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April 21, 2023

I want to introduce you to one of the most spectacular women I have ever encountered.   A woman who creates in both the physical and ephemeral realms.   A woman who not only knows how to make her own dreams come true, but actively supports the dreams of others.     A woman of remarkable...

April 11, 2023

I had done it.   I’d created the thing I had always dreamed of creating: a classroom filled with the crackling, connected, pulsating energy of hundreds, even thousands, of women, standing together in sisterhood – some for the very first time, some as core community members – all instantly bonded.    So why did I feel...

April 04, 2023

It was 2016, and my new book, P*ssy: A Reclamation, was about to hit shelves.   I could not share the title on Facebook or Instagram without breaking platform rules. Could not write an email with the title in the subject line without it winding up in spam.     I was devastated. How was I...

August 17, 2021

A free woman is a woman who stands in the middle of a thunderstorm of pain, and bellows “Bring it on!” to her higher power.   A free woman is a woman who grabs her suffering with both hands and rides it like a flying saucer in the snow, down a mountainside. A free woman...

August 03, 2021

Who are you when it comes to stating your truth? Your deepest, truest truth.   Are you a she-wolf? Proudly howling your truth at the moon? A mad dog? Who rages first, and talks later? A wolf in sheep’s clothing? With a smile on your face, and a secret dagger pointed at the world? Or...

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July 20, 2021

I got what I wanted. Exactly what I longed for. At the precise moment that I wanted it.   Wow. Life is amazing. I am amazing.   Now let’s get real: Who has ever had the opportunity to say those words?   Not too many of us, I bet.   Seems like desires are somewhat more...

July 06, 2021

Darlings,   Like every single one of us, I work hard. And I know you do, too. Maybe even beyond hard.   I wanted to take you behind the scenes a bit, to give you a peek into my personal pleasure practices. How do I make sure the magic happens?   I want to show...

June 22, 2021

Do you ever have the thought: Am I crazy? I know I do.   Yesterday, when I was standing on top of my desk, in my black leather jacket, singing every word to “Thunder Road” and playing air guitar, and the UPS guy walked in, I had that thought.     But, when I looked over...

June 08, 2021

For the first time in years, I’m planning to take some time off this summer (yay!!).   In preparation for my departure, I was reviewing some of our most popular blogs from the past decade, and this one popped up – bringing a flood of memories with it.  Would you believe that I wrote this the...

May 11, 2021

You know that sound a faucet makes when it’s running out of water – that gaspy, wheezy, death-rattle sound?  I can hear it right now as I type this. (Hmm…maybe it’s coming from me???) That is certainly a common feeling for women. Rung out, run dry, over-used, depleted. Our emotional, physical, and creative taps are...

April 20, 2021

Brag? Really, Regena? Today of all days? Are you freaking kidding me? Yes, I know. I know. It feels impossible. America is waging war on itself. There have been 45 mass shootings in the last month. And as my friend Sarah Jones says, “We are too compromised by our own white supremicist capitalism to call...

April 06, 2021

Last night, I had dinner with my friend Cathy. I noticed that she was wearing her hair differently. It was swept back with visible highlights, and it looked stunning.  When I offered her a compliment, she was quick to wave it off, saying, “Oh no, Regena, it looks awful. I’m only wearing it pinned back...

March 22, 2021

Last week was a dream come true! I had the privilege and pleasure of interviewing Leymah Gbowee – a Nobel Peace Laureate and personal heroine of mine – about her revolutionary activism in Liberia.  Together, we sat down to discuss Leymah’s backstory as an advocate, change-maker, and spokeswoman for peace. Raised by progressive parents and...

March 03, 2021

Today I want to talk about the third of our three D’s. Brace yourself – this is a big one, sisters.  The mother of all D’s, the root of a woman’s paralysis, and the very reason I created the School of Womanly Arts in the first place – Devastation. (To find out how I got...

March 02, 2021

Today we are going to continue our discussion of the triple D’s. Doubt, Depression, and Devastation. The three most common reasons women find themselves stuck.  For years, I was the poster child for each and every D. I suffered from constant Doubt (watch yesterday’s video for more context), and Depression followed closely on its heels. ...

March 01, 2021

Last week, I wrote a blog about the three D’s. You might remember them – that dreaded trifecta of Doubt, Depression, and Devastation that seems to trip every woman up at some point in her journey. And I want to know, which one – if any – are you? Personally, I consider myself a recovering...

