Brigid's Forge — A Six-Month Programme
First Steps on Brigid's Path — with structure, support, and other women making the same journey.
Where you are
For a lot of women who grew up inside a high-control religion — Catholic, evangelical Christian, Jehovah's Witness, Mormon, or any other tradition that told you exactly what to believe and what happened if you didn't — leaving wasn't a clean break. You left the structure. But you didn't stop feeling like there was something worth tending to. Some part of your inner life that still needed a home.
The problem is that most of what's on offer doesn't fit either. Too New Age, too vague, too much like swapping one set of rules for another. Or it asks you to simply stop believing in anything, which also isn't quite right.
What you're actually looking for is something honest. Something that takes your history seriously without asking you to go back to it. Something rooted in mythology and tradition — in a figure who has been part of this land and its women for a very long time — but that asks you to do the thinking, not someone else on your behalf.
That is what The Guided Path is.
"This is not about finding a new belief system to step into. It is about understanding what you actually believe, what you value, and what kind of spiritual life is genuinely possible for you — starting from where you actually are."
Is this for you?
This is for you if—
This is not for you if—
What you receive
Two calls each month across six months. The first is a teaching and meditation session led by Orlagh. The second is an integration call — your space to process, share, and be witnessed by the group.
All six sessions of First Steps on Brigid's Path — the teaching slides, the guided meditations, and the reflection exercises — available to work through at your own pace between calls.
A dedicated workbook for each of the six steps on the Path. Structured journalling prompts, exercises, and space to record what comes up in your meditations and daily life.
You are not left alone between sessions. If something surfaces, if a question won't wait, if you need a word of guidance — Orlagh is available by email throughout the six months.
The Guided Path is capped at 15 women. Large enough for real community, small enough that everyone is known. The women in this group are on the same road. That matters.
From the very first session you will have a grounding meditation — Brigid's sacred fire as a container for the work — that you can return to at any point in the programme and beyond it.
The journey
Each month focuses on one of the six steps on Brigid's Path. The self-paced material gives you the content and the meditations. The calls give you the space to process what's come up. The workbook keeps you working between sessions.
Before you can walk a path, you need to know where you are standing. This month you begin to identify the beliefs you have absorbed, the ones you have chosen, and the ones you are ready to examine.
What has your spiritual life been until now? What worked, what harmed, where did you live aligned with your values and where did you not? This is not about blame. It is about honesty, and the freedom that comes with it.
Underrated. Often the first thing stripped away by rigid spiritual frameworks. This month asks a simple and radical question: what makes your soul sing? A path that contains no joy is not one worth walking.
In the old Irish tradition, the poet was a keeper of wisdom, a reader of the world, a maker of meaning. This month draws on Brigid's role as protector of poets and explores what that lineage offers you.
What defines the road ahead? Not what should define it — what actually does. Your values, your relationships, your constraints, your longings. How do you move forward on the path that is genuinely yours?
The cauldron is the vessel of transformation — what goes in is not what comes out. This final month asks what you have learned, what you have created, what you will carry forward and what you will leave behind.
Your guide
Orlagh Costello
Brigid's Forge
Orlagh has spent years researching the history and mythology of Brigid — as Irish goddess, as saint, as a figure embedded in Irish culture across more than a thousand years of change. She brings that research into her teaching, and she doesn't simplify it.
She understands the specific experience of women navigating life after a high-control religious upbringing — what gets left behind, what doesn't, and what it takes to build something new that is genuinely yours rather than inherited or borrowed.
Her teaching is direct, grounded in the historical record, and takes both Brigid and her students seriously.
Join the CircleYour investment
Choose the payment option that works for you.
Full programme · Single payment · Best value
Standard rate: €2,497 · You save €500
of €899 / month
Spread over 3 months · Total €2,697
Payments taken automatically each month
of €450 / month
Spread over 6 months · Total €2,700
Payments taken automatically each month
of €229 / month
Spread over 12 months · Total €2,748
Payments taken automatically each month
Not sure if this is the right level for you?
The self-paced programme is available at €847.
The full one-to-one coaching programme is €4,350.
Get in touch if you'd like to talk it through.
Questions
Do I need to know anything about Brigid before I start?
No. The programme begins from the beginning. You will learn who Brigid is — as historical figure, as goddess, as saint — within the first session. Curiosity is the only requirement.
Do I need to identify as pagan, or as anything in particular?
No. This programme is for women who know they are spiritual but don't have a box that fits. You are not required to adopt any label or belief system. You are invited to explore your own.
I left a high-control religion and I'm wary of anything that feels like organised religion. Is this going to feel like that?
No. There is no doctrine, no set of required beliefs, no hierarchy, and no expectation that you adopt any particular label. The programme is built specifically for women who have had that experience — whether from Catholicism, evangelical Christianity, or any other tradition that controlled belief and behaviour — and found that the after-effects don't simply disappear when you leave. The work here is yours to direct. Brigid is a resource and a guide, not a requirement.
What are the call times and how are they held?
Calls are held online via video. Specific times are confirmed with each cohort to accommodate the group's geography and schedules. All calls are recorded for those who cannot attend live.
What if I fall behind on the self-paced material?
Life happens. The self-paced content is yours to keep and return to. The calls are designed to be valuable even if you're a little behind — and the integration call is often where catching up happens naturally.
Is a payment plan available?
Yes — you can pay in full, or spread the cost over 3, 6, or 12 monthly payments. Choose the option that works for you in the investment section above. If you have a specific situation you'd like to discuss, get in touch using the form below.
One last thing
The whole point of the programme is to help you work out where you are, what you believe, and where you want to go. You are not expected to arrive with answers. You are expected to show up willing to look for them. That is enough.
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