Sunset Journal

What if you began your day at sunset?

Five years ago, I asked myself a question. Then I asked my clients, community, and anyone else I thought might be interested: What would life look like if I believed that my day started at dusk, not dawn? This question was fuelled by my experiences as a feminine embodiment coach. Starting my day at sunset felt like a devotion to the feminine essence, to the goddess. Beginning my day with the promise of darkness: a creative incubation, a time of rest and receptivity, before surrendering into the dreaming hours and the revelations that may come from my night dreams.

It felt like an antidote to productivity culture, where you begin your day like a warrior ready to take up arms and battle through life. In the neon demands of a 24/7, switched-on life, it felt radical to contemplate my day in an ancestral way. In the Irish language, one of the words for sunset is luí na gréine, which means the ‘lying down of the sun’. The sunset felt like lying down with the ancestors.

The Sunset Journal is a printed creative journal for anyone who feels inspired to cultivate a practice of beginning your day at sunset. It is infused with the wisdom of our ancestors, but for contemporary life. There is much research on the healing benefits of evening journalling, and also on how our perception of time can lead to chronic stress and depression. We need disruptors here, and these ancestral teachings have helped me massively in what can feel like my own time-poor life.

Begin your day with dreaming, not doing.
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