue as was Jesus.

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So, I now know how wrong I was.

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And that was just again based

on my restrictive thinking.

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By this upbringing I had yet I joke

as I do in my book that I must have

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come with spiritual potential stamped

on my forehead, you know, because I've

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come with this spark that that would

flicker enough to keep me curious.

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And then later would rage into a wildfire

later in my life and that happened

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when as a young mom, my kids were

in middle school and I was an active

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volunteer at our synagogue because I

wanted them to have, you know, a formal

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upbringing, which I really didn't have.

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Other than again that limited viewpoint.

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And then there I grew increasingly

interested in Jewish mysticism

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and spirituality of women.

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And I, and even the word mysticism, I

don't even think I, that was on my radar

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at the time, but I wasn't finding anything

about the faith I knew so little about

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because really there was no program

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So, I basically decided to create such

a thing and I proposed, I, I wrote up

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a proposal for our synagogue board of

directors to allow me to lead a Jewish

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women's spiritual group to explore who

we were As spiritual beings is the women

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of Judaism, and I wanted that to come

from everyone's own personal lives and

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lived experiences in their stories.

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I, at this point, had learned that

not everybody was raised like I was

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so I really wanted to know what was

going on in their home and in their

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life and in their heart, and how

they live that out in the world.

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So I wrote the proposal

called it Miriam circle.

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Yeah, Moses's sister who co led

the Hebrews through the desert

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with the tambourine and I joke in

my book Directions to the Well.

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And the week before the board

meeting was to happen and I was to

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present my proposal, 9 11 happened.

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And Liz, this is where I have to

stop and say that while in retrospect

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that flicker and I can point to all

those flicker moments Was her, was

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the divine feminine showing up in me,

protecting me, blowing in my cells.

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She was in every lesson.

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She was in every joy.

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She got me through delivering my babies.

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She was on the floor with me

during the dark nights of the soul.

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And she was the, the strength that

I had to get up off the floor.

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And, but it wasn't until the morning of 9

11 that I first actually heard her voice.

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Still, I didn't know it was

officially her until later in life.

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As a matter of fact, even in my book,

which I wrote a few years ago, I think

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I made the comment that I don't know who

was whispering in my ear, but I said yes.

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And what I said yes to was gather women.

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That's what I heard.

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That was the whisper.

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It was more like a blaring horn.

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Gather women.

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And, and the next thing I know, I have

a living room full of women of diverse

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faith traditions Transcribed Discussing

women's spirituality from our different

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faith perspectives and lived experiences

and and later we grew to a global level.

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But while Miriam's circle didn't fit

the bill, because of course that would

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have been for women's spirituality, It

made sense to give her the name Sarah,

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the mother of all nations, spiritual

and religious alliance for hope.

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And for the next 20 years,

we hosted monthly meetings.

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We you know, our conversations were

all over the board from month to month.

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But what was always anchored

in our spiritual approaches,

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solutions, lots and lots of stories.

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Lots of food, laughter, some

tears, difficult conversations.

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But we always had a safety net in

our protocol for care and caregiving,

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which lives on our website.

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And we were the mothers of the community.

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We were invited.

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By universities and all different

faith, you know, places of worship

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to sit on panels and to come and

talk and we galvanize thousands of

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people out to hundreds of service

projects and our annual interfaith

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weekend of community service, which.

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We referred to as covert community

building, you know, in our faith

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reconciliation, by getting people to

work side by side with one another

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to get to know who they really were.

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Not unlike learning who they are,

spiritual as spiritual beings,

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what do they care for, you

know, that's where we can meet.

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So we did that.

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And then again, as we started adding

more programming and then comes

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zoom and even, and COVID really

catalyzed us to be the world's

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largest And longest running grassroots

interfaith women's organization.

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So we were literally living out what

it looks like when women of faith show

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up or women who are conforming to their

higher and their deepest value systems.

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And like you and why you start this

show this way, I've always been

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extremely fascinated what makes people

tick and where they come from, what's

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the root of their longing, you know?

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Yeah.

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So, and I want that for every woman.

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I want us all to meet there.

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I want us all to show up there

and in that way we get to be

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the creatrix of our own life.

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And, and listen, listen with reverence.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah,

I love that language.

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You the root of the root of your longing.

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Like that's, do you, do you know

that book that at the root of

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this longing, Carol Lee Flinders?

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Yeah, that was an early book I read.

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It's, and it's funny that you I

wrote down the word mysticism when

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you were talking, and I wonder if

there are those of us, cause that

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word called to me in my twenties.

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Actually, I read Carol.

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Lee Flinder's book, Enduring Grace, which

was a portraits of seven different women,

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Christian mystics, and like the word,

you know, and it didn't you know, for me,

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I was just kind of searching for like,

where, where, where's the thing that I

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can relate to in these faith traditions,

you know, because I'm not seeing me in

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anything, but I'm not quite ready to give

up the tradition that I grew up with.

