It's Independence Day in the United States, and so I want to tell a story of radical self liberation. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Last fall when I visited Egypt for the first time (not the last...) one of the most profound new connections that I made was with the ancient Goddess known as Sekhmet. I had heard her before....but this time, I REALLY heard her. She spoke to me. She called me in. And I have listened ever since. 

The week after I returned, during my Priestess Akashic Records training, I channeled her for the first time knowingly, and I can speak for us all that we were blown away. And the journey continues.

Those of you who know this fierce mother love that she is know what I mean, and those of you who want to, well, she is here. She is emerging, as you, and I, and others who carry the codes of the Christ light are lighting up our own selves and making it possible in various ways.

And ALL of the mothers (they now call themselves the Council of Mothers) want us to be free.

And you know what one of the biggest secrets to that is?

It's taken me decades to figure this out, but perhaps even the very biggest key to knowing my freedom is that I have learned to love myself fiercely, and unconditionally.

I suppose if someone were to ask, I would say that fierce self love is one of the biggest gifts that cancer has given me. Cancer took me on a ride for my life. Facing death, facing loss, facing losing EVERYTHING. Now that will make just about anyone think.

At the same time, I had sooooo much love pouring my way. I was blessed in every way imaginable along the path. And yet, had I not ultimately surrendered to actually allow myself to love myself fiercely, and get that fire in me I needed. Something had to radically change, because if I had not loved myself enough to accept and allow all of the incredible divine and human interventions, I might not even have survived. Who knows.

Even if I had, that version of me would still be thinking she is not free. 

Now I know that thinking we are not free is an illusion. But try telling someone that who has a dire health diagnosis, is in prison, or has an extraordinary loss. Context matters. But so does truth.

I think what I'm saying, from my experience, is that no matter the pain, no matter the hardship, the diagnosis, the seeming loss or stuckness of it all.....if we cannot allow love in, then I don't think we can be free--because our perspective is what creates our freedom. 

This is a new concept to me because I have only been celebrating my true independence from the fear of death and cancer for a little while. But I think this is going to stick as one of my major truths.

And I know deep in my heart that this is why the Mothers above want us to know we are free, to act like we are free, and to truly embody freedom. They want us to love ourselves THAT much.

You don't see them lying around thinking something can stop them.....do you? They know who they are.

Now I do too.

And I pray the same for you.

And at the very basic level.....I pray you know you are loved, and you love yourself enough to allow that in. Deeply in. Into your bones.

Speaking of bones, one last story to make my point: You see I had metastatic cancer that went into my bones. And one night during a deep medicine journey, cancer told me that it had inhabited all of the places that I had not. My very bones. My bone marrow. My core. Because I couldn't love myself fully. Because I ignored that part of me.

So I got to work some more. And now....totally different story. Now I am the one who fills my bones--with light, and supplements, and divine love that I Am, and I allow every single helpful thing to keep my body so amazingly strong.

And so this is how I wrote a happy ending. And why freedom--and choosing it--is so very, very important. 

Namaste.