I invite you to take a risk. Quit holding back your gifts! Don’t make those offerings for kudos or ego-stroking; make them for the Universe, all that gives us Life, the Holy, and see how good it feels to know your most humble and earnest gifts, no matter how imperfect, are deliciousness to Those who see through Divine lenses.
Let me know how it goes by responding to the email!
If you’re interested in adding to or re-activating your Sacred SuperPowers and you’re in the Bay Area, California on April 13th, you’re invited to come to my workshop: Priestess Reiki I: Using Mudras & Anointing Oils for Healing. Sign up Now. Space is limited and filling up fast.
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And keep that eye out for my upcoming journey: Sexual Bliss Through Good Housekeeping – A 101 Guide & Class for Emerging Priestesses Who Want to Turn Their Old School OCD into Ecstasy (aka: putting the Joy and SEXstacY back into Temple Keeping).
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Hey SuperSTAR!
As The Living Wisdom School emerges from the Chrysalis Temple with the Sacred frequency of the Goddess of Compassion, I am reminded of the potency of one of the Goddess’s Power Tools: Mudra (it’s a yoga for the hands). I also like to refer to it as Sacred Sign Language for communication with the Holy.
My first practices, just out of a book (Healing Mudras by Sabrina Mesko), brought potent, quick and clear transformation into my life, and soon, I was getting powerful mudric flows (like intuitive Vinyasa Yoga) that brought big and positive shifts into the health of my body, mind and spirit. I thought it would be nice to share this simple and powerful practice with you and include some of my favorites.
Click here for the DL on some of my most effective, Secret Goddess Power Tools: MUDRAS
Just 3 minutes of 1 or more of these basic mudras can show obvious results within a week. If you’re sensitive, you’ll feel the shift in your energy flow (the nadis and meridians will re-wire and align with these beautiful sacred geometries instantly). If you’re new to energy flow, it may take a little longer and start to show up as reflections from the outside world: “You are so insightful and wise!” (That comment kept coming when I was using the “wisdom” mudra”).
Use the ones I love, and play around with them. You may discover something that brings you into perfect balance. You may discover a mudra that will awaken the amnesiac, somnambulist main stream! Give it a shot. Even if all you do is bring more presence and peace into your mind, body and emotional flow, it will have countless ripple effects in the lake of the Cosmos.
And if you’re in the Bay Area, California, you’re invited to come to my workshop:Priestess Reiki I: Using Mudras & Anointing Oils for Healing. Sign up Now. Space is limited.
If you have questions or comments, send them to me, and I will add them to future letters.
Did you like today’s transmission? Consider showing the love by taking 30 seconds to “Like” my page on Facebook HERE.
And keep that eye out for my upcoming journey: Sexual Bliss Through Good Housekeeping – A 101 Guide & Class for Emerging Priestesses Who Want to Turn Their Old School OCD into Ecstasy (aka: putting the Joy and SEXstacY back into Temple Keeping).
Until next week, may the SOURCE be with you!
xo & <3
Hey SuperSTARS!
Hopefully you have never had to be in a hospital (except for a healthy, successful birth), but chances are, you or someone you know have taken an unexpected visit either to visit a loved one, or because you’ve needed care yourself.
As you probably know, it can be a really stressful place to be on top of the pain and other discomfort of being treated in the hospital.
I was reminded of how disempowering it can be as my dad just recently had a nasty fall and broke his leg. While I was talking to my mom, I realized that there is a LOT I learned during my internship at Marin General Hospital (yes, I am a certified integrative medicine healing arts practitioner as well as a goddess mentor) that would probably be really good to share with you. It’s really simple and basic, but few of us know just how much we can do to make a hospital visit less stressful. Being able to help hospital patients have a more enjoyable, health-filled journey is a true superpower and as we dive into the Goddess of Compassion this month in the Living Wisdom School, it seems like perfect timing for me to bust out this particular tool belt and share with you some of the most important keys I learned for helping our loved ones to feel more empowered and less stigmatized while in the hospital.
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There are so many ways we can help our loved ones when they’re in the hospital, but it is easy to forget our resources, strength and power when we are faced with pain, injury, threats to health and life of ourselves or a loved one.
I want to make sure that as many people as possible know these simple, easy and POWERFUL ways to lessen the stressful impacts of being in the hospital and maximizing the natural tools and resources most of us have available to us (but we forget or don’t realize we can use them) when we (or someone we love) take an unexpected trip to the hospital.
Love and healing prayers to my papa! And love to you and your loved ones! May health and ease be yours, and until we meet again, may the Source be with you!
x & o & <3
Happy time of celebrating the coming of Spring, SuperSTAR!
What a powerful time! Here in the Bay Area, the rain has returned to bless our dry earth, awakening the frogs and helping the new sprouts to jump up and live again. As Nature sprouts to life, I am inspired to share with you a deep and sacred vision; a love story really, that came to me a year ago, and is now showing up in this dimension in physical form.
Through the traditions that weave together inside of me, from my work with Martin Prechtel to the Sacred Feminine archetypes, I see this much-needed rain as a breaking of the sacred waters, allowing something new to be birthed. This is a time for ALL of us to receive this blessing and let our love child (our Divine Purpose) manifest in beauty rather than in crisis.
Click Here for the Vision I had about The Stag & The Great Mother
The beauty and depth of this vision continues to help me to see the world around me as living poetry – love letters and delicious words from the Holy, offered to help us remember that we are Sacred too. We are in a sacred agreement, a marriage of sorts, with Nature and all that is Holy, whether we want to acknowledge it or not. The more we choose to nurture that relationship, the more it pours in for us.
Poetry is not a metaphor-rich escape from reality but a reminder that there is no such thing as metaphor. Everything that is happening is a fractal reflection, in unique iterations, of the Holy speaking itself into reality. What we offer back, sacred food full of gratitude or discarded scraps, is what cycles back around to us.
I invite you to let this vision support more sacredness and less mundane in your life. More beauty, less apathetic responses to the crises that signal the birth of the new.
We are all midwives to our lives. And you can choose whether your response is filled with grace, kindness and respect for the new life being birthed, or whether to continue on with “business as usual,” struggling, pushing and laboring in crisis mode. Here is your personal invitation to not waste another moment letting the crisis before the birth overwhelm you.
Personal Support:
If you’d like support in making your birth a joy-filled ecstatic celebration of beauty instead of a tango with crisis, pain and suffering, I have a few personal sessions available on a first-come, first-served basis that will help you to step beyond crisis and into ecstatic birth. CLICK HERE TO CLAIM ONE NOW BEFORE THEY’RE GONE.
Remember Your Priestess Lineage:
The Living Wisdom School, has just launched into our 13 month voyage, and just completed our first journey into the Temple of the Great Mother. What a blessing! We’ll start another live, in-person, group in 2015. Stay tuned and know it’s never too early to apply for the next round.
Get It Every Week:
And, if you’re craving more goddess goodness and don’t want to wait a whole year, consider joining me for my weekly teleclass which I co-teach with the visionary Kerani Marie Lomonaco. We’re just getting going and there’s still time to join in if you respond NOW.
Hot Stuff Comin’ Right Up:
Keep an eye out for upcoming opportunities to join in on my Sexual Bliss Through Good Housekeeping journey. It’s in the kitchen cookin’ up and it’s almost ready to serve up hot!
All Blessings, 13 Thank You’s, and may the SOURCE be with you!
