The stories we choose to tell ourselves and our children matter, and Trista Hendren probably knows this as well as anyone. Trista is the creator of Girl God Books, an incredible series of children's and adult books that celebrate the wisdom of the Divine Feminine. On this episode, we talk about her fascinating, winding journey to discover the Goddess (preview: it involved stints as an Evangelical Christian, atheist and a Muslim), what it means to engage in prayer with a Sacred Feminine force, and what Goddess wisdom has to offer us in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the globe.
You can learn more about Trista's work and purchase all her books at Girl God Books. You can follow her on Instagram @tristahendren, and you can also find Girl God Books on Facebook.
Here's the text of Mary Oliver's beautiful poem "Wild Geese", which Trista references during the interview - you can also listen to Mary Oliver read it (here):
WILD GEESE,
By Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.