Communion With Your Soul

Ep # 204 - Communion With Your Soul - An interview with author, Dr. Rima Bonario

I am so energetically amped about this episode with my amazing guest, Rima Bonario who has written a book called The Seven Queendoms.

As I dived into this empowering chat with Rima, I felt called to open this episode with the following poem which is nestled within the pages of her book.  So here goes. This is so powerful, so much so, that it made me cry as I recited it.

“I ask you sisters; will you die dispossessed of your body? Will you abdicate the throne of your heart? Will you hide from the wisdom of your soul? No Lovely, you will not. You will rise. You will find and reclaim your wild, wise, sexy, smart, sovereign self. Take the hand of your sisters and rise. We will not cut ourselves into a thousand pieces to try and take up less room or fit in the space we have been told is ours. This is our life. This is our castle and it longs for our Queen to come home. To awaken. To sit down. To be here now. To lead and to love. Heed the call sisters, come home to your heart. Come live in your skin. Come dance with your soul. Be truly, deeply, madly home. For you have waited long enough.”

I had to grab for tissues as I finished reciting this piece.  I have been profoundly affected by these words, as this is a journey I have personally been on. Cutting myself into a thousand pieces so I could fit into the box. I think this passage describes so many women.

Why Queendoms? I asked Rima as we stepped into this chat. According to Rima it comes down to the concept of Sovereignty. It is the notion that we have absolute authority over ourselves. That we are free from external influence and that we are able to be in a state of self-governance. And the truth is many of us are not in that space.

This poem speaks to the journey many of us have been on. It speaks to us to reclaim our truth. We have the right to exist. To take up space. To be in communion with our soul. And that means we sometimes fly in the face of what the world tells us we “should” be doing.

It is about being the Queen of our own lives.

I feel this is the divine right time for us to be having this conversation with Rima as it falls on the heels of The Queen of England’s death. The call is to sit on the Throne within our, your Soul. To take the hand of your inner Queen.

It’s about accessing the feminine form of power. It’s not about fitting into the masculine mold that society expects of us but rather to allow the inner feminine power that we as women hold internally to shine and then to lead from that space.

Rima’s book speaks to the feminine quality we all hold. It is not a book to be read passively. It requires action on your part – and by taking part in the exercises in the book is how you begin to get in touch with your inner Queen.

Another powerful poem that appears in the book (and spoke to me as well) goes as follows:

“Oh sisters. Stand firm upon the earth. Open your feet and breathe. Open your heart and feel. Meet your soul and remember. It is time to remember. It’s time to come home. You are whole and holy, now and forever. The time has come to be seen. We are ready. You are ready. Be Bold. Be Free. Be Wild. Be You. Find your sisters and join hands for today we wake together. Today we wake. Together.”

To learn more about Dr. Rima Bonario and the work she does please visit her website: RimaBonario.com

To purchase her book, The Seven Queendoms visit: amazon.com/Seven-Queendoms-Embodying-Feminine-Sovereignty

To learn more about how I show up in the world please visit my website: SusanBurrell.com