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But there was something

about that word mystic.

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And like the mysticism that I was

like, oh, I don't know what that

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is, but I want to go towards that.

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And as you were talking, I was

like, oh, I think this is our,

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you know, ancestral or past life

remembrance of us having these roles.

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There's some kind of knowing of

like, oh, this is a thing that.

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Was important to me or

my lineage in some way.

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And it's like that spark that brings

it back into our, our attention.

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And yeah.

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And, and then to see how it's

going to play out in this

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lifetime is so, is so fascinating.

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And it, what I love about your

background, Sande, is that

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you're holding that kind of.

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It seems to me that you're holding

that kind of mystic energy, but also

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really channeling it into action.

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Because I think sometimes we think

about mysticism, it's like a,

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we're off in the cave or we're in

our isolated spiritual community.

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And I love how you've moved

it out and into the world.

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I think it's really beautiful.

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Sande Hart: Well, thank you.

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And I, I accept that as my responsibility.

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And I, I do kind of lie right at the,

at the intersection of being able to

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hold that vision and have these sort

of conversations, but also boots on the

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ground at the community level and bringing

that down to a digestible level for.

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for everyone.

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You know, this is

something Home to Her does.

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Your book does so beautifully.

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You have such, there's such honesty

and elegance that makes everything

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in your book, and I mean everything,

you should see your pages.

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They're all like, there's lines everywhere

and stars and arrows and circles.

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Yes.

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You know, and all over the pages

because you speak with such,

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like I said, honesty and clarity.

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And it's digestible and savory.

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And that's what we get to do.

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I feel like you do the same for the world.

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Like you bring, you bring things

down to such a digestible way.

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And we all have to show

up with what we have.

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And my skill is community.

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Yeah.

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You know, that's my lane.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah.

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Well, and I'm curious too, because you

alluded to it, so you heard the voice,

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gather the women, gather women when did

you figure out, like, hey, there's this

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thing that I call the sacred feminine,

but you can call it whatever you want,

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you know, but it's like, the her, when

did, when did that kind of, Click for you.

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And how did that happen?

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Sande Hart: Well, I can, in retrospect,

go back and see all the flickers and go,

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okay, she was there, you know, she was

in every single story in my book, right?

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Making every adventure possible and also

protecting me along the way and bringing

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me these people into my lives that

would teach me lessons and be my guides.

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And, and as well as a plethora

and platoons of angels that had

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sense of humors and caliprods.

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But where did I first come to really know?

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I have to say it was at the parliament.

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This is just last year.

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Now I've been on this

journey for 22 years.

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Well actually my whole life.

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I honestly, I think I was

born to take this odyssey.

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And to answer these questions

and to fill in the gaps.

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That's why the word liminal

was so important to me.

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It's like, let's slow down to

the speed and not wonder what's

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happening in these gaps, but at the

parliament, it all just came together.

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And I have to say that building the

village, it wasn't the end result.

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That was the proof of my concept of what

was possible for what a space looked like

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that was designed for women by women.

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It was the year of planning

that we took to develop it.

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And we always said that while there

were seven of us or eight of us on

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the committee, there was a ninth.

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And when something didn't want

to happen, or when something

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flowed into us, It was her.

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She was our accountability

partner the whole way.

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And something that was always said by

particularly one of our members, but

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then we all adopted it is at every turn.

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We are so protected.

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She is there.

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We are so protective.

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So she was starting to flutter into

my life in this more condensed way.

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But then the, the, the

women's villages built.

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Everything's up, the pictures

are up, the waterfall is flowing,

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and by the way, do you Yes, and

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Liz Childs Kelly: I want to, yeah,

can I pause you for a second?

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Because I want to just, can you help set

the stage for people who are like, what

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is this Parliament of World Religions?

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What are you talking about?

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Like, just, like, I know we were there,

and I'm like, I can see it, but like,

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let's, let's I mean, there's like

thousands of people that come from all

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over the world to this thing, right?

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Like, how many, there was

something like eight or nine

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thousand people there, right?

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Sande Hart: Yeah, depending on the

parliament, anywhere from 7 to 10, 000

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people come from 70 or 80 different

countries representing their faith

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traditions or walk in the world or,

or, or, you know, spiritually ethical

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or you know, ways of being in the

world, but our seekers or educators

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or clergy are environmentalists, you

know, are working on just most any

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social impact issue on the planet.

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will come to, you know, participate in 400

different workshops or, or discussions.

