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		<title>Mama Goddess Video: 36 weeks pregnacious</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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Hola gorgeous Goddess!
Once upon a time, when I found out I was pregnant, I started making messy-haired pregnancy videos.
Here&#8217;s the latest installment&#8230; of Leonie&#8217;s thrilling pregnancy adventure  
As per usual, there are tears and bed hair. I wouldn&#8217;t want to break the tradition.

Mama Goddess Journey - 36 weeks pregnant from Goddess Leonie on Vimeo.
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<p><big><em>Hola gorgeous Goddess!</em></big></p>
<p>Once upon a time, when I found out I was pregnant, I started <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/goodies/goddess-guidance/mama-goddess/">making messy-haired pregnancy videos</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the latest installment&#8230; of Leonie&#8217;s thrilling pregnancy adventure <img src='http://www.goddessguidebook.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>As per usual, there are tears and bed hair. I wouldn&#8217;t want to break the tradition.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10029602">Mama Goddess Journey - 36 weeks pregnant</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/goddessguidebook">Goddess Leonie</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><em>big love,</em><br />
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		<title>Zen Your Life Thursday: e-folder-zen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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Hey beautiful hearts!
Each  Thursday, we hang out together as a gaggle of goddesses &#38; make  our gorgeous lives a little clearer, calmer and more zen. We do one Zen  Your Life project together for the day… an easy, possible kind of  project… just one small thing to make our lives more [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>Hey beautiful hearts!</em></p>
<p><a href="../category/zen-thursday/">Each  Thursday</a>, we hang out together as a gaggle of goddesses &amp; make  our gorgeous lives a little clearer, calmer and more zen. We do one Zen  Your Life project together for the day… an easy, possible kind of  project… just one small thing to make our lives more zen.</p>
<p>When we make space in our lives, we are making  room for even more delight, comfort, magic and love to enter.</p>
<p>Sound like yummy delicious fun? Want some more  zen goodness in your life?</p>
<p>Hurrah! Let’s start! We can doooo eeeeeeeet!</p>
<p><strong>Today, your Zen Your Life project is:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Spend 10 minutes organising and clearing folders on your computer.</p></blockquote>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Zen goddess" src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs132.snc3/17968_292909223737_509073737_3392990_2709349_n.jpg" alt="" width="125" height="125" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Zen Goddess" src="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs152.snc3/17968_292909218737_509073737_3392989_2259179_n.jpg" alt="" width="125" height="125" /></p>
<p><strong>Need some accountability?</strong></p>
<p>You can use the above buttons on your blog, and photograph your progress. You can check-in to the Comments Circle. You can write out your Zen Goddess goal on a scrap of paper beside you.</p>
<p>Whatever you need to do to give yourself the support you need, do it.</p>
<p><em>Loving you, fellow Zennifying Goddessa!</em></p>
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		<title>24 hours + Numbers.numbers.numbers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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24
hours left to save
30%
on
3
Goddess School courses:
[1]

Creative Goddess e-course
[2]

Create your Goddess Haven e-course
[3]

Radiant Goddess e-course.
And that right there is the most amount of numbers + math you&#8217;ll ever get on this Goddess blog.
That is my promise to you  
Math class dismissed!
hee hee hee&#8230;
big love you!

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<h3><strong>24</strong></h3>
<p>hours left to save</p>
<h3><strong>30%</strong></h3>
<p>on</p>
<h3><strong>3</strong></h3>
<p>Goddess School courses:</p>
<h3>[1]</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/creative-goddess-course/">Creative Goddess e-course</a></p>
<h3>[2]</h3>
<p><img src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs478.ash1/26180_344088573737_509073737_3568328_908989_n.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/goddess-haven-ecourse/">Create your Goddess Haven e-course</a></p>
<h3>[3]</h3>
<p><img src="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/radiantgoddess/radiantgoddessbutton2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/radiant-goddess-ecourse/">Radiant Goddess e-course.</a></p>
<p>And that right there is the most amount of numbers + math you&#8217;ll ever get on this Goddess blog.</p>
<p>That is my promise to you <img src='http://www.goddessguidebook.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Math class dismissed!</p>
<p><em>hee hee hee&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>big love you!</em></p>
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		<title>{Talking Stick Circle} begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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Hola gorgeous Goddesses~
Every time we sit in circle, the talking stick goes around.
