The day I received the phone call from Kristen asking me if I wanted to attend Goddess Class, my whole body, mind, and heart — MY WHOLE SOUL — blurted out . . . YES!

I was vibrating with excitement, because I knew I needed this, and my prayers had been answered. Before Goddess Class, I had lost sight of who I was. How I felt. How to be connected to my body. I couldn’t remember who I truly was. I was so wrapped up in being a girlfriend, a mother, a daughter, a sister, an employee, an employer, a home owner . . . identities that I was trying to keep afloat every single day. I forgot how to just be Portia.

In Goddess Class, I learned how to breathe for me, how to fulfill my desires and how to pursue my own pleasures every day. I have unwrapped some deeply rooted traumas with the loving support of other women who are there to love and support me and who are traveling in their own beautiful, messy journeys with me.

I learned healthy communication and what a healthy tribe looks and feels like. I learned what love is. I learned how to be safe and vulnerable. When I am able to be most vulnerable is when I have experienced the deepest, purest, most magical kind of love.