Ninja Prayers
I know the world’s unconsciousness can ask our hand in “being” something. Someone special. Evolved. Healed. Important. But there is another consciousness, one that asks us to open ourselves through surrender and the innate power that comes from being humble. Would...
Soul Dreaming
Several nights ago I had a dream that was direct guidance from my soul. This is not the first time this has happened. In fact, I often have very intense dreams where I am guided in the most magical of ways….
Honoring the Feminine
Make no mistake about it, there is wisdom in our journey. There is grace making its way to and through us via the nuances of our life. What we are here to teach, we often have to rise from and through with a conviction that can only come from having to embody it...
Prayers For Women
My darling daughter, you play too small. The lungs you use to speak carry the wisdom of your grandmothers, the prayers of civilization, of the Earth’s germination— it sweats from your skin. The wealth carried within cannot be measured accurately by man, so take the innocence within….
Love, Grief, and Forgiveness
I now see the ways our words built a home made of straw I mistook for cement. A mirage of sorts. Skylines made of buildings without outlines. How humbling it is to find I fell for my own wishes— how brilliant to not light a match but instead simply exhale and let it fall…
On Being Human
I have lived a thousand lives in forty years. Tiny moments of miracles and deaths. I have known love beyond what I could have imagined, and fallen into the arms of timelessness near a great Master. I have prayed on my knees, weeping, asking to open my heart over and...
I Will Applaud For You
Show me who you are when no one is applauding for you. When you are not given praises and accolades. Tell me your journey of leaving behind those who meet you with inaccuracy. I want to see your hands when they are wrapped around the confines of your ribs…
Life: The Ultimate Teacher
Our story is often our greatest teacher, as life weaves what we are meant to learn into our existence with great consideration. We come to discover that we are but mere players in the grand design of awakening…
Welcome
My name is Lesley Wirth and I am the creator of The Way of the Woman. I started this blog as a way to share the journey of what it means to be alive. What it means to be a woman awakening. In the name of no more pretending, let us drop the masks and dare to be seen.