The talking stick is made from wooden&#8230; smooth to touch, adorned with feathers, crystals, stones, wool&#8230;
And each woman is passed it, and she holds it, and she shares where her journey has taken her, what her work has been, what blessings and medicine [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><big>Hola gorgeous Goddesses~</big></em></p>
<p>Every time we sit in circle, the talking stick goes around.</p>
<p>The talking stick is made from wooden&#8230; smooth to touch, adorned with feathers, crystals, stones, wool&#8230;</p>
<p>And each woman is passed it, and she holds it, and she shares where her journey has taken her, what her work has been, what blessings and medicine have arisen.</p>
<p>And she is heard, and she passes the talking stick on.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Talking Stick" src="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/images/talkingstick.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="106" /></p>
<p>And on and on, we learn our lessons from hearing each other&#8217;s stories. We become clearer as the threads of our lives weave together into understanding. We learn how to be honest with our marvellous truth, and we learn just how big, beautiful and sacred every other woman&#8217;s journey is too.</p>
<p>So I wanted to bring that here. The talking stick, the circle. The sharing of our journeys and where we are at.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll share my spirit&#8217;s story, and you&#8217;ll share yours. We&#8217;ll get to learn from each other&#8217;s stories and wisdom.</p>
<p>Every time women circle, miracles happen.</p>
<h2>Taking the Talking Stick</h2>
<p>Here I sit.</p>
<p>Thirty-six weeks pregnant.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Mermaid Goddess" src="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs478.snc3/26180_344166358737_509073737_3568594_6877461_n.jpg" alt="" width="478" height="480" /></p>
<p>with pregnacious-mermaid hair.</p>
<h2>Fullness</h2>
<p>There&#8217;s so much to do.</p>
<p>This must be what they call <em>nesting</em>.</p>
<p>Currently, our home looks like piles of this:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Home" src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs425.snc3/24558_355068293737_509073737_3598487_7990702_n.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="384" /></p>
<p>It&#8217;s the result of both me &amp; Papa Bear feeling like our home needs space - much much much more space&#8230; to fit Little Mermaid in.</p>
<p>Our huge TV and stereo are going. Boxes of kitchen stuff. Electronic crap. Extra furniture.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re even letting go books &amp; oracle cards ~ unheard of for two wisdom-collecting Scorpios. {We&#8217;ve got a few things <a href="http://shop.ebay.com.au/lolaleigh3/m.html?_nkw=&amp;_armrs=1&amp;_from=&amp;_ipg=25">listed on ebay</a> if you were wanting to check them out!}</p>
<p>And everytime we face that mountaineous wall of stuff&#8230; and have moments of fear of letting these things go&#8230;</p>
<p>we remember:</p>
<p><em>there is something new coming. We will feel so much lighter once these are gone.</em></p>
<p>And we have that courage, and do it&#8230; we find out we were right.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t regret letting go of anything. I don&#8217;t miss it.</p>
<p>The <em>things</em> didn&#8217;t make me happy.</p>
<p>If anything, they made our space a little more congested, a little less flow-y, a little less easy to live in.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m realising again and again:</p>
<p>It&#8217;s <em>my life</em> that makes me happy.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Him" src="http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs445.ash1/24558_355068273737_509073737_3598486_4946001_n.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="384" /></p>
<p>Especially <em>this part</em> of my life.</p>
<h2>Getting rid of stuff brings up stuff</h2>
<p>It does. I want to acknowledge this.</p>
<p>I remember when my love decided to let go of his music collection.</p>
<p>His music collection had been for years a part of his identity - Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Cradle of Filth.</p>
<p>My hottie rocker man.</p>
<p>And then somewhere along the line, he mellowed. He started listening to world music and folk music.</p>
<p>And he made a huge decision one day to let go of his collection.</p>
<p>We walked into a cd-buying store, and I saw him tense. I saw the courage it took for him to leave his CDs there.</p>
<p>We walked out to the car.</p>
<p><em>How are you feeling hon?</em></p>
<p><em>Like I&#8217;m going to throw up</em>, he said.</p>
<p>So we sat in the car for a while until the waves of change washed all around us, and he felt centered again.</p>
<p>He felt clearer afterwards, but in the midst of it - it was hard.</p>
<p>And so I see in myself all the <em>hard and stuff </em>that comes up with letting go of our stuff.</p>
<p>I notice that I feel a little bit worried when my home isn&#8217;t cluttered - it reminds me of the days when we didn&#8217;t have much money at all, and the years it took us to collect furniture when we first moved here.</p>
<p>I notice that there is a certain comfort in being hemmed in by stuff&#8230; it&#8217;s like a swaddle of sorts.</p>
<p>And I also notice that I feel so much clearer in my life and heart when there isn&#8217;t so much stuff around me.</p>
<p>I notice this could be a time for me to have <em>faith in abundance and the flow of prosperity.</em></p>
<p><strong>That space doesn&#8217;t mean lack.</strong></p>
<p>That space could mean room to move, breath, create and grow.</p>
<p>Space could mean I get to see and make all my choices clearly, instead of feeling overwhelmed by them.</p>
<h2>Letting Go</h2>
<p>And with all this life-changing, house-cleansing, pregnancy-fullness, I learn and re-learn <em>the art of letting go</em>.</p>
<p>I let go of tensing when Little Mermaid moves, hoping she doesn&#8217;t turn breech again.</p>
<p>I let go of thinking I can control that.</p>
<p>I allow in the possibility that all is perfect, and that whatever Little Mermaid needs is the right thing. If that means breech, if that means head-down, if that means vaginal birth, if that means caesarean.</p>
<p>I let go of thinking I know the right way and the perfect way.</p>
<p>I allow life to show me that way instead.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Puppeh" src="http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs478.snc3/26180_339966643737_509073737_3558283_3712890_n.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="384" /></p>
<h2>So much to be done!</h2>
<p>And&#8230; finally&#8230; the other thing that is with me at the moment&#8230; is the feeling of so much to be done!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/">Goddess School</a> beginning again. <em>{Thank Great Spirit for Goddess Sone, my magical and wonderful Goddess School helper! She makes it all so wonderful.}</em></p>
<p>Naps and doula appointments and books to read.</p>
<p>An Online Business Goddess kit that is slowly writing itself.</p>
<p>A home that is still in the act of being cleansed and prepared and cleared.</p>
<p><strong>Most of all though, I want to remember this:</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Light" src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs132.snc3/17968_275119878737_509073737_3330442_219403_n.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="600" /></p>
<p><em>That calm &amp; grace surround me now.</em></p>
<p><em>That I only need to take one step at a time.</em></p>
<p><em>That life is giving me just what I need, right now and always.</em></p>
<h2>Passing the Talking Stick</h2>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Talking Stick" src="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/images/talkingstick.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="106" /></p>
<p>How has your journey been, dearest heart?</p>
<p>What lessons, blessings and medicine have arisen for you?</p>
<p><em>You are so loved and cherished,</em><br />
<img src="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/images/GoddessLeonieSML.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong>P.S. It&#8217;s nearly Wednesday! Get 30% off</strong> the <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/radiant-goddess-ecourse/">Radiant Goddess e-course</a>, <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/creative-goddess-course/">Creative Goddess e-course</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/goddess-haven-ecourse/">Creating your Goddess Haven e-course</a> before then!</p>
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		<title>I believe in art&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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I believe
that art does not have to be
about
competition
or worry
or getting it right
or making it look pretty.