[I’m out of town and off the grid, studying with one of my favorite and deeply admired teachers, Martin Prechtel, so there won’t be a post next week : ( See you in March!]
xo & <3
Happy Day of Celebrating LOVE! I know it’s a holiday made up by Hallmark, but we are grown-ups and we can make it into anything we want, and a whole day (though just a little nibble) of celebrating love, expressing love, and wallowing in love seems ever so worthwhile!
Instead of a video, today I want to give you a special gift that can’t be accessed anywhere else (not for free, anyway). It’s my way of showing you the love for coming along on this magic carpet ride with me.
It’s my Love Bomb journey. A fun and simple way of turning anger into blessings.
CLICK BELOW TO CLAIM YOUR GIFT and start BOMBING the WORLD with LOVE!
Use it frequently. Listen to it while you drive. And remember how powerful your words can be.
It’s important to be honest about our feelings, express them and get them out of our systems, but they don’t need to be toxic as they leave. May this Day of Love gift support you in transforming anger and spreading the love.
Here’s one more love offering. A poem from one of my favorite poets, Hafiz:
THE SEED CRACKED OPEN
It used to be
That when I would wake in the morning
I would with confidence say,
“What am ‘I’ going to
Do?”
That was before the seed
Cracked open.
Now Hafiz is certain:
There are two of us housed
In this body,
Doing the shopping together in the market ant
Tickling each other
While fixing the evening’s food.
Now when I awake
All the internal instruments play the same music:
“God, what love-mischief can ‘We’ do
For the world
Today?”
~Hafiz
May the Source and all my love be with you!
xo & <3
Wow Goddess! The new year of the Yang Wood Horse is truly living up to its name! So much quick movement and ideas sparking into life. It’s magnificently overwhelming, isn’t it?
The women in my family have a long history of overworking themselves AND suffering through their moon cycles. Over a decade ago, I did some womb healing with myself and my own stories I’d shoved in that sacred space that liberated me from mind-blowing pain that would arise during my moon time. Now, as I step towards my mid-forties, I am finding that my body, once again, is calling for healing. I have come back into a very deep communion with my body, and more specifically, my womb, and this is what unfolded for me.
Whether it is to connect with, heal, and nurture during a moon cycle or not; whether female or not, giving ourselves the time to go into the Chrysalis – CONSCIOUSLY – to let go of the need to be productive and simply rest, listen and be still allows immense rejuvenation of the mind, body and spirit.
I believe that it is what makes the rest of my busy life so productive and full of harmony, grace and “happy coincidences” that actually saves time and allows me to accomplish things I didn’t even know I could put on my “to do” list.
I invite you to schedule time; whether it’s once a week, once a month, or just a little chunk of time every day to allow yourself to be completely restful and without ANY agenda.
See what it does for you and share it with me. I love to hear from you!
Until next week, enjoy your fallow time and
May the Source be with you!
xo & <3
Oh my! I really know why so many people steer clear of Owl medicine. Not because it’s bad; it’s just plain POWERFUL. Only navigable by those truly called to fly with Her.
Thank God:dess this week I had the opportunity to channel the Conscious Evolutionary voice of the Goddess of Compassion this past Friday with one of my favorite authors, and dear sister, Penny Slinger, on Human Spirit Radio.
This is the second round of teachings on the 13 Sacred Feminine Faces of the Goddess I offer in the Goddess Emerging Living Wisdom School. Last year, I channeled some of the vast teachings for each of these Goddesses. This new round is about dropping into a sacred ceremony together, feeding the Holy frequency of the Goddess, and birthing her through us. Then, sharing the wisdom that comes through.
Here’s a link to this powerful show Episode #157
Here are the pieces of wisdom that came through as I rode on the powerful waves of this merciful Goddess of Compassion.
*Compassion is INWARD & OUTWARD: We must offer ourselves compassion in balance with what we offer to others. Be fully engaged in self-healing AND being of service to the evolution of all.
*Everyone born in this time is a Boddhisatva, here to serve the conscious evolution and healing of all our relations.
*The true nature of Compassion will not allow ignorance of the needs and limitations of the self. That is an old martyrdom story and is not a balanced or sustainable way of being in service.
*Tears of release are the food for the Holy, and lubrication for the birth canal as we birth ourselves as the Goddess of Compassion.
*There are no more ceremonies needed to atone for past wrongdoings. The only rituals needed are for helping the human consciousness to come into alignment with what already is. All is forgiven.
I hope this message from Quan Yin is half as profound for you as it has been for me. Okay, that’s not true. I hope you get the full powered impact of the whole deal! It’s magnificent, and you not only deserve it, it’s already yours! So enjoy!
And if you know anyone who’s beating him or herself up over something they feel bad about, pass the love forward and spread the love!
It is likely that the Living Wisdom School is full, but I am creating a very small waiting list for last minute shuffling of the cosmic deck. If you are ready to be a Priestess and be the Creatrix of your SuperSTAR life, connect with me NOW. The magic carpet is about to take off and YOUR PASS IS HERE.
Until next week, may the SOURCE be with you!
Hey SuperSTAR!
I just got back from a nature walk, where I came upon an Owl who had a message for you.
He reminded me to share with you that all grief holds within it, the ecstatic joy of something we’ve lost. Breathe and look into the darkness with gentleness and quiet, and you will find what was lost, and your grief will turn to gratitude, and your pain will become beauty, and then you can feed the Holy that is your life and the Holy that feeds your life in turn.
While this new year has already rocked my world in some almost overwhelmingly joyful ways, it has also carried with it the grief over the death of someone very precious to me. I know that the owl was here as a messenger to help me deepen into the grief and have the full experience; we can’t grieve over something we’ve never known or had, so each grief has, at its core, the connection to what it is we’ve lost.
We can either choose to get stuck in the grief and feel sorry for ourselves, or we can let the grief lead us into gratitude and deeper connection to the person/circumstances/thing we have lost. Owl’s message was clear. It is from this place that our pain can become beauty; something that transforms the death into new life.
Being able to live this way makes the relatively smaller upsets seem insignificant. The other day, my car window was broken. Nothing was taken. It required missing a day of work and the cost for the repair, but none of that brought me down. I didn’t feel attacked. I didn’t feel angry. I didn’t even feel put out. Instead of being upset, I allowed myself to simply breathe into the reality of what is, and what ended up happening was really joyful. My friend helped me find a great place to get the repair done. We packed up a picnic and went to a park and played while waiting for my window replacement. We found trees with sweaters on them, which we hugged, and a psychedelic spaceship looking merry-go-round and some swings that brought me back to ecstatic childhood delight. We basked in the sun, ate good food and played like kids. It nourished my spirit in ways I probably wouldn’t have planned for myself, but the Holy came knocking (almost literally) on my window and invited me to take a break from my routine. I did, and the magic poured on in.
Next time you get a wrinkle in your plans, I invite you to see if you can remember to welcome the shift. Even if there’s loss. Even if it is great loss. I invite you to welcome the experience as a friend, not an enemy, and see what gifts are being offered inside of the grief and loss. It’s a practice that has only fed and blessed me, and I suspect it can do the same for you.
If you’re ready to step out of the mundane and call in a life beyond your old patterns, consider joining me for the Living Wisdom School Priestess Apprenticeship. It’s your training ground for becoming a Priestess, a Goddess, a SuperSTAR! The magic carpet is about to take off and YOUR PASS IS HERE.
Until next week, may the SOURCE be with you!
xo & <3
Hey, SuperSTAR!
Have you ever played that game: “Which Superpower would you choose? Flight or Invisibility?” There’s a whole debate about the personalities that choose one or the other. I have a BIGGER game for you to play. What SuperPowers would you choose for yourself if you were given the option? As many as you like, and anything you like, without limits.
