At its fundamental core, Egg Wisdom is a phenomenon of feminine magnetism that every woman has experienced at least once in her life. As a recovering doer and as a psychiatrist who has witnessed the grave consequences of a life dictated by masculine principles of achievement, I will go so far as to say this book is essential reading for any woman in the feminine reclamation process.

Number two and this is so Kate Northrup, envelop yourself in an energetic bubble before seeing them. It took a year for me to get the lesson but I ended up leaving the “good” career I didn’t love and went on a soul journey and found my creativity. Kate: Yeah because often we use our to do list as the catch all to dump everything that’s in our brain of anything we could do now, ever, later, in the future, and then we look at that list and it’s incredibly overwhelming and then we feel paralyzed, so we just scroll Instagram. In autumn I got serious panic attacks and aniexty as I have been over doing it I’ve had some time off from my one job as I do two and it was so nice to do things for my self.And in that moment I realised that the option of life was in front of me and decided my business was making me ill. I believe this makes me the perfect person to explain the phenomenon of Egg Wisdom because it’s impossible for me to get overly scientific or technical, yet I still have a greater understanding of how it all works below the waist than your average citizen. Before I was pregnant I was tracking my cycle closely and I had noticed that energy patterns were emerging. Finance, Women's Health, Glamour, and The Huffington Post, and she's spoken to audiences of thousands with Hay House, Wanderlust, USANA Health Sciences, and more. But the muck is a fertile place, and if you hang out there long enough, something beautiful will be created.

Have you ever had an experience like this where you haven’t put an ounce of energy into your appearance but you randomly get asked out on the street (by someone you’d actually like to go out with) or had someone who’s not trying to hit on you simply stop to tell you how radiant you are? Kate: Yeah, a book launch is really a time… I mean I remember my first book launch, I really had an asking hangover. So in January of 2020 as I was looking at my bookshelf trying to decide which of the many books I have acquired that I was going to read first, the subtitle of this book caught my attention. I am a busy, working mom and I liked the concept of the 14 experiments in doing less- I was hoping for some practical advice on how to simplify and streamline routines and habits to ease stress. I am so grateful for my journey and all the lessons learned through hardship and loneliness and overwhelm… and if it weren’t for those moments of respite, of making “space for grace,” I don’t know who or where I would be today, let alone who my daughter would be.I was telling my art therapist my mantra/one word for 2017 is “stillness” my whole being is demanding I replenish myself this year instead of deplete. The addiction to busyness and the obsession with always trying to do more leads women, especially working mothers, to feel like they're always failing their families, their careers, their spouses, and themselves.

There was a little bit of that in some of the experiments- making a weekly instead of daily to do list, for example, is something I will definitely try. I inhaled this book because it illuminates a language about women and work that I've lived by without realizing it. Since adopting doing less as a life philosophy, my insomnia has evaporated, I’m a way better mom, I feel way more connected to my husband, issues that I’ve needed to address for years but have been too busy to attend to have risen to be healed, and for the first time I’m taking my work in the world seriously, and I trust my voice more deeply than ever.

I have had to and still am working on letting go of the shame of living with ease and joy because as you mentioned in the video our mother’s worked so hard so that we could enjoy our lives. My husband and I had worked in our business, we had grown it, it had been a beautiful year, and yet I… and our life was awesome. She was sharing a story that was going on and I listened and I said, wow, that sounds like a lot, what do you think you’re going to do about that? She’s the perfect leader for us, as women, in what it looks and feels like to allow our desires to come to us. She doesn’t check her phone obsessively or wonder if she should text him or not, even though he didn’t respond to her last text (or her last 10).