I believe that art does not have to be
another stick
to measure ourselves
push ourselves
or whack ourselves with.
Instead&#8230;
I believe art
can be a
tool for healing
a place of power
a splash of insight
a prayer
a laughter of colour
a sacred, holy path to walk.
Art can be the [...]]]></description>
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<p>I believe</p>
<p>that art does not have to be</p>
<p>about</p>
<p>competition</p>
<p>or worry</p>
<p>or getting it right</p>
<p>or making it look pretty.</p>
<p>I believe that art does not have to be</p>
<p>another stick</p>
<p>to measure ourselves</p>
<p>push ourselves</p>
<p>or whack ourselves with.</p>
<p>Instead&#8230;</p>
<p>I believe art</p>
<p>can be a</p>
<p>tool for healing</p>
<p>a place of power</p>
<p>a splash of insight</p>
<p>a prayer</p>
<p>a laughter of colour</p>
<p>a sacred, holy path to walk.</p>
<p>Art can be the path we take</p>
<p>to discover the goddess inside us.</p>
<p><img src="http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1860/205/51/509073737/n509073737_1111365_7181.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>And most of all,</p>
<p>art can be</p>
<p>our gift to</p>
<p>ourselves.</p>
<p><strong>Make art that looks like you.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Make art that sings to your spirit.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Make art that is medicine.</strong></p>
<p>Art can be holy and healing&#8230;<br />
<em><br />
all we need do is claim it,</em></p>
<p><em>and make it.</em></p>
<p><em>I believe in you&#8230;</em></p>
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		<title>How this Goddess starts her morning&#8230; the Goddess Green Smoothie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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Hola gorgeous Goddesses!
I thought I&#8217;d share with you my favourite way of starting my morning&#8230; my Goddess Green Smoothie. I share this little addiction of mine in the Radiant Goddess eCourse&#8230; I totally think if you just make ONE change in your diet of adding a green smoothie&#8230; it makes SUCH a big, beautiful difference [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><big>Hola gorgeous Goddesses!</big></em></p>
<p>I thought I&#8217;d share with you my favourite way of starting my morning&#8230; my Goddess Green Smoothie. I share this little addiction of mine in the <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/radiant-goddess-ecourse/">Radiant Goddess eCourse</a>&#8230; I totally think if you just make ONE change in your diet of adding a green smoothie&#8230; it makes SUCH a big, beautiful difference to your energy levels.</p>
<p>I usually have mine for breakfast&#8230; but they are also perfect for when I&#8217;m feeling like I&#8217;m rundown, lacking in some greenness or need a 3pm energy pep-up.</p>
<p>Green smoothies can be made in a bazillion different ways, but here&#8217;s how I make mine:</p>
<p><strong>Blend:</strong></p>
<p>1 banana</p>
<p>A handful of mixed berries {I buy frozen packets}</p>
<p>A handful of baby spinach leaves or lettuce leaves</p>
<p>A splash of water.</p>
<p><strong>And then add your extra goodies, if you want some!</strong></p>
<p>I add into mine:</p>
<p><em>A teaspoon of <a href="http://www.therawfoodworld.com/product_info.php?ref=999&amp;products_id=1001038&amp;affiliate_banner_id=1">Maca powder</a></em><br />
This tastes to me like a burnt vanilla kind of flavour. It is a ground up Andean root vegetable, and chock-full-o nutrients. For me, Maca has helped me even out my moon cycles of bleeding {before I became pregnacious}, recircuits my nervous system and gives me a beautiful, grounded burst of energy. Maca can also help with boosting sex drive, fertility, helping balance all your organs, and soothing anxiety. As with all herbs, I totally suggest trying it out, and seeing if it seems to sing and resonate with you. I know Maca really, really works with my body - it may or may not for yours.</p>
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Spirulina is a super green food, and is made from a microscopic freshwater plant. It is brimming with antioxidants and iron and good bits.</p>
<p>Go with whatever superfoods or extra nutrients you like&#8230; or stick with the plain green smoothie&#8230; it&#8217;s all good.</p>
<p><strong>If you want it sweeter:</strong></p>
<p>Add some agave nectar, maple syrup, stevia or some dates into the blender as well.</p>
<h2>The most important thing:</h2>
<p>Try it out - make it as simple and as delicious as you want it to be.</p>
<p>Goddess Green Smoothies = OM NOM NOM for our beautiful bodies.</p>
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		<title>Switch Off Sunday: Goddess Gail&#8217;s Sacred Sabbath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Switch Off Sunday]]></category>

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Hola gorgeous Goddess,
Hurrah! It’s that beautiful day of the week again… that ritual of making all or part of my Sunday switched off… logging off my ‘puter and doing some of those things I really wanna do… and just adoring my beautiful goddess life.
