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  Praise for Rise Sister Rise

  ‘Rise Sister Rise is an incantation, an initiation, an invocation for you to remember the truth of who you are. Always, and in all circumstances, and especially right now. It’s a potent mix of divine feminine history, spiritual memoir, incandescent poetry, and powerful mantras which will inspire you to unbind the magic within you. And it illuminates the sacred chant that’s always resounding within the soul, both for ourself and for every woman we encounter: Rise Sister Rise!’

  MEGGAN WATTERSON, AUTHOR OF REVEAL, HOW TO LOVE YOURSELF, AND THE SUTRAS OF UNSPEAKABLE JOY

  ‘Rebecca is a ray of light, a refreshing soul. Her gift is evident. She is a role model for women, guiding us to embrace our power and awaken our authentic selves.’

  LEANN RIMES, SINGER-SONGWRITER AND GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST

  ‘Rebecca Campbell is a grounded devotional spiritual teacher and messenger here to awaken and call in a new age. Her book Rise Sister Rise is a call to arms for women to remember their intuitive nature, unleash their potent power, and lead from the feminine.’

  SONIA CHOQUETTE, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TRUST YOUR VIBES

  ‘Rebecca Campbell is a modern-day High Priestess led by the Divine. I’ve never in my life met anyone who shines like she does. She has cultivated a sacred sisterhood where she holds the space for women to step into their ancient Goddess power now.’

  KYLE GRAY, AUTHOR OF WINGS OF FORGIVENESS AND RAISE YOUR VIBRATION

  ‘Rebecca and everything she shares is poetic, light-laden, and soul fuelled. She’s a beacon and a heart-led guide for all who know that it is our time to rise.’

  LISA LISTER, AUTHOR OF LOVE YOUR LADY LANDSCAPE

  ‘Rise Sister Rise is a perfectly timed divine love letter written straight from Rebecca’s deep, wide heart and delivered to today’s female mystics through her kind, truthful and authentic voice. It is my honor to tread this path with Rebecca as my friend, sister and co-mystic, and I’m so happy for you that you hold this jewel in your hands right now. Take a breath, make yourself a cup of tea, and dive in to these words and the space they will create in your heart.’

  HOLLIE HOLDEN, WRITER OF NOTES ON LIVING AND LOVING

  ‘I’m a super-fan of Rebecca Campbell… Rebecca guides her reader to step into their authentic power so that they can live and lead at their highest potential.’

  GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MIRACLES NOW

  ‘In my view Rebecca Campbell is the new era of leading-edge authors who empower women, and she will be recalled in a league with greats such as Erica Jong and Maya Angelou. Rise Sister Rise will be a well-loved bible on our book shelves 100 years from now.’

  NIKKI SLADE, DEVOTIONAL SINGER AND AUTHOR OF THE HEALING POWER OF CHANTING

  ‘Each new generation needs a new inspirational voice, and Rebecca Campbell is that voice. I just love witnessing a new, young talent about to unleash a storm that will change the way we think about our personal empowerment and spirituality.’

  MEL CARLILE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, MIND BODY SPIRIT FESTIVAL

  ‘Rebecca Campbell is a powerhouse lovingly pushing us into the next paradigm of love and healing. She’s a force of femininity calling forth the truth, the power, the light, and the voice of all women who come in contact with her. Rise Sister Rise is sure to light that inner fire to change themselves, and by that act the world, through the women who open its magic pages. Blessings to Rebecca for her light on the planet in this perilous time. Jai Ma.’

  SARAH DURHAM WILSON OF DOITGIRL

  ‘Rebecca is a vibrant and authentic voice in the emerging self-empowerment landscape, and effortlessly marries the numinous call of the soul with real-life wisdom for women on the rise.’

  RUBY WARRINGTON, FOUNDER, THENUMINOUS.NET

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  Text © Rebecca Campbell, 2016

  The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or otherwise be copied for public or private use, other than for ‘fair use’ as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews, without prior written permission of the publisher.

  The information given in this book should not be treated as a substitute for professional medical advice; always consult a medical practitioner. Any use of information in this book is at the reader’s discretion and risk. Neither the author nor the publisher can be held responsible for any loss, claim or damage arising out of the use, or misuse, of the suggestions made, the failure to take medical advice or for any material on third party websites.

  A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  ISBN 978-1-78180-733-0 in print

  ISBN 978-1-78180-777-4 in Kindle format

  ISBN 978-1-78180-776-7 in ePub format

  TO MY MOTHER, JULIE,

  THE STRONGEST WOMAN I KNOW

  AND

  TO ANGELA WOOD (1947–2016),

  WHO INITIATED MY SPIRITUAL PATH.

