We are creatures of curves and spirals, of circles and spheres.
We navigate the contradictory nature of our roles and goals, dreams and fears every day.
We are a beautiful, intricate design. We are a terrible tangle. We are alive with the artistry of creation and all its chaos.
Each one of us moves through the knots of life and work, in turns thriving and surviving each day. We are divine generative beings and overburdened care-givers. We are magical creatives and pragmatic professionals. We are healers and warriors, coaches and wanderers, storytellers and survivors, and everything in between.
We are independent, Sovereign beings, each here on our own personal quest. And yet, we are all in this together, our fates forever bound to the fate of the collective.
We constantly move between tending to our own needs and desires and devoting ourselves to others. We balance the devotion to our own success and our passion for the great web of creation.
We are Sovereign souls living one great, interconnected dream.
… These lines are adapted from my book, The Sovereignty Knot. These are the stories and experiences that make our time on this earth so fascinating, so wonderful, and so hard.
As healers and creative entrepreneurs we are here to build bridges between the intimate and the vulnerable, the personal and the professional, the individual and the communal.
I’m here to walk beside you as you navigate the knots and tangles of your stories, your mission, your business.
I’m here to help you write your way to the heart of matters so you set about doing your part to renew our beautiful, battered world.
Have we met yet? I’m Marisa Goudy.
In addition to being an author and writing coach, I am a Story Healer, a Myth Worker & who meets you at the crossroads of the magical and the practical.
Magic is… seeking (and finding) wonder in the everyday.
Magic is… realizing you’ve had the power to transform your world all along.
Magic is… just asking you to pause, notice it, and name it.
The magical is woven into everything I do - including my work as coach for writers and a business consultant for transformation professionals and creative entrepreneurs.
I have hosted the KnotWork Storytelling podcast since 2022 and have been grateful to showcase storytellers from across Ireland, the UK, Canada, and the US.
I’m also an author. In the midst of running a business and devoting myself to a young family, I did something magical: I wrote the book I knew I must write.
In 2020, The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic was published by Paper Raven Books. This bestselling book combines my personal stories, goddesses of Celtic mythology, and the Archetypes of Sovereignty — the Princess, the Queen, and the Wise Woman. I am all three of these archetypes. (And, by the way, so are you.)
The Roots of My Magic, the Origins of My Sovereignty, the Sources of My Support
I believe it’s important to name and thank those who teach us and support us and describe the sources of magic.
The land itself is my greatest guide and solace. The mountains and rivers of the Hudson Valley where I live, which once were home to the Lenape People. The ocean and beaches of Cape Cod where I was born, which were home to Wampanoag People. The rocky cliffs and green fields of Ireland where I lived in my early twenties, which was home to my Celtic ancestors.
Much of my inspiration is drawn from the literature, lore, and lore of Ireland and the Celtic nations. I studied at the National University of Ireland at Galway and got my BA in Irish Studies and English at Boston College. I received my MA from University College Dublin where I devoted myself to contemporary Irish women poets.
I completed my book thanks to the support of those professors, both in the past and more recently. Elizabeth Cunningham, the author of The Maeve Chronicles and other novels, walked beside me as I worked (and sometimes wept!) my way through the The Sovereignty Knot. I’m deeply grateful that she penned the foreword to my book.
A Reiki Master since I was in college, I have continued my path as an energy healer and a mystic through my fifteen years of study of Sacred Center Mystery School. There, I continue to deepen my practice of the Chumpi Illumination, a unique form of physical and spiritual healing that integrates principles of sacred geometry, shamanism, and the sacred Chumpi stones of Peru. My longtime teacher and mentor Eleanora Amendolara and I have published two books, including Divine Embodiment: The Art & Practice of Chumpi Illumination.
And I couldn’t embody this magic and make this vision real without my two daughters, my husband, and the deeply wonderful (and wicked irritating) cats, Big Love MacLir and Little Dude McCool.
A Collective Commitment to Sovereignty:
Mine, Yours, Ours
Imagine a world where every woman can stand sovereign in her own life so she can love herself, her household, the earth, and its people.
Imagine a world where every woman can write her own sovereign story so she can make peace with her past, get comfortable in her own presence, and draft a powerful new future.
Imagine a world where every woman can sing her sovereign song so she can make this world more beautiful, bearable, and bold.
I am committed to empowering the woman who is ready to claim her divine-human self, her feet rooted into a wild embrace with the earth and her hair all spangled with stars.
I am committed to empowering the women in my local and my global community through story healing, writing practice, and creative business consulting so they can embrace their right to personal and professional sovereignty at every level.
I am committed to my own ongoing development and kneeling to drink from the sources of my own empowerment so I can build the strength, the vision, and the humility to do this work.
What do you imagine? What are you called to explore and commit to?
Perhaps I can help you along your way. Let’s set up a quick chat and discuss how we might partner together so you can step into your Sovereign Story and get your magic into the world.