The Accidental Nun

The story of the accidental nun takes the reader on a journey with a business analyst and mother of three, passing through a financially and emotionally devastating divorce, and re-locating with her three children a few times before landing in California. As she walks through the dark tunnel of experience first-hand what it is like to be a 'throw-away' person in America, the idea of a Sisterhood forms. The author takes her outrage at the system, her sadness over the unmendable status of relations with her children's father, her disappointment with her own birth family, and uses the pain and anger of all that to fuel the re-birth of a Beguine movement and a new-age Sisterhood.

Compared to the documentary film (Breaking Habits) released in theaters in 2019, this is a more personal and in-depth look at the life of Sister Kate, prior to forming the Sisterhood, Where the film-makers focused more on the central valley of California, The Accidental Nun is an autobiography written by Sister Kate in 2014, just before the founding of the Sisterhood and reveals the stories and experiences that led her to founding the new-age Order of nuns. Sister Kate and Sister Rosa worked together to complete this book over the early years of the Sisterhood. The tearful and witty story begins as a suburban mother of three is unpacking the family's belongings after returning from nearly a decade in Europe, and stumbles across secrets kept by her husband. Clues and secrets that she begins to put together in boxes, that she protects with her life. This is the sadly common story of a patriarchal victimization of women, and the hardship one woman had to overcome to rise above it all and ultimately gain world-fame with her anarchist, activist order of nuns. This is the story of a Beguine-revivalist movement. This is the story of the rise and return of St. Hildegard de Bingen. This story represents one of many of the women who are performing the role of midwives who, while giving birth to a matriarchy, also wield a whip to gently tame the patriarchy.

The Sisters of the Valley is both a movement and a growing cannabis business. The author is the founder and head of this order of world-famous weed-nuns. Sister Kate (Christine Meeusen, author of the Accidental Nun) graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Business Education at age twenty-one and then spent the first decade of her career working in project management in the credit card industry and the newly deregulated telecom industry. At the age of thirty-three, she began her own consulting firm (Expert Business Solutions), and embarked on a journey that took her, as an analyst, into a specialization in newly deregulating industries. Her consulting assignments took her as far away as Canada, England, the Netherlands and beyond, as Sister Kate helped clients open their businesses in those countries as well as in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark. Sister Kate came to California after surviving a financially devastating divorce, and as a single mother of three children found it impractical to continue her chosen career, as the amount of travel would have meant the children raised themselves. Instead, she looked to California's newest and most interesting de-regulating market: the cannabis industry. Sister Kate founded a non-profit cannabis collective in the Fall of 2009 and opened for business in 2010 (Caregrowers). After three years of serving local terminal patients, after developing teas and tinctures for the express reason of avoiding having the sick and dying risk torching themselves with fire and pipes, she decided to close that business and focused on developing a non-smokable product line that would reach more people. During the Harvest Moon of 2014, she developed her first line of products for the Sisters of the Valley. In January of 2015, she launched the business of the Sisterhood and a Beguine revivalist movement.