  CONTENTS

  I Want You to Know

  It’s Happening

  Tools for Your Rising

  Part I – My Story

  The Unbinding

  The Wise Women

  Work Baby

  Shakti Rising

  Imramma: British Isles

  Making It in a Man’s World

  Imramma: Petra

  Imramma: Wadi Rum

  The Crumbling

  Shakti Rising II

  Imramma: Santa Fe

  Freeing My Voice

  No Longer Sustainable

  Returning to Avalon

  Merlin’s Cave

  White Springs Ritual

  Healing the Female Line

  The Chain

  Part II – Birthing A New Age

  We Were Made for These Times

  Shakti Always Rises

  The Holy Grail Is Within You

  Returning

  The Mystery of Woman

  When One Woman Heals

  A New Paradigm of Change

  The Never-ending Process of Rising

  Transformation and Recalibration

  Of All That Falls and Rises and Rises and Falls

  Shattering to Set Yourself Free

  A New Matrix

  With Every New Breath

  Recla
iming Herstory, and the Shadow of Patriarchy

  A Prayer for Her Rising

  Balancing the Masculine and Feminine in You

  Goodbye to the Good Girl

  Let’s Burn the Archetypes

  You Don’t Get to Say Who I Am

  Own Who You Are

  Embracing Your ‘Too Much’

  It’s OK to Soften

  Divine Mother

  Old Identities and What’s No Longer Sustainable

  Grandmother Moon

  Part III – Remembering Our Cyclic Nature

  You Are Spirit Earthed

  You’ll Find Your True Nature in Nature

  When Whispers Turn into Shouts

  Whispers from Mother Earth

  Your Relationship with the Seasons

  Honoring Your Inner Rhythm

  The Mystery of She

  Your Monthly Cycle as Your Teacher

  The Four Stages of Womanhood and Unlocking the Power of Your Period

  Being Human Is Hard

  It’s Your Humanness That Inspires Me

  Pray into the Anxiety

  Pleasure Not Pressure

  Mother Earth Is Busy Weaving the Threads of Your Life

  Held

  Leading from the Feminine

  A Life’s Work, Not a Season

  Filling Up Your Well

  Healing the Mother Line

  Breaking the Chain

  The Importance of Ritual

  Journeying to Sacred Places

  Part IV – Unbinding the Wise, Wild Woman

  The Suppression of the Female Voice

  The Mystic Always Rises

  Finding Mary

  The Return of the Magdalenes

  Unbound, Unbound, Forever Unbound

  Spiritual Closets

  Reclaiming ‘Witch’ (The Natural Witch)

  Healers, We Need You

  Set Your Soul’s Voice Free

  Ritual: Releasing Vows of Silence and Calling Back Your Power

  Soul Stories

  Past Lives and Unshackling Your Soul

  You Can Be Scared and Still Be Safe

  Let Shakti Sing You (The Power of Chanting)

  The Most Powerful Sound Current

  Tell the Truth About Your Life

  Your Life Is Your Message

  What Is Yours to Do?

  You Are Boundless

  Untangle Yourself

  The Unclaimed Shadow

  We Have a Lot to Be Angry About

  Divine Mother Durga Ma

  Channeling Your Inner Kali

  Control Freak Tendencies

  Dark Mother Kali Ma

  All of Your Feelings Are Holy

  How Do Your Subtle Bodies Most Like to Move?

  Letting Shakti Dance You

  Choosing to Be Here Now

  I Got Body

  You Do Not Get to Determine My Worth

  Ritual: Calling Back Your Power

  Part V – Redefining Sisterhood

  The Reunion

  The Ones Who Came Before Us

  When Women Circle

  Your Constellation of Sisters

  Calling in Your Sisters

  Genuine Sisterhood

  Can You Hold Space for Another?

  The New Form of Persecution

  Is She Mad at Me?

  Who Triggers You?

  Why Jealousy Is a Good Thing

  There Is No Competition

  Raise Them Up Don’t Cut Them Down

  Don’t Put Another on a Pedestal

  Acknowledge Your Sisters

  Your Inner Circle

  Your Support Team

  The Women Who Came Before You

  We Are the Marguerites, the Magdalenes, and the Crones

  Part VI – Doing the Work

  What Is Rising in You?

  Rising Feminine Archetypes

  New World Rising Birthed by You

  Let the Universe Use You

  Be a Clear Channel

  A Prayer for Times of Remembering

  It’s Not Your Job to Save the World

  The Age of the Struggling Artist and Healer Is Over

  You Can’t Buy Devotion

  The Creative Process Is an Act of Faith

  Keeping Your Work and Creations Potent

  Create What Is Yours to Create

  Self-care Before Service (No More Wounded Healers)

  Beloved Mother Mary

  Be OK with Where You Are

  Create for You and You Alone

  Don’t Believe Your Own PR

  You Don’t Need Saving

  Lightworkers Gotta Work

  Unfollow and Lead

  Don’t Look Behind You

  What Would Make the Best Chapter?

