A Personal Share
Living a Mother Centered Economy
Hi beautiful community,
We don’t have an article this week! We have many in process of development and many close to finished, with so much research and stories to tell… but this week has been a challenging one for our little non-profit organization.
We’ve primarily volunteered our time and efforts since conception, and this has been slowly, and over-time, draining us. This is difficult to speak to because we, and I personally, have received so much from this work that it felt like it has always fueled us forwards.
However, a line has been drawn in the sand so to speak where we can no longer operate in this way. The work won’t stop, the research, storytelling and up-coming events continue to flow through us. But we want to open ourselves to invite in more support.
I personally have felt quite closed, guarded and protective of this work because of the sacredness of it, and the lessons of learning how to hold it, guide it and protect it, has taken time to walk with rightly…
What I’ve had to learn the hard way is boundaries, to hold it strongly and clearly, to then be open for more support. In the process of some of those lessons of boundaries it’s created a closing off, shutting down the continued flow of receiving and sharing more.
We’ve been primarily supported this past year by one community member and her company, who believes in us wholeheartedly from a soul level. We trust and believe there are many more who will connect to us from this place.
We don’t want to prove, compete or try to fit in a box for funding resources — we know there is another way.
In our previous article, I wrote about a Mother-Centered Economy. This model is a guide to unravelling all the deep ancestral wounds of feminine sacrifice, burden and over-giving. So humbly I know need to continue to learn that for myself as the founder, CEO and guide for Soul Seed Gathering. When I get drained this works stops also.
‘This model is a guide to unravelling all the deep ancestral wounds of feminine sacrifice, burden and over-giving.’
A mother-centered economy is based in the life giving source of nature and by supporting mothers, an overflow of resource happens where all are supported.
This means then, also developing a relationship to death and scarcity, the slowness of winter and the unfurling of new life again into Spring.
Scarcity lives inside of abundance ‘the great mother’ - she consumes it, accepts it and lets it have its place without making it wrong. So this part of our story has its place, but we know there is so much more.
Through our research and story weaving of herstory and earth-based cultures, we’re rooting back into a deeper feeling of safety. Safety in a deeper connected web of ancestral identity and within the eco-system of cultures in our world. This safety and rootedness is important because if we attach our safety to money, that’s always fluid and flowing, we will never feel truly secure. We can see this in some of the wealthiest people in the world who still do not feel safe and secure in what they have because it could be taken away at any time.
Better then to root to the Earth, ourselves, the cycles and seasons of change, and our community within it all.
Thank you for being our community here around this work - it means so much to us! Thank you for those of you choosing to be paid subscribers these amounts have encouraged us so much each month.
I am personally so honored to have received the vision and mission of this work, it continually leaves me speechless, and feels like I’m stepping into my dream life again and again — and I’m always in awe that there are others joining me in this dream.
If called to support us in more ways financially, or with your network or skills - please let us know, as we trust in all that is calling us forward to build and create here.
Thank you most of all for being here and reading me.
With love to where you are,
Hannah Ruth Dyson & the Soul Seed Team
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