21/07/2026
Circle Reflection Part 2: The Power of Returning
To be deeply and completely known isn’t the only thing I reflect on as I show up as a villager.
I continue to return to the same circles/gatherings as circle for me is an anchor back to myself, my purpose and meaning, my values, and of course my villages. An anchor back to being deeply known but also back to spaces where I deeply know others.
Each time I show up to these communities and villages both Lisa Mabberley | Mother, Nurture & Wild and Mitlé Southey have created (I mentioned in Reflection Part 1), I get to sit with women I’ve been getting to know over the years who also continue to show up. It is so comforting to get to share as life flows along through times of growth, settling or contemplating, through grief, and any other life experiences. I get to bear witness to these things unfolding for other women and they get to bear witness to it unfolding for me. We cry together, rage together, laugh together, and celebrate together. It’s all very human and therefore very beautiful.
There is something magical about a group of women who may all arrive as strangers and leave realising they were never as alone in their experiences as they thought. Through continual returning, we feel less and less like strangers until the knowing happens. Then we get the privilege of sharing life with OUR real life people we’ve taken the time to know and who know us.
I deeply believe the magic of circle is found in the commitment we make to keep arriving, staying open to being seen and known, and to continue to witness others in all seasons of our lives and not hide away alone when things get hard. It is found in the openness of nurturing deeper and ongoing relationships through all life phases.
How would it feel to be anchored into a continual village? To be deeply known and deeply know others? Does your soul crave it? I know mine does.
