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Healing the soul's voice

This makes me mad!

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I’m doing a lot of spiritual work these days, and this nonsense has to stop:

There’s a strong element in spirituality that calls for us to always be “in the light,” or “seek for the light.” We’re also constantly seeking for higher consciousness, which makes us think of going up. Up is light, and down is dark – or is it?

I think that misses the point of life here on Earth as human beings. Yes, we are of the light, and we are also of the Earth, and she sustains us. My own experience is teaching me that part of “higher” consciousness is honoring the dark and getting more connected to Mother Earth.

As I see it, the constant seeking the light and talking about the light tends to make us do a number of things that don’t serve us. Such as:Continue Reading

Don’t Yell At Me!

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I remember last Thanksgiving at our family gathering. I got passionate about something, and a male family member kept interrupting me. I told him very firmly to stop, and he said, “Don’t yell at me.”

Now, if you’d ever heard me yell (remember, I used to be an opera singer), you’d know I wasn’t even close to yelling. I told him so, and he left the table.

He wanted to control the conversation, and when I wouldn’t let him, he accused me of yelling, and that was supposed to make me shut up. When that didn’t work, he took his football and left.

Most of you women have heard this MANY, MANY times in your lives when you weren’t even close to yelling. Some of you men may have been the ones saying, “Don’t yell at me,” when the woman wasn’t even close to yelling.Continue Reading

Lose the maybes and mights…

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While working with a client today on her Clear Story (an essential part of your talk about what you do), she bumped up against an issue many women have. Her Clear Story draft was wimpy and unclear, because she used a lot of “maybes” and “mights” in it.

The Clear Story is a format I teach my clients that is designed to take their listener from a place they are stuck, to the possibility that they can have what they want by working with you, by changing a belief they hold that’s in the way.

When I got my Clear Story, it profoundly improved my marketing, and my ability to talk with people about what I do – and it does that for my clients, too.

MY GIFT – You can get the Clear Story Format here

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I almost didn’t make it…

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I’ve had the flu. For two weeks.

Usually, I never get sick. I’m not very good at it. This flu kind of came in waves, and I would think I was getting better, then it would hit me again.

I was scheduled to give a workshop at the FEM Talks Goddess Revival Weekend on Easter day. I was determined to be there.

I took the 2 days before to really stay down, be quiet, drink lots of tea, take lots of supplements, and PRAY!!

I made it, and even with my creaky, crackling voice, the Healing Your Soul’s Voice – Reclaiming The Voice of The Goddess Workshop was a favorite of the weekend for the women who attended.

It was also healing and energizing for me. My soul had called me to do this workshop, in spite of the logistics of bringing card making supplies, and having to cram the experience into less than an hour. My body was able to find the energy to answer my soul’s calling.Continue Reading

True partnership in action

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sagelevineandarianaI had the great good fortune to attend the Women’s Leadership Summit last weekend at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey – a place I always love to go to for any reason.

This was Sage Lavine’s event – the goddess I’m hugging in this photo. I love this woman, and the way she leads and does business. She’s a beautiful example of the new paradigm of business, and of true partnership – with self, others, work, community, spirit and nature.

(I wrote about partnership last week. Read that article here.)

I love how she combines conscious business coaching with spirituality, mutual support, and giving back. I love how she speaks in her whole soul’s voice.

​​​​​​​Partnership in work: She demonstrates partnership with her staff – acknowledging them and celebrating them more than any other workshop leader I’ve seen.

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Do you let your voice out to play?

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do you let your voice out to play

Being creative is essential to our success – in whatever we do. I wrote 2 articles recently about the process of creativity – Are You Crazy?, and The Art of Serendipity.

Here’s another crucial piece of your creativity that no one is telling you about: Your voice.

I’ve seen it over and over again with my clients. When you free up your voice, when you learn to play with your voice, and gain a greater range of self expression through your voice, your creativity sky rockets.

Your voice is an expression of your essence.
So, if you’re holding your voice back (which most of you are doing without realizing it), you’re holding back your essence. And you’re holding back your creativity, which is tied to freely expressing your essence.

Here’s what I recommend:
Read out loud regularly, especially from books or poems that are just silly and fun, so you can actually PLAY with your voice. 10-15 minutes 3x a week is enough. I love Dr. Suess books for this practice.Continue Reading