I had a dream, a LONG time ago, about my SuperPowers, and as I have been looking at this past year; the many losses, potent healing, transformational insights and awakenings, I’ve realized that I’m actually starting to really live the SuperPowers I dreamed of all those years ago, and it inspired me to invite you to ask for a vision for YOUR superpowers. Everything we make real in our lives starts with seeing it first, so I invite you to celebrate this new year by visioning what your SuperPowers are.
As I have remembered and chosen to focus on making my SuperPower dream a reality, I have found more and more support from the Universe. More and more experiences that could easily demolish my heart are now opportunities for me to become stronger, more stretched open with a greater capacity for love, and much, much wiser. And I don’t need to know how it all happens. My only focus is on my prayer, to be a magnification of love, light, beauty and grace in the world. If that’s not happening, I am reminded that I can make a choice to get closer to being in that prayer.
That’s what I’m doing this year, instead of the old worn out resolution. I’m awakening my superpowers. Who’s with me?
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear what YOUR SuperPowers are! Please leave your visions in the comments section here.
And, if you would like a sacred space and sacred witnesses to support you in remembering and awakening more of your SuperPowers and emerge as a Goddess, a Priestess, a SuperSTAR, consider joining us for the Living Wisdom School. We start February 9th and have 3 spots left. If you’ve been longing to discover and cultivate your hidden superPowers, claim your spot now!
Love is my weapon. One I will use with reckless abandon!
Until next week, may you awaken your SuperPowers AND may the SOURCE be with you!
The New Year is a great time to let go of the old and call in the new. Traditionally, we’ve done that through resolutions: weight loss, better time management . . . I’m going to suggest something revolutionary. Forget the resolutions this year!
Resolutions are plans for the future based on what we are unsatisfied with in the moment. There’s a funny parallax of time that sets us up for failure. Instead, I have a suggestion for LIVING your intentions for your life RIGHT NOW.
Making plans for the future when we are unsatisfied with our lives is a set-up that feeds into what we don’t want, and we don’t need to keep falling for that old game.
Instead, I invite you to look at where you are RIGHT NOW. Take a moment to HONOR HOW FAR YOU’VE COME since last year.
Feel into the many different aspects of your life: health, personal relationships, career path . . . and ask yourself what is your prayer for each of these parts of yourself.
Then, instead of holding yourself to something way down the road, you can ask yourself daily, hourly, or as each opportunity to make a choice arises: “How can I live in my prayer for my life RIGHT NOW?” Meaning, what decisions can I make in this moment now that support my prayer for myself?
Prayers are much more powerful, I find, than resolutions. Resolutions seem to be based on intentions to control or manipulate old behaviors we want to change. Prayers are a collaboration with the Universe and all Elements and Powers that be to co-create a new reality for ourselves. We are automatically recognizing we don’t have control over the future, but we do have a choice in every moment to move towards something that serves our intentions or not. Also, going from moment to moment allows for a momentary distraction without total derailment of all that we do to make a good life for ourselves.
My prayer for this year to come is to allow myself to be the best magnification of the Love, Light, Beauty and Grace of my Creator I can without ever making anyone else feel small or “less than.” My prayer is that the love I shine out into the world only ever inspire and invite others to step into their full SuperSTAR Light. Already, I have found that the Universe and all the Elements around me are more than happy to conspire to help that happen.
Every moment is an opportunity to move more deeply into that prayer, and to re-align and re-define that prayer and my movement within it as I go. My big confession is that I’m a human. I am imperfect. I make mistakes, and every moment gives me a new opportunity to make a better choice for myself than the moment before. It’s just that easy. May it help you, this year, to be gentle and kind. To let go of the illusion of control over the future so that you can be fully present and empowered in THIS MOMENT NOW to do the best with it you can.
Until next week, may the SOURCE be with you!
Hey SuperSTAR!
While I love to focus on the positive in my weekly inspirations, I’m also a great ally of the FULL SPECTRUM of life. While celebrating the beauty and abundance of my life and love of my family and community, I have also been faced with heart-breaking loss this season.
Since it is up, so strongly for me, and, I know, it is up for many of my community at this time of year, I thought I’d share, more deeply, some tips and tools for moving through grief with beauty, love, peace and softness in our hearts.
To me, the important steps to recognize and allow to support the healing process, after a big loss are:
1. Recognize numbness and haze as shock and be gentle and fallow. Allow more rest; less doing. The ONLY THING TO FOCUS ON IS BREATHING. Literally, make sure you are breathing as fully as possible and then releasing that breath.
2. Let your feelings flow through with each breath. You may feel numb, overcome with grief, angry, scared. Let the breath be an engine that helps you to move through whatever wave comes in. Movement can also help: Exercise, yoga, dance, walking in nature . . .
3. Allow the grief to move with those feelings you are releasing. Sometimes when we have a loss, we cling to the very last experience we had of that part of us, which is usually the painful part. We think that if we let go, we’ll lose all connection with that someone/something we cherish, but that’s not true. Letting go of the pain allows not only the old beauty and joy that once was to emerge, but new perspectives on the preciousness of those fond moments can deepen what you have in your past. It’s scary to think of emptying out when we already have lose, but if we don’t make space, we get stuck in the loss phase of the cycle. If we allow the FULL cycle to continue through (The Living Wisdom of the Creator*Preserver*Destroyer), we will be released from the pain and be left with grateful memories of what was, and a prayer for what will be.
4. Turn any remaining Grief or hard feelings into the beauty of Praise. This is one of the main teachings of my teacher, Martin Prechtel, and it has nourished me and brought more magic, purpose and meaning to my life than any other pearl of wisdom I’ve ever learned, and I’ve been gifted with MANY astounding and inspiring teachers and countless pearls of wisdom I cherish and practice daily. I do this by recognizing that any grief I have over something I’ve lost is direct evidence of having had it in the first place, and by following the pain to it’s core, I find a deep gratitude for having it in the first place. I let go of feeling sorry for my loss, and instead, feeling grateful I ever got to have it at all. It is a choice we can each make and it is life and soul changing.
5. Let that beauty of grief and praise become the Sacrament you offer to feed the Holy, which is another one of the main teachings of Martin Prechtel. I’ve learned, over the past 5 months, to play a musical instrument I made in Martin’s school, and because my voice is so shy, I have strengthened my courage to share my singing voice by singing with Gertie (that’s the dotar I made; ancestor to the guitar). I sing chants and sacred songs from different traditions, and make up a few here and there. When I am joyful, singing makes me feel even more ecstatic. When I am feeling loss in my heart, singing helps to clean out the wounds gently and leaves my heart open, empty and ready to receive the frequency I am sending out through my voice. It is ecstatic for me, and I can feel that the Holy receives it with delight.
This is the heart of Spiritual Composting. Turning anything that feels painful into something that, even though challenging, is filled with beauty, grace, and opportunities to be stronger, wiser, and more torn open for a greater capacity to let the FULL SPECTRUM of life in and receive it all as a gift.
HOW TO BE THERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE:
It can feel really stressful and awkward to try to know how to be there for a loved one who is facing a heavy loss. The good news is, YOU DON’T HAVE TO KNOW! The best way to be there for someone else is to:
1. Make sure you take care of yourself first by following all of the ideas above. Come from a centered and steady place or you can’t help anyone.
2. Let go of any assumptions that you need to know what to do.
3. ASK how you can be of support to your loved one and then be honest about whether you can meet any requests that follow. Don’t KNOW. Just ask and be available. Be open to just listen and understand. Advice, even if it is good, if not asked for, can be overwhelming, confusing, and unhelpful despite our intentions.