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There's there's a huge exhibit hall

that not only has a marketplace, but

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also you'll find expressions of religion

and spirituality through ritual and

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ceremony that you can observe right

there in the, you know, in the otherwise

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sterile halls of, you know, The of

a convention center, which is, of

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course, blown out to its full capacity.

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There are there's food.

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The Sikh community comes and does a

langar every year, which is, or every

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parliament, which is where they feed

every one of those thousands of people.

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This must be, you ate there, huh?

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I could have eaten there every single

day if I could have gotten away as much,

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but the most delicious, you know meal

that they served thousands and thousands

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of people every single day for lunch.

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So that's been happening

for many, many parliaments.

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So there's just, and then there's

plenaries and assemblies and, and, Having

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been, this has been my fifth or sixth

parliament, and the third parliament

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I was on the Women's Task Force for,

I said, you know what, it's really

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time that there be a dedicated space.

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Designed for and by women

that is for everyone.

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Really.

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I mean, we want everyone to come,

but let's look at what happens when

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we, you know, provide a safe space.

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And this was all inspired because if

you've ever been to a big conference

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before, sometimes, you know, that the

most juiciest and meaningful connections

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are when you're just sitting down to take

a load off on a bench that you can find.

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To give your feet a rest and, you

know, just breathe and process

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everything that's going on.

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And so the first thing I

wanted were velvet benches.

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And then, of course, we wanted

to do a water ceremony, so we

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had to have a water fountain.

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And and I found one at Lowe's

in the shape of a vagina.

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I was so excited.

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We had a red tent room where we had props.

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Constantly programming

in there the whole week.

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And by the way, this parliament

lasts a week, and every few years,

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three to four years, it moves from

city to city, country to country.

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My first parliament was in Australia,

and so it's bopped around the world.

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It's possible the next one will

be in Scotland, but it really, but

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it takes millions and millions of

dollars, and entire city initiatives.

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To bring a parliament to

your state or your city.

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So that is the parliament and that was.

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We know what we had the privilege of

doing with:

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you know, given permission to build in

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Liz Childs Kelly: and I

didn't mean to interrupt you.

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So you were talking about like being

in the women's village and like,

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that's sort of like where you knew her.

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So I, yeah, apologies for that.

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But yeah, I'd love to hear that too.

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Sande Hart: no apologies.

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As a matter of fact, thank you.

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Because I skipped right over that.

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So the, you know, we knew we wanted, you

know, to have these things happen, right?

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We had crown making session, we station,

you know, where women everywhere were

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walking around the parliament with

these gorgeous crowns that they made

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with, you know, a glue stick and all

these flowers and different ribbons

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and things that we had provided.

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We had a mother tree where people

could write their prayers on

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her leaves and stick them up.

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Where there were just branches or acorns.

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This is a last minute thing.

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And I rushed from Amazon these

little acorn shaped papers where you

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can write your wishes that we want

to flourish into 10, 000 for us.

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Right?

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And then bark that you can write.

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The name of your ancestors on

and affix it to the, her trunk.

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And so we had, we had

just circles of chairs.

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So we, you know, for spontaneous circles

to happen, we had roses everywhere.

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And our whole container was held by

women's woven voices, tapestries.

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That were brought to us by Women's

Woven Voices, the organization, and

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these are little one square strips of

fabric that were crafted by thousands

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of women from all over the world that

made 1, 700 square feet of tapestry

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that we, that we, that held our space.

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We were literally held in women's voices.

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So, we've got all of these fixtures,

all of these material things.

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Holding the space and providing space

for women as well as the candle lit red

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tent room where we didn't met maiden

mother and crown ceremonies and there were

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programs in there and silence in there and

movement and all kinds of juicy things.

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I've used that word a lot here.

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I guess that's the word of the day yet.

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But day one, I'm walking

out of this space, having

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witnessed people enjoying it.

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Being in there, you know, actually

actualizing the place and I'm walking

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out and I'm like, my feet are not

touching the floor and there is a

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gentle breeze blowing my hair off my

shoulders and I am one with the universe.

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I felt so elevated.

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Could have, I could, I could have

probably struck a match if there

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was an unlit match around me.

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I felt that I felt that hollow rod

at the same time going through me.

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And, and I heard that from other

women in different degrees.

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So that was when I knew she was present.

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That's when I, I found her.

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She had been trying to get my attention

my whole life, but that's when I said,

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I'm here, you're here, we're here.

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I hear you.

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Liz Childs Kelly: I just, I love that

you, you called it a flicker and like,

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you're using the language of flame

and you know, in my book, I talk about

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her as like throwing a match at my

feet and kind of setting me on fire.

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And and I even, yeah.

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And I've even thought about For me

right now, kind of metaphorically,

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I'm working with, like, if anybody

has seen my, my work, you may have

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seen that there's a butterfly.

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There's like a little kind of stylized

butterfly that's connected to my work.