March 01, 2021

What stops you, when you stop? It happens to every single one of us. We have a desire, a longing, a dream. Something or someone we want with every fiber of our being. And whether we’re in hot pursuit, or merely day-dreaming…we hit roadblocks. We get stopped along the way. It just happens. Sometimes we...

February 16, 2021

Sisterhood is an expansive, sometimes illusive word. It can sound sentimental to the untrained, over-conditioned ear. Perhaps that word is riddled with real life hurts and disappointments, accumulated over the years.   If we have not felt true sisterhood – and many of us haven’t – there is something fantastical, taboo, maybe even mythical about the...

February 09, 2021

How are you? It’s the simplest of questions. A typical greeting. A form of “hello”. But if you’re anything like me – raw, shaken, uplifted, forever changed, grief and gratitude-soaked after an unprecedented year – that question has felt heavier lately, more loaded. It was almost a year ago now, that I was diagnosed with...

February 02, 2021

Do you know how to feed your feminine? What does she like? Dislike? What fuels her? Dries her up? What has her relax, turn on, unwind, feel the feels, connect to her higher power, embody her emotions, and most importantly…trust? The word ‘feed’ is from the Old English fedan, which means “to nourish, give food...

January 26, 2021

First of all, I loved everything about the inauguration. I replay those fireworks, that song, the Biden/Biden hug, those bright hopeful coats, the dancing flags, our gleaming, reclaimed Capitol building – over and over in my imagination.   I love that our President reveres his wife, and that there is mutual respect and regard between them....

December 29, 2020

Can you feel it? That blizzard of uncertainty?   How the f*ck do we holiday in a pandemic with no reliable tracks to follow? Do we break out of our homes, and risk gathering? Or stay indoors and isolate?   I hosted a Q/A on Zoom a couple weeks back for roughly 100 women, and I was...

December 15, 2020

My mom’s fiance died of Covid on Saturday. The man with whom she sang showtunes, read the New York Times cover to cover, shared meals, spent her days. They have been inseparable for eight long years. It all started a year after his first wife died. My mom, a woman who had been a faithful...

December 01, 2020

It’s the week after Thanksgiving. We are rounding the bend, slogging towards Christmas with our masks firmly in place. At this point, there is not one of us whose lives have not been impacted directly or indirectly by the pandemic and its fallout. Add in economic losses, school closures, the election, reckoning with racial injustice,...

February 15, 2022

This Valentine’s day I’m thinking a lot about sisterhood.   And the tender, irreplaceable, fierce love that’s possible and necessary between women.   I fly close with my flock. That’s how we do.   Partners and lovers come and go. But sisters weather the storms.   We will stay up all night for each other,...

February 01, 2022

Sometimes it is just so easy to get what you want.   And sometimes it is just so deeply frustrating to be stuck – sometimes for years – in a cycle of knowing what you want, creeping so achingly close to the doorway, and seemingly, getting shut down, over and over again.   We all...

January 18, 2022

As you all know, my secret sauce is Pussy/Turn-on/Pleasure. Connecting to my radiance is a core value – and not an easy road to take in this patriarchal world culture that consistently shuts down the feminine. So one of the things that I value the most, cherish the most, and delight in the most –...

January 04, 2022

You did it,.    You rounded the corner on 2021. It was a year, wasn’t it?    And I must say – despite the deep wide challenges, despite being in a major life transition  (again!) – it was hands down, my favorite year of all the years I have been privileged to live.   I...

December 21, 2021

This time of year is so dense with emotion.   If you love the deep, dark, rich range of human emotions – like I do – you are feasting right now.   If the deep, dark, rich range of human emotions terrify you – like they do me – you may feel somewhat tentative, somewhat...

December 07, 2021

I love combining work and pleasure, [First Name].    This week I had a client who wanted me to meet for an intensive in St Barth. Having never been there, I was delighted to say yes. I brought a small team of incredible facilitators with me, delivered an above-and-beyond, outrageously delicious, one-on-one workshop for my...

November 24, 2021

I am giving thanks for you.   It has been quite a year.    And you, my love, have held it together – heart open, turned on, tuned in, feeling it all.   Every drop. Every bone in place.   You have held the fire, the rage, the wild rush of life winding you up...

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