That is my gift to you this holiday season. My most treasured wisdom from my very tender heart, to yours.
Until next week, HAPPY NEW YEAR and may the SOURCE be with you!
Read MoreAre you someone who hears the word “Priestess” and feels a contraction? Or does it feel like a calling you long to answer, but aren’t sure how?
Today I’m going to share what qualities and characteristics make a Priestess a Priestess, and the first basic steps to becoming one.
While there are all sorts of ways the word “Priestess” can be interpreted from “woo-woo” to Voo-Doo, my invitation is to let yourself step up as a completely unique embodiment of this archetype and DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE AS THE PRIESTESS. Allow yourself to practice it (it may be awkward at first, but it’s well worth the challenge), and give yourself permission to no longer hide behind a mask of mediocrity. You are here in this body, in this lifetime, for an important reason. Whether your role is as a mother, a teacher, a service worker or an entrepreneur, the way in which you show up will determine whether you are making a positive impact in the world, or merely rolling through the motions.
Here are some key words that inspire and guide me as I step into this role:
Divine Wisdom
Devotion to the Divine as the Beloved
Power through Presence
Grace & Beauty
Channel of the Divine
Sacred Mirror
Ceremony Keeper
What I feel, when I am embodying this archetype is a sense of infinite depth that can hold all things with graciousness. The Priestess responds with wisdom that is beyond the ego and personal preferences and biases. She can equally attend to practical matters that support grace and ease, create beauty to feed the Holy, and in her empty presence, engender stillness in others that allows the Divine to flow through them.
The shadow can be misinterpreted as aloofness, too little discipline, attending to the surface but not emanating from empty presence, too much discipline, detachment, and sometimes too subjective (unable to hold the Divine frequencies clearly).
When I can drop into the frequency of this Avatar and listen to Source, the answers that come NEVER lead me astray. The Priestess helps me to show up with courage and clarity when the ordinary me might not know how to respond to the Unknown.
If your heart is aching to become a true priestess, and respond to challenge with unflinching beauty and grace. If you long to discover what your life could be like if you had the keys to unlock the door to wisdom, strength and intuitive guidance, then you are invited to join me in my upcoming Living Wisdom School. Here we will learn how to shed the mundane, let the magic in, and become The Priestess, as well as other powerful and transformational archetypes of the Divine Feminine. We will learn the Divine Mysteries and secrets for becoming a living goddess without shame, guilt or limitations.
If you’re ready to wake up every day filled with joy because your life is filled with purpose and meaning, SIGN UP NOW. Space is limited and there’s no one who deserves to shine more than you!
NEXT WEEK I WILL BE OFF THE GRID AND WITH MY FAMILY TO CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY SEASON, so there will be no newsletter.
May this season be filled with light, and may you also find beauty, peace and grace in the stillness of the dark.
All blessings to you and your loved ones, and until I see you again, may the Source be with you!
Are you like me and thousands other women who have suffered from either intense pain, heavy bleeding, or both during your moon cycle?
I’m going to share with you the basic practice I discovered over ten years ago that took me from excruciating pain to hardly even thinking about my moon cycle.
Click here for the DL on our not-always-welcome monthly visitor.
Basically, the thing that saved me was to do the opposite of what seems natural.
I turned my attention around. I did an about-face and instead of running away from or trying to ignore or minimize the pain, I headed right into the center of it. AND IT WORKED!
I noticed I had to bring an open and empty mind. I had to let go of all of my mental ideas, stories and assessments, even of the idea of pain. I let my mind be open and curious, and with that focus, I found that the pain that had, at times, taken me out of my body and into a psychedelic journey, soon turned into something I almost didn’t even notice.
It took just two brief connections with my cramps and they disappeared. But, it wasn’t just going into the pain with my open mind, I had to listen.
I saw the pain as a red flag and so I responded with concern. I asked what was going on, and the message I got was that I had put so much hate into the nuisance, embarrassment and other negative labels and projections I’d learned about having a monthly cycle that my body just couldn’t take it anymore. It was crying out for my attention, and when I offered it up and apologized and chose to send love, compassion and acceptance, the pain melted away. Within one month, I turned unbelievable pain that even Vicodin couldn’t challenge into something that almost felt good. I started to greet my moon cycle with deep appreciation. There’s nothing like immense pain and suffering to make the absence of pain feel like deep bliss.
I’ve continued to honor that healing and relationship with my womb and my moon cycle, and it has offered immense gifts, which I will continue to share if you stay tuned.
That’s all for this week.
Remember to take it easy on yourself this season. The weather, the social obligations, financial activity and family can all turn into stresses if we don’t remember to be kind and focus on they joy.
Until next week, may the Source be with you.
xo & <3
We are full steam into the holidays now! Whether you’re ready or not; whether you want to or not, we are immersed. Here are some tips for making this season truly JOY-FILLED and TRIUMPHANT.
Focus on what it is important: family? connection? giving? love? celebrating something sacred?
“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. [I’ll add in here: People will forget what you made for dinner. People will forget what you gave them for the holidays. People will forget whether your house was decorated perfectly.] But people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou
Let the perfect ham, the ornately decorated tree and table settings and (expensive) gifts ALL TAKE A VERY FAR BACK SEAT to making the holiday full of joy. That means making sure that where you are coming from is joyful. And that means taking care of yourself and letting go of pride over the external things and attending to whether you are coming from a place of love and kindness. If you can’t come from love, take a break and ask for help if you need it.
And, forward this on to anyone you’d like to make sure is in cahoots with you to do it differently this year. Making a mutual agreement to spend less time stressing out over how things “should be” and letting the priority be connection and celebration is a great way to start things off.
Some great ideas for simplifying this holiday:
Have everyone donate the money they’d spend on family gifts to a general fund that goes into paying for a big family activity (or a few) over the holidays. Or, if you have plenty already, consider making the fund a donation to a family that needs it.
Draw names so that there’s only one person to buy for in your family, and put all your time and effort into one spectacular gift rather than a bunch of smaller ones that may have less effort behind them. Take time giving and opening the gifts together.
Consider gift certificates that are for time with you. I’ve done certificates for sewing projects, Fairy tea parties, day spa visits and other fun activities so that I get to build relationships with my friends and family. Then the holiday is spread throughout the year. When my parents were young, my mom gave out certificates for a certain amount of time each day that was set aside for each of her children. Knowing I had uninterrupted time together helped me to feel more supported and important.
Do you have ideas for simplifying and rocking the holidays? Leave your comments below!
ONE LAST NOTE: My Living Wisdom School is starting to fill up. If you want to spend 2014 learning how to drop the Ugly Duckling mask and start showing up as the Beautiful Swan you truly are, learning the secrets of the Goddess with a group of SuperSTAR sisters, then don’t wait. Claim your space now before we fill up! Check out the details here, and send me your application today.
Until next week, may the Source be with you!
xo & <3
Hey SuperSTAR!
Happy Thanksgiving! Today’s quick inspiration is offered to help you with small or mammoth shadows that are full of shame. But before we drop into that, I want to say how grateful I am for YOU. Thanks so much for taking this magic carpet ride with me! I love your feedback and just knowing that there’s something I have to share that is landing in receptive ears.
If you’re an adult human being, there’s probably at least one thing in your life you feel shame about. Whether it’s something you did when you were a kid, bad habits you try to keep hidden, parts of yourself that could use some growth, or a full on ancestral karmic boulder you carry around, it can create a constant background of distortion that keeps you from really letting your awesome SuperSTAR shine.
There’s one key I’ve found for helping to turn parts of myself from feeling shame to being claimed and the scoop is here for you now.