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And that's such a common

metaphor of transformation.

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And and I've also been really, really more

drawn to the, the feeling and the, the

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imagery of a moth lately, and specifically

a moth to a flame, because the butterfly.

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To me, you know, we sort of, at least

when we speak about it metaphorically, we

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know, we know it's going to, it's going

to, it's Caterpillar and it's going to go

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through the goo, but we're going to come

out something beautiful, you know, and

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isn't there reassurance in that journey?

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And, and I, I guess I'm sharing

this, Sande, because I want

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to hear your reaction to it.

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But, To me working with the divine

feminine and sacred feminine energy,

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it's more like she is the flame and I am

the fricking moth and I have got to go,

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and I don't know what's going to happen.

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I don't know that I'm going to emerge

on the other side as a butterfly.

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I have no idea.

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It is like stepping into that

space of liminality to use your

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language or, you know, the unknown.

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I just did a co facilitated retreat

around that topic last weekend,

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but you know, it can feel like.

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Like, moving towards annihilation

in a way, and yet It's irresistible.

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Like we, we need to follow her, you

know, because it's that powerful.

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So I'm going to stop there.

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I don't know how that,

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Sande Hart: please never stop.

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It, it's as if we don't

have a choice in the matter.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yes.

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Sande Hart: Now some accept that

readily and go towards the flame and

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some resisted and we'll continue.

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I think perhaps to continue

circle around this.

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And I think this is a

really important point.

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I know that, you know, I think

we all have similar stuff.

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Like when you start seeing patterns of

behavior and patterns or relationships

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and patterns of things happening.

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You know, I think that

those are absolute gifts.

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And she's putting them in front

of us constantly until we can look

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at them and go, okay, dive in.

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What's this about?

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Let's get honest.

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Right.

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and I love the, the moth

versus the butterfly.

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And I don't think it's a versus

cause I think both things

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can happen at the same time.

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The, the moth though, we discount,

this is just plain and white and every

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day, just like a w how we would equate

the difference between a flower and a

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dandelion, but a dandelion is medicine.

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It's earth's medicine.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yes.

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Sande Hart: And so when

there's illness or dis ease.

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You'll start seeing dandelions pop

around, up around the house, right?

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Or when we see a

dandelion, it's a reminder.

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And what happens when

we blow in a dandelion?

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Those seeds spread.

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That's why I didn't mention this,

but we, after leaving the parliament,

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it became very clear to me that

Sarah needed to change direction.

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And we've been grappling

with this for, for years.

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Are we stale?

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Is this working?

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We're not community based anymore.

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We're not in our community.

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What are we?

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We don't want to duplicate

what's happening out there.

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And so much is happening out there.

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Where are we?

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So we sat back and listened carefully,

didn't take our eye off the flame though.

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And then leaving the parliament.

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Oh, okay.

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This is what's next for us.

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The global women's village.

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So we changed the name and I'm getting

to the point I'm getting to is.

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The idea of you'll notice that

there's a dandelion as part of our

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logo, and that was really intended to

illustrate what we are really about.

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And that's blowing in

one another's dandelion.

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This is something Jean Shinoda

Bolen likes to talk about that

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blowing in your dandelions.

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It's what we could do for one another

is blow in one another's dandelion.

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But then just a few weeks

ago, I learned this.

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Fact about dandelions

being Earth's medicine.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yes.

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And I also learned that they are here

on this continent because my English

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ancestors thought they were so valuable

that they needed to bring them over

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when they immigrated from England.

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And I think definitely England, maybe

other parts of the British Isles too,

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but they, they are, I'm fairly certain

they're not native to the United States.

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They were brought as medicine,

specifically as medicine.

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So yeah, kind of cool.

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And I have some

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Sande Hart: dandelion tea in my cupboard.

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It's like, I never connected the two.

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So that Ma, absolutely.

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You know, it's time we start

questioning assumptions.

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This is what I feel about

everything you said.

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And this is so much a part of what's

important for us is the role of women

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right now in these evolutionary times

is that we start questioning assumptions

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about what we think of things.

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And I'm so grateful that you are such a.

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On the forefront of this, I should say

that you are willing and able to say,

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see that the yourself in that moth.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yes.

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Well, yes.

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And I, yes.

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And I, I have, I feel like I've had

lots of experience of Heading towards

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that flame and it often does feel

like annihilation, although sweet

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in a way, but yeah, there's a lot of

like a burning down of old structures

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that are no longer going to serve.

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And I've, you know, been actively in

that process for one way or another for,

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you know, since I met her, since I, she,

she showed herself to me 10 years ago.

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So yeah.

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Sande Hart: I think that's

what she wants from us.

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I think that's, and I used

to say marching orders.

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Those are our dancing orders.

