I want to open a door for you.
A door into a private world, where women tell other women stories.
Stories that will take your breath away. Stories that will shock you, and make you grit your teeth in fury. Stories that will make you snort with laughter, as you bury your face in your hands. Stories that will make your eyes widen with wonder and awe.
Real life women, living real life fairy tales.
Through Rupture — when life pulls the rug from beneath our feet and reality is forever changed.
Through Retreat — when sitting in the ashes of what was, we wonder what’s next.
Through Return — when we re-emerge, try and fail, and try again, all the while becoming the next evolution of who we are here to become.
Through Rise — when we pause and notice a breathtakingly beautiful moment that now captures the essence of the life we have built.
Through stories we connect. Through stories we learn.
Each is a mirror and a map. Illuminating the path between where we are and where we want to be.
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When I thought about women in my world whose stories I was intrigued to capture, Sohana was the first woman who leapt into my mind. My intuition was clear, and so I followed the nudge.
Some months back I had followed Sohana’s journey on social media as she journeyed through an intense health retreat in Thailand and fell in love with all that she embodied. Authenticity, strength, beauty, compassion, grace, and a gentleness that is rare... oh, and humour. She is funny.
Little did I know that her story would be a journey of epic proportions. A true heroine’s adventure.
But also, a mirror.
Women I know, women I work with, women worldwide will see themselves in this story.
And in this we learn we are not alone.
Fairy tales have existed for hundreds, and even thousands of years, and the rhythm of Rupture, Retreat, Return and Rise is mirrored as it was then, in equal measure as it is today.
We are after all not so different as we have been led to believe.
What I see in me, I see in you, and in the women whose stories I will share. And I hope you will do the same.
Story One — of Real Life Fairy Tales — A Eudaimonia Podcast Production is now live.
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