Click here to get the full 411 while you’re waiting for that turkey to cook.
Yup, as odd as it may seem, offering compassion and gratitude towards that shame (not necessarily the actions that caused it or the experiences involved) is one of the best ways to let it straighten itself up, find some dignity and self-respect and start showing up as one of your SuperSTAR teammates. That background noise diminishes and you find yourself fueled with more energy, more clarity and more conscious support of the positive things you are walking towards.
Grief can often come up when we let the shame out into the light. Grief over wounds caused to us, wounds we’ve caused. Let that grief out. Write about it, exercise it out, shout it out (into a pillow is great), make some art, or do a Pippy Longstocking move after Thanksgiving and break all of your dishes instead of washing them.
Once the grief is out, the shame, now being owned and no longer hidden in the dark, will find a natural path towards health. From this place, if it is possible to bring healing to the situation that brought on the shame, those ideas will emerge. If nothing can be done at this point, then the wisdom from the experience will now be an asset that will offer insight and the ability to do something better in the future.
Sometimes we can find that the very thing we were ashamed of is actually something to be proud of (like when I was little, being tall, uber smart and physically mature were all really painful, but now they are things I am proud to claim as a part of who I am and what formed me as I developed).
When the shame is over something big, like the devastation of land and culture of indigenous peoples by many of our European forefathers, letting it out and owning it can inspire and empower us to behave in ways that take steps in the right direction toward preventing such things from happening again.
If you’re ready to let go of shame and start to claim all of you, let me know how it goes! Shoot me a message! I’d love to hear about it..
And if all of this sounds like a great idea, but feels like too much to take on by yourself, I have a couple of new openings in my calendar for one-on-one work. As a special gift of gratitude for our connection, I’ll give you $300 off my 9 session package if you sign up by the end of November! Just send me a message with the words “Shame to Claim” and we’ll get you started on your shame-free life. CLICK HERE FOR MY CONTACT FORM to CLAIM this special opportunity.
I’d also like to invite all you emerging goddesses to consider joining me for the next round of the Living Wisdom School: Journey with the 13 Goddesses. It’ll give you all the tools you need to trade in the mundane for magic and start living the life of a True Priestess, treated like a Goddess, and shining like a SuperSTAR. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO and application form.
Until next week, may gratitude fill your life and may the Source be with you!
xo & <3
Can you believe how fast the holidays are speeding up on us? Despite the celebratory facade, time with family can bring up some . . . schtuff. And I thought now would be a great time to share some insights and tips to help us all rock the holidays and come out the other side filled with love, dignity and holding on to our authentic selves. Are you ready?
Check out this week’s inspiration HERE.
Okay, so let’s review:
First is to REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE NOW. It’s easy to regress back into old roles when we’re with family (and to project old roles onto our loved ones). The scapegoat, the golden child, the flake, the tattle-tale . . . Allow yourself to be who you are now so your family has the opportunity to love the present you.
Second, RESOURCE YOURSELF. If there is past abuse, make sure you have some allies around you (or available by phone), and check in with yourself to see if your time with your family is genuinely helpful or harmful. Putting on a front and allowing yourself to be re-traumatized (or even just enduring a painful event) isn’t doing anyone any good.
Third, come armed with questions that allow the conversations amongst your family to CREATE HEART-FELT CONNECTIONS, like:
“What advice would you give your young self?”
“Who do you most admire and why?”
“If you could meet any person throughout time, who would it be, and what would you ask or say to them?”
Fourth, COME WITH AN OPEN MIND. Allow yourself to pretend you are an explorer, learning about this culture anew. Let your mind be free of old stories and projections, and give your family the chance to shine. Going in with the assumption that LOVE WINS will make that most likely to happen.
And, please add your comments and ideas for how to make the holidays more joy-filled and less stressful for us all!
Until next week, may the Source be with you!
Hey SuperSTAR!
I have had a lot of people ask me for book recommendations and for insights on how I got started on my Divine Feminine/Goddess path. And it just came up again, so I thought i would step back in time with you today and share with you some of the first steps I took toward awakening the goddess within.
Check out this week’s inspiration for the scoop! AND Check out below for a link to a FREE downloadable ebook version of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success!
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by Deepak Chopra took a while to really understand and to integrate, but by reviewing my summary of just one of the laws each day, and committing to practicing it as best as I could for that day, it didn’t take long before I was living them all, all the time, and didn’t need to review them anymore.
Here they are listed below (but I STRONGLY recommend reading the whole book so you know what they really mean. Then, summarize them in your own words and assign one law for each day. Review it in the morning and let it be your guide for how you respond to everything that comes your way that day. THERE IS A LINK I FOUND TO A FREE EBook of The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success HERE):
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1. The Law of Pure Potentiality
2. The Law of Giving
3. The Law of Cause and Effect
4. The Law of Least Effort
5. The Law of Intention and Desire
6. The Law of Detachment
7. The Law of Purpose in Life
It was sooooo long ago that I read and integrated these laws (almost 20 years! YIKES!), but I can still remember the somewhat ponderous looks I got at work (I did child abuse investigations back then). I didn’t just change my world, it rippled out to the attorneys, teachers, therapists, judges and families I interacted with.
“What the flip did she just say?”
Don’t think you are like a drop in the ocean. You are a rock dropped into still waters and your effects can ripple out endlessly from this ONE SIMPLE PRACTICE even if it doesn’t make a huge splash in the moment.
Give it a try today and tell me how it was!
Oh, and please join in with me for a moment of prayer for our relations in the Philippines. Send them light, love, care and compassion as they heal and recover from the devastation that hit them. Click here to learn how to help out.
Oh, and I am starting a new radio show series on the Conscious Evolution of the Divine Feminine Archetypes starting this month! November 22nd, 2-3PST on Human Spirit Radio. Catch me live every 4th Friday 2-3PST, or look me up in the archives.
Until next week, may the Source be with you!
xo & <3
Hey Beautiful!
Do you ever feel like you’re hiding your superpowers because you’re afraid other people won’t know how to respond to your gifts? I’ve been there, and I know how terribly painful it can be to choose between being authentic and being rejected!
Some of you already know that I have a potent connection with Fox medicine, and Fox has a lot of wisdom to share about how to quit hiding. (Check out my Fox medicine blog to catch up in case you missed it!)
After all my posts about Fox, that funny video “What does the fox say?” made it’s way to my inbox multiple times. And so, I can’t help but think “What DOES the fox say?” Here’s what I can share, based on my personal initiation with this powerful animal. Maybe it will help you to get over your inhibitions, get your dork on, and start shining like the SuperSTAR you are!
Check out this week’s inspiration here.
Being a dork = being vulnerable = SUPER SCARY! BUT (yes, there’s a very big but here) it also can help you to completely let go of trying to act, look, be seen as something you’re not which = inauthentic = hiding behind a mask = keeping all your good stuff to yourself instead of sharing it with the rest of the world like Creator had in mind. It also keeps all the magic out, and I think that, deep down, most people feel a lot more comfortable interacting with imperfect humans than automatons that hide behind a thin veneer of perfection. To me, that is MUCH SCARIER!
Just to prove that I am walking my talk, I am including some photos of me getting my dork on. It was scary (in more ways than one). I am a pretty woo-woo sorta chick sometimes, but I embrace the full spectrum, and that includes my super freaky super geek. It can be really liberating to let go of perfection and allow yourself to surrender to the unknown. Play. Bump your shins. Walk into an important meeting with toilet paper stuck on your shoe. As long as you own it, those are the unpredictable, unplannable, uncontrollable elements that give us something to talk about at the dinner table. Laughter is not only the best medicine, many wise elders nd spiritual leaders will tell you that a true sign of a great mind is an immense sense of humor and ability to laugh at oneself.
