Wendy Havlir Cherry

Wendy Havlir Cherry, MA3, is an author, teacher, and Shamanic & Sacred Arts Practitioner.

Wendy holds three master’s degrees — two from St. John’s College — one in Eastern Classics with a concentration in Sanskrit and another in Liberal Arts. The third is a Master’s of Counseling in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University.

A retired psychotherapist, Wendy has worked for many years with individuals, groups, children, and adults, to uncover, reclaim, and empower their own inner wisdom and deep, intuitive knowing. She is a long-time student of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and a mystical lineage of devotional poets. Wendy is currently enjoying an in-depth study and application of the Art & Practice of Essential Shamanism with Julie Kramer.

Wendy combines professional and academic applications with esoteric wisdom, mysticism, and life experience grounded in practical devotions and daily practices. Both her personal and professional life are infused with writing, mindfulness, altar building, sacred space creation, ritual, the shamanic sacred arts, and ceremony.

She delights in traveling to sacred destinations to understand and connect with the medicine of place, teaching and guiding those who are exploring the path of soul nourishment to trust, deepen, and express their own unique gifts and wisdom.

Wendy lives in Santa Fe, NM, with her husband and their furry four-legged, Roland The Great.

The Mistress of Longing is her second book, published by Womancraft Publishing and launching internationally in November of 2019. Her first is The Reach is (W)holy; Poetry Inspired by the Sacred, published in 2017.

For more information about Wendy, her offerings, upcoming retreats and sacred circles, visit www.shegathersbeauty.com and @shegathersbeauty.

Endorsements for The Mistress of Longing:

“The Mistress of Longing is a mystic’s portal into a sumptuous dimension of Life we

can all access. It is our sacred invitation to embrace, embody and dance with our

longing.

The Mistress of Longing not only provides permission for all our longings and desires

but holds them as the sacred doorway to our belonging. I found myself taking it in

like manna from heaven. It’s truly a pure, potent and powerful transmission of Divine

Truth.

I experienced cascades of sensation in my body as my heart and soul were being

awakened by the Mistress of Longing.

I wanted to devour the book whole but recognized the need to slow down and pace

myself to fully receive and metabolize it’s wisdom.

The Mistress of Longing is a welcome new resource for me. I will to return to it again

and again - in part or whole - for deep nourishment, guidance and support.”

Joni Advent Maher - creator of the Trust Your Sacred Feminine Flow podcast.

"The Mistress of Longing is like the fragrance and softness of rose petals offered to our

collective hearts. It is a deep invitation to live in and with our longing and to offer the poetry

of ourselves again and again. Wendy Havlir Cherry speaks directly to the Soul and whispers

to our fear and hesitation, beckoning us to live the fullness of ourselves. She not only

inspires but also offers concrete, potent exercises to help guide our journey. Don’t miss this

bounty.”

Heidi Rose Robbins – The Radiance Project podcast

“The Mistress of Longing is a beautiful beckoning to open to a wisdom that guides us to reach,

to connect, to and create. In a world that often numbs us to our impulses and desires, The

Mistress of Longing lovingly calls us back to the center of ourselves, challenging us to rise

with passion and courage to claim our birthright to thrive rather than merely survive.”

Amy Bammel Wilding

“The Mistress of Longing is a creative breath of fresh air. It inspires me to listen to my inner

stirrings, and reminds me that my wildest, most beautiful visions — along with the next steps

to bring them to fruition — are within me, just waiting to be discovered, if I carve out the time

and space to listen.”

Katie Hess, Author of Flowerevolution: Blooming into Your Full Potential with the

Magic of Flowers

“Wendy Havlir Cherry will entice you and invite you to enter into ‘the forest of

awakening’ that lies inside your heart. ‘It is lush and green and wooded with

wildness.’

In The Mistress of Longing, Wendy, opens to you a world we rarely see expressed –

the world of the sensuous, creative, succulent feminine.

It can be hard to put words to the feminine principle. As mystery herself, She defies

definition. Wendy, though, writes from the heart, truly from this forest of awakening.

Allow yourself to be enticed into the world of She.”

Julie Daley, CPCC

Innovation Catalyst, Transformational Leadership Coach

“Wendy Havlir Cherry delivers lyrical lines coupled with sharp insights that speak to the way we

connect to ourselves and one another with a deft and dazzling hand."

-Briana Saussy, author of Making Magic: Weaving Together the Everyday and the

Extraordinary

“In The Mistress of Longing Wendy Havlir Cherry transports us on the power of her dream to our

tender hidden desires. This heartfelt and heart-fueled book leads us into a meditation on what we truly want, and how we truly deserve what serves our greatest good.

I could see this book as a joyful guidebook for women’s groups who might focus on one chapter each time they meet. The poem will be an entre into deep conversations and heart openings. Line by line, women have the opportunity to see their truest hearts’ longings to belong. There is such gentleness here!”

Gina Martin, author of Sisters of the Solstice Moon, Book One in the When She Wakes series