08/18/2026
yeyeolosunde.com
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR FOUNDER
Yeye Olosunde Aduke
Greetings Beautiful One,
I celebrated my birthday yesterday, and birthdays always bring me into reflection. I think about where I have been, what life has taught me, what I have had to release, what I have grown into, and the woman I am today.
This year, one message has been especially that has stood out is that
I am complete within myself.
There is something beautiful about arriving at a place in womanhood where you can say those words and really mean them. I can love deeply and still belong to myself. I can pour into others and still pour into myself. I can receive love and care and still know that my wholeness lives within me. I can desire more for my life and still recognize that the woman standing here today is already whole.
As I enter another year, I find myself thinking about the wisdom of the Feminine Temple as has been revealed in my newly published Womb Reiki book, and what my womb has taught me about being a woman.
I want to share these seven messages I am carrying into this new year, and perhaps one of them is speaking to you as well.
1. TRUST WHAT YOU KNOW.
There have been moments when my body knew something before I could explain it. Something within me said, pay attention. I would feel it in my womb first. If you have had the reward of being able to breastfeed there is a sensation where when the child suckles the breast for nourishment, the womb contracts. It is similar to this. I have learned to become quiet enough to hear myself and to feel and hear the voice of my feminine temple. There are things you already know that you may be waiting for someone else to confirm for you that really doesnt need confirmation. Many of the answers we already know. There is a law of Ma'at from Ancient Egypt that says "I keep my own council" and when i think about it i am embodying that more and more.
Give yourself permission to trust what you know.
2. HONOR WHAT IS SACRED TO YOU.
My body is sacred. My womb is sacred. My time, my energy and my peace are sacred. I can love people deeply and still honor my boundaries. I can honor my yes and honor my no and so can you.
You are allowed to decide what belongs in the sacred spaces of your life. Your love for others does not require you to leave yourself behind. This has been a strong growth lesson for me. Being able to hold sacred boundaries without anger or regret but with just knowing what i consider sacred offerings for me vs. desecration of the temple that is me. Honor what is sacred to you.
3. ALLOW YOURSELF TO RECEIVE.
Women know how to pour. We pour into our children, our families, our relationships, our work, our communities and our dreams. Sometimes we become so accustomed to pouring that receiving feels unfamiliar.
Beautiful Woman, make room to receive too.
Receive all the love, care and support you require for your temple. Receive with joy, abundance and pleasure. Receive with your full intention
You do not receive because someone or something outside of you makes you complete. You receive because you are already complete.
4. HONOR THE RHYTHMS OF YOUR BODY.
The womb understands rhythm. There are seasons for creating, right now we are in the waxing moon, we have season for relaxing, seasons for moving, seasons for pouring outward and seasons for drawing inward.
There may be days when you feel powerful and productive and days when your body is asking for quiet. There may be seasons when you are bringing something new into the world and seasons when you simply need to tend to yourself. Listen to your womb and hear her guidance
There is wisdom in movement, and there is alsoi wisdom in stillness.
5. HONOR WHAT IS GROWING WITHIN YOU.
The womb carries the mystery of creation, and we continue creating throughout our lives. We carry dreams, ideas, visions, possibilities and new beginnings.
There is something growing within you too.
Maybe it is a dream you keep returning to. Maybe it is a new way of seeing yourself. Maybe it is a business, a book, a deeper relationship with Spirit, a new beginning or simply a different way of living your life.
Whatever it is, tend to it. Everything does not have to be born today.
Some things need to be nurtured in the darkness like the blue lotus before coming into the light and blossoming a million brilliant petals.
6. SPEAK BEAUTIFULLY OVER YOURSELF.
The words I speak about my body matter. The words I speak about my womb matter. The words I speak about my life matter and the words you speak over yourself matter too.
Speak life over your body. Speak love over your womb. Speak blessings over your path. Honor the woman you have been. Love the woman you are. Welcome the woman you are becoming.
As many of us can create babies from our wombs we also have that same power with our words. Speak beautifully over yourself to create the life you desire.
7. RETURN TO YOURSELF.
I return to my breath. I return to my body. I return to my womb. I return to my joy. I return to my creativity. I return to Spirit. I return to the Feminine Temple within everyday that i have the gift of seeing a new sunrise.
Beautiful Woman, life will move around you. People will come and go. Seasons will change. You will change.
And through it all: You can return to yourself.
These seven messages are deeply connected to what I teach through Womb Reiki. The Feminine Temple carries wisdom, and the more we learn to listen to the womb, honor our bodies and become present with ourselves, the deeper that relationship becomes.
This week, spend a little time with yourself.
Place both hands over your womb and take seven slow breaths.
Ask yourself:
What do I know that I am ready to trust?
What is sacred to me?
Where can I allow myself to receive?
What rhythm is my body asking me to honor?
What is growing within me that needs my attention?
How am I speaking over myself?
Where am I being called to return to myself?
Sit with what comes.
As I enter another year of life, I am grateful for the lessons, the laughter, the healing, the waters I have crossed, the woman I have become, and everything still unfolding before me.
And through it all, I carry this knowing:
I am complete within myself.
Thank you for celebrating another year with me.
Love, Yeye Olosunde
Founder, Yeye's Sacred Feminine Arts
Healing a Million, One Womb at a Time
Author,
Yoni Steam: Divine Feminine Hygiene
Womb Reiki: Sacred Healing Through The Chakras of the Feminine Temple
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