ISUMATAQ COLLECTIVE BLOG
Below are a number of previous sharings and reflections. Sign up to receive future letters directly to your inbox.
Below are a number of previous sharings and reflections. Sign up to receive future letters directly to your inbox.
She Would Have Been 14: On Éloïse, Grief and the Great Waters of Annecy
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This week I have been in mourning, more so than I had anticipated after all this time, and yet it is fitting, given the topic of grief, which we will gather around next month in our second Coaching Short. After nearly 15 years of speaking relatively little about this immense experience, I ...
Jul 16, 2025
coaching shorts
grief
The Forces That Guide Us…
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I had the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Green on Resonant World recently, and I'm so grateful for the space that we shared.
Among many things, we explored the topic of ancestry, something that feels especially alive for me as it was the focus of our first Coaching Short, Finding Resili...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
coaching shorts
interview
Meet The Inaugural Cohort Looking at The Power of Ancestral Resilience & Find Out How You Can Do This Course
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Wow! This is our inaugural cohort who gathered for our first live session to examine resilience through a regenerative and ancestral lens. These are some of the 44 women who that heard that call. I've included a few testimonials below...
I was blown away by the deep sharing and incredibl...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
coaching shorts
community
self-development
sisterhood
transformation
A Nod from the Ancestors - Resilience and Our Pathways to Healing
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Just over a decade ago, my mother died two months before my daughter was born. It was a profound threshold. I was grieving in the late stages of pregnancy and of course, despite trying to move on for my new baby, this continued while nursing a newborn. Everyday I walked the tightrope of u...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
grief
resilience
self-development
transformation
Oh To Be a Woman...
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I have checked and I have full permission to share this moment with you. A dear friend of mine's daughter turned 13 this week. Izzy, her mother had asked her adult female friends who have known her daughter for much of her life, to write a prayer, wise words or wishes, which she would add ...
Jul 16, 2025
rites of passage
sisterhood
womankind
The Power of Sisterhood: When Friends Hold Space for Our Doubts
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I wasn't intending to write this letter to you all, but there are moments in any journey of creation when doubt creeps in and whispers that perhaps we've gone too far, reached too high, or exposed too much of ourselves. This week, I found myself in exactly such a moment with the Isumataq ...
Jul 16, 2025
sisterhood
womankind
In Awe of Womankind
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I am in awe of women. In awe of their stories, their courage, their beauty and their vulnerability and the dance they have to do to allow these gifts to inform how they lead in all walks of their lives, without feeling exposed or criticised for celebrating and integrating their wholeness.
...
Jul 16, 2025
success
womankind
Finding True Resilience: Exploring Unseen Sources of Strength
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Resilience is often seen as something we must build on our own - through habits, discipline or sheer willpower. But what if resilience could be found in other accessible ways? What if it's something we already carry? What if it runs through us, woven into our very being by those who came b...
Jul 16, 2025
ancestry
coaching shorts
resilience
self-development
transformation
The Feminine Journey: Descent, Awareness, Transformation and Emergence
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Welcome to our first newsletter!
There is an ancient rhythm to transformation - one that mirrors the cycles of nature, the changing tides and the deep wisdom held within us. The Coaching Shorts journey follows this natural cycle, guiding us through four essential stages: The Descent Inward...
Jul 16, 2025
coaching shorts
self-development
transformation