What is Alchemy of Girlhood?
A space where we believe in the magic that we create ✨
What is alchemy?
Alchemy: (by the Cambridge Dictionary)
a type of chemistry, especially in the Middle Ages, that dealt with trying to find a way to change ordinary metals into gold and with trying to find a medicine that would cure any disease ⚔️
a process that is so effective that it seems like magic ✨
How do you create Alchemy?
I love the word alchemy. It has always amazed me, the concept of turning something into gold. The word alone feels like something straight out of a storybook. It feels like magic.
If I had found the secret to creating gold, believe me, I wouldn’t be here writing this. And what about happiness? Also not. But, hear me out. Happiness I can try for, the gold thing better leave it to the people who…eemm do that?
For me, just as people in the Middle Ages pursued alchemy in search of gold—the ultimate treasure—I am desperately seeking the process, the alchemy, to uncover happiness and fulfillment.
My inspiration
Here comes the first literary recommendation of this newsletter, and it couldn’t be any other than the amazing Emma M. Lion series by Beth Brower. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion have changed my life.
I won’t make any spoilers (if you haven’t read them, you have to quit reading this nonsense and go read the first book). In this series, this word is really meaningful.
“And at some in-between moment, a key fit a lock, a door opened. As if the four of us created a room not having previously been in existence before.” (Emma M. Lion vol.4)
Later in the book, when asked to name this feeling, a character attributes it to the word alchemy.
“Alchemy. (…) that mythical pursuit that turns disparate elements to gold.”
My definition of Alchemy
Alchemy: that quiet feeling of being at ease, surrounded by the people you love, or being alone but not lonely. A sense of wholeness, when it feels like you could do anything—and yet, nothing is required of you.
So, I think that what I’m trying to do with The Alchemy Library is learn to choose my happiness and the people who make it. Not only that, but explore the hobbies and pieces of media that shape me into gold. All in all, I´m trying to feel peaceful, to find that home is not a place but a feeling. To carry this alchemy with me forever.
Do you want to learn with me?
The Alchemy of Girlhood
The Alchemy of Girlhood is a place that aims to help you discover the magic that surrounds us, even in our darkest moments. And if you ever find it hard to notice, you’re not alone—I feel the same way all the time.
That’s why I started this newsletter: to help both you and me uncover that magic together and at the same time CREATE IT. So, what are you waiting for?
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