About Our Founder
Hi beautiful, I’m Camille Willemain, the founder of Earth Daughters, and it is an incredible joy for me to connect with you here. Like you, I am a glorious ever evolving masterpiece in process, and Earth Daughters is the integration and synthesis of my own inner work made manifest in the world. It’s an honor to offer you any keys or reflections that might support you within your current life cycle. You are holy and your journey is sacred. I believe that within the depths of my bones.
My journey of awakening began in 2012 when I visited a small jungle town on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica and fell in love with living simply with the elements, in community, rooted into the heart of the Mother. After one month I left behind my life as I had known it, began traveling the world alone in over twenty five countries, started a blog called This American Girl that was read by millions of people, studied and trained in various spiritual systems and paths including yoga, tantra, shamanism, energy healing, and many more, and considered myself to be living “the dream.”
But in 2017 as I grew restless and longed for something that I couldn’t seem to touch, I unconsciously began a much deeper path, one that I have come to know as descent, the essential journey of initiation for all women choosing to reclaim the wild red river that carries both our power and also all of our trauma through the ages. This is the courageous quest to remember the wisdom, memory, and instinctual knowing that lives in our blood, in our wombs, and contains all of the mysteries of life and death.
This voyage brought me to the destruction of my life as I knew it. Despite "doing the work" for a very long time, and being a guide for others, I found myself in completely unknown territory, plunged into shadowlands that felt unfamiliar, overwhelming, and deeply faith testing. I was stripped of everything that I thought that I loved. I lost every form of outer power that I had, from a hugely popular blog, to my paradise home, to the image that I was "living the dream," to all of my financial and physical stability, to my friendships and community, and most painfully of all to my identity as I knew it.
The culmination of this experience occurred when I was physically assaulted in my home in Costa Rica one night and I had the visceral experience of my brain splitting open and filling with the light of the divine, and spontaneously summoning two dragons that I didn't even know lived within me to save me from what could have been much worse harm. It was “womb enlightenment” or what my Welsch ancestors called “Awen” when the light of truth bursts out of the blackest night sky. The dark night of the soul.
Once I left Costa Rica, while living in Guatemala, Thailand, Bali, and Greece in the aftermath of my assault, I received many visions and revelations for months upon months, astral traveled into ancient temples, past lives, existed in blissful communion with the essence of my soul, directly accessed God within me, merged with the Beloved, and eventually came back down to Earth for the humbling process of integrating everything that had happened and learning to live again on the other side of death. Studying feminine mythologies, Goddess lineages, and womb shamanism helped bring context and herstory to what my soul had already shown me through visions.
What I have come to learn through this journey is that when we are not properly equipped with the tools and guidance for descending into the darkness in a safe and sacred way, eventually our soul’s desire to grow and to evolve will lead us to enter the descent in a much more shattering and painful way. This process was once deeply understood as a woman’s rite of passage, and it was honored and carefully supported by the community.
When held in a space of radical love, descent shows us that our gifts, our treasures, our power, and our medicine for the world hides in the darkness where the fragmented or wounded self lives, who is at once the keeper of our most precious light. To realize and remember the light that lives in the darkest places is a huge invitation for many of us on the path of r-evolvution. It is what our shamanic priestess ancestors knew as Rebirth.
Because you are here, reading these words, I imagine you have likely traversed these shadowlands and communed with your light, or feel yourself on the precipice of a pivotal descent, and are longing for the community, the connections, and the mirroring that reminds you of who you already are and came here to be. I am here to simply be a reminder that there is nothing that is separate from your power, all that you are is sacred and whole, and within you exists an eternal light of love that never ever leaves.
It’s a true honor to create, facilitate, and allow this space for each of us. I am blessed and honored to be walking this path with you.
In reverence and devotion,
Camille Willemain
Learn more about me on my website:
camillewillemain.com