Captain Crawfish Crusher vs. Pony Chacho
Here are some pics from my most recent dork-a-thon: A smack down with Captain Crawfish Crusher. Pony Chacho (that’s me on the right) is, yet again, victorious! Stay tuned for links to the video of a Supah Stah Dark Chocolate Superfood Bar-powered Pony Chacho takin’ the Crusher to school!
The Wise Crone would agree. She cackles at our fiascos and tells us to get over ourselves! Let go of perfection and embrace the cracks, tears, faux pas, and mishaps. They are always some sort of message from Source asking us to let go of our illusions of control and to pause for a moment of laughter and silliness.
I hope this helps you to quit hiding, get over yourself, get your dork on and start living!
And I just had to share this funny Sesame Street response to the Ylvis video. Took the words right out of my mouth (Sorry, Ylvis! I like the song, but you’ve got the fox all wrong).
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Oh, and I am starting a new radio show series on the Conscious Evolution of the Divine Feminine Archetypes starting November 22nd, 2-3PST on Human Spirit Radio. Catch me live every 4th Friday 2-3PST, or catch me in the archives.
Until next week, may the Source be with you!
Have you ever read a book or seen a movie that took you to a dream world you wish you never had to leave? Have you ever felt like the world you live in seems a bit mundane? Today, I have some good news for you and some insights for putting the extra into your ordinary (that’s extraordinary, not more of the ordinary).
So, the good news is that there is magic all around and waiting to be invited into your life, it just takes some different lenses to unlock the muggle facade and let the extraordinary shine through. Myths and archetypes, the tales of heroes and villains, wars and epic adventures aren’t just entertaining stories, they are cross-cultural reminders of the mystical origins of humanity, and when they are understood, they hold deep and very real keys for living a life beyond your wildest dreams. A life filled with real magic, wonder and beauty.
Check out this week’s inspiration for the scoop.
Yes, it is true. You can’t relax in the easily accepted, seldom criticized, safe world of “normal” if you want the magic to flow in. The magic is magic because it is from the Unkown. It is magic because it is beyond the comprehension of the left brain. It can feel chaotic and unpredictable. In a sense, if these elements aren’t at least a part of its qualities, it isn’t really magical. And since chaos and unpredictability don’t allow us to be in control (though we aren’t really in control of anything anyway), it is scary.
So, many of us end up pretending that the magic is just pretend. Just make-believe, so we can go about our ordinary existence without the lingering hunger for that greater adventure, sparkle and wonder. Over time, we forget, altogether, that there is anything but that 9-5 grind, the daily routine (which you can’t spell without r-u-t), and the insurance of an average, predictable and uneventful life. When it does show up in our lives, as my teacher, Martin Prechtel has said in many ways “we are likely to call the police,” rather than invite it in for tea or let it unlock the chains that we’ve allowed to bind us in to our safe and comfortable lives.
The archetypes and myths that have been passed down from all of our ancestors are here to remind us that we are the Divine in physical form. And while it is full of the limitations inherent in being bound to the material world, it is still full of limitless possibilities and miracles. The archetypes are examples and inspirations of what we are capable of.
I invite you to discover YOUR ancestral mythologies and let them awaken the dreams and seeds of magic that have, for generations, been passed down, waiting for the right time to sprout. There’s no better time than now. AND SHARE your experiences of the mythic, the epic, the archetypal here in the comments section.
AND, if you are interested in exploring the Divine Feminine archetypes (not just for women!), you are warmly invited to join me in my explorations of the living wisdom that is explored each month in my Living Wisdom School. We’ll be starting again in January 2014. See the links below for more details on your opportunities for learning more about what these archetypes and mythologies can awaken for you!
Oh, and I will be doing a 1 hour radio show on archetypes and mythology on November 22nd, 2-3PST on Human Spirit Radio. It’s the beginning of my new series on the Conscious Evolution of the Divine Feminine Archetypes. Catch me live, or tune in on the archives.
Until next week, may the Source be with you!
xo & <3
I don’t know about you, but all around me, it seems like there are more people struggling financially. More bad news about the economy and joblessness. So much can be attributed to our socio-economic challenges. But what can we do, as individuals, to help ourselves feel less stressed about resources AND be of service to our community?
There’s one fool-proof, guaranteed way to shift the mind-set from lack to abundance that I learned from my mom, and I’ll always be grateful for this life-changing lesson. I’ve shared it in this week’s inspiration.
It may seem contradictory to give away what it is we want to receive, but, truly, this experience has several different positive effects:
1) It usually helps us to realize how much we really have, especially compared to most of the rest of the world.
2) It starts that flow of abundance: the CURRENT-CY gets flowing and will cycle back around to us too.
3) It helps to shift the consciousness that can get stuck in the belief there is not enough, and can keep us from seeing and receiving helpful resources right in front of us.
4) It shifts our energetic frequency from scarcity to abundance, and as we know that like attracts like, it can help us to become a magnet for what we want.
5) IT FEELS REALLY GOOD!
Even though my Christmases were, relatively speaking, on the more modest side, I LOVED the years when our family chose to take what little we had and split it with another family in need. I’d rather go without, knowing someone else got something under the tree, because the gifts wear out and are easily forgotten, but the sense of warmth and joy that comes with bringing unexpected kindness and generosity to someone in need (ESPECIALLY anonymously) never wears out AND it’s priceless.
I remember reading in the Bhagavad Gita something I really loved. The message was that anything that is diminished as it is shared (like food or money) is of less value than the things that never diminish, and in fact, increase, like love and kindness, when given away. There’s another perspective to add to the story of lack.
So, give it a shot. It could be something small, but I encourage you to see if there is something big, something not so easy to let go of, and with a prayer to feed the cycle of abundance, consciously put it out there to nourish life beyond yourself, and allow your heart and mind to open to that CURRENCY you’ve just initiated, and allow it to flow back around into your life.
Have any magical stories about giving? Please share them here in the comments section.
And in case you were wondering, the Divine Feminine archetype most connected with today’s topic is the Goddess of Love: Lakshmi. You can call to her to support more abundance for the planet with this chant: Om Aim Lakshmiye Namah!
Have you been feeling the warpy, bumpy, confusing and trying twists and turns that the change of the season and the shifts of the planets are bringing in? Me too! I have not only been aware of my own crunchy spots, but have felt incredibly sensitive to those around me. Seems like most of us are going through another wave of intensity. What can be done?
I was just reminded of something I realized a while ago that helped me through a really rough patch and now seems like the perfect time to share it with you.
As we approach the season of dressing up in gory costumes and watching scary movies, it seems like the perfect timing to share with you what I learned about feeding my soul.
CHECK OUT THIS WEEK’S INSPIRATION HERE.
I’m not saying you should put a total ban on everything that isn’t puppies, kitties, unicorns and rainbows. Not at all.
As someone who embraces the shadow and celebrates the full spectrum of the human experience, I think it is important to be aware of and in touch with all aspects of life and death, light and dark.
What I am inviting you to do is to be aware of what you choose to feed yourself with: enriching, inspiring, and nurturing stories, images, and music? When you do choose to indulge in something that is violent or outside the lines of what normally brings joy into your life, what is it doing for you? How do you feel afterward? Is it helpful to balance this experience with something inspiring and gentle on your senses?
My teacher, Martin Prechtel, encouraged our class, the Shoots & Tendrils, to read International Folk Tales and Fairy Tales before bedtime, and even if I can only get in a page or two before falling asleep, I have noticed that my sleep feels more deep; my dreams feel more inspiring and helpful, and I wake up with a more positive attitude. I try never to go right to sleep after being exposed to anything violent or upsetting.