This week is something a little different&#8230; we&#8217;ve got a gorgeous goddess [...]]]></description>
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<p><big><em>Hola gorgeous Goddess,</em></big></p>
<p>Hurrah! It’s that beautiful day of the week again… that ritual of making all or part of my Sunday switched off… logging off my ‘puter and doing some of those things I really wanna do… and just adoring my beautiful goddess life.</p>
<p>This week is something a little different&#8230; we&#8217;ve got a gorgeous goddess guest blogger to share her story about her own Switched Off Sunday ~ and how she makes it her own personal sacred Sabbath.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re called to sharing about your own Switch Off Sunday with words &amp; photos ~ please email support@goddessguidebook.com. We&#8217;d love to hear from you!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="gdiv" src="http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs206.snc1/7316_154223433737_509073737_2641262_7410312_n.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="36" /></p>
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<p><em>Today&#8217;s gorgeous goddess guest blogger is Goddess Gail from <a href="http://silvermine.blogspot.com/">Silvermine</a>. I&#8217;ve adored Goddess Gail for </em><em>years now - in my mind, she is a Goddess of Grace, and her faith and deep thoughtfulness are such beautiful medicine. </em></p>
<p><em>I invited her to share about her own experience of Switch Off Sunday &amp; Sabbath, in words and pictures&#8230; here is her beautiful sharing.</em></p>
<p>Leonie, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about your Switch Off Sundays and your longing for Sabbath. You are right; <strong>without rest, we unravel</strong>. Big time. I am honored that you asked me to share a few more thoughts on how I keep the Sabbath.</p>
<p><strong>Like everything else in my spiritual life, this practice is ongoing, growing, changing, developing all the time</strong>. I have spent many years thinking about and working on (no pun intended) how to incorporate Sabbath into my life. I have read several books on the topic and have included several elements and ideas from each of them in my current Sabbath practice. A few of my favorite Sabbath-themed books are:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Book" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XhDIFyH5L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></p>
<p>Dan Allender’s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sabbath-Ancient-Practices-Dan-Allender/dp/0849901073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1267496344&amp;sr=8-1">Sabbath</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Sabbath" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QlE15zzCL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></p>
<p>Lynne Babb’s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sabbath-Keeping-Finding-Freedom-Rhythms/dp/0830832580/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1267496477&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0">Sabbath Keeping</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Sabbath" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xcQPDLNPL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></p>
<p>Ruth Haley Barton’s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Rhythms-Arranging-Spiritual-Transformation/dp/0830833331/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1267496539&amp;sr=1-2">Sacred Rhythms</a>, especially the chapter on Sabbath</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Sabbath" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZH81vGcQL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></p>
<p>Marva Dawn’s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Sabbath-Wholly-Embracing-Feasting/dp/0802804578/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1267496588&amp;sr=1-1">Keeping the Sabbath Wholly</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Sabbath" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419arWORdXL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></p>
<p>and Lauren Winner’s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mudhouse-Sabbath-Invitation-Spiritual-Disciplines/dp/B002PJ4LJK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1267496702&amp;sr=1-1">Mudhouse Sabbath</a>.</p>
<p>Each one of these books and authors has helped me become a more faithful keeper of the Sabbath.</p>
<blockquote><p>I have come to recognize that when I do not intentionally take the time to rest, I easily fall into a state of distress.</p></blockquote>
<h2>The journey of starting Sabbath&#8230;</h2>
<p>When I began my investigation into the possibility of keeping the Sabbath myself - wholly or otherwise - I admit that I was somewhat skeptical. I remember two friends of mine in college who made the decision to “keep the Sabbath.” For them, it meant not shopping or working or even studying on Sundays. I remember wondering, “How can you succeed in college without studying on Sunday, the last day to cram all your homework in before beginning another demanding week of class work? They won’t be able to do it for long; the pressure to study will be too great.” But they were faithful to their commitment – and they both graduated from college with high praise and excellent grades and later became college professors. Interestingly enough, they ended up marrying each other soon thereafter and are now awaiting the arrival of their fourth child. Apparently, something about resting together clicked…</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Switch off Sunday Sacred Sabbath" src="http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs458.snc3/26180_339805248737_509073737_3557616_5232498_n.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="576" /></p>
<p><em>A photo of me, sitting in quiet prayer  and meditation in my study on Sabbath. (Taken by my precious daughter Kristiana)</em></p>
