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issue 51: 
REBORN


What if your soul could be renewed, revived, reborn with every breath?

Forget doing more, being more, or struggling to fit into the mold. You, phoenix, are already braver & more beautiful than you know (yes, even/especially when you feel like a total mess).

You are made to rise. Choose your own daily rebirth . . . here, now. Be free. Be whole. Be true you.

Show life that you are IN and life will show up for you. Never give up; your life is of value and your gifts and presence are needed in this world.
— Stephanie Gagos, Truth Tribe interview, TPS: Reborn

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in every issue:

  • 60 full-color digital pages (PDF)

  • vibrant art, intimate interviews, revealing essays, gaspworthy poetry, soul-stirring prompts

  • handpainted & drawn pages, handwritten love notes

  • interactive features honoring our #thephoenixsoul gathering

  • Amanda Fall: editor, publisher, creator, gatherer of good

May you feel seen. Heard. Loved. Just as you are.


The Phoenix Soul: REBORN

This moment (every moment) is pregnant with potential. Unlimited possibility. Fresh life. Will you choose to come awake, to fully live, to shed the weights that keep your phoenix wings dragging in the dust? Will you embrace all that en-light-ens you, lifts you, sparks your radiant soul? Will you be reborn--here, now? Again and again?

What lies ahead? I don’t know. But wherever Grace leads, this new Me is ready to go.
— Maureen Helms Blake, Bitter & Beautiful column, TPS: Reborn
i choose to be fully alive—to live well among others where they are—where i am—with openness and acceptance. [...] through the tribe that encircles me, i am born again, blessed and whole.
— suzanne l. vinson, "a story about my birth," TPS: REBORN
1. Amanda Fall. 2. Stephanie Gagos, TC Larson, Felicia Mitchell, Brandi Reynolds. 3. Maureen Helms Blake, De Jackson, Julia Fehrenbacher, suzanne l. vinson. 4. Beth Morey, Teresa Robinson, Carissa Paige, Laurie Blackwell.

1. Amanda Fall. 2. Stephanie Gagos, TC Larson, Felicia Mitchell, Brandi Reynolds. 3. Maureen Helms Blake, De Jackson, Julia Fehrenbacher, suzanne l. vinson. 4. Beth Morey, Teresa Robinson, Carissa Paige, Laurie Blackwell.

guests in this issue:

  • Stephanie Gagos, Truth Tribe interview

  • TC Larson, Felicia Mitchell, Maureen Helms Blake: Grit & Grace participants and guest contributors

  • regular contributors: Maureen Helms Blake, De Jackson, Julia Fehrenbacher, suzanne l. vinson, Beth Morey, TEresa Robinson, Carissa Paige, Laurie Blackwell

  • additional guest contributors: BRandi Reynolds

What if being reborn is living in a state of Grace? Shedding away the shame . . .
— Teresa Robinson, Evolutions column, TPS: REBORN

Spark your phoenix soul with us.

Grief stories once cracked me open, revealed the phoenix soul within. Now I’m ready, aching for the next cycle, the next shed and re-wing. I’m ready for joy stories to unite us, too, the vulnerability of laughing until we weep and gasp, joy as visceral as loss, our bodies singing with life.
— Amanda Fall, "My Story," TPS: REBORN
I unlocked
my body, and it was a mystery
how I breathed shackled
for so long
— Beth Morey, "To Live," TPS: REBORN
There is no need for protection
Against what I was born to do
— Brandi Reynolds, "Less of Me," TPS: REBORN
Trust Yourself Completely.
— Carissa Page, "The Weed that Became a Tree," TPS: REBORN