The same goes for eating. I ask those I share meals with to keep the conversations, during the consumption of food, to topics that are nourishing and positive. I’m happy to dive into something deep and troublesome after a meal, but I agree with many traditions that we internalize what is happening around us when we eat.
This one simple idea: making sure to feed my soul plenty of healthy and helpful images, stories and music, has helped me through emotionally challenging times.
I invite you to give it a try, especially if you’re a scary movie fan like me. See if you notice a change, and let me know what your experience is like in the comments section here.
Until next week, may the magic be with you!
xo & <3
One of my Hallowe’en costumes as the Cat who at the Canary
Has this past week felt like it’s riddled with warps and wobbles in the space/time/emotional body continuum? ME TOO! We had a minor earthquake here in the Bay Area and I think that it was the earth’s reflection of the energetic and emotional upheavals we are going through as the seasons and planets shift.
There have been several times that I have felt like someone dosed my green drink! And my clients, friends, and family have all expressed that, as we start our passage into darker days of fall, the shadow is emerging on the inside as well. The good news is, the shadow is here with a gift! Mostly it’s an opportunity to get really intimate with that shadow and see what it needs to be lifted from pain into wholeness through love. Speak kindly to it and see what happens. Speaking of . . . speaking, that brings me to today’s topic: Sacred Sounds of Manifestation Magic.
A little while ago, I shared one of the secrets of manifestation: GRATITUDE (check it out here if you missed it or want a refresher).
And today, amidst the wobbles and twiggly danglers, I thought it would be good to share another potent secret for manifesting our reality. WORDS. Yes, words. Sounds oversimplified, but it is one of the biggest keys to creating what we want.
Check out this week’s inspiration here for the magical download from Spider Woman.
The natural cycle of manifestation (this is fully supported by science, but we won’t and don’t need to go into the science of it here) starts with the fecund potential of the Void and from there, it becomes consciousness, empty presence, then self-awareness, an idea/thought, then a prayer/intention, which is vibrated out onto that web of reality through our breath and then our spoken words, which can then be written and turned into physical reality. The process continues from there (and, again, I invite you to check out my recent video on Gratitude for the rest of the manifestation loop sequence).
The ancient words spoken by our ancestors were considered to be sacred sounds (Egyptian, Hebrew, Hindu and Mayan origins, at the very least, hold similar beliefs that all reality was spoken into existence through these sacred sounds, which were the beginning of human language). And I have found it to be continually validated. What I speak is more likely to become a reality once it is birthed from vision (the intangible) into vibration as sound. And when it is shared as a sacred prayer, put into chant, it is even more powerful and swift.
I could write a whole book about sacred sounds and speaking as a weaving of reality into material form. But what is most important for you to take away is that what we speak, we send out as a prayer, whether we intend it or not. And so, it is important to be aware of the words we use and the stories we tell.
Even more potent than spoken words are those which are sung. And even more potent are those that are sung as food for the Holy.
I’ve been singing at my altar as a gift to the Divine, and have experienced immense, potent, and often instant healing, bliss, insights, and other gifts. i almost feel like I don’t need to pray for help. I simply open my heart and let it express itself in song that has no agenda other than giving back to the Source that gives me so much. I can feel my prayers coming out as music. I let my mouth make sounds that are not a language my mind knows, but my heart and the Holy know it well and it feels ecstatic.
I dare you to give it a try. You can do it alone so you don’t feel self-conscious, but find a place in nature or another sacred space, and let your heart soar through song. Even if it seems a little silly, do it anyway. Over time, you may be amazed at what starts to shift. Let those sacred sounds emerge without censorship and definitely without any sort of mental process.
My prayer has been to be a magnification of love, light and beauty in the world through all that I do, and I see my singing to the Holy practice as a way of opening up that channel. Since I’ve started doing this, I keep hearing “you have such a beautiful voice!” I don’t know that my voice has gotten better, but now it is infused with something beyond myself. It is liberated beyond any sense of performance. It’s simply an offering to my best ally ever.
Give it a shot and tell me how it goes! Here in the comments section is great!
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Read MoreI just had an epiphany about vulnerability while working with a client the other day and I just HAD to share this potent insight with you!
Have you ever found yourself in a place where you feel complete trust? A time when you felt like you could be completely without defenses or masks? It is an all too rare experience for many of us, and as I worked with one of my clients, she described it as an ecstatic, blissed out experience where her authentic self feels loved and fully embraced. Sounds fantastic, right? So why don’t we all let ourselves be vulnerable all the time? Well, the obvious, right? When we’re vulnerable, we’re not only very sensitive to the good feelings, we’re also painfully sensitive to the triggers, projections and judgments that inevitably surface. It is SCARY!
Sometimes we don’t even know HOW to be vulnerable since we aren’t always aware of the dynamics that allow or prevent a state of vulnerability.
So, I just knew I had to share my vision with you, since it’s really helping me to see when I’m stepping outside my authentic self and behind a mask of protection.
CLICK HERE to get the download I received on how to recognize when we are masking our authentic self.
It was so amazing to realize that judgment/criticism/projection and self-defensiveness/justification/excuses work together to distract our focus from what’s really needing our attention: our vulnerability.
I had the opportunity to use it myself. In the long ago past, I was a type-A, perfectionistic, obsessive compulsive person who would spend MONTHS getting over mistakes that every human makes. I’d repeat it over and over in my mind and relive the anxiety and torture of self-criticism and be unable to let it go.
Just last week, I made a really big mistake. It had an impact on more than just me and I felt sick to my stomach. I could have made a bunch of excuses, and was even encouraged to do so by a friend, but I decided to just be completely honest about what had happened, without excuses, and simply ask what could be done to make things better. You know what? A solution was presented, I did what was asked and that was that. I was expecting to have to continually alleviate the onslaught of winces and pangs of pain over re-living the realization that I’d messed up, but instead, I have let it go and it’s done.
Our vulnerability is the place where our authenticity resides, and when we lock them up, we are robbing ourselves and the world of the immense and unique gifts we were given to share.
Judgment and Justification stand as guards, ready to start an endless wrestling match with each other to keep us distracted from pushing through into the jail cell where our vulnerability has been locked up. Locked up for safety and protection, but the real outcome is that it is a prison that ends up squashing our truth and keeps us from being a whole human.
Here are 5 steps for moving beyond the guards of Judgment and Justification and into your vulnerable, amazing, authentic self:
1) Notice when you are making excuses, defending yourself or justifying something you’ve done.
2) Take a deep breath and let go of the mental determination to figure out blame or culpability.
3) With your breath, bring your awareness to what part of your body has tensed up along with the defensiveness. Breathe right into that place. Put your hand there, too. Send a message that it’s okay.
4) Just send as much love and compassion to that place in your body as possible and breathe until you are able to release the contracted energy.
5) Listen to what this part of you needs, and if you go into any dialogue or stories that include any sort of justifications, come back to the breath. Keep doing this until you can tune into what it is that your vulnerability has to say (ie: I’m scared of looking foolish. I don’t want to be rejected for not doing something “right.” . . .).
Take care of your vulnerability, rather than getting lost in the unproductive maze that judgment and justification create as they try to protect your tenderness. Let it be tender. Let it hurt, and let your energy go into moving through the hurt, rather than trying to figure out how to fight in the battle between self-criticism and self-defensiveness.
