The Long Walk
Gather the Women has created The Long Walk, so named because, throughout our days, weeks, months, and years of sitting in Sacred Circle, we become part of the Long Walk of our lives together as we continue to walk each other Home with deep listening, understanding, non-judgment, and love. The Long Walk has a predetermined topic each week and participants can share on the topic through their own personal stories, insights, and self-discoveries. These will be stories shared at the heart level, not head teachings.
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The Next Long Walk
Topic: Wiseblood
Host: Colleen T.
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026
Times: 4pm (PT) | 5pm (MT) | 6pm (CT) | 7pm (ET)
Duration: 60 minutes
The red thread of women’s wisdom links us to our Grandmothers and our Granddaughters. Menstruation can offer a sacred time to rest, reflect, and listen inward. Yet many women have been taught to experience their blood as a curse rather than a blessing.
Perhaps our solar, productivity-driven culture doesn’t harmonize with the deep lunar rhythms of our bodies. What if, during our blood time, we could step away from crowded rooms and fluorescent lights and enter a place where our earth-pulled bodies could rest, drop, and be held?
What might it feel like to braid one another’s hair, rub tired feet, and share the stories of our first blood? In the words of Judith Duerk, to go “…to the Women’s Lodge to learn the wisdom of the women.”
Whether you still bleed, once bled, or never did, your story is welcome in this circle.
Questions to consider:
What has your relationship with your blood been like?
What is your first blood story?
What rite of passage do you wish you’d had?