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We get to do this as the embodied female.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yes, we do.

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And I, I love, I'd love to hear you talk.

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So now you've had this two decades

of women's spiritual activism.

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I don't know if that's how you'd call it,

but I love to hear you talk about like

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what, and now that she is really made

herself known to you, like, how is that

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showing up and where you're headed now?

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And what's, what's evolving

and coming forward for you?

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Sande Hart: Yeah, thank you for asking.

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And again, this is all kind of new for me.

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So it's very fresh, but I'm really

celebrating the fact that I'm

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experiencing a lot of courage in

my life that I didn't have before.

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Liz Childs Kelly: It's

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Sande Hart: coming out in my words.

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It's coming out in my initiatives.

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It's, it's getting me really crystal

clear on, and I'm not 100 percent

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there, but I'm getting much more clear.

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As it's crystallizing for me that I'm,

I can be in reverence to something,

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you know, I, what, one of the biggest

evidences of her in my life and to

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answer your question was, and I'll

say, there's this song by George

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Harrison, My Dear Lord, I Really Want

to Know You, I Really Want to Love

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You, I Really Want to Be Like You.

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My whole life I really, really wanted to

know that yearning or that longing, you

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know, I really wanted it, but I wasn't

finding it anywhere in my experience.

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And it was not that long ago that

I came upon this painting of Mary

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Magdalene, who exemplifies her in so

many ways with all the things coming

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off of her and how she is painted and

the manner in which she was painted.

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And felt that longing.

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And now I can I can really, you

know, I'm struggling with, do I

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lower my head in reverence or raise

my head, my head in gratitude?

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You know, no matter what I do, I

feel completely embodied for her.

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And it was the first time

I've ever found that.

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And I have to say, none of this, I

haven't abandoned my My Judaism, I

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found a place for Judaism in my life,

which is where it's always been in

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that is I love to light the Shabbat

candles on Friday night, because that

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connects me to my grandmothers and

my ancestors who were right with me.

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They're lighting the room.

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If you can't see them,

I, I know they're there.

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Maybe you can imagine them as

perhaps I see yours as well.

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They're, they're a direct connection

to not just every woman lighting

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candles that night at the same

time, somewhere else in the world.

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Or at sunset.

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So we have the full 24 hours of it.

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We're all saying a similar prayer, being

grateful for this light that we can bring.

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But also this lineage and mine

happens to be all the, go all the

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way back to the beginning of time.

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I, my husband wasn't born Jewish,

so can't say that about my daughter,

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but she feels that connection.

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So she can own that because she is my seed

in her as do her, my two granddaughters.

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So that's how it shows up in me.

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Absolute reverence and courage.

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And a knowing that I'm here.

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I have a sacred task.

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It's where my passions meet

the needs in the world.

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My calling as Aristotle says.

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And and it, it wasn't that hard to do.

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It came when I think it was developed

when I was writing the liminal

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odyssey, because I was grappling

with all these stories in my life.

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It's the spiritual memoir.

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Right.

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And I'm looking at every one of

these experiences that happened.

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Which immediately was led to the science,

or the philosophy, or the folklore, or the

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mythology of the meaning of what happened.

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And, and it put everything, and it

made everything so full of grace

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for me, that I had this Indra's

net to catch her, to catch me.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah.

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And so one of the things that I think

it comes up for me when you talk about

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your background and so lovely, that

idea of being connected to women all

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the way back through the beginning of

time, which I think, I think actually

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lots of us can hold that in different

ways too, regardless of your, your

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spiritual tradition, but for you,

it seems so deeply connected to

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your heritage, your Jewish heritage.

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And yeah, I, I wondering if you would be

willing to speak to, you know, you've got

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all of this work in Compassion and peace.

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And right now we're in this like

powder keg of a situation of what's

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happening in Israel and Gaza.

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And I'm just wondering like how

you are holding that with this,

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this deep commitment to that.

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And also this deep commitment

to your, to your Jewish faith,

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then your Jewish heritage.

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Like, how are you, how are you navigating

that and how are you holding that?

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Sande Hart: Yeah.

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Thank you for asking that question

because it brings me to my knees.

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There are no words.

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It's unfathomable that this is happening.

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I personally, And this isn't the

story of my parents, but I don't

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personally identify with Israel.

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I understand it's, it's existence.

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I understand it's story.

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My Judaism is really connected,

like you said, to pre Israel yet.

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We're all connected in such profound

ways, but I've never aligned with

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the politics of what it means

to survive as a religion, right?

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I've never aligned with that.

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I don't think it's a justification

for one single murder.

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And and I, what I'm

watching is nationalism.

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I'm not looking at religion.

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I'm it's so disgraceful and unfortunate

that this is happening in the name of

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Judaism or it's associated with Judaism

because Israel is a Jewish state and it's

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supposed to embody these values and it

was the place that Jews could be safe.