<p>Unfortunately, they are the only two people I knew personally who have ever made a conscious decision to keep the Sabbath. And I met them more than twenty years ago. So my road to this place has been a solo journey. I am not complaining about it at all because having to do my own investigation and put the lessons I have learned into practice on my own has been a <strong>spiritually empowered exercise. There is not a lot of noise in the world around me that is drowning out my own internal and quiet voice. </strong>There are not a lot of hard and fast opinions on the topic, so I get to form my own – and then change them as needed. It hasn’t been an easy journey, but like every trip I have ever taken, it has been rife with valuable lessons learned, unexpected joys discovered, and also unavoidable falls and spills.</p>
<h2>How I do Sabbath now&#8230;</h2>
<p>Over all, I like where I am right now on this rest-making journey. In truth, I am approaching the place where I find that my week is centered on how I will keep the Sabbath. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are days in which I begin to make plans for observing the Sabbath on Sunday. In order to be able to be fully present and find rest on the Sabbath: <strong>I do prep work on the days leading up to Sunday so that I won’t have to do anything I don’t want to do.</strong> I clean the house and get good food in the fridge and pantry and put everything away that might draw me into work mode. I choose what I will wear ahead of time as well – always trying to create outfits that will make me comfortable and colorful, consisting of pieces I love to wear and that make me feel most comfortable in my own skin and the layer of stuff I put on over my skin. I have found that as I am planning and doing the work ahead of time, I get excited about the restful day that is to come.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Sabbath" src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs478.snc3/26180_339805293737_509073737_3557619_5178697_n.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="432" /></p>
<p><em>Sabbath supplies: My art supply tray, the Sabrina  Ward Harrison journal I am filling, and a few books that I’ve been  reading lately.</em></p>
<p><strong>Like Leonie, I compile lists of things that I LOVE to do, things that fill me and refresh me and make me feel whole and at peace. I give myself permission to do those things on the Sabbath. </strong>More than that, I intentionally choose only those things - like walking and reading and journaling and drinking tea. I cut up magazines and make collages and then stare at them for long stretches of time. I add to my lists of things and people and activities I love. I spend time with people I love. I also spend a fair amount of the day alone. I sit in my study in silence. I lay on the floor and dream big dreams – Mondo Beyondo dreams. I tell myself stories. I write some of them down, but not all of them. I look at and hold some of the objects on my travel altar and my bookshelves and remind myself of how those objects came to me at just the right time in just the right way.</p>
<p><strong>The only things I eat on the Sabbath are things I love.</strong> I don’t worry about calories or fat grams or weight loss. I think about how blessed I am to be surrounded by such bounty and so many choices. And I enjoy every bite, every sip, every crumb that I lick off my fork. <strong>On the Sabbath, I make space in my life, in my heart, and in my belly for joy. And I take it all in with gusto and gratitude.</strong></p>
<h2>Keeping the Sabbath tradition</h2>
<p>But keeping the Sabbath isn’t always easy. There are days when life’s other demands seep in: I feel pressure to answer phone calls or write overdue emails or hang out with other people. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with any of those things – but sometimes on Sundays, they feel more like obligations than pleasures. There isn’t any joy in them on that particular day. <strong>On the other six days of the week, when obligations come up, I try to meet them.</strong> I will take a few deep breaths, put down whatever has me occupied at the moment, and do what needs to be done. Make the phone call. Answer the email. Cook dinner (I don’t like to cook at all). Do the thing that must be done.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>However, on Sundays, I don’t give in so easily. </strong>Whenever I feel like I am sliding over into work or obligation mode on the Sabbath, I stop myself and breathe deeply and gently lay that thing aside. I forgive myself for forgetting the importance of rest and move back into a peaceful quiet place. I go to another room in the house or make myself a cup of tea or go for a short walk – anything to return to the sacred rhythm of that sacred day. That day is dedicated to resting my body, replenishing my spirit, and restoring my soul.</p></blockquote>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Sabbath" src="http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs478.snc3/26180_339805333737_509073737_3557621_156802_n.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="576" /></p>
<p><em>My desk, where I spend a lot of my  Sabbath day&#8230; the space where a lot of journaling and writing gets  done, including this very piece. My computer is under the open notebook  on the left side of my desk.</em></p>
<h2>Being gentle with myself&#8230;</h2>
<p>I am careful not to be too self-critical, though. <strong>I am someone who can easily slip into comparison mode</strong>. I think hurtful thoughts like: <em>“I bet So-and-So is better at this than I am. So-and-So is much more faithful/spiritual/thoughtful/imaginative than I am, so I’d better find ways to catch up/be better than/outshine that person.”</em> In fact, I try to not even compare myself with myself – <em>“I used to be better at this… I should be better at this than I am…I am not good at any of this Sabbath stuff…Why bother?”</em></p>
<p>None of that is helpful thinking ever, never mind on Sunday. On the Sabbath day, I try hard to step out of that judgmental place, that comparative place. So at regular intervals during the day, I remind myself that I will never figure any of this out completely.</p>
