La Loba May Take A Liking To You and Show You Something of the Soul.

La Loba May Take A Liking To You and Show You Something of the Soul. 06/13/2010

I have been enjoying short excerpts of Linda’s writing and the wonderful quotes she shares, over many months and have invited her to post an introduction to her interesting website, here to share with my readers.

Here is one of the quotes she has shared with her readers:-

“So it is said that if wander the desert, and it is near sundown, and you are perhaps a little bit lost, and certainly tired that you are lucky, for La Loba may take a liking to you and show you something- something of the soul” - C Pinkola Estes

If you were employment screening for an interesting and sensitive poetic writer, you would not find a more interesting person than Linda Sharman, the creator of La Loba.

This is what Linda has to say to introduce her website, La Loba.:-

I first created the La Loba site and business in 2004. I had long been inspired by the stories in Women who run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes ( 1992) – in particular “Seal Skin Soul Skin” and I had been thinking of creating a space to offer inspiration and support with an option to bring together others to share their wisdom or creativity. So often I allow my busy life to clutter my mind and the dream grew misty…..in the too hard box… it was on a months holiday that La Loba flung herself at my feet saying “pick me, pick me” – laying before me the ideas and words I had written in a journal so many years before! A Web Master appeared before me, took my ideas and first up created the website with the feel I wanted……I had no excuses….

La Loba was born… a celebration and affirmation of a part of myself that is so alive and was so weary of being pushed aside. The wise woman, the wild one, vibrant, pulsating with life and energy……I have grappled with her all my life thinking “Mothers don’t wear that, wives don’t do that, hostesses have to do that”……...but she often slipped out and this time she was going public!

I decided after creating the site to take a full time job…see I found that excuse…. and so it was not realistic to do La Loba as a full time business but I knew that I had to keep the site alive, to keep that part of who I am “out there” now that I had allowed her the space to be . I always felt that the time for the business side of things to develop would come and that I did not need to hurry or rush this.

This year I turn 50 and with a busy life, demanding job and many expenses the temptation to let the La Loba site go loomed. I went back to the site for a last look and realized that this part of me the poet, the wise woman, the healer and weaver of souls, the scandalous one who did not always spend wisely was a vital part of myself.

In the same web visit I was flitting between Facebook and the La Loba site checking out my daughters engagement dinner photos…..me with my bright red lips, a giant flower on my hip that I thought would be fun and my slinky outfit, romancing my daughters red high shoes, flushed after too much laughter. Hints of the wild one. I said to my daughter later so sorry I am the crazy woman in the photos love…”mum at least you are not boring…....I think you looked beautiful” she replied. Somehow that affirmation from the next generation was enough.

So I am keeping La Loba alive, she may face more transitions, but I am embracing the journey to juiciness, to transformation…… and I encourage you too. to find your lushness by taking some time to connect with your wild woman, don’t let anyone tell you that growing older is necessarily about blending in, giving up your shoe fetish, letting dreams go, or accepting what you can’t have if it’s not what you want, do not be “silent when you are on fire”!

…..and if I can nurture that journey for you in any way, let me know at www.laloba.com.au . By Linda Sharman.