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And here, how are we treating

our brother and cousins?

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I hear so many stories from my Muslim

sisters of how their aunties, their next

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door neighbors growing up were Jewish,

and how they would have each other over

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for each other's holidays and teach

each other how to cook different things.

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That is how we behave as a humanity.

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But this is nationalism.

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I think this is just the

epitome of nationalism.

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Of an example of all of the systems that

are breaking down on our planet right now,

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this leads us right into the conversation

of the system of domination and the

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resistance to what's breaking through.

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You know, we're at this really

fascinating time in history, aren't we?

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I mean, what a blessing.

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And I'd like to think I had

something to do with choosing to

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be here, but I'm sure happy I am.

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Although I was born 10 years

too late because I would have

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been a great hippie, but I can

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Liz Childs Kelly: see that about

you, but I think you're too, you

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know, like you might've gotten

too distracted with the fun of it.

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And then you're here for

an important mission.

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So I think you're right on

time, but I could see that.

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Sande Hart: What kind of trip I would

have gotten lost in, but I used to hand

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out love beads on the bus, and this is

during the 70s, where it was hip huggers

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in neon colors, and here I'm a hippie

with, you know daisies in my braids.

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So the, this dichotomy, you know,

we're at this really fascinating

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time where this right, this rise

of frequency on our planet and

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these conversations are plentiful.

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They don't make CNN, you know, they

don't, you'll never find him on

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television, unfortunately, maybe one

day you will, but the airways are

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flooded with evolutionary thinkers.

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Those of us who are accepting that

we're at this bend, cosmologists,

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cosmetologists, everybody, they're

all having this conversation

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no matter where they are.

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And, and I meant cosmetologists, you

know, because I have this conversation

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when I'm getting my hair done.

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So they Same, by the way, same.

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Yes.

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Liz Childs Kelly: You're right.

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You're so right.

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Sande Hart: I just don't want

anybody to think I mixed up my words.

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But at any rate and and we're

also watching systems fall apart.

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You know, it's like the

seed that has been planted.

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In us the seed that has been our inherited

right and especially women because we

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know biologically we pass our seeds down

through our bloodline to our daughters and

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our daughters to our daughters daughters.

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So I'm carrying like great great great

great ancestors grandmothers seed.

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What is my responsibility to that?

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But like a seed underground

that's been just waiting patiently

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for the right conditions.

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To start coming through the soil.

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We can see both.

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It has to disintegrate first.

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Of course, it has to fall apart.

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It has to change its DNA.

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And I don't like the butterfly.

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You mentioned its DNA

will completely change.

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It won't resemble anything of

what that seed looked like.

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It'll break through the soil and we have

no idea what what it's going to manifest.

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We don't know if it's going to be 10, 000

forests like oak trees or if it's going

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to be and whatever it's going to be,

whatever species it's going to show up as.

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We get this privilege.

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To to garden it to be the

sacred gardeners of that seed.

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So we're watching both of these

things happen and we have to

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really go easy on ourselves.

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It doesn't have to be this hard.

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We put a lot of there's enough

happening out there to weigh us down.

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We put enough on ourselves.

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And by the way, we, you know, this

domination trans women have been

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walking in that we have to play

small that, you know, we carry this

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guilt and the shame and all of these

things, which, you know, we could have

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another three programs on right here.

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And I know you've had these conversations

that we have to take a load off ourselves

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and give ourselves some love and grace.

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Liz Childs Kelly: For sure.

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Sande Hart: We're needed right now.

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We need to clear the gunk.

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I believe I read in your

book and I wrote it in mine.

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We have got to clear the gunk,

remove the wheat from the chaff

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and be the mothers in the room.

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You know?

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah.

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And that leads into, I think, you

know, conversations that you and I

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have had separately over email and,

and oh, and, and, you know, like on,

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on in person or at least on zoom too.

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But like what?

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What do you see emerging

right now in terms of women's

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lead, and you tell me if you want to

use the word leadership or not, because

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I feel like that's got some patriarchal

kind of hang ups with it too, but

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like women's leadership potential and

roles and the possibilities that are

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there in this moment as everything is

breaking down, like where and how are

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you seeing the opportunity for women to

really step forward in different ways?

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very much.

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Sande Hart: I am so grateful you

mentioned the languaging around the

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word leadership, because that's really

been rubbing me right for me leadership.

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And this will answer your question where

I think we're going, where it's showing

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up for me I'm seeing evidence of it.

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And I've been doing this research on

this very particular conversation,

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what is the future of women's

leadership and I'm crowdsourcing.

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The knowledge I'm not looking in

books, although I take that back.

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I am looking and reading

books and following threads.