<blockquote><p>One of my goals is to be increasingly merciful to myself, especially at those critical and comparative junctures. Another one is to learn new ways to usher myself into a place of deeper love and respect for myself as I am right now. I am encouraging myself to accept the fact that I won’t ever get it perfectly right, ever. In fact, if I am in a mental place of “trying to perfect my Sabbath practice,” then I have turned it into yet another form of work and away from true rest. And that way of thinking defeats the purpose of the day.</p></blockquote>
<h2>Sabbath reflections</h2>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Sacred Sabbath Sunday ritual" src="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs478.snc3/26180_339805268737_509073737_3557618_4033298_n.jpg" alt="" width="461" height="346" /></p>
<p><em>A much-loved Sabbath  creation.</em></p>
<p>On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I allow myself time to think about and process how my Sunday Sabbath went.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Do I feel rested? </em></p>
<p><em>Do I feel refreshed? </em></p>
<p><em>What did I do on Sunday that was most enjoyable? </em></p>
<p><em>What was least enjoyable? </em></p>
<p><em>What would I like to try to add to my list of joy-filled activities? </em></p>
<p><em>What do I want to take off that list? </em></p>
<p><em>How can I make it an even better day, an even more restful and restorative day? </em></p>
<p><em>Are there people I would like to invite to share that special day with me? </em></p></blockquote>
<p>And above all, I give thanks for the blessing of rest, for the day of rest, for the joy that always results when I set time aside to set myself aside and rest.</p>
<p><strong>In the end, my entire week is becoming increasingly molded around that one day: preparation for keeping the Sabbath and then remembering the joys of keeping the Sabbath. </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Why not plan my life around rest rather than work on trying to fit rest into my busy schedule???</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Sabbath" src="http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs206.snc1/7316_154223433737_509073737_2641262_7410312_n.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="40" /></p>
<h2>Creating your own gorgeous Switched Off Sunday&#8230;</h2>
<p><em>Thank you so deeply, Goddess Gail of Grace for sharing your Sacred Sabbath story &amp; photographs&#8230; they are deeply inspiring, and you are a wonder to behold.</em></p>
<p><em>I love the invitation and possibility of making my own Switched Off Sunday a Sacred Sabbath experience that I plan, create and mould my week around.</em></p>
<p><strong>How you can join in this Switch Off Sunday:</strong></p>
<p>You are so welcome to join me in switching off, for the day or the afternoon or two hours&#8230; and re-discovering the joys of being switched onto life outside the laptop&#8230; and enjoying a holy, sabbath experience.</p>
<p>How long will you Switch off today? What do you wish to create or experience?</p>
<p>For ideas on what to do&#8230; check out the masterlist of magnificent possibilities by clicking below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/contact/things-to-do-on-your-switch-off-sunday-the-masterlist/"><img class="alignnone" title="Masterlist Possibilities" src="http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs487.snc3/26647_335063383737_509073737_3540705_6878004_n.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="316" /></a></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Need some accountability?</span></h2>
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<li>Take a pen &amp; paper out and write down how  long you will switch off for, and what your glorious possibilities are.</li>
<li>Write it out in the Comments Circle &amp; check back in later.</li>
<li>Blog/photograph about your Switch Off Sunday using the button above once you are done!</li>
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<p><em>Happy Sabbath day, gorgeous Goddess!</em><br />
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<p><strong>P.S. Reminder: 30% off <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses">Goddess School courses</a> until Wednesday!</strong></p>
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		<title>Save 30% on Goddess School courses until Wednesday&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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Enrolments are now open for the next term of Goddess School&#8230;
Me &#38; precious Goddess Sone have been squirelling up the next term  and are SO excited to be sharing it with you&#8230;
as always&#8230; we so believe and know that when women circle, miracles  happen&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><big>Hola gorgeous goddesses!</big></em></p>
<p>Enrolments are now open for the next term of Goddess School&#8230;</p>
<p>Me &amp; precious Goddess Sone have been squirelling up the next term  and are SO excited to be sharing it with you&#8230;</p>
<p>as always&#8230; we so believe and know that when women circle, miracles  happen&#8230;</p>
<p>We are so so grateful to be doing this work&#8230;</p>
<p>and so blessed to be sharing it with so many other beautiful souls&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Early goddess discount alert:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>You can save 30% on e-courses if you <em>enrol before next Wednesday</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>For information on all the courses available, and to see if one calls your spirit, head on over to the:</p>
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<p><em>big big love,</em><br />
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		<title>Zen Your Life Thursday: Inbox Makeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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Hey beautiful hearts!