  Ritual: Plant Your Prayers

  You Have Been Called

  Being the Change Before It Is the Norm

  The Initiation

  Rise Sister Rise

  Keep on Rising

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Join the Hay House Family

  I WANT YOU TO KNOW

  This is not a book about women rising over men. This is a book of remembering a time when every woman was seen as sacred. And the divine feminine returning and rising just as She should. We are being called to bring about a balance between the feminine and masculine energies. Within ourselves and in our world at large. Both are sacred and needed. In order for this to happen, the sacred feminine that has been dormant and at times suppressed, needs to continue to rise. And She is rising. Can you feel Her?

  I am aware that many reading this book are women and thus, for ease, I will be addressing women (She, Her). However, I want to stress that the rising feminine is not something that exists only within women, but rather it is within all things and people. As I talk about the importance of sisterhood, I too see the importance of brotherhood, the sacred masculine and the men who are great protectors, supporters, and lovers of the divine feminine, and her work in the world. I trust that there is an amazing guy writing that book in unison.

  Throughout this book, you’ll find references to Mother Earth, She, Her, Life, Source, God, Goddess, Father, Mother, Great Mother, Father/Mother God, Beloved and the Universe. This is my humble attempt to put a name to the great mysteries and indescribable forces of our world and beyond, which is truly an impossible feat. If these words don’t resonate with you, please trade them for your own.

  You’ll also find much reference to ‘patriarchy.’ That word, like ‘feminism,’ is so loaded. When I mention patriarchy it is to refer to the past few millennia, when society was led by a powerful few in a very linear way. An era when the sacred nature, power, and wisdom of the feminine was forgotten, controlled, silenced, or caged. When our connection to Mother Earth was severed. It is important not to see ‘patriarchy’ as the other. As we are making the shift from one age into the next, we must recognize that we have grown up in these patriarchal times and thus it is less about damning man and more about freeing and unchaining ourselves together.

  While we are beginning to come out of this patriarchal age (referred to by some as the Piscean Age), I don’t believe that the solution is for matriarchal energies to take its place. Rather, this book is an invitation for the intuitive, compassionate, wise, powerful, sacred, protective, fierce feminine force that exists within each of us to rise, and for the sacred masculine to protect and support Her rising and sacred work so that the planet can swing back into balance. The very fact that you have this book in your hands is proof that it is already happening.

  You can read these pages in one sitting, one chapter a day, or pick a page at random for your instant hit of guidance (like an oracle deck). I recommend reading with a pen and notebook handy to capture the soul whispers that come to you, as you turn the pages. At the end of many of the chapters you will find Rise Sister Rise inquiry prompts. Do not underestimate the power of answering them. You have an ancient wisdom within you that is waiting for you to rememb
er, hear, and heed it. These Rise Sister Rise calls to action have been carefully designed to assist you in reclaiming your voice, unbinding your power, unlocking your wisdom, unleashing your true nature, and aligning yourselves with the sacred flow of all of Life. Give them the weight that they deserve, they are your roadmap for rising.

  I honor you for showing up to do this work at this time in Her story. As we gather we open the gates of healing in the collective consciousness. May it be felt by all. I believe in you, us and all of this.

  Rise Sister Rise.

  IT’S HAPPENING

  Rise Sister Rise is a call to action for what is awakening within so many of us. An ancient remembering, dormant for centuries, which is more than beginning to stir. A conscious effort to end the persecution that we have inherited from patriarchy and been inflicting on each other.

  It’s time to awaken a new era of

  sisterhood on the planet.

  One in which we bring back the balance of the sacred feminine and sacred masculine. One where we reconnect with Mother Earth, Mother God, the rhythm of the Earth, and our own natural rhythms. One where we draw our worth from deep within rather than letting the world decide it for us. One where we lead from the intelligent intuitive heart, know who we are with conviction, and live our lives in complete alignment and service to that. One where we realize that the only way to heal the world around us is by first healing ourselves. One where we heal the trauma we have inflicted on ourselves and our fellow sisters. One where we heal the patriarchy around us, as well as the patriarchy that resides within. One where we raise each other up rather than cutting each other down.

  Rise Sister Rise.

  TOOLS FOR YOUR RISING

  My vision for Rise Sister Rise has always been more than just these pages. Below are some ways you can deepen your experience and connect with other rising sisters.

  www.RiseSisterRise.com

  Get over to www.risesisterrise.com for meditations, journeys, and tools mentioned throughout the book.

  #RiseSisterRise

  Share the light while you read using #RiseSisterRise (I’m @rebeccathoughts)

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