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But really, my primary clinical

research is in having conversations

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and hearing it from people ages 15 to

93 so far soon to be a 12 year old.

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And she's brilliant.

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And because I want to hear from

people what they think, and what I'm

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coming to the understanding is, is

we need a new, we need new language.

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We need new words around this.

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And the word leadership

in itself is hierarchical.

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Yes.

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Right.

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It, it, it, and so how do we stretch the

edges of what's possible to the place

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where it's It needs a new language.

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It needs a new word.

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And I think this is going to be the

first time I mention this publicly,

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but I've been using the expression,

women who future women who are

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okay we know where we've come from.

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I mean, just read home to her.

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You have this beautiful through line

of, of, and for good reason why we're,

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why we've come this far, but now that

we know, now that we've read Liz Childs

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Kelly's book, now that we know this

stuff, and we have an endless supply

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of other resources that tell us this,

Okay, if we still choose to live in

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that space, we're victimizing now.

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We got to get really honest and real here.

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We've got to say, okay, I get that.

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What do I have to do?

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What do I have to clear?

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What do I have to look at?

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What assumptions do I have to question

and, and start, you know, developing,

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creating a new system for us.

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And I think you're the one, no, you

are the who said, you know, this

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system that we're trying to fix.

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Wasn't designed for

women in the first place.

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It's time to recreate a new system.

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And so what doesn't work hierarchy?

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What's what's old and tired

systems of domination.

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So we have to look at ourselves, the

words we use, what we think of ourselves

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and how do we, And this is the my

favorite part about this whole thing

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and what women who feature do and that

is that we question every assumption.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yes.

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Sande Hart: What are these

patterns that have gotten me here?

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And why do I think like that?

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Why do I use that word?

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Is that word really relevant?

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What words are we using that

I shouldn't be using anymore?

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You will not find the word submit

on any button on our website.

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We're just eliminating words.

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We're creating a new narrative too.

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:

Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah.

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Even your point to marching orders.

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Like there's so many.

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Metaphors of dominance and violence

and hierarchy in our language that we

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don't, we don't even think about it.

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Like when people say, I feel

really triggered, you know, like

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there's so many ways that we

just accept this into our lives.

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And yeah, you are, yes,

you're, you're so right.

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And I, I wanted to name too.

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And I wonder if you feel this Sande, and

I actually think that what you're doing

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with Sarah and its transformation to the

global woman's village is so important.

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But because we're doing this.

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We have no roadmap like we do and we

don't like yes You can look at my book

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and realize we have not this has been

done before but not in this context and

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not at This scale like the reality is

we can look back at other cultures and

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learn from them, but we've never been As

connected globally, the way we are now

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:

with this matrix and capital capitalism

and 8 billion people on the planet.

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Yes, like all of that is

so helpful and informative.

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And we're also, you know, we're,

there's that Adrian rich poem,

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the maps they gave us were out

of date by decades or something.

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I'll find it and I'll

put it in his show notes.

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It's so, so gorgeous.

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And so I wonder, like, for you, how do

you hold the Because it can feel like, you

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know, you're stepping into liminal space.

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It can feel like annihilation.

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Like, I don't know where I'm going.

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I don't know where I'm going.

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Like, how do you, how do you hold that,

you know, like in that, because there's

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something so exciting about, in a way

about these systems falling apart and

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the opportunity to future, you know, and

imagine the new, and there's something

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also very terrifying about it, because

we don't know where we're going, right?

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:

Sande Hart: We don't know where we're

going, but we know we're on our way.

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And I don't want to poison the

water hole when I get there.

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And so first of all, where do I hold it?

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I hold it in a container.

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There's not even a container

or constellation of on wonder.

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I'm constantly going,

Oh, that's interesting.

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Where before I'd go, Oh my God, you

know, I'm like, Oh, what's that about?

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Cause I can remove myself and my ego

and my victimization and my traumas.

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which are real and do deserve

real love and care and whatever

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attention is necessary.

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I don't want to discount that, but my

answer is, I don't know where we're going,

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but I'm willing to be a sacred gardener.

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And what I also think is really important

is that we show up with our sacred task.

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What do you do?

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Liz, you are a phenomenal orator.

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You're a phenomenal weaver of stories.

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You are a beautiful expression of the

divine feminine, particularly how you hold

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space on the airwaves, what you're doing

with these airwaves that are flooded and

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why you're, we choose to listen to you.

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Right.

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That's for me that I would suggest that

that might be one of your sacred tasks.

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I know another one is being,

you know, an amazing mom.

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And so the, the, and sister and friend,

yet we have these sacred tasks that are

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our seat in our pocket or our womb, you

know, and what are we going to do with it?

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And that was a revelation I had

while standing on a walking bridge

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just down the road from Auschwitz.