Each  Thursday, we hang out together as a gaggle of goddesses &#38; make  our gorgeous lives a little clearer, calmer and more zen. We do one Zen  Your Life project together for the day… an easy, possible kind of  project… just one small thing to make our lives more [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>Hey beautiful hearts!</em></p>
<p><a href="../category/zen-thursday/">Each  Thursday</a>, we hang out together as a gaggle of goddesses &amp; make  our gorgeous lives a little clearer, calmer and more zen. We do one Zen  Your Life project together for the day… an easy, possible kind of  project… just one small thing to make our lives more zen.</p>
<p>When we make space in our lives, we are making  room for even more delight, comfort, magic and love to enter.</p>
<p>Sound like yummy delicious fun? Want some more  zen goodness in your life?</p>
<p>Hurrah! Let’s start! We can doooo eeeeeeeet!</p>
<p><strong>Today, your Zen Your Life project is:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Get your inbox down to zero.</p></blockquote>
<p>Once upon a time, I had an inbox that was bursting at the seams. I think there was 300+ unread emails in it spreading back over a year. And I gnashed my teeth, and I worried, and I felt like I had to go back and answer every single email, and check every single notification, and respond and reply.</p>
<p>Then a friend staged an email-intervention for me. Everything that wasn&#8217;t a business email was deleted. Everything that was over two months old was sent off into the winds. Everything that wasn&#8217;t crazy-wild-urgent-important was kissed goodbye.</p>
<p>And with it, a whole heap of worry, and angst, and feeling like I-didn&#8217;t-have-my-crap-together.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>So here&#8217;s my three stage process of helping your inbox be lovely and zen again:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Do not use your inbox as a To Do List. </strong></p>
<p>Create a separate To Do list in your <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/ask-goddess-leonie-video-my-to-do-list-book/">To Do List book</a>, using <a href="http://todoist.com/">Todolist.com</a> or just on a piece of paper. Write down anything you need to do, then archive the email. If you need it later when it comes to doing that task, just search for it.</p>
<p><strong>2. Archive anything that does not absolutely need a reply.</strong></p>
<p>Top secret secret: Not all emails need replying to. I used to think they did, but if every single person replied to every single email they ever received, we wouldn&#8217;t be doing anything but answering emails or crying about answering emails. Please do the world a favour and not reply to every email. It makes less reply-work for every one of us.</p>
<p><strong>3. If an email is older than two months old, chances are, it just needs to be said goodbye to.</strong></p>
<p>Honour it, give it love, and archive it.</p>
<p><strong>4. Unsubscribe from every notification and newsletter out there unless it makes your life amazingly better.</strong></p>
<p>Because your life needs you living it, not sitting in your inbox.</p>
<p><strong>5. Work through the rest of your emails from top to bottom.</strong></p>
<p>No going back. No skipping around. Put an album on, close all your other browser windows, and just work through it step by step. If you don&#8217;t feel like replying with a thousand words, don&#8217;t wait until you do. Just reply with what you have, right now. Follow your spirit and your energy. Release your expectations and perfectionism and worries and fears about getting it right. Stop feeling obligated to answer the way that you do. You do not have to answer emails as deeply, thoughtfully, quickly or verbosely as you think you do. Let your love and light shine in other ways&#8230; ways that you feel radiant and joyous as you do it. Let it be through creating, or through physical action. Give your energy the freedom to be released from have-to&#8217;s.</p>
<p><em>Remember: You are a gift. Your energy is a gift. Use it in powerful ways to make a change.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Need some accountability?</strong></p>
<p>You can use the above buttons on your blog, and photograph your progress. You can check-in to the Comments Circle. You can write out your Zen Goddess goal on a scrap of paper beside you.</p>
<p>Whatever you need to do to give yourself the support you need, do it.</p>
<p><em>Loving you, fellow Zennifying Goddessa!</em></p>
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		<title>March Goddess Guidebook Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goddess Leonie</dc:creator>
		
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Your Goddess Captain of ze Goddess ship! Ship has rainbow lounge chairs &#38; bowls of mango frappes!
Hola beautiful hearts!
I wanted to give you a gorgeous update on all the happenings, goodies &#38; what you can expect here on ze Goddess Guidebook ship.