The Divine Feminine archetypes connected with these dynamics are the Primal, Wild self and the Initiatress, who carries that sword of truth I was talking about last week. I teach the deep mysteries of the Divine Feminine archetypes in the Living Wisdom School. I’m now accepting applications for this rare journey with the Feminine face of the Holy.
So, please do share with me your stories of liberating your vulnerability from judgment & justification in the comments section here.
And, if you enjoy these weekly inspirations, why not share them?
Until next week,
xo & <3
I want to get down and dirty and ask you to take a really honest look at your life. Where is it wobbling? Where is it out of alignment?
It can be really difficult to want to look at these things, mostly because we can be at a loss for how to “fix” them. But if we don’t pay attention to the parts of our lives that are not a true reflection of what we want to be, then over time, even the little disjointed pieces become foundational blocks that keep us from reaching our full potential. Better to do a little bit of housekeeping now than either do a complete do-over in a year or feel stuck in a life we’re not really in love with, right?
So, today I have some clear and simple steps for bringing the little loose ends and warpy bits into alignment so that you don’t look back at your relationship, your career or any other part of your life with regret. Sound good?
Click here for this week’s Heads UP on how to use the Sword of Truth to have a life you can fall in love with.
It’s a very simplified and quick bite for a HUGE topic, I know. But I think it’s easier to get bite sized pieces that we can integrate.
Here are the steps again, so you can refer to them and start using them to initiate positive change in your own life and in the world.
1) Feel into where the warps are. Spoken word versus your physical/energetic response.
2) Be aware of your own stories, judgments and projections that can turn an gift of truth into a barrage of critical attacks.
3) Let the unfolding of the truth be your goal instead of blame or even fixing a problem (mutual understanding is another way of looking at it).
4) Speak about what you are witnessing rather than any stories or causalities you think you may have figured out. EXAMPLE: “You said that everything is fine, but I have a tight knot in my belly and when I look at you, your body seems tense. I’m curious why the words aren’t matching up with the feelings I have.”
5) Recognize that when you stand in courage to speak your truth, you open the door for a new possibility to emerge, rather than slugging along in the “business as usual” grind. Though some people resist the changes that truth-speaking brings, any great mind will tell you that it is speaking one’s “inconvenient truth” that helps the world to evolve into something better than was possible before we opened our mouths.
OH, ONE OF THE BIGGEST KEYS: Make sure to keep a balance of using the sword with yourself and with others. Always being up in other people’s business when you’re not willing to take an honest look at yourself is really annoying. AND only choosing to be honest with yourself can lead to unspoken boundaries/broken boundaries and not feeling authentic, even though you’re a total SuperSTAR. The Sword of Truth is always a sacred mirror, reflecting for all sides of the matter, something important that is asking to be looked at.
So, don’t keep your gifts to yourself. And remember how to deliver them so that they can be received as gifts. Wrap them in love, and a desire for letting the truth grow something good and leave the judgment and criticism packaging in the recycle bin.
This week’s challenge: Take a look at what parts of your life (or what moments) don’t feel in alignment. Where do the words not match the emotional/energetic/physical response? Commit, this week, to speak what you are experiencing until the truth can emerge.
AND, SHARE YOURE EXPERIENCES IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW. If you have questions about this, that’s the place as well.
The Initiatress is the archetype who inspired this week’s inspiration. I just shared Her wisdom with my Women Inspiring Soulful Evolution community, and teach about Her deeper mysteries in the Living Wisdom School. Want to know more? Check out the Living Wisdom School AND the WISE program I offer.
Until next week,
May the magic be with you!
xo & <3
Hey Superstar!
Pssst! What’s your niche?
If you’re at all like me, this simple question has caused hours of pondering, soul-searching, thinking you’ve found it, then realizing you didn’t. It’s been a real hair-puller for me.
Just the other day, though, I had a HUGE “Ah-Ha!” moment that helped me to shed the light on this continually elusive answer. Not only did I find my answer, I found THE KEY to discover who your ideal client is and how to understand him/her better.
CLICK HERE to get the answer that could save you $1,000’s in business coaching and boring conferences, ebooks and teleclasses, and hours of stress.
I SO WISH SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TOLD ME THIS 2 1/2 YEARS AGO!
As an entrepreneur, pretty much from day one on my solo journey into being in business, I have heard how important it is to be able to answer the question “What do you do?” with precision. A more refined way of looking at it is “Who do you help?”
It makes sense. If I can’t tell people what I do, how will they know if they want to work with me? They certainly couldn’t refer anyone to me if they are clueless about my offerings and services, even if they really really like me.
But I am the poster child for Sagittarians. I get about 100 great ideas every day, and since I have, my whole life, been in service, I HELP ANYONE & EVERYONE WHO NEEDS IT. I’ve done paid work with abused children and their families, people just out of psychiatric care, hospice patients, women fighting cancer, pre-operative patients, chronically ill, women devastated by loss of relationship, men struggling to free themselves of childhood wounding, women wanting greater spiritual connection, people ready to release old stuck rage . . . it feels like freakin’ lifetimes worth of demographics I have helped. And it’s because I listen to my heart and when someone is in need, I answer the call.
So, who do I help? I’ve been working on answering that for over 2 years!
That’s why I was so incredibly relieved the other day when I got this HUGE epiphany. And the basic answer is: I am helping myself.
Let me explain.
I know I was born with certain obstacles and have had certain challenges to walk through in this lifetime so I could help others on their path. I believe that facing our struggles helps us develop the strength and wisdom we need to manifest our life’s purpose.
In working with a business coach (I finally bit the bullet and hired an amazing woman to help me with the last 10% that’s been so elusive), and as I answered the questions she gave me, and started interviewing my clients and, more clearly, looked at the overlap for most of them, a pattern started to emerge, and what I realized was that I was looking at my life story.
I grew up “different.” I matured, physically, mentally and emotionally very quickly. I looked and seemed a lot older than I really was.
In 5th grade, I was reading to my class at story time and administering the spelling tests (not kidding at all; talk about socially isolating a kid, geeze!). It was hard to relate to kids even a couple of years older than me. Much of the time I felt like an outcast, yet I also could see that I had gifts that I thought should be valued.
My deepest desire wasn’t to get rid of the things that made me different (thank goodness, I was able to hold on to the value of them), but I longed to be appreciated, instead of made fun of, for my differences.
Fast forward a couple of decades . . .
Fortunately, I am now surrounded by all sorts of gifted and inspiring people, so it’s easy to forget how tough things once were, but I do carry with me that old story. So, as I started tuning into my ideal client, I realized that my ideal client is walking the path that I walked, and I can help that person because I have the blisters and bruises and muscles from being there myself.
Yes, I can help all sorts of people, and it brings me great joy to reach out to new people with new challenges and I will continue to show up as Spirit guides me, but I am so relieved to realize who it really is I am here to serve. The ones I can serve BEST. The ones who are walking the path I’m oh so familiar with.
So, here’s the one big tip for you to help you tune into your “niche”
What was/is your biggest obstacle that you’ve had to learn how to navigate to survive and thrive in this world? It probably started as a kid. What were you made fun of for? What made you feel different from the rest? What were the stories you told yourself? It is likely that as you really explore your greatest challenges, you are also uncovering your niche.
I can’t believe it took me so long, and it kind of had to come through the back door before I even realized it. Instead of being embarrassed that I struggled with this for so long, I thought it would be helpful to spread the word so that you don’t have to suffer from “Can’t figure out my niche-itis”
Did you like this week’s inspiration? Spread the word!
Got insights about this week’s topic? Share your journey to find your niche (I almost hate that word now, truthfully.) in the comments section below.
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Until next week,
May the niche be with you!
xo & <3
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