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The Three Best Writing Retreats Around the World
The Storyteller Within Women's Writing Retreat were named among "The Three Best Writing Retreats Around the World" by writersboon.com ...
Aimee Hansen
Mar 28, 20181 min read


A Sacred Kind of Defiance
I gathered with an incredible group of women during this recent last full moon. We shared a span of ages forty years wide, a multitude of...
Aimee Hansen
Feb 13, 20184 min read


To Love My Mystery
I've met many a fool, said the moon, who loved me full. It's another thing to love my mystery. I'm as present in my waxes and wanes as...
Aimee Hansen
Jan 31, 20181 min read


The Shadow of a Spell
Tonight I sat with sisters circled 'round a boiling pot beneath a moon so nearly full tub water far too hot the elements have been...
Aimee Hansen
Jan 30, 20181 min read


Lines Crossing Every Kind of Time
I remember it happened once years ago in the most mundane way - what do they call it? that thing, when you remember about love? no,...
Aimee Hansen
Jan 23, 20183 min read


Try This New Year's Reflection, First.
This is an invitation to a writing reflection during this turn of the year, an invitation to honor the woman you are. I wrote an...
Aimee Hansen
Dec 31, 20173 min read


Are You Willing To Be This Open?
Often, between the here and there of places, intriguing things happen. On my way home to my family for the holidays, I had a two-day...
Aimee Hansen
Dec 27, 20173 min read


What If You Let Yourself Choose?
The holiday season had me thinking about something the other day. I remember when I preferred the wrapped, unopened gift. My favorite...
Aimee Hansen
Dec 7, 20174 min read


Why Do I Invite You to Guatemala?
I want you to retreat with me, and one of the places I am asking you to join me in 2018 is Guatemala. I could ask you to join me...
Aimee Hansen
Nov 30, 20173 min read


Top 5 Incredible Writing Retreats To Attend
I'm gonna be completely honest. Every year I hold my breath and wait and see if the retreats will again be recommended in an article that...
Aimee Hansen
Nov 8, 20172 min read


Lead Me Back to Myself
What leads you back to yourself? Forget the retreats and the books and the practices and that person and the trip and the journey. I...
Aimee Hansen
Oct 14, 20172 min read


My Unapologetic Confession
My unapologetic confession. I am a woman that gathers women together to share in circles. I love co-creating and holding our shared and...
Aimee Hansen
Oct 1, 20172 min read


Eternity Lives in A Second
I was in San Marcos La Laguna on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala during the earthquake on the evening of September 7, 2017, when I wrote this....
Aimee Hansen
Sep 23, 20173 min read


When I say Goddess, I mean let's get real.
For a long time, I wasn't much for the word. Goddess. Not at all. I was allergic to the word, to be honest. It caught in the throat. It...
Aimee Hansen
Sep 6, 20173 min read


Come here, love. Satiate your soul.
Today is the halfway mark of my 40th year. I've picked up a couple things in this much living, so far. One, very much from the gift of...
Aimee Hansen
Sep 5, 20174 min read


Sweet Cycles, Sweeter Surrender
One full moon night about five years ago, I sat on a balcony in the forest with a friend. Beneath the stars, we shared red wine and...
Aimee Hansen
Aug 7, 20173 min read


I want to gather with you in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee
I want to gather with you in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. I want to sit around flames by night and share women's stories that...
Aimee Hansen
Jul 29, 20172 min read


Cracking Open My Piñata
When I came to Guatemala in February 2012, I had a poem in my pocket, a few words written on a loose blank page and a pulsing piñata...
Aimee Hansen
Jul 20, 20175 min read


On International Women's Day
Today is the two year anniversary of the first day of the first Sacred Expression Women's Retreat, my first time gathering with a women's...
Aimee Hansen
Mar 8, 20172 min read


Full Moon Woman
Photo from: Mystic Mamma She sways between the shadows, she's a culprit in the wind. Her eyes are casting sideways, shaking virtue...
Aimee Hansen
Feb 9, 20171 min read
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