Many people arrive at spirituality carrying a quiet fear that something is wrong with them. That they missed a step. That everyone else seems to “get it” while they remain disconnected, unsure, or numb.
This belief did not come from truth. It came from training.
From a young age, many of us were taught to disconnect from our bodies, our intuition, our desires, and our grief. Sometimes this training came through religion. Sometimes through family systems. Sometimes through culture itself. The result is the same. A deep sense that the self cannot be trusted.
At GRL Society, we begin with a different assumption.
You are not broken. You were taught to disconnect.
Disconnection Is Learned, Not Inherent
No one is born mistrusting their inner knowing. Babies cry when something is wrong. Children ask questions without shame. Curiosity and instinct are natural states.
Disconnection begins when those instincts are corrected, silenced, or punished. Maybe you were told:
“You are too much.”
“That feeling is inappropriate.”
“You aren’t allowed to ask that.”
“It’s wrong to want that.”
“You can’t trust yourself.”
Over time, the nervous system adapts. Intuition grows quiet. The body becomes something to override rather than listen to. Spirituality becomes external, lists of rules, or something to be earned or approved rather than felt.
Ancient feminine traditions tell a very different story.
Hathor and the Sacred Yes of the Body
Hathor, the Egyptian Goddess of joy, pleasure, music, and embodiment, was not worshipped through denial. She was honored through presence. Through breath. Through sound. Through movement.
When you feel cut off from yourself, it is often because the body has learned it is safer to be silent.
Disconnection often begins when pleasure is labeled dangerous or frivolous. Hathor teaches that joy is not a distraction from the sacred. It is a form of knowing.
Hathor reminds us that the body is not an obstacle to spirituality. It is the doorway.
Listening again is not indulgence. It is remembrance.
Isis and the Work of Remembering
Isis is the great gatherer. The one who searches for what has been scattered. The one who re-members what has been torn apart.
Disconnection fragments us. Parts of the self are exiled in order to survive. Grief is hidden. Desire is buried. Anger is sealed away. Spiritual bypassing tells us to transcend these pieces rather than retrieve them.
Isis teaches that healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about gathering what was left behind.
Her story is not about returning to innocence. It is about integration after loss.
You do not need to be fixed. You need to be reconnected.
Mary Magdalene and Inner Authority
Mary Magdalene has been stripped of her authority repeatedly across history. Her voice minimized. Her wisdom reframed through shame.
Mary Magdalene represents spiritual authority that arises from intimacy with truth rather than obedience to hierarchy.
Yet her power was never granted by institutions. It came from direct knowing.
Disconnection thrives when we are taught to distrust our inner voice and defer to external validation.
Magdalene invites a return to inner authority.
A Simple Practice for Reconnection
This practice is not about fixing yourself. It is about listening.
You will need: Five quiet minutes and a place to sit comfortably.
Place one hand on your chest and one on your lower belly.
Take three slow breaths. Do not change anything. Simply notice.
Ask yourself silently: What part of me learned it was not safe to speak?
Do not search for an answer. Notice sensations instead. Tightness, warmth, numbness, emotion.
Say quietly, either aloud or internally: You are allowed to be here now.
That is all. No insight is required. No resolution is expected. The practice is the listening.
Reclaiming Connection Is a Process
Reconnection is not a single breakthrough. It unfolds slowly, often unevenly. There will be days of clarity and days of distance. This is not failure. It is rhythm.
Hathor reminds us to return to the body.
Isis teaches us to gather what was lost.
Magdalene calls us back to inner authority.