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Raising Aphrodite: A Fairy Re-Tale

Posted in Fiction, Living Authentically on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Once upon a time two little girls were born. The one with flaming red hair came fast, her first cries loud and furious. The midwives handed the wailing child to her mother, who gazed upon her and said softly, “Child, you must be not carry on so, the world can be a dangerous place for [...]

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Gypsy: A Fairy Re-Tale

Posted in Emerging Voice, Fiction, Living Authentically on March 27, 2012 | 8 Comments »

Gypsy They say she danced from her mother’s womb. They say her first yelps were a song to the ear. They say she was born with the pulsing rhythm of her heart glowing red beneath her golden skin. They say when she was twelve, a white man of the cloth saw her dancing alone by [...]

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Authentic Voice Project: B is for Belly

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Authentic Voice Project: Week 2 (New Moon) B is for Belly I considered many “trigger” words for this post: Behavior, Body, Beauty, Blame, but I settled on Belly because… well, I have one. Society says: A woman’s belly should be flat; nay, concave. Low-rise and skinny jeans (practically the only type you can find [...]

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Authentic Voice Project: A is for Anger

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , on January 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The Authentic Voice Project: Week 1 (Full Moon) AUTHENTIC VOICE As we are beginning with A, I will take a moment to define Authentic Voice as I understand it. I believe we all have an Authentic Voice. It is the one that comes to us from various sources: intuitive insights dreams emotion-body reactions (such as [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , on January 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »

  For redefinition, I was thrown back to myself, to my inner knowing… Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit Words. Manifestations of our thoughts. Creators of our internal messages. Words have and continue to shape history and people – not always positively and sometimes with devastating consequences. Words have an affect on us, more powerful [...]

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Do you need a map or a box of chocolates?

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I have to thank Mark Matousek, with whom I took a class at the Therapeutic Writing Institute, for his insightful article in Psychology Today: What’s Your Metaphor? Shifting Shapes In The New Year. This post is my response. Having never asked myself what word or phrase I consider my life metaphor, and how it affects [...]

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Hallelujah!

Posted in In my Humble Opinion, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It would be a stretch to say that all Christmas music is beautiful. Every year when turkey-leftover soup is still very much on the menu and I find myself in a store singing along with some ear-gnawing song, I cringe with self-derision. But the Christmas carols, the ones I have heard and sung since birth, [...]

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Trust your pen

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on December 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »

I have to share a beautiful experience that speaks to the power of the pen to tap into something deeper and older than we can explain. This morning I was reading The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler. I won’t go into all the emotions this book arouses in me but I cannot emphasize [...]

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Gotta dance!

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged , , on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

When I was a very little girl I loved to dance. Once a week my Nana would take me to the Senior Center (which in England I think they used to call the Old Age Pensioner’s Club – nice) so I could gavotte around for their entertainment. I loved it. And I almost killed my [...]

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An open letter to those who are human

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

C.P. Estes (author of Women Who Run With the Wolves) always addresses her readers as “Dear Brave Souls.” I do not know her exact reasoning for this but I can guess that she knows how much courage it takes to live in this world, to face the pains and heartbreaks, unknowns and setbacks. But even [...]

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