Women participate in "talking circles" and workshops in an effort to tap into the divine feminine energy and wisdom that exists in every woman. The idea is to recapture and reconnect with this ancient wisdom, and to understand it. All cultures, including our own, have indigenous roots, and itís important to remember what we have lost because that is what is creating loss in ourselves.

These groups are lead by Susan A. Lipshutz, a licensed clinical social worker with an active Chicago-based practice for more than 20 years, who brings a foundation in both Western medicine and indigenous spiritual practices to her work. For the past decade, she has focused on bridging cross-cultural traditions and contemporary culture to help individuals heal soul wounds, awaken hearts to self love and acceptance and bring the mind/body/spirit systems into balance with nature. Deeply devoted to building strong communities that reawaken and integrate the divine feminine into daily lives, Susan founded Everyday Medicine Woman, which offers programs such as five monthly medicine circles and annual women's gatherings.

Her background and training includes serving as the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Family Practice Residency Training Program, affiliated with Illinois Masonic Medical Center and West Suburban Hospital; lecturing frequently on such topics as women's health issues and wholistic well-being; creating audio cassette tapes with guided meditations; participating in two shamanic Andea/Peruvian apprenticeships; and studying with Chilean medicine women and Mapuche ceremonialists in order to bring their healing traditions to women in North America. In addition, she has been a featured expert in Woman's Day magazine and is co-founder of Rainbow Journey, LLC, which sponsors ongoing training ethnospiritual journeys through the Americas, and apprenticeship programs in earth-honoring spiritual traditions and cross-cultural shamanic practices. Click here to read what others have said about Susan's work.