By: redtentwomen May 1, 2023 Monthly ThemesMonthly Themes, Theme to consider: The Wild OnesLeave a Comment

May Theme to Consider: The Wild Ones

For the month of May the women of Red Tent Living are considering the theme, “The Wild Ones”. Join us by reading, and by gathering some women in your circle to share stories prompted by the thought of wildness.

Our Story

The idea for Red Tent Living started more than a decade ago with a book by the same name. The Red Tent, the best-selling historical fiction novel by Anita Diamont, retold the story of Dinah from the book of Genesis.

Writing Guidelines

Red Tent Living is a community of women from across the world reading, writing, reflecting, and responding to one another daily as we reframe what it means to be feminine. We welcome you to join in the conversation and submit your own work!

Hosting a Red Tent Dinner

Purpose: Once a month gatherings for 6-8 women that include enjoying a meal together and taking time to share pieces of their lives with one another. It is a place where believers and non believers in Jesus can experience community as they find connection in unexpected ways with one another.

Storm-Tossed Seas

By: redtentwomen May 29, 2023May 27, 2023

Faith, Femininity, Monthly Themes, relationships, The Home, WholeheartedDaughters, Embodiment, Healing, Mother Daughter Relationships, sexuality, Tracy Johnson2 Comments

I found them gathered on the back deck. PJ pants, hoodies, and hot cups of coffee in hand, my four daughters were circled up and telling stories to one another. The seventeen years that separates them is starting to feel less difficult to close, especially today as the topic at hand is their bodies. The…

Invisible Vines

By: redtentwomen May 26, 2023April 12, 2023

Day to Day, Monthly Themes, Warrior, WholeheartedAmy Ziegler, Growth, Healing, Hope, Houseplants, Life2 Comments

When I bought a hanging pot of pansies last October, it was to replace a broken bird feeder that squirrels kept raiding. We moved the bird feeder to a more rodent-proof spot but were left with an empty porch hook—a spot for hanging flowers, I decided. The pansies were dark purple and glorious. Their pot…

Untamed

By: redtentwomen May 24, 2023April 22, 2023

Intentional Living, Monthly Themescreativity, Freedom, Grace Brindle, Independence, Poetry2 Comments

I can hear her. On the nights The wind screams through the trees And the waves crash In rhythmic chaos On the shore. When night is darkest And bejeweled skies Tell no secrets.

Wild and Free

By: redtentwomen May 22, 2023April 23, 2023

Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationshipsAdventure, Empty Nest, Freedom, God's guidance, Parenting, Tina HueyLeave a Comment

As I sit here, sipping my morning coffee and gazing out the window at my two teenage sons, I can’t help but daydream about the days when they’ll be off to college and my husband and I will be empty nesters. I love my kids more than anything in this world. They’re the light of…

The Body Speaks

By: redtentwomen May 19, 2023May 8, 2023

Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesAmy Rupple, Blessing your Body, Body image, female bodyLeave a Comment

Me: Okay, so what if I gave you the chance to speak to take up space and what if I just listened? To your experience To your side of the story? Would you be honest with me? Would you want to speak? Essentially, I am asking: Do you feel safe with me?

In the Wild

By: redtentwomen May 17, 2023April 24, 2023

Day to Day, Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationships, The HomeBethany Cabell, Deep Feeler, Engaging Emotions, Parenting, Vulnerabilty, Wednesday in the Weeds3 Comments

One of my favorite artists, P!nk, was recently honored with the Icon Award at the iHeartRadio music awards. Standing on the stage, with award in hand, she paused briefly before saying, “I usually do try to joke or be self-deprecating in these moments, but I want to be a better friend to myself tonight, so…

Reviving My Wild

By: redtentwomen May 15, 2023May 11, 2023

Faith, Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, WholeheartedChristy Bauman, Healing from trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy Loss, Sound Therapy, Trauma RecoveryLeave a Comment

Sound Trauma Therapy: As in other forms of somatic psychotherapy that attend to the psyche (mind) and soma (body), sound healing sends sound vibrations into the body to target areas of pain, stress, and tension, or trauma. I throw another Epsom salt square into the filling bathtub. She told me to bathe in good salt…

Topping the Soul

My father and I argue about trees. I once had a beautiful red maple in my front yard. My husband and I envisioned it natural and towering, shading our bedroom from the fierce summer sun. When it was planted my oldest son hid secret notes in the hole to be buried among the roots. It…

Wild Love

By: redtentwomen May 10, 2023May 8, 2023

Faith, Monthly Themes, relationships, WholeheartedChildhood Trauma, Hope, idealism, Marriage, maturing, Rachel Blackston, Wednesday in the Weeds4 Comments

“You’re too young to be married,” said Lottie to my husband after we returned from our honeymoon. Lottie, one of our clinical supervisors in our Master of Counseling program was speaking of his developmental age, not his biological age. “You are still a little boy looking for a mom,” she said.

Learning from the Wild One

By: redtentwomen May 8, 2023May 7, 2023

Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesAdventure, courage, Jill English, Life Change, youthful exuberance1 Comment

There is a black-and-white photo that sits in my office. The photo is of a favorite four-year-old. In it, she is outside. Even in black and white, I know the sky in the photo is brilliant blue. She is looking straight into the camera lens. Her lovely little face fills the frame, blonde strands of…