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It's, I don't know if you remember the

last chapter of my book where we had

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spent the day in Auschwitz and the next

morning, I'm standing over this bridge

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that's going, you know, under me and

all these ducks and the slush greenery

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everywhere wondering where did Jews

hide in here, you know, and by the way,

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when I'm walking through the little

town of Auschwitz, which is Auschwitz

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in, in in Polish, I would look at,

you know, in churches and look at are

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those panels hollow or people were

people hiding there or in their attics.

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But here I'm standing on this

bridge looking in the trees going.

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Wow.

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And then I realized.

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I am standing over the bridge, over the

water that has come down past Auschwitz,

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the death camp, and now the museum, called

the museum, that where ashes of the souls

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were dispensed up to hide the evidence.

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And I immediately realized that all

of the souls had to have absorbed

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into Beside the banks of this little

teeny river and giving growth and

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life that I'm going to start crying.

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I'm there with you.

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Yes.

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Tell this story.

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I wrote it.

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It's still, it's still new to

me, you know, gave refuge in

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life to for life to continue.

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And then I heard, and this was, never

realized until this moment, but another

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voice I heard were millions Of souls

saying we choose love, we choose love, we

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don't let mourning be our story, right?

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Learn, but live, and, and in that

way, we can say everything that's come

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before us, as we're standing over that

river, what are we going to do with it?

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Are we going to, are we going

to acknowledge where it's,

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how it's brought us this far?

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Are we going to say, we are the

ones that get to redirect the river,

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and we do that through awareness,

watching our language, and accepting

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our dancing orders, and it takes

time, it takes practice, it's not that

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easy, I'm not suggesting it's easy,

but it's as easy to do the practice,

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just pay attention to your words.

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That's a great start.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah, it also

feels, and I think this may be

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a good place for us to, to wrap.

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I'm just so like, woof, so full from

this, but it also, I had a feeling,

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you know, when you're talking

about the water and the river and

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imagining you and I are going to be.

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ancestors one day, and I can promise

you we're going to be intentional

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as heck about it, like, we're

living our lives that way now.

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But I just had that sense of

like, stepping into that stream of

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human possibility and potential.

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And that I don't know why this is making

me so emotional, but that I get to let

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go of like, knowing the outcome in my

lifetime or even my children's lifetime.

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It doesn't matter.

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It really doesn't because I'm just,

I'm just willing, I'm so willing

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to put myself into that stream.

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And I know you are too.

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And I think if we all do that, I

think that's, that's more than enough.

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It really is more than enough.

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Sande Hart: You just reminded

me of Henry David Thoreau.

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Go go in the direction of your dreams,

harbor, live the life you imagined.

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And that's what we get to do.

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Thank you for that beautiful summation.

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:

Liz Childs Kelly: Oh my gosh.

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This is so incredibly

rich and wonderful, Sande.

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I just, I, I, every time I get to be

with you, my heart is so full and I'm

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so glad that people get to hear from

you and experience You here on the show.

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So thank you so much for all that you do

in the way that you show up in the world.

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I think I'm really want to acknowledge.

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I've been paying attention to this

a lot lately that I believe that

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we all have a choice that you, you

didn't have to say yes to this path.

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You didn't, you could have

chosen a different life.

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You really could have.

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And you said yes.

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And so thank you.

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Cause I think we're all,

we're all benefiting from it.

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Sande Hart: Thank you.

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Yeah, we're all mirrors

for each other, too.

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So thank you.

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And everyone out there who's listening

because that means you're there, too.

939

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So I think that this is

important to acknowledge.

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:

We are so mighty in numbers.

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Liz Childs Kelly: Yeah, oh my gosh.

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I will put a link to the global

website, Global Woman's Village.

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It's out there.

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I can send people to it.

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Yep.

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Okay.

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I will do that.

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And yeah, I don't know.

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Go have a good cry if you need one.

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I might do that after this, but just, I

want to thank all of you for listening.

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I just, I know, I, I, If you paid

attention, there's been a big gap.

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I, if you listened, I've,

I'm going through a divorce.

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And so, you know, my, my energy

has been in different places,

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but these conversations, they so

like fill my heart and my soul.

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So I thank you for continuing to

show up and and, you know, bringing

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your own heart into these into these

spaces and yeah, until next time,

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take such good care of yourselves and

I will be with you again, very soon.

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Home to Her is hosted by me, Liz Kelley.

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You can visit me online at hometoher.

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com, where you can find show

notes and other episodes.

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You can read articles about the

Sacred Feminine, and you'll also

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find a link to join the Home to

Her Facebook group for lots more

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:

discussion and exploration of Her.

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You can also follow me on Instagram,

at home to her, to keep up to

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date with the latest episodes.

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Thanks so much for joining us

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