And this also might be helpful for goddesses who are also wanting to {or [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>Your Goddess Captain of ze Goddess ship! Ship has rainbow lounge chairs &amp; bowls of mango frappes!</em></p>
<p><strong><em><big>Hola beautiful hearts!</big></em></strong></p>
<p>I wanted to give you a gorgeous update on all the happenings, goodies &amp; what you can expect here on ze Goddess Guidebook ship.</p>
<p>And this also might be helpful for goddesses who are also wanting to {or are already} creating their own gorgeous soul-business.</p>
<p>This one is chock-full-o important announcements&#8230; please make sure you read all the way down to make sure you don&#8217;t miss out.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Goddess " src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs478.snc3/26180_339966663737_509073737_3558285_6144575_n.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p><em>The Very Serious Workstation of Goddess Ship: ze bed</em></p>
<h2>Next term of Goddess School!</h2>
<p>This is muchos important&#8230; there are some changes a-happening very soon in Goddess School world. <strong>Within a couple of days, we will be announcing the next term of <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses">Goddess School courses</a>.</strong></p>
<p><em>This term there will be three courses on offer:</em><img class="alignright" title="Goddesses" src="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs226.snc1/7316_140167643737_509073737_2533256_6526027_n.jpg" alt="" width="267" height="423" /></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/radiant-goddess-ecourse/">The Radiant Goddess e-course</a>: a 21 day journey to physical, mental &amp; soulful radiance. We&#8217;ve just been collecting the feedback from the first group of goddesses to do this course&#8230; and their results from the course were just completely spectacular and shiny and <em>inspiring</em>. My heart is so full knowing that the course has really worked for them&#8230; and really sung and spoke to their bodies &amp; spirits.. and helped them uncover that radiant divine hottie inside them.<em> Glow glow glow!</em></li>
<li><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/courses/creative-goddess-course/">The Creative Goddess e-course</a>: a six week path to discover the creative goddess inside you with sacred creativity, meditations &amp; projects. This is my mothership course&#8230; the first one I created over a year ago that nearly 500 goddesses have already taken. I like art and creativity as much as the next spunky goddess&#8230; but when we can make our art into a pathway of powerful healing, sacredness and transformation? Magnifico! That&#8217;s what this journey is all about&#8230;</li>
<li>and a new one&#8230; the <strong>Creating your Goddess Haven e-course</strong>: six weeks to create a home that inspires you with spirited interior design, divine decluttering &amp; magical space-clearing. Since I stopped offering the <em>Making Space for your Goddess to Shine e-course</em> last year, I&#8217;ve had so many requests for another course centered on the home. And this juicy one is going to be it&#8230; but filled with a few more gorgeous creative morsels.</li>
</ul>
<p>Yay!</p>
<p>The term will be starting later this month - will tell you the exact date soon.</p>
<p><a href="http://spiralwoman.com.au/">Goddess Sonya</a> will be continuing to be the Chief Goddess running the private goddess circle message boards for the courses while I give birth to Little Mermaid. I am so so blessed &amp; grateful to have such an amazing friend &amp; gifted goddess to help me with Goddess School&#8230; it&#8217;s such a gift to know that goddesses can continue their goddess journeys at Goddess School while I&#8217;m deep in mama-goddess space&#8230; knowing they are going to be so beautifully held, supported &amp; guided by my dearest friend.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the important change you need to be aware of:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>There will be a limited number of early-goddess enrolment spots at $67 and $73 {$73 for the Radiant Goddess e-course}. After that, all courses will be going up in price to $99 each.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Want to make sure you know when the early goddess spots open? </strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll need to jump on my <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/contact/letter/">VIP Goddess mailing list</a>, and keep your eyes peeled over the next few days&#8230; you&#8217;ll need to jump on the spots when they come out if you&#8217;re feeling called.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Goddess" src="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs478.snc3/26180_339966658737_509073737_3558284_8127253_n.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p><em>This Goddess Ship is run on tea &amp; crystals&#8230;</em></p>
<h2>Email hiatus</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s been just over a month since <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/email-hiatus/">I went on email  hiatus</a> &amp; I am still so grateful I did. Goddess Sonya &amp;  Goddess Marissa are doing such a beautiful job helping goddesses when  they need it&#8230; and this Goddess &amp; her Little Mermaid get to spend a  lot less time answering emails &amp; crying over answering emails&#8230;  and more time creating, resting, preparing &amp; growing instead. <em>*happy  exhale*</em></p>
<p>And I&#8217;m hoping this new set of ways is working  beautifully for you too&#8230; it means I&#8217;m able to devote more time to  writing blog posts, and creating more goodies to share. Hurrah!</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Puppeh" src="http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs478.ash1/26180_339968303737_509073737_3558288_5006351_n.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p><em>Chief Muse &amp;  Inspiration&#8230;</em></p>
<h2>Meditation Kit goodness</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m really excited to finally get to a stage where my lovely meditation kits {for <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/meditations/divine-dreaming-meditation/">Divine Dreaming</a>, <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/meditations/chakra-healing-goddess-meditation/">Chakra Healing</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/meditations/releasing-fears-meditation/">Releasing Fears</a>} have grown wings &amp; fly off into the world every day on their own accord. It was a bunch-load of work to create them&#8230; and it is so wonderful to get to a place where they are happily finding their right goddesses to help them.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been using any of my kits &amp; are finding them helpful ~ I&#8217;d so love to hear from you! Please email the lovely Marissa at <a href="mailto:support@goddessguidebook.com">support@goddessguidebook.com</a>.</p>
<h2>Abundant Goddess Business Kit</h2>
<p>I mentioned this kit a few weeks ago. This baby is still being gestated and made. At this stage, I&#8217;m not sure if it will be done before Little Mermaid arrives.</p>
<p>Right now, I&#8217;m following the ebb &amp; flow {read: <em>mostly ebb</em>} of my energy&#8230; but I will keep you posted, beautifuls!</p>
<h2>That&#8217;s it for now!</h2>
<p>Consider this your newsletter from the Goddess Ship&#8230; letting you know about the all-you-can-eat-spiritual-buffet, and the divine disco-fest. tee hee hee!</p>
<p>Only a moon until we are joined by the newest little Goddess&#8230; until then&#8230; there&#8217;s so much goodness &amp; goddess goodies to come!</p>
<p>Thank you for being magical, inspiring, radiant you&#8230;</p>
<p><em>big big love you,</em></p>
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