My Dangerous Beauty

Cocooning

In the book ‘Clicking’ by Faith Popcorn, she refers to phenomenom of Cocooning.

“When we first coined the Trend name “Cocooning,” we talked a lot about hunkering down, ordering in, and watching our favourite shows on TV.  Cocooning conjured up warm images of hanging out.  Nestling.  Cuddling.  Enjoying ourselves in our homes.  Clicking with those we love.

It is almost impossible to move from Cocoon to Cocoon without tension.  When we venture out, we venture out carefully.  Places in our lives where we once felt secure have all but disappeared.

Bottom line of Cocooning is: Whether we’re laying low from being scared or being stressed, from being a turtle or being a couch potato, the future of Cocooning is still driving us home.  For home is where the heart is.”

I would like to invite women to look at cocooning from a different perspective.  To come home to themselves in their body, mind and spirit.  To come home to the Empress energy inside of them.  To not have to run around like an angry chicken with her head cut off trying to do everything.  A full-time job in the workplace, a full-time job at home with your family, a lover, wife, mother, girlfriend.  We need to stop this craziness not add to it.

How does the empress in you live?  She certainly doesn’t live the way most of us do, or have done.

Imagine doing business in a more feminine way embracing the things that the feminine enjoys rather than the challenges the come with the traditional ’success’ model we are familiar with.  Imagine not being frazzled by all the ‘to-do’s’ and being resplendant in your feminine energy for yourself, your partner, children and community.

Why not cocoon and prosper in a more feminine way?  You just have to be willing to trust something different, risk living differently and go with the flow of the artful express of My Dangerous Beauty.

The archetypal energy that represents and guides My Dangerous Beauty is the ‘Empress’.  The Empress energy is that of an abundant and bountiful earth mother.  She is the fertile ground of all possibility and she manifests into this world that which is birthed in Sunyata.

You are an aspect of that fertile ground of possibility.   Your talents, abilities, and experiences combine for the highest expression of love.  You allow yourself to be nurtured, you are confident like a beautiful sunflower moving it’s glorious face to kiss the sun.

Do you know how to nurture your feminine spirit, live a bountiful life and clan with other women who similiar desires?

Why not be rewarded with an abundant lifestyle by embracing and becoming part of the My Dangerous Beauty community.

Clanning

Faith writes ‘Clanning hitches us up with those who share our interests.  Our ideas.  Our aspirations.  Our addictions….. Clanning is the Trend that asserts, ’I'm part of a group, and proud of it.  I belong.”  Not surprisingly given the way Cocooning has swept and is sweeping: All that huddling in the safety of our homes has made us want to reach out and connect to people of like kind.  Another way to look at Clanning: It’s a rebound reaction to our overcommitted lives.  The more fragmented our identities and fractured our days, the more we need to ground ourselves.  Declare our ‘us-ness’ versus ‘them-ness’.  Network with those of the same minds…. and similiar needs.

Clans can be political, economic, communal, spiritual, or virtual in nature.  Clans can have 20 members of 20,000 members.  Some are rigidly structured with an undisputed leader and a flock of followers.  Others are models of equality.  Still others are free-floating and amoeba-like, shifting and changing shape, as well as ground rules, daily.  The importance of Clanning is to undertand the power of special interest groups; and figure out what’s the driving force behind these gatherings, so that you can decide whether to Click into the Clan, either personally or a business-building opportunity.

Off-Hours Clanning: Salooning and Saloning

“But what if everyne is Cocooning?”  is a question we’re constantly fielding.  “If we all stay at home, play at home, and now work at home, wont’ we get too insular?”  Always a good question to ponder.  Especially since we know that we wont be abandoning the combination of refuge, creature comforts, and startup of home-based businesses any time soon.  Yet life encapsulated within a Cocoon could border on being lonely - not to mention claustrophobic.  That’s when we need an escape hatch - a reassuring exist that puts us in contact with somthing other than the same four walls.

Off-hours Clanning is the perfect answer. Going to a place where the faces are familiar (My Dangerous Beauty women’s groups) and the conversation is easy.  Think of how we all fell in love years ago with thata cozy little bar known as Cheers.  Clans are no more complicated than that; Clicking into a neighbourhood bar, luncheonette, diner, cafe or even a local gym - that’s as friendly and as protected as your own Cocoon.

Communal Clanning: Family by Choice

Suppose that when you stuck your toes out of your Cocoon, you saw only people you had hand-picked to live near.  That’s the ultimate in Clanning.  Whether you find the concept of comfortable or scary is another issue.  Is’t splintering the melting-pot fabric of our society, creating new definitions of extended family.  There’s a new wave of collaberative communities, allowing you to choose ‘family’ members by common bond, rather than determining family by blood.  We call this Communal Clanning.

In both communes and co-housing, what you give up in privacy, you make up for in community spirit.  if you get a chance to live with large, extended families, in which everyone takes care of the other generations, our way of having so many lonely people living solo in a house or apartment seems societally backwards.

I would also like to remind you at this point in time of the saying ‘It takes a village to raise a child’.  Part of the intention of My Dangerous Beauty is to encourage women in community to raise and share the intense pressure of raising beautiful children in this society.

Healing Clans: Therapy through Togetherness

How many people do you know who are in some sort of support group or twelve-step program?  Maybe you’re in one yourself.  In the best of all possible worlds, therapeutic Clans - especially 12-step meetings - are a place to come to grips with your problems and find a commonality with others.  The meeting rooms for those Clans are where people share their struggles and joys.  They are place to talk and to listen, to Click into a healing dialogue.

But for many people, therapuetic Clans have evolved into so much more.  These Clans represent the equivalent of a sacred space - a ‘family’ that’s more caring, sharing, and supportive than the one they were born into.

My Dangerous Beauty is a beautiful blend of the finest qualities of cocooning and clanning.