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Joyce Marin's avatar

I'm so happy to have found your writing here and be reconnected to you. I will be posting my first Substack essay of all time tomorrow, a recommendation that seemed to have come out of nowhere from Maria Rodale six months ago. Now that the winter is here and I am committed to cancel all of my revenue-producing ventures for the delicious pleasure of listening for the answer to "what is next?" Thank you for being so open about your journey. I feel as if I am a part of a tidal wave of change swelling beneath us ("both" and perhaps "all.") Much love and gratitude for you.

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Maia Toll's avatar

There is so much change afoot! Best wishes as you create your Substack and move into your next steps.

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Patricia Richards's avatar

I am writing late, I hope you and your family are safe. I have read that Ashville is cut off from roads, power, and phone service. My thoughts are with you and am hoping g for the best.

Patty

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Maia Toll's avatar

It’s horrific here. Both excessive flooding and flash flooding as well as twisters that took down so many trees (like over 100 on my street ). I’m able to hop online for a few hours because we have satellite Internet and a generator. We are safe, but it is going to be a very long recovery here.

Thank you so much for sending warm wishes.

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Mame's avatar

Hey Maia,

Re: The end of the World… hope you are safe in the midst of Helene’s awesome power. May your lovely home be a safe harbor in this storm and that your road stays unmolested so you can get out when you need to. Sending you love and light…

Mame

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Maia Toll's avatar

Hi Mame. Thank you for this beautiful prayer… that I am just now seeing. It has been… difficult. The land is ravaged. The exterior of one house will hopefully be repaired by New Year’s. The rest of it is just going to take a while.

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Delphine  Silvermoon's avatar

Thank you for sharing your transformations ❤️ you look light and happy and renewed in the pic here. I’m so looking forward to this level 😊.

For a long long time in my life I lived the mother archetype then the midwife and the healer archetypes. I am an elder now dancing through all the crone/wise woman archetypes. I am the maven.

I was happy when I was each of those. Until I wasn’t. Which is always how I know change is coming.

We cherish you for who you are Maia, not just what you offer to us.

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Maia Toll's avatar

Thank you Delphine. Your support means so much to me.

There’s an itchy feeling inside when it’s time to shed an archetype…. I hope this eclipse helps you shed your skin and step into your next phase.

xx

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Melissa's avatar

This is absolutely perfect. Maia, I can’t wait to see this unfold for you. I am looking forward to other retreats / workshops if you decide to do more.

This really resonated with me as I have been pulling cards ‘metamorphosis is one of the cards. So I am hearing this loud and clear. 💗🌺🌺

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Maia Toll's avatar

I hope that your metamorphosis, when it comes, is as easy and joyful as mine has been.

Next retreats are in February in Asheville. We give alumni first dibs and then open it to the waitlist before opening it to the general public. If you want to get on the waitlist, drop an email to maia@maiatoll.com and then keep an eye on your email— we will be opening up spots very soon

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Amy Potter's avatar

Oh this feels so expansive, and a homecoming at the same time, but a it's a home of stars and galaxies, not rooms and roofs. You are so inspiring. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Blessings and love.

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Maia Toll's avatar

I am so glad this feels as inspiring and uplifting to you as it does to me!

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Kathy Smith's avatar

I’m so happy for you Maia and inspired to open up to my own coming transitions. Your reminder to stand in our own center and let what’s coming in reaffirms my inner mantra lately of opening rather than grasping. I’ve a long car trip today and will use the time to let images of a new path shine through.

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Maia Toll's avatar

That’s reminding me of a chapter from Letting Magic In. I think that time period in my life— the one I wrote that book about— is when I really began to understand how much ease there is in flow with change instead of resisting. Wishing you playful visions of new possibilities!

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Deb Dorsett Hanson's avatar

I'm so happy for you, Maia. What a beautiful gift to you from the retreats! Since returning home from the retreat myself, I have felt a strange, unexpected sense of calm and freedom, but also a tingling shift in energy that tells me something is changing inside me. Like Sébastien, I'm not sure what that means, what it will lead to, but it is stronger than at any other time in my life, and I feel grounded and comfortable with this unknowing. A lifting, a light, who knows? Thank you for opening the door to transformation for so many of us.

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Maia Toll's avatar

It seems we all got swept through the doorway. No woman left behind!🤣

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Sofie Siegers Johansson's avatar

Thank you Maia, reading your thoughts feels soothing and rebellious at the same time. I'm so happy we get to meet you and not the polished you, the you pleasing the publishing houses.

For me, I do feel the transformation. The snake energy and have been for some time. I keep fighting it die to fear, I guess but in my heart I know I'm a rebel who wants to live of the land and outside the hustle. Our farm is my place, nurturing the land in sync with Mother Nature.

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Maia Toll's avatar

It sounds like you know exactly the transformation you need!

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susan thornton's avatar

Brilliant Maia - as always. perfect timing for this full moon/eclipse season. I'm noticing that I too am ready for something totally different and similarly to Sebastien, I'm not quite sure what it is yet, but it's whispering in my ear. Thank you for sharing your journey so authentically which gives all of us the permission to do the same!

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Maia Toll's avatar

We are just at the beginning of eclipse season— so much transformation to come!

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Sébastien Mondo Romero's avatar

This is wonderful! I am so happy for you!

I find myself in an end of the world moment too. It is happening this very minute. I can feel the shifts rising and slowly coming to the surface. But I do not know what it is going to look like for me. Not yet. Not for sure. Maybe somehow I do. But I am in no rush. I feel simultaneously excited and so very calm. Exactly where I need to be, tonight. Tomorrow may be a completely different story.

Again, I am so happy for you.

Congratulations!

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Maia Toll's avatar

I was right there with you two weeks ago…. And then the shifts unfolded so easily. May it be that smooth and simple and magical for you as well.

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Sébastien Mondo Romero's avatar

Maybe, I often choose intensity and complexity, but I have been inviting more lightness and fluidity. It may very well be simple. But I am sure it is going to be magical.

Again, very happy for you!

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