poem for the world

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

listen, you, with your beach glass heart you, with your moonshine teardrops this is a poem for the world and this is only a poem for you both of those things are true and neither, really but either way you, love are holy so, hold your capacity for melancholy and name...

The View From Savasana: Whispers from Yoga Class

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom, Love Letters + Permission

The mind says ‘mistake. regret. punishment’. The heart speaks ‘long. ache. grieve’ The body pulses ‘want. want. want’
 Yoga answers ‘you are nothing but your breath. exhale’
 The legs scream ‘go. run. escape’ The ceiling fan whispers ‘you are still here. be present’...

The Core Of Your Strength

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Love Letters + Permission, Poetry + Verse

they say you are soft? so be soft. you have nothing to prove. nothing to gain from a forced toughening of your wild soul. be soft 
because you can because you are because you know that it is life that has 
softened you that has taught you that hard is for brick and...

girl on fire { a poem for women ready to light the world }

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse, Sovereignty + Freedom

I invite you to stoke the embers of your inner fire.  Coax the flames from your center to the edges of all you reach.   Make peace with the parts within you that crave that burn.  Let the flames get high.  Burn bright.  The world needs your light. __________ Download...

So This Is How It Is (A Poem To Remind You Of Your Divinity)

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

so, this is how it is. you get picked last for the team left out of the plans excluded from the circle. the rejection letter arrives in the mail she picks the other girl the door you were about to walk through gets slammed hard in your face and you are left outside in...